HOW TO BE ANNOYING
- Adjust the tint on your tv so
that all the people are green, and insist to others that
you "like it that way".
- Drum on every available
surface.
- Remove every line of
someone's .newsrc file except the entry for
alt.sex.fetish.hamster.duct-tape.
- Sing the Batman theme
incessantly.
- Staple papers in the middle
of the page.
- Ask 800 operators for dates.
- Produce a rental video
consisting entirely of dire FBI copy warnings.
- Sew anti-theft detector
strips into people's backpacks.
- Hide dairy products in
inaccessible places.
- Write the surprise ending to
a novel on its first page.
- Specify that your
drive-through order is "to go".
- Set alarms for random times.
- Learn Morse code, and have
conversations with friends in public consisting entirely
of "Beeeep Bip Bip Beeeep Bip..."
- Buy large quantities of mint
dental floss just to lick the flavor off.
- Order a side of pork rinds
with your filet mignon.
- Instead of Gallo, serve Night
Train next Thanksgiving.
- Leave your Nine Inch Nails
tape in Great Uncle Ed's stereo, with the volume properly
adjusted.
- Publicly investigate just how
slowly you can make a "croaking" noise.
- Honk and wave to strangers.
- Dress only in clothes colored
Hunter's Orange.
- Change channels five minutes
before the end of every show.
- Tape pieces of "Sweating
to the Oldies" over climactic parts of rental
movies.
- Wear your pants backwards.
- Decline to be seated at a
restaurant, and simply eat their complementary mints by
the cash register.
- Begin all your sentences with
"ooh la la!"
- Rouse your roommates from
slumber each morning with Lou Reed's "Metal Machine
Music".
- Leave someones printer in
compressed-italic-cyrillic-landscape mode.
- ONLY TYPE IN UPPERCASE.
- only type in lowercase.
- dont use any punctuation
either
- Buy a large quantity of
orange traffic cones and reroute whole streets.
- Pay for your dinner with
pennies.
- Tie jingle bells to all your
clothes.
- Repeat everything someone
says, as a question.
- Write "X - BURIED
TREASURE" in random spots on all of someone's
roadmaps.
- Inform everyone you meet of
your personal Kennedy assasination/UFO/ OJ Simpson
conspiracy theories.
- Repeat the following
conversation a dozen times: "Do you hear that?"
"What?" "Never mind, it's gone now."
- Light road flares on a
birthday cake.
- Leave tips in Bolivian
currency.
- Demand that everyone address
you as "Conquistador".
- Push all the flat Lego pieces
together tightly.
- At the laundromat, use one
dryer for each of your socks.
- When Christmas carolling,
sing "Jingle Bells, Batman smells" until
physically restrained.
- Wear a cape that says
"Magnificent One".
- As much as possible, skip
rather than walk.
- Stand over someone's
shoulder, mumbling, as they read.
- Finish the 99 bottles of beer
song.
- Sing the "This is the
song that never ends..." song. (Ya know, Lamb
Chops?)
- Leave your turn signal on for
fifty miles.
- Pretend your mouse is a CB
radio, and talk to it.
- 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.
- Drive half a block.
- Name your dog
"Dog".
- Inform others that they exist
only in your imagination.
- Ask people what gender they
are.
- Reply to everything someone
says with "that's what YOU think."
- Lick the filling out of all
the Oreos, and place the cookie parts back in the tray.
- Cultivate a Norwegian accent.
If Norwegian, affect a Southern Drawl.
- Forget the punchline to a
long joke, but assure the listener it was a "real
hoot".
- Routinely handcuff yourself
to furniture, informing the curious that you don't want
to fall off "in case the big one comes".
- Follow a few paces behind
someone, spraying everything they touch with a can of
Lysol.
- Deliberately hum songs that
will remain lodged in co-workers' brains, such as
"Feliz Navidad", the Archies' "Sugar"
or the Mr. Rogers theme song or the Gilligan Island Theme
(Beverly Hillbillys works too).
- While making presentations,
occasionally bob your head like a parakeet.
- Lie obviously about trivial
things such as the time of day.
- Make beeping noises when a
large person backs up.
- Leave your Christmas lights
up and lit until September.
- 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.
- Sit in your front yard
pointing a hair dryer at passing cars to see if they slow
down.
- Chew on pens that you've
borrowed.
- Invent nonsense computer
jargon in conversations, and see if people play along to
avoid the appearance of ignorance.
- Wear a LOT of cologne.
- Ask to "interface"
with someone.
- Listen to 33rpm records at
45rpm speed, and claim the faster speed is necessary
because of your "superior mental processing".
- Sing along at the opera.
- Mow your lawn with scissors.
- At a golf tournament, chant
"swing-batatatatatata-suhWING-batter!"
- Finish all your sentences
with the words "in accordance with prophesy".
- Ask the waitress for an extra
seat for your "imaginary friend".
- Go to a poetry recital and
ask why each poem doesn't rhyme.
- Ask your co-workers
mysterious questions, and scribble their answers in a
notebook. Mutter something about "psychological
profiles".
- Incessantly recite annoying
phrases, such as "sticky wicket isn't cricket."
- Stare at static on the tv and
claim you can see a "magic picture".
- Select the same song on the
jukebox fifty times.
- Scuff your feet on a dry,
shaggy carpet and seek out victims.
- 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.
- Never make eye contact.
- Never break eye contact.
- Signal that a conversation is
over by clamping your hands over your ears.
- Construct elaborate
"crop circles" in your front lawn.
- Construct your own pretend
"tricorder", and "scan" people with
it, announcing the results.
- Give a play-by-play account
of a person's every action in a nasal Howard Cossell
voice.
- Holler random numbers while
someone is counting.
- Make appointments for the
31st of September.
- Invite lots of people to
other people's parties.
Copyright © 1997 My Tran.
All rights reserved.
Revised: November 07, 1999.