1. Midway through the day, change into a different set of clothes. If anybody notices, insist you’ve been wearing the same clothes all day.<\/p>\n
2. Answer the phone with an arbitrary question.<\/p>\n
3. Switch all the clothes in someone’s dresser with clothes from someone else’s dresser (possibly yours). If they live together and will bump into each other wearing each other’s clothes, all the better.<\/p>\n
4. Put things which couldn’t possibly be mailed in people’s mailboxes, like a glass of water, or a bowl of popcorn. Write the address on it and attach proper postage.<\/p>\n
5. When you’re about to enter a room full of people, call one of them on your cell phone. In a desperate, very serious voice, explain: “There’s no time to explain, but I’ve been kidnapped and replaced with a robot which looks just like me. Oh shit, I gotta go!” and hang up quickly.<\/p>\n
6. Hide notes that people will find when they’re cleaning. Suggestions include: “This note was hidden on <date> and it took you this long to find it?”<\/p>\n
7. Hide a note which says “Congratulations! You found me! Re-hide me for ++GOOD LUCK”<\/p>\n
8. Put non food items in the fridge. It’s often very startling to open the fridge and see a telephone or car keys or something which totally doesn’t belong there. If asked for an explanation, say, “After a hard day, there’s nothing like a refreshing, ice cold magazine.” or pencil sharpener. or toilet paper. or tooth brush. or whatever.<\/p>\n
9. Alternatively, hide other people’s things in the fridge. When your housemate asks, “Where’s the remote control?” you can nonchalantly say “Oh, it’s in the fridge.” Protip: have a change-of-topic or excuse to leave the room on the tip of your tongue so as to avoid any followup questions.<\/p>\n
10. Record something short, and put a few minutes of silence on both ends of it. Hide your mp3 player + speakers somewhere with that track playing on repeat.<\/p>\n
11. If you can surreptitously record someone and put THEIR voice on the tape, even better. Hide the recording somewhere where they’ll probably hear it. Imagine how weird it would be to hear your own voice coming from somewhere unseen, and not be able to figure out what’s happening.<\/p>\n
12. Put up a sign anywhere you want with an arbitrary question.<\/p>\n
13.\u00c2\u00a0 Skip to work.\u00c2\u00a0 Especially effective if your company makes you wear “business professional” attire.<\/p>\n
14.\u00c2\u00a0 Break out into spontaneous Irish Jigs in the hallway.\u00c2\u00a0 You get more viewers when you do this between 12 noon and 1 PM and do it near the break room.<\/p>\n
15.\u00c2\u00a0 Neck poking is fun. Nobody expects it, and it gets quit a reaction.<\/p>\n
16. Inappropriate multitasking:\u00c2\u00a0 Brush your teeth while cooking.\u00c2\u00a0 Floss while standing at a urinal.\u00c2\u00a0 Mix n’ match gone wrong.<\/p>\n
17. Sit down in a hallway, aisle, etc.\u00c2\u00a0 Someone is sure to ask if you’re OK.\u00c2\u00a0 That’s your set up.<\/p>\n
18. Use the most inefficient utensil possible to eat.\u00c2\u00a0 (Eating Combos or pretzels out of a bag with chopsticks was pioneered by Leln and myself)<\/p>\n
19. Stop a conversation with “Wait a second…”, and then see how long it takes someone to butt in.\u00c2\u00a0 Act incredulous when they ask why you said it.\u00c2\u00a0 Insist you never did.<\/p>\n
20. Insert “Spies are everywhere.” or “The walls have ears.” into otherwise harmless conversations.<\/p>\n
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21. Reject arbitrary numbering.<\/p>\n
22. Hide a wrapped chocolate bar under the keyboard of an office\/school computer. In the LOGIN thingy, write “You win at life. Your prize is under the keyboard. Delete this message.”<\/p>\n
24. When making any long list, refuse to include the 23rd item on it because “I’m not a pinealist.”<\/p>\n
25.\u00c2\u00a0 Go into someone’s office and take all of their pencils and pens and leave them a box of crayons.<\/p>\n
26. When someone gets up from their desk at work, put a hot cup of coffee and a half eaten donut in their workspace.<\/p>\n
27. Go up to someone and ask what year it is. Act surprised and ask who the current president is. Shocked, say, “My god, it actually worked!” and quickly leave.<\/p>\n
28. Go in to someone’s computer and change their desktop background to either blue screen of death or some random scary sounding error, then lock their computer and move the login prompt where it is unseen.<\/p>\n
29.\u00c2\u00a0 Take up a different social cause every day for a week.<\/p>\n
30.\u00c2\u00a0 Reply to innocent questions with “It gives me a hard on.”<\/p>\n
31.\u00c2\u00a0 Stop suddenly and look at your arm.\u00c2\u00a0 Hold it up, and stare at it intently while wiggling your fingers.\u00c2\u00a0 Begin fingering or rubbing pressure points with your other hand as if you’re trying to fix something in it.<\/p>\n
