McDonnell Family Blog

The art of irritating people around you...

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I ran across this list, and after nearly hyperventilating from laughing, I figured that some of you might get a smile out of it as well.

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I just ask that you do not take this seriously and try them out to see if they work. :o)

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The most hilarious part about this list, is that I know some people who do some of these things routinely!

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Enjoy!

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Specify that your drive-thru order is "to go."

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If you have a glass eye, tap on it occasionally with your pen while talking to others.
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Start each meal by conspicuously licking all your food, and announce that this is so no one will "swipe your grub."
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Name your dog "Dog."
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Insist on keeping your car windshield wipers running in all weather conditions "to keep them tuned up."
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Reply to everything someone says with "that’s what you think."
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Claim that you must always wear a bicycle helmet as part of your "astronaut training."
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Follow a few paces behind someone, spraying everything they touch with a can of Lysol.
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Make beeping noises when a large person backs up.
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Do not add any inflection to the end of your sentences, producing awkward silences with the impression that you’ll be saying more any moment.
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Adjust the tint on your TV so that all the people are green, and insist to others that you "like it that way."
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Sew anti-theft detector strips into people’s backpacks.
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Hide dairy products in inaccessible places.
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Order a side of pork rinds with your fillet mignon.
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Change channels five minutes before the end of every show.
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Tape pieces of "Sweating to the Oldies" over climatic parts of rental movies.
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Decline to be seated at a restaurant, and simply eat their complimentary mints by the cash register.
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Buy a large quantity of orange traffic cones and reroute whole streets.
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Repeat everything someone says as a question.
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Write "X - BURIED TREASURE" in random spots on all of someone’s road maps.
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Inform everyone you meet of your personal Kennedy assassination, UFO, and OJ Simpson conspiracy theories.
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Repeat the following conversation a dozen times: "Do you hear that?", "What?", "Never mind, it’s gone now."
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Light road flares on a birthday cake.
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Wander around a restaurant, asking other diners for their parsley.
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At the Laundromat, use one dryer for each of your socks.
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Stand over someone’s shoulder, mumbling as they read.
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Ask people what gender they are.
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Lick the filling out of all the Oreos, and place the cookie parts back in the tray.
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While making presentations, occasionally bob your head like a parakeet.
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Lie obviously about trivial things such as the time of day.
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Leave your Christmas lights up and lit until September.
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Change your name to "John Aaaaasmith" for the great glory of being first in the phone book. Claim it’s a Hawaiian name, and demand that people pronounce each "a."
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Sit in your front yard pointing a hair dryer at passing cars to see if they slow down.
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Chew on pens that you’ve borrowed.
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Wear a lot of cologne.
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Listen to 33RPM records at 45RPM speed, and claim the faster speed is necessary because of your "superior mental processing."
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Sing along at the opera.
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Mow your lawn with scissors.
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At a golf tournament, chant "swing-batabatabata-suhwing-batter!"
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Ask the waitress for an extra seat for your "imaginary friend."
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Go to a poetry recital and ask why each poem doesn’t rhyme.
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Ask your co-workers mysterious questions and then scribble their answers in a notebook.

