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"As far as I know," says Collins, "nobody's found one yet." So has anyone stepped forward to claim an older example? And Google Books has the 1884 item from The Electrical World here. Sure enough, you can read the prank-call history story - headlined "Prince Albert in a Can" - in the November 2011 edition of Defunct. There's not any question of authenticity." The find in that (photo) wound up becoming a piece for the online journal Defunct, which covers some other early examples of prank-call history. "I have a pretty uncreative notion of the line between fact and fiction what I write might use narrative technique, but I stick to the facts. When I first stumbled across the "Grave Joke on Undertakers" picture, and traced it back to Collins, I couldn't help but notice that his biography described him as a teacher of "creative non-fiction writing." Already suspicious of the prank report's authenticity, I wrote to Collins and asked him outright if he was pulling the Internet's leg. (100 years later: 25 geeky happenings from 1984) By way of comparison, it was fully twice that long after the launch of the World Wide Web before someone executed the first Rickroll. These can range between fines or jail time. Think about that: All it took was eight years for some 19 th Century Bart Simpson to cast aside any respect or wonderment there may have been for this technological marvel and transform the telephone into an instrument of tomfoolery. States have their own laws against 911 prank callers. In each case the denoument was highly farcical, and the reputed corpses are now hunting in a lively manner for that telephonist." has been playing a grave practical joke on the undertakers there, by summoning them over the telephone to bring freezers, candlesticks and coffin for persons alleged to be dead. "A GRAVE JOKE ON UNDERTAKERS - Some malicious wag at Providence R.I.
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