32.\u00c2\u00a0 Leave a turkey, ham, or improbably large foodstuff in the office fridge.<\/p>\n
33.\u00c2\u00a0 Bring MRE’s to the workplace for lunch.<\/p>\n
34.\u00c2\u00a0 Leave note, childishly drawn on costruction paper saying “I love you mommy” on the desk of a co worker who has no children.<\/p>\n
35. Cover your hands in plastic wrap and proceed to shake hands with everyone you encounter.<\/p>\n
36. Have a picture of Richard Simmons giving a big, toothy Richard Simmons grin in your e-mail sig.<\/p>\n
37. If you work in some kind of sales industry, convince your co-workers your company needs to start producing the next big thing:\u00c2\u00a0 Jenkem.\u00c2\u00a0 But don’t tell them what it is, let them Google it for themselves.<\/p>\n
38. Wear latex gloves everywhere.<\/p>\n
39. If you’re alone in a room and someone else enters, immediately leave and do something else, for example getting a glass of water. If they talk to you, talk normally. Continue doing this for a week.<\/p>\n
40.\u00c2\u00a0 Ask co-workers to help you make a list of 101 ways to make everybody’s day weirder.<\/p>\n
41. Wear your clothes backwards (excepting shoes, obviously), and try to sit in a chair with your face to the back. When someone asks you what you’re doing reply “I didn’t know [innocuous sounding Govt. agency] played so rough!”<\/p>\n
42. Take a bunch of helium filled balloons into work and give them to people. Later, go around and pop them all. Explain that you HATE balloons.<\/p>\n
43. If you smoke, ask people if you can borrow their lighter. Keep it for a moment as if you’ve slipped it into your pocket without thinking (us smokers know all about that). When you return their lighter, give them someone elses instead. The more the better.<\/p>\n
44. Shred blue paper into little pieces, put it into a cup and “water” plastic plants with it.<\/p>\n
45. Make a voodoo doll of yourself, walk up to your supervisor or boss or whatever and stick pins into it. Fall over groaning and ask to be sent home.<\/p>\n
46. Powerwalk everywhere.<\/p>\n
47.\u00c2\u00a0 Give people batteries, tubes of glue, rubber bands, or cheap office supplies “As a way of saying ‘Thanks'”, adlib appropriately corny explaination if they ask.<\/p>\n
48. Write down notes on a small steno pad constantly.\u00c2\u00a0 Stare and jot furiously when anyone questions.<\/p>\n
49.\u00c2\u00a0 Put pictures of baby goats in your wallet.\u00c2\u00a0 Approach people and ask them if they want to see pictures of your kids.<\/p>\n
50. Knit constantly.<\/p>\n
51. Prank call someone and play their favorite song at them.<\/p>\n
52. Prank call someone and record how they react. The next day, prank call them and play back the recording of their reaction. The next day, prank call them and play back that recording.<\/p>\n
53. Drop a piece of paper into someone’s coffee that reads “That wasn’t coffee!”<\/p>\n
54. Wear a Santa outfit in summer. When people give you grief over it, reply in a bad Australian accent that Christmas is in summer time in Australia.<\/p>\n
55. Crazy glue a fake eye to the bottom of a coffee cup, then offer someone a cup of coffee.<\/p>\n
56. Glue a coin onto a hard floor in an area that has a lot of traffic.<\/p>\n
57.\u00c2\u00a0 Tell people you are a Scientologist. When people get curious and ask you questions about it, look uncomfortable and say, “uh… I’m really not supposed to talk about it…” and shoot worried looks over your shoulder.<\/p>\n
58. Encourage people to substitute song lyrics for food stuffs and sing it. For example “I know, it’s only rock’n’roll, but I like it” becomes “I know, it’s only sausage rolls, but I like it”. This is a surprisingly addictive activity, and people give you the oddest looks for it.<\/p>\n
59. Buy some celery, preferably with a very long stalk, and put it under your coat or in your backpack such that it looks as if it’s growing out of you. Or if it’s in your coat you could pretend you’re trying to make sure no one sees it.<\/p>\n
61. Hang an official looking “Elevator out of order” sign inside a perfectly functional elevator.<\/p>\n
62. Hang “out of order” signs on things which can’t be out of order, like chairs and trash cans.<\/p>\n
63. Print out a dialogue, one line per page. Hang the pages on trees along a foot path, so that people read the conversation in order as they walk. You could use a dialogue from a movie, a forum, a favorite book, or something you made up.<\/p>\n
64. Make snippets of banal small talk into “inspirational posters” and hang them near the office water cooler or similar social-zone.<\/p>\n
65.\u00c2\u00a0 Mail your friends rubber balls.\u00c2\u00a0 You can actually mail inflated rubber balls through the USPS.\u00c2\u00a0 You just address the person on the actual ball.\u00c2\u00a0 Some lady came up with this and her company is called “Have a Ball!”\u00c2\u00a0 Thought that was a cool thing.<\/p>\n
