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Have you ever heard of Tommy Cooper?  He was a famous stand-up comedian of the second half of the 20th century.  Anyway was checking out his Wikipedia entry and found out he died on stage.  So curiosity got the better of me (against my better judgement) and I went and watched the video when he slumped and died while performing a magic/comedic act.  Regret!  Not a happy video to watch.  It's on Youtube if you're curious, but trust me, you won't make yourself feel better watching it.

I've been thinking about all the tricks that I've played on people throughout my life, and unfortunately, I think 90% of the time I have pissed people off with it instead of eliciting a laugh from them.  I always either pick a tactless, probably even tasteless, trick, or I pick the wrong person, or I pick the wrong time.

I've tried:

1. (This is my most famous trick- though not sensational, it's pretty daring for someone like me.)  I chalked my teacher's seat and wrote 'No Parking' on it with a bunch of friends (the idea came from Malory Towers and the Bookworm Club), and my teacher duly sat on it without knowing.  I think some of us nearly wanted to die from choked laughter after the class was over, seeing 'No Parking' flash on my teacher's behind like that.

That kind of thing appealed to my impish 12-year old mind.

2. Then I tried this lame joke- I put glue on one side of the coin, and stuck it to the ground at school.  I asked Li Leng (she was a Form 5 senior while I was in Form 2) to pick it up- which she duly did.  The coin was supposed to stick on the floor but it didn't, instead the glue from all my efforts spilled all over her hands.  Screams to be heard.

Now it isn't very funny.  But I thought it was then.  Weird.

3. This was when I decided I officially sucked at planning tactful, safe, funny tricks.  Michelle and I thought it would be a shame to let April Fool's last year just pass by like that.  So we THOUGHT it would be funny to pretend Michelle was in hospital after an accident, and to get a bunch of my hostel mates to actually go there.

Now I KNOW it's not funny.  But I don't know why my sense of humour was so warped.

Anyway people did fall for it.  But woah- were some of them angry after they found out...

This is why I think I'll have to retire (more like I was fired) from my practical pranking on other people.  Apparently I'm not very funny.

I wonder why I have such a penchant of doing such things- it's either because I have been tricked so many times, of course not harmfully, by other people, or because there's just something about tricking others that gives you that self-superior sense of yourself- that you can beguile people into falling into your trap.

But I do like people who laugh at themselves after they get tricked and find out, and that was what made me do it... last time

My last proper paper tomorrow!  (I have two exams after that, just that this involves lots of writing and memory work and imagination.  God, You better help me out here because I am rather dumb without You.)