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• Sam Adams claimed to have devised over 600 different items, and patented about 40 of them, making him the definitive king of professional pranksters. His original sneezing powder was eventually outlawed over health concerns. Sam Adams actively managed his company right up to his death in 1963 at the age 84.

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• Hugh Troy was born in Ithica, NY in 1906. After graduating from Cornell, he became a successful illustrator of kid’s books. He was a captain during WWII and lived in Washington D.C. until his death in 1964. Today he is remembered for his practical jokes. • Hugh Troy learned the art of pranking at a very early age and practiced on his grandmother. He wrote a letter to Sears and requested a corset, three yards of stovepipe, a teething ring, and two pounds of nails, then signed her name. When the package arrived addressed to Grandma, she exclaimed over their mistake and sent the package back with the letter explaining the error— a letter that was promptly intercepted by Hugh and replaced with another letter that said she needed quilt wadding, a hot water bottle, and two pounds of soft steel rivets. This went on ad infinitum.

• When he found a park bench for sale, he bought it. It was an exact duplicate of the benches in Central Park. He and a friend would take the bench to the park, and as soon as they saw a cop coming, they would proceed to carry the bench away— and would promptly be arrested. The bill of sale would then be produced and Troy would indignantly demand to be set free. He was arrested several times before the city police caught on. • When a theater owner got on his nerves, Troy got even by smuggling a jar full of moths into the next showing. When released, the moths headed directly to the light of the projector, making it impossible for moviegoers to view the picture.

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• You probably won't be surprised to learn that when author (and noted wit) Oscar Wilde arrived in the United States in 1882, he told the customs officers, "I have nothing to declare except my genius." • A pregnant goldfish is called a twit. • If you're planning a summer vacation in Maine this year, you might want to keep in mind that in that state, it's against the law to tickle a woman under the chin with a feather duster. • Despite the fact that 95 percent of the world uses the metric system of measurement, we in the United States still stubbornly cling to the archaic units of measurement derived from the old British Imperial system. This hodgepodge ranges from the mile (originally the distance a Roman soldier could march in 1,000 double steps) to the foot (originally the length of Emperor Charlemagne's foot, later "standardized" to the

• When the Museum of Modern Art sponsored an exhibition of Van Gogh’s art, Troy made a replica of an ear out of chipped beef and mounted it in a blue velvet display case in the museum. A card identified it as the ear Van Gogh cut off. The exhibit drew more viewers than any other painting on display.

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HUGH TROY (continued): • Troy served in WWII and mounted his own protest against the amount of paperwork by sending daily reports to the Pentagon consisting of the number of flies caught on the mess hall flypaper. Soon the Pentagon was wondering why all the other units weren’t sending in their flypaper reports, too. • Once a cherry tree on the Cornell campus miraculously bore apples with a little help from this wonderful joker. • His most successful college stunt was when he borrowed a trash can from a friend. The trash can had been formed from a rhinoceros foot, and with it, Troy made rhino tracks across the snowy campus and onto the ice-covered reservoir where they ended abruptly at a large hole in the ice. When zoologists confirmed that the tracks were those of a rhino, reports started flooding in from all over the city by people who claimed that their drinking water tasted of rhinoceros. • When his imagination was triggered by a seminar on ghost writing, Troy placed an ad in a local newspaper reading, “Too busy to paint? Call on the Ghost Artists! We paint it you sign it! Why not give an exhibition?” He got hundreds of responses.

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