Episode 1262
Fool's errand
Fri, 2020-Oct-16 01:47 UTC
Length - 1:34
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With 402,193 views on Thursday, 15 October 2020 our article of the day is Fool's errand.
A fool's errand is a type of practical joke or prank where a newcomer to a group, typically in a professional context, is given an impossible or nonsensical task by older or more experienced members of the group. Many such errands require the victim to travel some distance and request an impossible object by name; the prank will be widely known within the peer group as an in-joke, and the person they ask for the object will play along, often by sending the victim on to make the same request elsewhere.
The errand is an example of a hazing ritual, through which a newcomer gains acceptance into a group.
This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 01:47 UTC on Friday, 16 October 2020.
For the full current version of the article, see Fool's errand on Wikipedia.
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