Yahoo

Contributor: The lost art of prank-calling strangers

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gen X and millennials spent many after-school hours flipping through the phone book and randomly dialing neighbors. (Marco Di ...
Los Angeles Times

Letters to the Editor: Prank calls were the cyberbullying of their time. It’s good they’re over

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. To the editor: Really? Precious space in the Opinion section devoted to a Gen Xer’s longing for the heyday of ...
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

COLUMNIST: The lost art of prank-calling strangers

Prank calls forced you to learn how to improvise. While one friend may have had an idea of a canned joke or line they wanted to try, in the end, you had to ad lib what was said depending on who ...
News Tribune

COMMENTARY: The lost art of prank-calling strangers

Do you remember what it was like to be bored -- like really bored? As a Gen Xer, I didn't grow up scrolling social media or playing endless hours of "Minecraft" to keep me busy; instead, I spent a ...