Talk:Practical joke device

Tiger In Your Tank

Why is a Citation Needed? (What is in question?) Surely not the existence of the item, which is common knowledge to hundreds of millions of people worldwide. It was the main advertising slogan of the world's largest oil company (Esso/EXXON) for about three decades, and the physical tiger tail was used (given away at gas stations) during multiple promotional campaigns over the years. Everybody (in the USA, anyway) had a tiger tail sticking out of their gas tank. I am actually surprised there isn't a whole article on it.

And did you know that telephones used to have a separate "receiver" piece that had the speaker and microphone? It was originally connected on a cable; you held it to your head. I'm kidding, of course. That's why so many articles mentioning phones don't have citations for the existence of the "phone receiver". It's just a joke someone made up, got widely propagated, and now a lot of people believe it. Not to mention the AI hallucinations. For some reason, Wikipedia allows that joke to remain. I guess as a warning about believing everything you read.

Alternatively, maybe the CN'er is questioning whether this qualifies as a practical joke. I don't know, because there is no citation for the entire article's premise and definition of a practical joke.

Probably should delete this entire Practical Joke article. It seems entirely unfounded and bogus. What buttons do I push to recommend article deletion? ~2026-47343-83 (talk) 08:06, 1 September 2026 (UTC)