This authoritative guide to those annoying and embarrassing tricks everyone grows up with (and maybe never outgrow) provides |sage| advice for the young and the young at heart. Arranged in encyclopaedic format, each of the more than 50 entries includes a formal definition of the prank, followed by tips for execution and counter-measures. A ranking system places each act on a scale of 1 to 10 for its degree of pain, embarrassment, annoyance and degree of difficulty. Fun and irritating tricks include the Burp 'n' Blow, the Rat Tail and the Marker 'Stache.