How To Be Annoying
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At lunchtime, sit in your parked car and point
a hair dryer at passing cars to see if they slow down.
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Page yourself over the intercom. (Don't disguise your
voice.)
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Insist that your e mail address be Xena-goddess-of-fire@companyname.com
or
Elvis-the-king@companyname.com
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Every time someone asks you to do something, ask if
they want fries with that.
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Encourage your colleagues to join you in a little
synchronized chair dancing.
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Put your garbage can on your desk and label it 'IN.'
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Develop an unnatural fear of staplers.
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Put decaf in the coffee maker for 3 weeks. Once everyone
has gotten over their caffeine addictions, switch to espresso.
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In the memo field of all your checks, write "for sexual
favors"
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Reply to everything someone says with, "That's what
you think."
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Finish all your sentences with "In accordance with
the prophecy."
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Adjust the tint on your monitor so that the brightness
level lights up the entire working area. Insist to others that you like
it that way.
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Dont use any punctuation
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As often as possible, skip rather than walk.
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Ask people what sex they are.
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Specify that your drive through order is "to go."
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Sing along at the opera.
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Go to a poetry recital and ask why the poems don't
rhyme.
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Find out where your boss shops and buy exactly the
same outfits.
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Wear them one day after your boss does. (This is especially
effective if your boss is the opposite gender.)
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Send e-mail to the rest of the company to tell them
what you're doing. For example: "If anyone needs me, I'll be in the
bathroom."
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Put mosquito netting around your cubicle.
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Five days in advance, tell your friends you can't
attend their party because you're not in the mood.
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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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Drum on every available surface.
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Remove every line of someone's .newsrc file except
the entry for alt.sex.fetish.hamster.duct-tape.
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Sing the Batman theme incessantly.
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Staple papers in the middle of the page.
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Ask 800 operators for dates.
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Produce a rental video consisting entirely of dire
FBI copy warnings.
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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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Write the surprise ending to a novel on its first
page.
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Specify that your drive through order is "to go".
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Set alarms for random times.
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Learn Morse code, and have conversations with friends
in public consisting entirely 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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Order a side of pork rinds with your filet mignon.
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Instead of Gallo, serve Night Train next Thanksgiving.
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Leave your Nine Inch Nails tape in Great Uncle Ed's
stereo, with the volume properly adjusted.
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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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Dress only in clothes colored Hunter's Orange.
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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 climactic
parts of rental movies.
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Wear your pants backwards.
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Decline to be seated at a restaurant, and simply eat
their complementary mints by the cash register.
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Begin all your sentences with "ooh la la!"
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Rouse your roommates from slumber each morning with
Lou Reed's "Metal Machine Music".
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Leave someone's printer in compressed-italic-cyrillic-landscape
mode.
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ONLY TYPE IN UPPERCASE.
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only type in lowercase.
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dont use any punctuation either
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Buy a large quantity of orange traffic cones and reroute
whole streets.
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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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Write "X - BURIED TREASURE" in random spots on all
of someone's roadmaps.
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Inform everyone you meet of your personal Kennedy
assasination/UFO/ OJSimpson 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 the restaurant, asking other diners
for their parsley.
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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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At the laundromat, use one dryer for each of your
socks.
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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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As much as possible, skip rather than walk.
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Stand over someone's shoulder, mumbling, as they read.
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Finish the 99 bottles of beer song.
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Sing the "This is the song that never ends..." song.
(Ya know, Lamb Chops?)
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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 to it.
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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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Drive half a block.
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Name your dog "Dog".
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Inform others that they exist only in your imagination.
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Ask people what gender they are.
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Reply to everything someone says with "that's what
YOU think."
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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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Cultivate a Norwegian accent. If Norwegian, affect
a Southern Drawl.
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Forget the punchline 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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Follow a few paces behind someone, spraying everything
they touch with a can of Lysol.
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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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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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Make beeping noises when a large person backs up.
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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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Invent nonsense computer jargon in conversations,
and see if people play along to avoid the appearance
of ignorance.
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Wear a LOT of cologne.
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Ask to "interface" with someone.
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Listen to 33 rpm records at 45 rpm 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-batatatatatata-suhWING-batter!"
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Finish all your sentences with the words "in accordance
with prophesy".
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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 scribble
their answers in a notebook. Mutter something about "psychological
profiles".
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Incessantly recite annoying phrases, such as "sticky
wicket isn't cricket."
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Stare at static on the tv and claim you can see a
"magic picture".
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Select the same song on the jukebox fifty times.
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Scuff your feet on a dry, shaggy carpet and seek out
victims.
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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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Never make eye contact.
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Never break eye contact.
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Signal that a conversation is over by clamping your
hands over your ears.
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Construct elaborate "crop circles" in your front lawn.
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Construct your own pretend "tricorder", and "scan"
people with it, announcing the results.
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Give a play-by-play account of a person's every action
in a nasal Howard Cossell voice.
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Holler random numbers while someone is counting.
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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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Send fifty copies of this list to everyone you know.
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