"The Pocket Guide to Mischief" by Bart King (Gibbs Smith, $9.95).

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

The author's name is Bart King, but it might just as well be Bart Simpson. Because the book is "The Pocket Guide to Mischief" (Gibbs Smith, $9.95), and it's just the type of tome Bart S. would keep under his pillow.

It contains instructions about prank-pulling, slights and jibes one can inflict on those people readers put under the category of "Nemesis." Example: What to say to a Nemesis who asks you how he would look in a certain article of clothing. Answer: "Lonely."

King suggests some classic mischief, including peeling the labels off the cans in your Nemesis' kitchen. Of course, all the pranks in this book would be very wrong to actually execute.