Mutter something about "psychological profiles."
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Select the same song on the jukebox fifty times.
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Construct elaborate "crop circles" in your front lawn.
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Make appointments for the 31st of September.
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Invite lots of people to other people’s parties.
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Leave the copy machine set to reduce 200%, extra dark, 17 inch paper, 99 copies.
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Stomp on little plastic ketchup packets.
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Practice making fax and modem noises.
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Highlight irrelevant information in scientific papers and "cc." them to your boss.
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Finish all your sentences with the words "in accordance with prophecy."
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Signal that a conversation is over by clamping your hands over your ears.
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Disassemble your pen and "accidentally" flip the ink cartridge across the room.
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Holler random numbers while someone is counting.
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Staple papers in the middle of the page.
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Publicly investigate just how slowly you can make a "croaking" noise.
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Honk and wave to strangers.
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TYPE ONLY IN UPPERCASE.
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type only in lowercase.
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dont use any punctuation either
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As much as possible, skip rather than walk.
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Try playing the William Tell Overture by tapping on the bottom of your chin. When nearly done, announce "No, wait, I messed it up," and repeat.
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Sing the theme to the Batman television show as loudly as you can, over and over and over..
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Tell people their accent isn’t fooling anyone.
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Drum on every available surface.
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Write the surprise ending to a book on its first page.
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Set alarms for random times.
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Learn Morse code and have conversations with friends in public consisting of "Beeeep bip bip beeeep bip.."
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Buy large quantities of mint dental floss just to lick the flavor off.
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Dress only in clothes colored Hunter’s Orange.
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Wear your pants backwards.
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Begin all your sentences with "Ooh la la!"
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Leave someone’s printer in compressed-italic-landscape mode.
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Pay for your dinner with pennies.
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Tie jingle bells to all your clothes.
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Repeat everything someone says, as a question.
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Leave tips in Bolivian currency.
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Demand that everyone address you as "Conquistador."
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Push all the flat Lego pieces together tightly.
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When Christmas caroling, sing "Jingle bells, Batman smells" until physically restrained.
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Wear a cape that says "Magnificent One."
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Sing the "This is the song that never ends" song from Lampchop’s Play-Along.
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Leave your turn signal on for fifty miles.
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Pretend your mouse is a CB radio, and talk into it.
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Drive half a block.
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Inform others that they exist only in your imagination.
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Cultivate a Norwegian accent. If Norwegian, affect a southern drawl.
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"Forget" the punch line to a long joke, but assure the listener it was a "real hoot."
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Routinely handcuff yourself to furniture, informing the curious that you don’t want to fall off "in case the big one comes."
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Deliberately hum songs that will remain lodged in co-workers’ brains, such as "Feliz Navidad," the Archies’ "Sugar," or the Mr. Rogers theme song.
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Invent nonsense computer jargon in conversations, and see if people play along to avoid the appearance of ignorance.
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Stare at static on the TV and claim you can see a "magic picture."
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Scuff your feet on a dry, shaggy carpet and seek out victims.
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Never make eye contact.
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Never break eye contact.
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Occasionally bark in a high-pitched voice.
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When in a conversation, look out the window, then say "Wait, start over. I wasn’t paying attention."
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Say to people, "Did you wear deodorant today?"
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Place your shoes on the table.
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When talking to someone, look at a spot about two inches to their right.
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Switch your neighbor’s lawn furniture with someone else’s.
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Call into work and tell them you have something better to do today.
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Buy goldfish and ask the clerk if they come with chips.
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Sample every flavor of ice cream and tell the clerk what you don’t like about each one.
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Insist completely ridiculous things are true - like Clinton is still President.
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Speak in a strong Welsh accent.
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Wear odd shoes.
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Disagree strongly with everything anybody says.
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Throw stones at people walking past your house.
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Keep changing the TV channel every two seconds.
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Whenever anyone says something, laugh loudly as if they have just told an extremely funny joke.
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Phone McDonald’s and try to make a reservation for that evening.
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Spend an entire weekend pretending you are R2-D2.
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Phone random numbers and tell them you are holding their daughter hostage.
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Recite the first 4,000 decimal places of Pi. Then ask if people want to hear it in binary, too.
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Pretend you have gone completely deaf.
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Walk into people’s houses, go straight to the fridge without saying hello, and help yourself to their food.
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Speak so quietly that people always have to get you to repeat it.
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Loudly recite people’s most embarrassing secrets in restaurants.
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Play the electric guitar very loudly and badly, then when the neighbors ask you to turn it down, play even louder. When they come round to complain again, say, "Oh, I’m sorry. I thought you asked me to turn it up!
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Try to fit the word "cornucopia" into every sentence you say.
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Drive on the wrong side of the road.
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Secretly learn to play the piano, then go to a friend’s house who has a piano. Claim you’ve never played before then play Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring perfectly the first time. Then say, "I guess I must kinda be a natural."
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Wear your cap backwards and say "Yo, wazzup?" a lot.
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Tell everyone you are Bill Gates cousin.
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Take photos of people walking down the street and then run away.
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Dedicate your life to politics, become president of the United States, then raise all taxes to 90%.
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Down a can of Coke in one drink and then burp loudly.
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Bark like a dog whenever anyone says the word "the."
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Wire up people’s cars so the horn comes on as soon as their car is started.
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Ride a unicycle to work.
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E-mail Microsoft to tell them about bugs in Windows XP that aren’t actually there.
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Stare at people for about five minutes, making sure they know you’re staring at them. Then, slowly sneak up to them while humming the Mission: Impossible theme. Sniff their head, then run away. Repeat.
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Continuously mumble during a conversation.
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Take off the eraser to every pencil in your house, or better yet, someone else’s house.
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When in a chat room, spell everything incorrectly.
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On a hot summer day, ride up and down the road and drench pedestrians with squirt guns.
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Walk up to someone eating. Lean over and stare at them intently until they notice. Continue to do so until they ask what you’re doing. Reply, "I’ve been watching you eat for the last 30 seconds.. You’re weird!" Leave the restaurant.
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When walking, talk to yourself constantly.
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Move people’s bookmarks ahead three pages when they aren’t looking.
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Call the operator. When asked, "Can I help you?" reply, "No thanks, just browsing."
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After visiting the local donut shop, sit on the floor cross-legged and insist in a childish voice that you haven’t received enough chocolate sprinkles.
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Push a raisin into someone’s cream-filled donut.
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Spread fertilizer on half your neighbor’s lawn.
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Call every pager number you know and leave the number for your local McDonald’s.
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Wash and scrub the trees in your front lawn.
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Throw newspapers back at paperboys.
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Stand on a busy corner. Gasp, look and point up. See how many people look.
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At random times in a conversation, say "Hi," "Hello Sir, how are you?" or "Have a good day, thank you."
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Put electrical tape over the headlights of someone’s car.
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Walk up to random strangers insisting you are family.
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When a cop pulls you over, when they step up to your car, drive forward slowly and make them walk. Especially if it’s raining.
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In an office, lock all the doors behind you.
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Face the back when standing in an elevator.
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Grin so wide it hurts your cheeks at every salesperson in town.
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When at an ATM, try to have a conversation with it, or pretend it stole your card. (This works best if there’s a line.)
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Unbend all the paperclips you can find, then replace every eraser you can find with a rubber band.
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Ask people to prove everything they say. (e.g. "I’m Bob, nice to meet you…" "PROVE IT!")
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Answer every question with another question. As soon as one of you says a statement instead of a question, shout "I win!".
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Pose as a client at a bank or other professional institution, and when you are seated in front of their desk, keep rearranging the items on top into different patterns and tell them you are "just reorganizing things."
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Call every girl you know "dude".
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Bring a portable CD player to a concert and listen the CD because you insist that it is "Just better quality"
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Press the "power" button on on someone’s computer or keyboard when they’re almost finished typing up a long essay, story etc. Apologize sincerely, claiming that you thought it was the focus adjustment.
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Call 911 and breathe heavily.
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Recite Shakespearian poetry to everyone you meet.
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Go to McDonalds and ask for a BK Whopper.
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Order a pizza and ask them if they can "please put the crust on top this time" in an exasperated voice.
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Every time someone asks you to do something or says something to you ask "Is that a threat?"
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When in an elevator, in different voices, shout out random floors, and then watch as you get there, no one gets off.
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Also, when riding up an elevator with a stranger, start singing a song that everyone knows, then expect them to start singing too. If they do not start singing, insist, "Everyone knows that song.

