The Art of Prank Phone Calls

Last Updated: March 4, 2001

March Madness

Lil Kim Denies Any Knowledge of Shooting I don't know why I put this link in here, but I figured you would all like a look at Lil Kim. That plus, Frank's World News predicted Puff Daddy would go on trial one day. Just not like this. She wants her ScrapeTV. www.iwantmy.scrape.tv Check it out now! The Launch of Scrape.TV Prank Phone Calls, Generation X Antics, Fake News, and Miniature Schnauzers. For 5 years, you have helped us grow and even though we never went public and none of us own a yacht (not yet anyways). I just thought I would take this time to wish all of you a Merry Christmas/Hannuka/Kwaanza/Ramidan/Winter Solstice/Yak Shaving Day. Simply put, no matter what holiday you celebrate, enjoy it. Have a happy heatlhy New Year and you'll see some cool stuff from us in 2001. ScrapeTV is our newest endeavor and we hope you enjoy it. It's not much to look at now, but we hope to improve it as the year goes on. By the way, you can read a near-identical version of this holiday message on the Franksworld.com homepage, if you so desired. Peace, Joy and Brittany Spears*. Frank *You're probably wondering why I mentioned Brittany Spears in the above holiday greeting. The reason is simple. We want to associate good things when you think of FranksWorld.com. Brittany appeals to most of our target audience (that includes us). Immature and pollitically incorrect? Yes, but it is effective. So the next time you see Ms. Spears jiggling and cavorting about. Think of franksworld.com. One more thing: Christina Aguilera. For the ladies: Brad Pitt.

Return of the prodigal prankster

"You're the type of girl with class and style / The only thing you need is the back of my jeep once in a while" - LL Cool J, "Back Seat of My Jeep" The contrast in those two lines pretty much says it all. While prank calls are the proverbial back seat whore of comedy, you have arrived at the classiest f'in prank call site of them all. And while Ladies Love Cool James, teenagers love KeWl pranks. But we're here to take the capitalization and misspelling out of "KeWl" and show you folks what real improvisational phone theater (aka prank calling) is about. Kill the aimless cursing, misdirected offensiveness, and... let the callee get a word in now and then. "Call me sir!" - Cameron as Sgt. Peterson in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" As part of our new classy, high horse image, I shall henceforth be known as "Hastings," not NPC or any of the other monikers I've gone by since I started this site in January of '96. All highfalutin bombasticity aside, my compadres Frank (as in the domain name up there) and the Art of Prank Calls Troupe are going to try and collect for you the funniest situations ever recorded on a telephone... To us, the best calls are when the call takes you into a spur of the moment, prankster-created world of utter absurdity. Improvisational phone theater... freestyle phone battle... call it what you want, that's the style we're dealing with here. Also, judging by the emails I continue to get every week, y'all are dying for that classic prank material. So we're going to try and get online calls from those infamous tapes that your friends dubbed from his uncle's friend down at the shop (and so on). For now, it's one small step at a time, the first update is to our sister site, Prantagonize magazine. It's an article on reverse-pranking telemarketers ("Hey man... you called me!") from someone who's been there. Next update will be... who knows... but I promise it will be something that will make you scream with glee, just like your mother did last night. Long live the crappy, analog phone network of Ma Bell. Yours truly, -Hastings pranks@franksworld.com

Downloadable Two Packs of Shakur on Its Way

	Highlighted Prank of the Week
	Click to Play!	Vibrator Quality Control ( 4:56 - Java/Emblaze Audio ) A Radio DJ calls a woman at work posing as a "Quality Control Engineer" at a vibrator company. We're quite pleased with the originality of this prank. Given the Butt Plugs incident, we've had our doubts about the creativity of radio DJ's. A funny, but cruel prank. You can hear the intense fear in her voice when the "health risks" are revealed to her and the total shock (then smoldering rage) when the prank is revealed to her. "No one's going to hear this are they?" "No, actually they've already heard it." Hmm. Vibrators and Butt Plugs? What will the search engines think?

What's New	Slowly, we're getting a little peeved with Real Networks.
MP3 vs. Real: the Epic Battle We've had no shortage of feedback since we posed the MP3 vs. RealMedia question. Including a rather emphatic email (see below). Keep the feedback coming, help us decide which format to use! Look below the email picture for the format round up. Format Round Up Presently, we're looking at the following formats: 1. Real Audio/Real Media or whatever they're calling it these days. 2. MP3 or the poster child for silly lawsuits 3. Emblaze Java Audio 4. Shockwave Flash	In the audio format wars, the only real losers are the users. It used to be so simple, RealAudio was the only way to go. Back then, they were a progressive, ambitious start-up with a killer product. Since then, they've changed. Try to download their player today and you get a whole bunch of crap you don't want, like Download Manager, which essentially gets in the way of downloading files. 10 megs for a lousy media player. These people are worse than the browser peddlers. Better yet, is their MP3 player, which among other things, tells Real Networks what you listen to. All that and they keep wanting you to spend money on the damned thing! $30 for the privilege of having ads thrown at my face. Thanks to the Content Gestapo, also known as the RIAA, this may be our future. But then again, our relationship with them has never been rosey. A few years ago, I was on the phone with their East Coast sales rep. He was trying to convince me how great their product was. Personally, I was sold on the product, but the Dilbert-esque webmaster at the project was too cheap to buy it. After a deluge of phone calls, which sounded a little too much like one of our pranks, I told the guy that I liked their technology so much that I used it exclusively on another site. His excitement turned ugly when I told him it was a prank phone call site. Then there's the Trade Show Incident, but I'll save that story for another day.
	Just Out of the Lab: New Audio Technology We've been playing around with a new audio format for a while that plug-in less and streams. It's all Java based and the quality is pretty good. The previously featured prank ("Two Packs of Shakur")is the first time we've used it. Let us Know what you think about it. Tomb of the Unknown Prankster The previously featured prank ("Two Packs of Shakur") was an anonymous donation. If you are the mastermind behind this prank, please get in touch with us and send us more of of your stuff! Until then, we will only wonder about your whereabouts.