6. Shrinking a turtle
The Roald Dahl book Esio Trot was based on a real prank.
In the early 20th century, Waldo Peirce, an American artist, gave a Parisian woman a turtle as a gift. He then kept replacing it with bigger turtles so the woman thought it was growing.
Then he started replacing the turtles with smaller ones, and the woman freaked out, thinking her turtle was shrinking.
This could only happen in France with a guy named Waldo, right? —ROH
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5. Introducing a “left-handed” hamburger—and selling it
Is it weird that my hands started to smell like pickles when I wrote this?
From Burger King’s U.K. press release:
The U.K.’s most preferred hamburger will still consist of lettuce, onions, pickles, mayonnaise, ketchup and four-ounce flame-grilled hamburger patty, but the sandwich has been re-designed to fit more comfortably in the left hand. This will result in fewer condiment ‘spills’ for left-handed hamburger lovers.
The new Left-Handed Whopper will have all the condiments rotated 180 degrees, thereby redistributing the weight of the sandwich so that the bulk of them skew to the left.
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Burger King just gained a lot of respect in my eyes. Lefties are still weird. You guys should all, like, move to Mars together or something. —ROH
Hey, only left-handed people are in their right minds!
On a day where every hack prankster in the world dusts off the old “funny prank muscle” and embarks on a journey of of hoodwinking, I implore you to choose the road less traveled, my dear impressionable readers
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