"Time after time throughout his career as a Mormon general authority, Pratt played the fall guy to Joseph Smith and Brigham Young." https://www.mrm.org/conflict-in-the-quorum
and amazement whenever Joe or Briggy announced some new revelation from God.
Orson would fall backward and land on his butt, mouth wide open.
Everyone would get such a kick out of those "Pratt falls", as they liked to call those zany antics.
Then there was the time that Newell K. Whitney suggested to Orson that they create a company to manufacture engines that could be used to propel aircraft hither and thither.
Orson was intrigued and started printing up "Pratt and Whitney" business cards, but later on he became extremely depressed because he realized that no heavier than air aircraft had yet been invented, and neither he nor Newell had any workable plans for manufacturing aircraft engines.
After that, when the earliest Mormon educational institutions had been established, he once proposed implementing a program for establishing special dormitories to promote bonds of brotherhood among students. He proposed calling such special dormitories "pratt houses" and calling the residents "pratt boys." He once eagerly explained this idea to Lorenzo Snow. Lorenzo then asked him why those names would be used and Orson said that it was to celebrate the bonds of pratternalization and promote pratternity. Snow then explained that the word Orson was thinking of was "fraternity"...spelled with an "f". Orson then became deeply depressed again...and spent an entire summer wandering around in an area that he called the "Bonneville Salt Pratts" for some reason that only a native of Japan could understand.
and then the Martians came and ruined everything (space ship landed right on top of the sled).
All Orson could do is dejectedly say "Oh well" over and over until someone nearby snapped and yelled at him: "Stop with all the 'oh wells' you whiny twirp, or I swear I, a senior citizen, will beat you with this cane."
Rumor has it that when Orson was born, the parents at first thought it was a girl as he was emerging from the birth canal. The midwife started saying, "I think you now have a lovely new daughter...oh what's that?...Or son...."