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	Laurel and Hardy - Pratfall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Pratfall has been read the world over by members of the Sons of the Desert and other Laurel and Hardy fans.
		As one of the first widely circulated publications on Laurel and Hardy, it is still regarded today as one of the best sources for information regarding the boys and their co-stars.
		Pratfall may be best known for publishing a comprehensive then-and-now guide to many locations used in Laurel and Hardy's films (see LandH Locations).
	www.wayoutwest.org /pratfall (404 words)

	pratfall - OneLook Dictionary Search
		pratfall : Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info]
		pratfall : Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
		pratfall : Macquarie Book of Slang [home, info]
	www.onelook.com /?w=pratfall (133 words)

	Film review: `Ninja' comedy takes a pratfall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		He decides that he will prove himself to be the fulfillment of the prophecy by traveling to Beverly Hills to help a damsel in distress.
		Farley's one trick is high-energy, manic pratfalls made to look painful.
		The audience goes "Ooooo" to mean "Ouch!" and giggles in the way you do when you realize that someone had tripped over a coffee table and injury has been confined to dignity.
	www.chron.com /cgi-bin/auth/story/content/chronicle/features/97/01/18/beverly.html (371 words)

	ubiquit.us blog: "Apparently the pratfall is the peak of all humor. It's not a pretty picture of the human race, Mike."
		ubiquit.us blog: "Apparently the pratfall is the peak of all humor.
		"Apparently the pratfall is the peak of all humor.
		Is the origin of humor in pratfalls and flatulence?
	www.ubiquit.us /blog/archives/2006/05/apparently_the_pratf.html (1024 words)

	CBC - Ontario Votes 2003 - Commentary - Governing by pratfall
		There is an old definition of slapstick that runs something like this: A man is walking down the road and up ahead of him is an open manhole cover.
		The problem is that in swerving, he steps on a banana peel beside the manhole cover and does a pratfall.
		While this might define slapstick, it could easily be used to define the Ernie Eves approach to governing.
	www.cbc.ca /ontariovotes2003/commentary/doherty_pratfall_082703.html (1419 words)

	Pratfall - Contents of Past Issues
		There are a total of 18 issues of Pratfall.
		The first issue features an article about the life of James Finlayson; Babe London visits the Way Out West tent; an LandH crossword puzzle; a Then and Now film location comparison; little known facts about the films; and the 1937 review of
		This was a quadruple issue of Pratfall, featuring a then and now guide to LandH movie locations.
	www.wayoutwest.org /pratfall/contents.html (683 words)

	DesignMatcher.com, Finding your favourite Design
		The Pratfall lounge chair is based on Starck's famous Costes chair.
		Black painted tubular steel base with seating shell bent plywood shell in natural or fl painted beech wood or veneered with walnut or mahogany.
		Pratfall: W:61,5 x D:78 x H:86 x SH:41 cm.
	www.designmatcher.com /nl/gallery_detail.php?designersID=762&queryID=1&galleryID=1228 (176 words)

	Salon.com News \| King Kaufman's Sports Daily (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Cubs' monumental pratfall wasn't his fault, and you'd have reached for that ball too.
		This was a debacle, a pratfall, a face-plant.
		The champagne was chilling, the tarps were hung in the clubhouse with care and the typists were typing up their stories.
	www.salon.com /news/sports/col/kaufman/2003/10/15/wednesday/index.html (268 words)

	pratfall history
		Many people mistakenly think that pratfalling is a vaudeville tradition as old as the old pie-in-the-face gag.
		In fact, this ingenious comedy device was only invented last year by Dr. Zagorsko in a fit of brilliance brought on by a strong dose of the "Thinking Fuel."
		During his frequent time-travels to historic eras in search of historic bitchez, Zagorsko may have inadvertently performed a few pratfalls in the immediate company of such fl and white slapstick heros as Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton.
	members.shaw.ca /lamont/pratfalling/history.html (93 words)

	Observer Newspaper - Scene
		---In the great tradition of picking a band name, Pratfall's members just opened the dictionary, saw the word "pratfall" and were inspired by its definition: "to fall on one's butt for comic effect." Despite a comic name, Pratfall has serious talent.
		The current lineup of Pratfall has been together for about three months, and the members span a range of ages.
		Dolphin is a senior, lead singer Brian Carrigan is a junior, Moctezuma a sophomore and guitarist Rob Gutierrez a freshman.
	www.nd.edu /~observer/03232001/Scene/0.html (2087 words)

