| How To Be Annoying |
| 1. |
Adjust the tint on your TV so that all the people are green, and insist to others that
you "like it that way". |
| 2. |
Drum on every available surface. |
| 3. |
Sing the Batman theme incessantly. |
| 4. |
Specify that your drive-through order is "to go". |
| 5. |
Staple papers in the middle of the page. |
| 6. |
Buy large quantities of mint dental floss just to lick the flavor off. |
| 7. |
Order a side of pork rinds with your filet mignon. |
| 8. |
Ask 800 operators for dates. |
| 9. |
Write "X - BURIED TREASURE" in random spots on all of someone's roadmaps. |
| 10. |
Demand that everyone address you as "Conquistador". |
| 11. |
Push all the flat Lego pieces together tightly. |
| 12. |
Produce a rental video consisting entirely of dire FBI copy warnings. |
| 13. |
Tape pieces of "Sweating to the Oldies" over climactic parts of rental movies. |
| 14. |
Pretend your mouse is a CB radio, and talk to it. |
| 15. |
Try playing the William Tell Overture by tapping on the bottom of your chin. |
| 16. |
When nearly done, announce "no, wait, I messed it up", and repeat. |
| 17. |
Sew anti-theft detector strips into people's backpacks. |
| 18. |
Ask your co-workers mysterious questions, and scribble their answers in a notebook. Mutter
something about "psychological profiles". |
| 19. |
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. |
| 20. |
Construct your own pretend "tricorder", and "scan" people with it, announcing the results. |
| 21. |
Hide dairy products in inaccessible places. |
| 22. |
Write the surprise ending to a novel on its first page. |
| 23. |
Set alarms for random times. |
| 24. |
Learn Morse code, and have conversations with friends in public consisting entirely of
"Beeeep Bip Bip Beeeep Bip..." |
| 25. |
Remove every line of someone's .newsrc file except the entry for alt.sex.fetish.hamster.duct-tape. |
| 26. |
Instead of Gallo, serve Night Train next Thanksgiving. |
| 27. |
Leave your Nine Inch Nails tape in Great Uncle Ed's stereo, with the volume properly adjusted. |
| 28. |
Publicly investigate just how slowly you can make a "croaking" noise. |
| 29. |
Honk and wave to strangers. |
| 30. |
Dress only in clothes colored Hunter's Orange. |
| 31. |
Change channels five minutes before the end of every show. |
| 32. |
Wear your pants backwards. |
| 33. |
Decline to be seated at a restaurant, and simply eat their complementary mints by the
cash register. |
| 34. |
Begin all your sentences with "ooh la la!" |
| 35. |
Rouse your roommates from slumber each morning with Lou Reed's "Metal Machine Music". |
| 36. |
Leave someone's printer in compressed-italic-cyrillic-landscape mode. |
| 37. |
ONLY TYPE IN UPPERCASE. |
| 38. |
only type in lowercase. |
| 39. |
dont use any punctuation either |
| 40. |
Buy a large quantity of orange traffic cones and reroute whole streets. |
| 41. |
Pay for your dinner with pennies. |
| 42. |
Tie jingle bells to all your clothes. |
| 43. |
Repeat everything someone says, as a question. |
| 44. |
Inform everyone you meet of your personal Kennedy assasination/UFO/ OJ Simpson conspiracy
theories. |
| 45. |
Repeat the following conversation a dozen times: "Do you hear that?" "What?" "Never mind,
it's gone now." |
| 46. |
Light road flares on a birthday cake. |
| 47. |
Wander around the restaurant, asking other diners for their parsley. |
| 48. |
Leave tips in Bolivian currency. |
| 49. |
At the laundromat, use one dryer for each of your socks. |
| 50. |
When Christmas carolling, sing "Jingle Bells, Batman smells" until physically restrained. |
| 51. |
Wear a cape that says "Magnificent One". |
| 52. |
As much as possible, skip rather than walk. |
| 53. |
Stand over someone's shoulder, mumbling, as they read. |
| 54. |
Finish the 99 bottles of beer song. |
| 55. |
Sing the "This is the song that never ends..." song. (Ya know, from Lamb Chop?) |
| 56. |
Leave your turn signal on for fifty miles. |
| 57. |
Drive half a block. |
| 58. |
Name your dog "Dog". |
| 59. |
Inform others that they exist only in your imagination. |
| 60. |
Ask people what gender they are. |
| 61. |
Reply to everything someone says with "that's what YOU think." |
| 62. |
Lick the filling out of all the Oreos, and place the cookie parts back in the tray. |
| 63. |
Cultivate a Norwegian accent. If Norwegian, affect a Southern Drawl. |
| 64. |
Forget the punchline to a long joke, but assure the listener it was a "real hoot". |
| 65. |
Routinely handcuff yourself to furniture, informing the curious that you don't want to
fall off "in case the big one comes". |
| 66. |
Follow a few paces behind someone, spraying everything they touch with a can of Lysol. |
| 67. |
Deliberately hum songs that will remain lodged in co-workers' brains, such as "Feliz Navidad",
the Archies' "Sugar" or the Mr. Rogers theme song. |
| 68. |
While making presentations, occasionally bob your head like a parakeet. |
| 69. |
Lie obviously about trivial things such as the time of day. |
| 70. |
Make beeping noises when a large person backs up. |
| 71. |
Leave your Christmas lights up and lit until September. |
| 72. |
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. |
| 73. |
Sit in your front yard pointing a hair dryer at passing cars to see if they slow down. |
| 74. |
Chew on pens that you've borrowed. |
| 75. |
Invent nonsense computer jargon in conversations, and see if people play along to avoid
the appearance of ignorance. |
| 76. |
Wear a LOT of cologne. |
| 77. |
Ask to "interface" with someone. |
| 78. |
Listen to 33rpm records at 45rpm speed, and claim the faster speed is necessary because
of your "superior mental processing". |
| 79. |
Sing along at the opera. |
| 80. |
Mow your lawn with scissors. |
| 81. |
At a golf tournament, chant "swing-batatatatatata-suhWING-batter!" |
| 82. |
Finish all your sentences with the words "in accordance with prophesy". |
| 83. |
Ask the waitress for an extra seat for your "imaginary friend". |
| 84. |
Go to a poetry recital and ask why each poem doesn't rhyme. |
| 85. |
Incessantly recite annoying phrases, such as "sticky wicket isn't cricket." |
| 86. |
Stare at static on the tv and claim you can see a "magic picture" |
| 87. |
Select the same song on the jukebox fifty times. |
| 88. |
Scuff your feet on a dry, shaggy carpet and seek out victims. |
| 89. |
Never make eye contact. |
| 90. |
Never break eye contact. |
| 91. |
Signal that a conversation is over by clamping your hands over your ears. |
| 92. |
Male or female - wear bedroom slippers and drag your feet so that the backs of the slippers
slap your heel. |
| 93. |
Construct elaborate "crop circles" in your front lawn. |
| 94. |
Give a play-by-play account of a person's every action in a nasal Howard Cossell voice. |
| 95. |
Holler random numbers while someone is counting. |
| 96. |
Make appointments for the 31st of September. |
| 97. |
Invite lots of people to other people's parties. |
| 98. |
Email fifty copies of this list to everyone you know. |