They brought along racially insulting material used as nasty pranks by fellow officers - some from as recently as a few months ago.

And in his nastiest prank, he picks up a vain bisexual soap-opera actor, goes home with him and pretends to be a violent sociopath.

The threat now was disclosure not merely of a nasty prank, but of murder.

Tell me, is it politeness that makes you indulge him in his nasty prank by wearing it?

Between abuses of E-mail, some nasty pranks and a careless on-line gossip columnist, the well-established information anarchy of cyberspace has turned more chaotic and even brutish.

The call was a nasty prank, and thanks to Caller I.D., a 16-year-old, who had been making obscene calls to Mrs. Benjamin for weeks, was arrested.

From nasty pranks, to small deaths like the squirrel, to human deaths like Saralynn's and Gerry's.

Without the writer's fearless exuberance and his droll sense of adventure, this material becomes a roll call of sordid episodes and nasty pranks.

"A particularly nasty little prank," Sebastian explained.

In Radio, Smith had the role of Johnny Clay, team star and ringleader of the group pulling nasty pranks on Cuba Gooding, Jr.'s character of Radio.