prankster

Since most callers don’t expect an answer, they gasp when a visitor actually picks up, many quickly hanging up like teenage telephone pranksters.

One particularly despairing prankster appealing for penalty-taking to be made part of the English National Curriculum in place of maths lessons, after England were defeated at a major tournament.

The portrait was reportedly commissioned to fill an empty space that had briefly been filled with an image of Vladimir Putin by a prankster.

That group of prankster historians called itself E Clampus Vitus, a kind of bogus Latin.

But like generations of pilgrims, dropouts, and merry pranksters before him, what he discovered on that journey was his mission.