If your office environment is pretty fun and open, you can even play harmless pranks on your co-workers, like placing a rubber spider on their desks, once in a while.
"Fred, as in my old roommate?" One night in California, Fred had visited friends to play a harmless game of dominoes.
In "Autumn Spring," which opens today in Manhattan (review, Page 26), the cuddly, avuncular Brodsky plays Frantisek Hana, a feisty 75-year-old former actor, who gets through the frustrations of forced retirement by playing harmless scams -- pretending to be a world-famous musician shopping for a country villa or introducing himself to strangers as a long-lost friend.
Or are you someone who gets scared by people playing harmless pranks and you say to that person who just performed that prank on you, "I had a panic attack when you did that!"?
"Time after time in my days as an orchestral musician, I was forced to play it in such harmless and sugary interpretations that in the end I couldn't bear this misunderstanding of Mozart's music any longer," he writes in booklet notes.
Pranks that are mean or hurt someone aren't funny, but there are plenty of ways to play pranks that are harmless AND hilarious.
The cultural message was heavy-handed but harmless, even charming: Islamists like to play in the snow with their children just like everyone else.
It became a harmless game which my family used to play.
Only ever follow a person to play a practical joke on them or engage in a similar harmless activity.
Dendritic cells (DCs) are believed to be involved in the induction of tolerance to harmless Ags and in mounting protective immune responses to pathogens and, as such, to play key roles in regulating intestinal immune homeostasis.
