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[GenXmuse]

I enjoy a good practical joke myself! I'm a pretty good sport. 

[x Hedge]

  @GoneButNotForgotten 

When I think of practical jokes I think of mild pranks like giving the birthday boy a dribble glass of lemonade at the beach, gluing grandma's cup to the plastic tablecloth at the family barbeque (because she did that to her grama 30 years earlier), or your example of switching underwear sizes.

These are practical jokes between loved ones, result in a burst of laughter all around and are easily corrected.

I have the impression some posters here are imagining something quite different and are reacting to their own definition of "practical jokes". I don't believe the examples in your OP showed cruelty, or were about plotting to publicly humiliate your family members so you could laugh at their distress.

[lovesrecess]

I agree that most practical jokes have a passive-aggressive quality to them. I think April Fool’s jokes were what the OP enjoys. To me, nothing is funny or harmless about making someone look or feel foolish or embarrassed.

[gertrudecloset]

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@lovesrecess wrote:

I agree that most practical jokes have a passive-aggressive quality to them. I think April Fool’s jokes were what the OP enjoys. To me, nothing is funny or harmless about making someone look or feel foolish or embarrassed.

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Yes, but she says she enjoys them "immensely."  To me that means every chance you get to play a practical joke.  Not just on April Fool's Day @lovesrecess .  That's how I'm looking at it at least.