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"World's Greatest Prank" Quite a hyperbole for a prank few have heard of and which was fairly limited in scale. If I had to name one prank that had great impa
by Samuel_Michon 16y ago
"World's Greatest Prank"
Quite a hyperbole for a prank few have heard of and which was fairly limited in scale.
If I had to name one prank that had great impact and that is still famous around the world, it'd be Orson Welles' The War of the Worlds radio broadcast, which at the time had the entire nation riled up, believing that aliens were taking over the world.
http://www.paleycenter.org/the-greatest-halloween-prank-ever http://www.paleycenter.org/the-greatest-halloween-prank-ever
- kmfrk 16y agoQuite a hyperbole for a prank which was fairly limited in scale: http://bigthink.com/ideas/24685 http://bigthink.com/ideas/24685.
- Samuel_Michon 16y agoInteresting read. From the article: "[Hadley Cantril, a Princeton University psychologist] estimated that at least 6 million people listened to the program that October night. Of those, at least 1.2 million were frightened, disturbed, or excited by what they heard." I can't name another prank that had such impact, can you? (OK, perhaps the one about Iraq having WMDs, but that was hardly funny.)
- kbutler 16y agoExactly what I expected when I clicked the article. kb