The most amazing practical joke was perpetrated over New Year's. <a href="http://www.theolympian.com/home/news/20040107/southsound/8191.shtml" title="Friends foil Olympia man's home: Downtown resident returns from trip to find belongings silver-coated" source="The Olympian">Friends foil Olympia man's home</a> shows pictures of an apartment completely, and I mean <i>completely</i>, covered in aluminum foil. The pranksters covered doors, door framers, the toilet, everything ... they even: <ul> <iq>unrolled the toilet paper in the bathroom, enveloped the bath tissue in aluminum foil and rolled it back up again</iq> <iq>used foil to encircle Kirk's spare change --- each individual quarter he had left atop a living room bookshelf</iq> <iq>overed Kirk's book and compact disc collections but made sure each CD case could open and shut normally</iq> </ul> This is an upside to a jobless America: people are finding time for art again :-)