{"id":11969,"date":"2007-12-20T05:48:27","date_gmt":"2007-12-20T12:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/12\/20\/a-fine-practical-joke.html"},"modified":"2007-12-20T05:48:27","modified_gmt":"2007-12-20T12:48:27","slug":"a_fine_practical_joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/12\/20\/a_fine_practical_joke.html","title":{"rendered":"A fine practical joke"},"content":{"rendered":"

A fellow who’s vacationing in Poland during the holidays is auctioning the opportunity to drive someone crazy<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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During the course of my holiday I will send three postcards to one person of your choosing.<\/p>\n

These postcards will be rant-ravingly insane, yet they will be peppered with unmistakable personal details<\/strong> about the addressee. Details you will provide me.<\/p>\n

The postcards will not be coherently signed, leaving your mark confused, guessing wildly, crying out in anguish. “How do I know this person? And how does he know I had a ferret named Goliath?”<\/p>\n

Your beloved friend or relative will try in vain to figure out who it is. Best of all, it can’t possibly be you because you’ll have the perfect alibi: you’re not in Poland. You’re home, wherever that is, doing whatever it is you do when not driving your friends loopy with international mischief.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Further muddying the tracks, two of the postcards will be from 1995-96 (though obviously not postmarked then), just like (if you want to play it up) they’d been lost in some Polish post office since then.<\/p>\n

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Your mark will be at a complete loss, desperate for answers, debating contacting people he or she hasn’t talked to in years.  “I know this will sound weird,” they’ll say, “but by any chance were you in Eastern Europe ranting about cantaloupe… twelve years ago… right before some show with Mariel Hemingway debuted?”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Excellent.  Reminds me of a similar prank pulled on me<\/a> a few years back.<\/p>\n

Bidding is currently over $200.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

(via BoingBoing<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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