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		Connor moves over to R of Tony before next ‘double take’ Jess, you don’t need to be offstage R yet, but you need to leave room for Pete to drop the banana peel.
		Finally, please note the diagram at the bottom for when I refer to things like ‘Tony moves just upstage of position 2’ Spit take, double take at Tony, slapstick Pete trips Jess as she passes, pratfall still heading SR, Tony has wound up just upstage of position 2.
		It should turn you so you are facing Pete, slapstick just smack ‘em Pete, double take, pratfall you just fall Jess.
	www.oberlin.edu /student/sthompso/arm/library/spittake.doc (316 words)

	fantasywildlife: Here's my new pic of Imelda "Pratfall" C
		Here's my new pic of Imelda "Pratfall" Cruz, my fun-loving anthro albatross Hollywood stuntwoman superhero character, soaring up through the clouds.
		The last (and first) time I drew Pratfall was over a year ago!
		Decided to keep this one really basic, no wacky textures, just pencil and solid-colored Photoshop paint, and just 3 clouds and a sky for background.
	www.livejournal.com /community/fantasywildlife/13479.html (145 words)

	Phillipe Stark Inspired Pratfall Chair (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Philippe Starck’s designs, as witnessed in the Pratfall Lounge Chair, reflect his principle and belief that honesty and integrity should be at the forefront of design.
		Philippe Starck's products represent longevity and durability, while characterizing an ability to bring cutting-edge design to everyday products.
		Philippe Starck Inspired Pratfall Lounge Chair with wood formed back.
	www.bauhaus2yourhouse.com /philippe-starck-pratfall-chair.html (65 words)

	Christmas with the Kranks - Movie Review
		Now, you or I would have told the sticky-beaking neighbours exactly where to stick their protest, but this is the movies, and apparently that makes it okay for each and every plot-hook to be completely implausible.
		So, in a film that feels like it lasts much longer than its 98 minutes, we're force-fed pratfall after pratfall as the Kranks battle tooth and nail to have Christmas their way.
		The comedy's mostly slapstick, but it's a style that only works if the performers' hearts are in it, and here that's definitely not the case.
	www.movie-gazette.com /cinereviews/1045 (720 words)

	The Austin Chronicle News: The Hightower Report
		Richard Perle is a right-wing neocon theorist who wants to be taken seriously as both a governmental and corporate insider...
		but he keeps taking highly public pratfalls that would be absolutely comical, if they weren't so ugly.
		His latest pratfall is as a board member of Hollinger International, a media conglomerate that owns such papers as Chicago Sun-Times and The Jerusalem Post.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2004-09-24/pols_hightower.html (725 words)

	All-Reviews.com Movie/Video Review: Around The World In 80 Days
		As though getting about the globe in under 3 months were not difficult enough, the three must extricate themselves from fighters known as the Black Scorpions, who attempt to stop the trio dead in their tracks.
		Pratfall follows pratfall, with Jackie Chan again executing his martial arts moves with the help of some computer generation, Cecile De France nurturing a budding romance with Steve Coogan, and the three slamming into walls, toppling statues, and regularly saving one another's lives.
		A cameo by Governor Schwarzenegger is the one gem of the film, a role that has Arnold fitted out as a Turkish prince eager to make Monique his seventh wife, "one for each night of the week" and "Would Tuesdays work for you?"
	www.all-reviews.com /videos-5/around-world-80-days.htm (438 words)

	ESPN.com - NBA - With Shaq and Kobe clicking, Lakers are tops
		One of the pitfalls of being a columnist is the opportunity to commit a public pratfall in print (or pixel).
		I guess that makes it the print pratfall pitfall.
		We get to express our opinions and we often get to prove, publicly and painfully, we are occasional idiots.
	espn.go.com /premium/nba/columns/monroe/391126.html (1190 words)

	Book.ie - Woody ($0.01 USD, £0.01 GBP) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Peter Lefcourt's fifth novel is a fun, deftly done, slow-motion political pratfall.
		It's set in the slime pit of Congressional politics--Vermont's junior senator, Woody White, is struggling to get himself reelected.
		The misadventures of Senator White will keep readers at all points on the political spectrum giggling for days.
	www.webtropy.com /book/book.aspx?Woody (764 words)

	washingtonpost.com: 'Dick Van Dyke': A Pratfall Down Memory Lane
		The advance word on "The Dick Van Dyke Show Revisited" was a three-letter one: "sad." That's what it turns out to be, which is better than "bad" but not by all that much.
		Then they dance together, ballroom style, around the Petries' living room.
		It's a sweet and warm and charming moment, but it's interrupted for a dumb, corny pratfall.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A16241-2004May10?language=printer (893 words)

	TAKE A PRATFALL - Definition
		Find take a pratfall and more at Lycos Search.
		Find results for take a pratfall and anything else you are looking for instantly!
		Read about take a pratfall in the free online encyclopedia and dictionary.
	www.hyperdictionary.com /dictionary/take+a+pratfall (206 words)

	World Class Wire Sculpture by Elizabeth Berrien - Universal Pratfalls
		Weigh this project WITHOUT the distraction of Hypothetical Fame and Glory, and set limits for yourself on how much bad pay and inconvenience you can tolerate while making your "benefactors" look great.
		Stick within those limits and avoid the pratfall, "Not Knowing When It's Time to Let Go".
		This article was first published in the news letter of the Ink People Center for the Arts in the 1990's.
	www.wirelady.com /berrienwirepratfallpage.html (1451 words)

