Having Fun with People - Practical Jokes
How do you have fun with people? Are you somewhat of a joker? Do you sometimes do things for fun that set you apart, that make you a bit different? Are you totally comfortable in your own skin, able to do things others may shy away from? If so, you may enjoy having fun with people like this.
Practical Joking with Your Friends and Neighbors
Declare your apartment an independent nation, and sue your neighbors upstairs for "violating your airspace."
Forget the punchline to a long joke, but assure the listener it was a "real hoot."
Follow a few paces behind someone, spraying everything they touch with a can of Lysol.
Invent nonsense computer jargon in conversations, and see if people play along to avoid the appearance of ignorance.
Erect an elaborate network of ropes in your backyard, and tell the neighbors you are a "spider person."
Wear a special hip holster for your remote control.
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.
Produce a rental video consisting entirely of dire FBI copyright warnings.
Sew anti-theft detector strips into peoples backpacks.
Joking and Having Fun with People
Write the surprise ending to a novel on its first page.
Set alarms for random times.
Order a side of pork rinds with your Filet Mignon.
Change channels five minutes before the end of every show.
Buy a large quantity of orange traffic cones and reroute whole streets.
Pay for your dinner with pennies.
Write "X - BURIED TREASURE" in random spots on all of someones road-maps.
Wander around a restaurant, asking other diners for their parsley.
Leave tips in Bolivian currency.
Demand that everyone address you as "Conquistador."
At the laundromat, use one dryer for each of your socks.
Wear a cape that says "Magnificent One."
Stand over someones shoulder, mumbling, as they read.
Pretend your computers mouse is a CB radio, and talk to it.
Routinely handcuff yourself to furniture, informing the curious that you don't want to fall off "in case the big one comes."
Deliberately hum songs that will remain lodged in co-workers brains, such as "Feliz Navidad", the Archies "Sugar" or the Mr. Rogers theme song.
Change your name to "John Aaaaasmith" for the great glory of being first in the phone book. Claim its a Hawaiian name, and demand that people pronounce each "a."
Listen to 33rpm records at 45rpm speed, and claim the faster speed is necessary because of your "superior mental processing."
Ask the waitress for an extra seat for your "imaginary friend."
Stare at static on the TV and claim you can see a "magic picture."
Select the same song on the jukebox fifty times.
Never make eye contact. Never break eye contact.
Construct elaborate "crop circles" in your front lawn.
Construct your own pretend "Mr. Spock Tri-corder," and "scan" people with it, announcing the results.
Make appointments for the 31st of September.
Practical Joking Fun with People
Disassemble your pen and "accidentally" flip the ink cartridge across the room.
Adjust the tint on your TV so that all the people are green, and insist to others that you "like it that way."
Publicly investigate just how
slowly you
can make a croaking noise.
Decline to be seated at a restaurant, and simply eat their complimentary mints at the cash register.
Repeat the following conversation a dozen times. "DO YOU HEAR THAT?" "What?" "Never mind,it's gone now."
As much as possible, skip rather than walk.
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.
While making presentations, occasionally bob your head like a parakeet.
Go to a poetry recital and ask why each poem doesn't rhyme.
Ask your co-workers mysterious questions and then scribble their answers in a notebook. Mutter something about "psychological profiles."
Leave the copy machine set to reduce 200%, paper, 99 copies.
Specify that your fast food drive through order is "to go".
To have fun with people, step on the little plastic ketchup packets.
Run you windshield wipers continuously "to keep them tuned".
To Have Fun with People
Practice making fax and modem noises.
Holler random numbers while someone is counting.
Have fun by stapling papers in the middle of the page.
To have fun with people, honk and wave to strangers.
TYPE ONLY IN UPPER CASE.bat
type only in lower case it drives people crazy
dont use any punctuation either its more fun
Buy a large quantity of orange traffic cones and reroute traffic.
To have fun with people, point a hair dryer at passing cars to see if they slow down.
And
for the best fun with people, repeat the following
conversation a dozen times: "Do you hear that?" "What?"
"Never mind, it's gone now."
If you have a glass eye, tap on it occasionally with your pen while talking to others.
Highlight irrelevant information in scientific papers and "cc" them to your boss.
Finish all your sentences with the words "in accordance with prophesy."
Signal that a conversation is over by clamping your hands over your ears and grimacing.
How to Annoy People a Little Bit
Page yourself over the intercom. (Don't disguise your voice.)
Find out where your boss shops and buy exactly the same outfits. Always wear them one day after your boss does. (This is especially effective if your boss is a different gender than you are.)
Send email to the rest of the company telling them what you're doing. For example "If anyone needs me, I'll be in the bathroom."
"Hi-lite" your shoes. Tell people that you haven't lost your shoes since you did this.
While sitting at your desk, soak your fingers in
"Palmolive."
Put up mosquito netting around your cubicle.
Every time someone asks you to do something, ask them if they want fries with that.
Put your garbage can on your desk. Label it "IN."
Determine how many cups of coffee is "too many."
Put decaf in the coffeemaker for 3 weeks. Once everyone has gotten over their caffeine addictions, switch to espresso.
101 (or fewer) Ways to Be Annoying
Sing the Batman theme incessantly.
Learn Morse code, and have conversations with friends in public consisting entirely of "Beeeep Bip Bip Beeeep Bip..."
Speak only in a "robot" voice.
Start each meal by conspicuously licking all your food, and announce that this is so no one will "swipe your grub."
Name your dog "Dog."
Claim that you must always wear a bicycle helmet as part of your "astronaut training."