Practical Jokes

I think I psychologically damaged my son once because I did a practical joke on him. He's a very, he's a stickler for punctuality. The simplest ones are what in American they call put-ons and in English they call it leg-poles. Where you simply tell someone a whopper and all they have to do is believe it. They don't have to act on it. There's such a well-designed joke that touches slight truths and touches our little pool. And play seems to be essential to human beings. We construct our version of the world and we think it looks this way and that way. But we're also aware to some extent that our view of