Johansson designed these dungarees in 1997 on a lark, to give to his friends.

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Everything changed in the spring of his junior year, when on a lark he took a class about clay.

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On a lark I entered JOEZ in the quarterly stock picking contest at one of my favorite web communities www.

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The company is not bringing Gates in on a lark, says Stone.

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Lewin, on a lark, parlayed their idea into a business plan and entered it in a contest at MIT's Sloan School of Management.

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On a lark, he applied to graduate school at Stanford University.

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On a lark, Mr. Minsky spent some time "inventing useless things, " he says, such as a "gravity machine, " a device that would ring a bell if the force of gravity changed.

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For instance, a calligraphy course that he took on a lark after dropping out of Reed College found practical application 10 years later in designing the first Macintosh computer, and influenced the typefaces used in other computers.

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What started out as a lark quickly became the hottest mascot on the West Coast.

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