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** Pranks **
I love to laugh and to make people laugh; I have developed my own jokes. Of course, some aren’t very funny, but I love to tell them, and this is why I chose to write about comedy and pranks. People have always played pranks and told jokes for many reasons, such as payback, humiliation, or just for fun. There are different types of jokes, from the verbal joke to the physical. All are very funny; some make everybody laugh and some make your friend mad at you. I would like to talk about my personal experiences and compare them to Roald Dahl’s.

Ever since we were four and five, my friend Kevin has enjoyed jumping out at me. I despised this, but he thought it was hilarious (and I agree it is fun, just not when it happens to you). To retaliate, I hid behind a bush and jumped out when he walked by. I scared him so much that he fell over, and it was hilarious. He claims I could have killed him, I say: “Yeah right!” Since then, he has been trying to get back at me, but he has failed on numerous occasions. His attempts are getting tiresome, but hey he’s still my friend, so I tune it out. When he jumps out and yells at me it sounds like a very high pitched sound kind of an eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!! No, I’m not exaggerating. I try to maintain my balance, but it's very hard to do so.

Dahl writes about pranks a lot in __Boy__, and I enjoy them as much as he does. You’ve heard about me, now about Dahl. When Dahl went to St. Peter's, this kid Wragg put sugar all over the hallway outside their dorm rooms, then the headmaster took their tuck boxes as a punishment for the sugar and for no one confessing. Another time I can think of was when Roald pulled a prank is when he and his family were in Norway. His ancient sister fell in love with a guy who smoked a pipe, and he drove everyone else nuts. To humiliate him, Roald took his pipe, dumped out the tobacco, put goat poop inside, then covered it with a layer of tobacco. When he took a puff, everyone couldn’t help but laugh, which of course gave it away; then the family ran for their lives. I am not a fan of gross humor, but this was hilarious.

Roald and I pull pranks for the same reason: because we don’t like someone, like with the sister’s boyfriend. Roald’s whole family hated him, so he put the poop in his pipe and there you have it. I jumped out at Kevin because I was tired of him jumping out at me, so I got even like Roald.

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