	Jerry Lewis Talks About His Father's Influence: The Pratfall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Smoke came up, and it made the loudest noise.
		I took my first pratfall and got a big laugh.
		Every time I took a fall, my dad said, "You're going to pay for that one, because you're doing it wrong." He was right -- I killed my spine.
	www.rd.com /content/openContent.do?contentId=28637 (452 words)

	-yourDictionary.com - Word of the Day
		Usage: "He slipped on a banana peel and made a perfect pratfall." The noun "prat," originally referring to the rearend, has ameliorated in Britain to a word meaning a "foolish person": "He's in trouble for forgetting his wedding anniversary -- the prat!" (thanks to Clare Morrison for the example).
		Suggested Usage: We should all learn from our pratfalls; they are inevitable.
		But the word is an underused term that means precisely "screw-up" or worse: "Citing Shakespeare as the author of the line from Gilbert and Sullivan was a right pratfall that he will just have to survive."
	www.yourdictionary.com /wotd/wotd.pl?word=pratfall (191 words)

	Micallef's Online World: Rise and Pratfall - Jerry Lewis Meets His Audience
		As far back as 1966 he told Cahiers De Cinema that he was looking forward to moving behind the camera.
		- “My ass is sore from years of taking pratfalls” - and finding a new kid to put in front of it.
		In fact Woody Allen came to him in 1965 and asked him to direct a film script he’d just written.
	www.shaunmicallef.com /essays/Jerry_Lewis.html (1884 words)

	SPLICEDwire \| "Dudley Do-Right" review (1999)
		The movie then jumps 20 years to find Snidley (Alfred Molina, "The Impostors") taking over Dudley's rustic hometown, the idyllic Semi-Happy Valley, with some inept false gold rush scheme.
		Fraser is on prosaic pratfall autopilot through this near-plotless, 78-minute jumble of overworked slapstick (multiple floorboards flip up and smack Fraser in the face) and meagerly strung-together set pieces in which Dudley Do-Right does landscape sculpting, motocross racing and performs "Riverdance" numbers with a troup of Vegas-by-way-of-Brooklyn mock native Americans.
		The movie gets a few things right, like the vocal mannerisms of the sing-song announcer (although Fraser fails on this front, only occasionally attempting Dudley's daffy, derring-do diction), and many, many more things wrong (I really could have done without the Regis and Kathie Lee cameos).
	www.splicedonline.com /99reviews/dudleydo.html (524 words)

	OKCupid! pratfall / 31 / m / straight / Shimonoseki, Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		pratfall / 31 / m / straight / Shimonoseki, Japan
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		You can browse pratfall's pictures, message him, and check your compatibility.
	www.okcupid.com /profile?tuid=1257125969076115277 (1054 words)

	Nokia's Road to Recovery Gets Longer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Snyder has a neutral rating on the stock, which dropped $2.11, or 15%, to $12.13 Thursday, putting it at levels not seen in six years.
		Nokia's latest pratfall took the wind out of some rivals' sails as well.
		Though its Sony Ericsson handset venture posted a strong second quarter, Swedish wireless company Ericsson (ERICY:Nasdaq ADR - news - research) saw its shares drop 6% Thursday.
	www.thestreet.com /tech/scottmoritz/10171422.html (432 words)

	All-Reviews.com Movie/Video Review: What A Girl Wants
		Director Dennie Gordon (JOE DIRT) has her falling whenever possible, which is often.
		A real trooper, Bynes keeps on smiling through pratfall after pratfall.
		If the director wants slapstick, she'll do her best to do whatever is asked of her.
	www.all-reviews.com /videos-5/what-a-girl-wants-4.htm (446 words)

	Harvey S. Karten
		three forgoes plot in favor of pratfalls while story bows out in
		Scorpions, who attempt to stop the trio dead in their tracks.
		Pratfall follows pratfall, with Jackie Chan again executing his
	www.rottentomatoes.com /click/author-1123/reviews.php?rid=1289745&cats=1%2C+2%2C+3%2C+4%2C+5%2C+7%2C+8%2C+29%2C+12%2C+13%2C+14%2C+16%2C+17%2C+18%2C+19%2C+20%2C+21%2C+22%2C+24%2C+23%2C+26%2C+27&genreid=&switches=&letter=&sortby=&page=2 (644 words)

	Excerpt from Jane Yolen's 1996 Lecture
		One could sing great operas with this literary voice.
		The danger is that the careless writer could also do a pratfall where she meant the grand gesture.
		Here the writer dares the pornography of innocence, using terms like Truth and Honor and Evil without actually gagging on them.
	www.sff.net /odyssey/yolen.html (726 words)

	Cambridge Dictionaries Online - Cambridge University Press
		pratfall was not found in the Cambridge Dictionary of American English
		pratfall was found in the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary in the following entries:
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	dictionary.cambridge.org /results.asp?dict=A&searchword=pratfall (55 words)

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