Pranks

Pranks: If you have not had any affiliation with them, I highly recommend getting to know what they are. If you are wondering where you can find out about pranks, just look around you. This is a perfect source for your knowledge. Alright, I take that back. This is a semiperfect source for knowledge of what pranks are. Just sit back, but not to far, and keep reading about what we here at J Town define as pranks.

Prank defined by Merriam-Webster's Dictionary is "a mildly mischievous or ludicrous act." (Question: Am I the only one who, when they are trying to spell ludicrous, keep spelling it Ludacris, as in the rapper. That dude has ruined my spelling skillz.) Urban Dictionary defines, "a well played trick." And crazy people define it as, "a combination of a pulley and a crank." We shalt now giveth examples of pranks so that you can have a handy reference of what they truly are. (Side Note: Spell check let "shalt" and "giveth" slide. Is this acceptable.)

Phone Call Pranks: Back in the day (I don't know how far back, but farther back than 2009) people used to call an innocent person and then pull a prank where they talk under false circumstances. Example:

Prankster: "Hello, is your refrigerator running?"

Victim: "Why, yes."

Prankster: "Well you'd better go catch it."


Sadly, Caller I.D. on phones has taken away the magic of this prank. Before, one could just call up someone they knew and say whatever they felt like without facing the consequences. Why was that, really? Consequences were invented two years after Caller I.D.


Whoopie Cushions: These are not cushions. They are "bags" that are inflated so that when someone sits on one of them, the bag releases a sound that is pleasing to the ears but painful to the nose. The important thing to understand about these is that they are a simple form of prank. Do not try to use these unless you are desperate for a life.


Fake Money: I don't know if some of you know this, but you can put foreing currency that are sort of shaped like quarters into vending machines. The jokes on the vending machine guy!


Well let's just say there are many pranks out there in the world and I don't want to list them all. It would be like reading all the Far Side Gallery Comics in one day. They may be so good, but you have to learn to ration them. I hope that you all become grandmaster jokesters.

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The 100th Post

This is it. This is the one hundredth post to this blog. I'd just like to take this time to thank everyone who has read it thusly far. I now that you random people who read this are probably thinking, "why is he talking to me?" Well I have reasons for that. I like spreading my ideas out to random people. It gives me an idea of that somewhere out there, someone is reading is and most likely laughing to some joke that I have made.

I know that you don't even have to read this post all the way down to the very end. You know you want to though because, who knows? There might be something exciting at the bottom. Well you guessed correctly. Here is a picture of an albino crocodile. Have a nice day.

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Pen Names

I've considered becoming an author in my life. I have thought about what types of books that I would write. I definitely would not write murder mysteries. When I know the ending, I just tend to skip to writing the ending way too fast. My stories would be something like, "Gustavo  snuck back into his house at two in the morning where he the butler did it!" There tends to be a lack of suspense so therefore, a lack of The Daumenator making money. I then when to think about how, if I were to write a book, I would proably use a pen name to disguise who I really am. In my thought process, I then made a connection to certain pen names correlating with certain genres. Like a name just sounds like the author would be a great fantasy writer. Here are my suggestions for author names separated by category. I decided to just stick with Fantasy, Mystery, and Nonfiction as the genres because everything else tends to blend together:

Fantasy

• Greg Beeble
• Peter Chincey
• I.P. Daily
• Clark Doogle
• T.B. Fancy
• Jimmy Green
• Samantha Pie
• Quigley Stevenson
• Shawn Swisher
• Billy T. West

Mystery

• Gregory Beeble
• Juan Carlos
• David Fort
• Judy Gray/Grey
• John Hill
• Paul Ichenburg
• T.F. Porter
• Taylor Rubble
• Steven Rust
• William Terrence West

Nonfiction (Top 10 most popular names on Facebook excluding Juan Carlos)

• Mike Jones
• Bob Smith
• David Smith
• James Smith
• Jane Smith
• Joe Smith
• John Smith
• Mike Smith
• Sarah Smith

I then found this website that converted each of the names that I wrote above and turned them into pen names of their own. They will be listed as: Pen Name (Original Name)

• Pester Stone (Greg Beeble)
• Jon Stall (Peter Chincey)
• Monty Karl (I.P. Daily)
• Edgar Allan Pooh (Clark Doogle)
• Jack Goldstein (T.B. Fancy)
• Gladys Potter (Jimmy Green)
• Star Noble (Samantha Pie)
• Crazyshoe Williams (Quigley Stevenson)
• Lady Shwarz (Shawn Swisher)
• Mike Schmornoff (Billy T. West)
• Sir William Pennybanks (Gregory Beeble)
• Sir Pumpkin Longshanks (Juan Carlos)
• Our Lady Bonbons (David Fort)
• Ella Mentry (Judy Gray/Grey)
• George Tiptree Jr. (John Hill)

Here is where I started getting repeats of names and fully understood that this website was not a true pen name generator website. It was a website of lies. At least I got all those names from it to begin with, but I did get a crap load of John Stall from that website. I hope that you create your own work of writing and that you use whatever name you want.

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I Do All My Own Stunts

This post is based off of one "simple" question:

"Are stunt doubles replacing actors just for movies and other productions?"

Stunt doubles, body doubles, or stunties have been used to replace a person when the moment called for them. Either the actor was too old or they were contractually prohibited from doing long fight scenes or other certain actions. But what I am really asking here is if the stunt doubles leave the actors after the movie. I mean, do they follow them around and do all of the actor's stunts for them? Example:


"Hey (actor name) can you go and get some milk at the grocery store for me?"
"Sure. Hey (Stunt Double's name) go get me some milk."
"Two percent or skim?"
"Strawberry, and make it fast!"


Also, does the stunt double take the actors place in situations that he just does not want to be in? In an actor's life, I bet there can be a lot of demanding moments like that. Example:


"Honey, we need to talk."
"Okay, be there in a minute. Hey (Stunt Double), can you take this one for me?  I gotta run."

-or-


"Alright, we're off to my cousins wedding!"
"Hold on. I have to use the lavatory. (Yeah, actors say lavatory) Hey (Stunt Double) time for you to shine."
"Awwww man, this is the fourth time this month!"
"Don't do it and you'll be the best man next time!"
"Okay, but can I bring my issue of skydivers weekly with me?"


I bet you're al seeing the many applications of stunt doubles right now. Now I am not saying this is exactly what happens in the real world. I hope it is, but I'm afraid it's not. I hope you all get to be famous enough to where you need a stunt double.

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