66.\u00c2\u00a0 Put a “Wet Paint” sign on a can of paint.<\/p>\n
67.\u00c2\u00a0 Get several of your friends to change their ringtones to an obscure, annoying, and fairly odd ringtone (i.e. something no one would expect to hear for a ringtone: “Yummy Yummy Yummy” perhaps.\u00c2\u00a0 maybe “Yakity Sax”).\u00c2\u00a0 Call each other every few minutes.<\/p>\n
68.\u00c2\u00a0 Wear a wig and refuse to answer to your own name.\u00c2\u00a0 If your coworkers absolutely need to speak to you, take the wig off and say, “Whoa, where did you come from?”<\/p>\n
69.\u00c2\u00a0 Buy a really big stuffed animal and sneak it into work, preferably the boss’ office.<\/p>\n
70.\u00c2\u00a0 Buy a really big stuffed animal and wander around with it, pretend that it doesn’t exist.<\/p>\n
71.\u00c2\u00a0 Bob your head in time with unseen music.\u00c2\u00a0 When asked, simply state, “I like this station.”\u00c2\u00a0 See if you can get others in on it to respond “Yeah, they play good music.”, or “I really like what their DJ’s choose.”<\/p>\n
72. Purchase sweaters or shoes in a friend’s size and slip them into their closet when they aren’t looking.<\/p>\n
73. Insert strange socks under the sheets at the bottom of people’s beds.<\/p>\n
74. Replace the word “Hand” with the word “Ham” at every opportunity.<\/p>\n
75. Replace all of the objects on a coworker’s desk with similar, but different objects.<\/p>\n
76. If you have access to a label maker, label everything, as literally as possible.<\/p>\n
77. Bring sack lunches to work, but write your coworkers names on them.<\/p>\n
78. Place really weird “chance encounters” ads in the local newsweekly, that specifically and accurately describe your coworkers or friends.<\/p>\n
79.\u00c2\u00a0 If you have a label maker, label everything in the fridge “ham”.<\/p>\n
80.\u00c2\u00a0 Take a sharpie and paper and make facial expressions for everyday objects.<\/p>\n
81. Leave a pickle jar with no pickles in it in the fridge. When someone throws it away, leave an angry note: “I was still drinking that!”<\/p>\n
82. Arrange full beerbottles (or any other unsuspected item) in an easily recognized pattern on the street and get some friends to stand around theorising to what it could mean.<\/p>\n
83. Approach a stranger and ask the time. If they give it you scratch your chin ponderously, look down and say “fascinating, truly fascinating” while walking away.<\/p>\n
84. Ask a non smoker for a light. When they explain that they don’t smoke say “have it your way” or “you know you’re not fooling anyone”, then light your cigarette with your own lighter and leave them to it.<\/p>\n
85. Phone a random number at four in the morning. When the poor sod picks up, icily explain to him that it is very impolite to phone someone at such a hour, and that in future, he should have more consideration. Then unplug the phone and go back to sleep.<\/p>\n
86. Allow co-workers to overhear you in a toilet stall making enthusiastically encouraging remarks to yourself whilst doing a poo.<\/p>\n
87. Start wearing one rhinestone glove.<\/p>\n
88. Ask someone for a light when your cigarette is already lit.<\/p>\n
90. Put up official-looking signs that say things like “Please kick door after closing” and “ABSOLUTELY no incontinence products in this receptacle”.<\/p>\n
91. Start all conversations with “and another thing…” or some other follow-up phrase.<\/p>\n
92. Give someone crabs for kicks.<\/p>\n
93. Name other coworkers cubicles various cities, and start waging war.<\/p>\n
94. Put packaged snacks like jerky or cookies, labeled with their names, in your coworkers or roommates drawers.<\/p>\n
95. Label things with Shakespere allusions.<\/p>\n
96. Play Fizzball in Public. (All you need is a baseball and well shaken soda.)<\/p>\n
97. Break into spontaneous swordfights in public (boffers.. but shinai with a few pieces of lacross\/hockey gear works well).<\/p>\n
98. Whenever some-one mentions the words ‘Normal\/Average’, immediately and loudly interject with, “There is No Such Thing as Normal\/Average. The ‘Average Woman’ (make sure to use air quotes) has one point two vaginas, lives in substandard housing in Asia, and just had to kill her last duck and throw it away because of bird flu.”<\/p>\n
98. Fake mustache.<\/p>\n
99.\u00c2\u00a0 Offer, no INSIST, on breath mints for everyone.\u00c2\u00a0 Watch insecurity flourish.<\/p>\n
100.\u00c2\u00a0 Keep a pair of bongos.\u00c2\u00a0 Take them out and lay softly at odd times.\u00c2\u00a0 Then hide them and refuse to acknowledge.<\/p>\n
101.\u00c2\u00a0 Caption stationary objects as if they had personality.<\/p>\n
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