Are you stupid?"
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While walking make car noises loudly (Such as changing gears).
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Whenever somebody says something, ask what the simplest word they said means. When they explain, ask what the simplest word in their explanation means. Repeat this for the entire conversation.
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Go up to a someone and say, "Are you annoyed by irrelevant questions?" And then walk away very quickly.
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Finish each sentence with "Monkey See, Monkey Do".
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Click your mechanical pencils or your pens during a test in school.
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Pretend you are invisible.
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Convince people you are deaf and talk in an incredibly phony sign language.
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Spend all day at a fast food restaurant and see how long it takes before you have to pay for your "free" refills.
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Continuously open your briefcase or bag and say into it, "Have you got enough air in there?"
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While going down in an elevator scream, "AAAAAGGGGGHHHHH!!!! WE’RE GONNA DIE!!!" for no apparent reason.
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Call everyone a communist.
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Explain "the little green men" in detail to someone, and when they don’t believe you, accuse them of being one in disguise.
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Call your neighbors collect.
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Whenever someone finishes a sentence say, "And then what happened?"
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Page yourself over an intercom, but don’t disguise your voice.
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Send people annoying chain forwards with outrageous consequences like "If you don’t send this to 300 people in 4 seconds you will die instantly" and then insist that it is true and it happened to your uncle.
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When walking push an invisible cart and make loud squeaky noises.
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Walk up to random people and ask them, very seriously, "Do you know the muffin man?"
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Clear your throat every three or four words while speaking.
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Look at your hand in amazement and say, "Whoa, I never knew I had this!"
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While driving if you see a "How am I driving" bumper sticker, call the number and inform the operator that the driver is doing a great job.
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When driving with companions in the car, every few seconds slam on the brakes and insist that a squirrel ran in front of you.
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Whenever anybody says anything to you. Respond by saying, "I know."
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Continue to ask someone, "Is this annoying? Is this annoying?" over and over and over.
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Tap someone on the shoulder repeatedly.
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When you’re in an argument, no matter what it’s about, keep yelling "I don’t see your name on it!".
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When in public, pretend you are selling something in an infomercial.
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At a restaurant, repeatedly send your food back for changes and after awhile insist that, "This isn’t what I ordered!"
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Go to a shoe store and try on every shoe, then say that you aren’t interested in buying shoes and leave.
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Put powdered sugar in your hair, sit down next to a stranger, and scratch your head a lot.
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Turn on the Talk Radio Stations in your car, roll down your windows, and headbang.
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Walk around with a plastic sword and shield and tell strangers "I must avenge the death of my father."
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Scotch tape your door as an Anti-theft Device.
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Super Glue quarters to floors.
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Put the wrong date and year on the papers you hand in to your teachers.
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Call random numbers and say "Hi, this is Julie from Baskin Robins. If you can name 31 flavors in 31 seconds you get a free scoop."
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WRIGHT N AL CAPITOL LETERS AND MISSSSSPEL EVRYTHIND!!!
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Get two cell phones and talk to yourself on them in front of other people