How To Be Annoying * Stand at the pizza bar eating the pepperonis off each slice. * Articulate your belches. * 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. * Redefine a new user's computer prompt to say: SPANK ME. * Sing the Batman theme incessantly. * Staple papers in the middle of the page. * In the memo field of all your checks, write "for sensual massage". * Never flush, that others may admire your accomplishments. * Ask 800 operators for dates. * Specify that your drive-through order is "to go". * 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 scratchings with your filet mignon au poivre. * Publicly investigate just how slowly you can make a "croaking" noise. * If you have a glass eye, tap on it occasionally with your pen while talking to others. * The Beavis laugh. * The Butthead laugh. * Honk and wave to strangers. * Change channels five minutes before the end of every show. * Wear your pants backwards. * Decline to be seated at a diner, and simply eat their complementary mints (pieces of carrot cake) by the cash register. * Begin all your sentences with "ooh la la!" * ONLY TYPE IN UPPERCASE. * only type in lowercase. * Buy a large quantity of orange traffic cones and reroute whole streets. * Why buy when they're everywhere for the taking? * Pay for your dinner with pennies. * Leave little puddles on the toilet seat. * Use perfume inserts from magazines as bookmarks. * Repeat everything someone says, as a question. * Repeat everything someone says, as a question? * Repeat the following conversation a dozen times: "Do you hear that?" "What?" "Never mind, it's gone now." * Bring a carrier bag of coupons to the grocery store and demand their total cash value. * Order a hamburger without the meat. * Wander around the restaurant, asking other diners for their broccoli. * Leave tips in Bolivian currency. * Amuse yourself for endless hours by hooking a camcorder to your TV and then pointing it at the screen. * Speak only in a "robot" voice. * Sit at the front of the conference room and clip your nails. * Install only 20-watt light bulbs. * Push all the flat Lego pieces together tightly. * Start each meal by conspicuously licking all your food, and announce that this is so no one will "swipe your grub". * Cruise around the neighborhood listening to the Carpenters at top volume. * At the wash'n'dry use one dryer for each of your socks. * When Christmas carolling, sing "Jingle Bells, Batman smells" until physically restrained. * As much as possible, skip rather than walk. * Stand over someone's shoulder, mumbling, as they read. * Leave the copy machine set to reduce 200%, extra dark, 17 inch paper, 99 copies. * Leave random, clipped Ann Lander's columns on co-workers' desks, as if suggesting they could benefit from the advice. * Insist on brushing your teeth every five minutes (KREB GRUP). * Stomp on little plastic ketchup packets. * Sniffle incessantly. * Finish the 99 bottles of beer song. * Leave your turn signal on for fifty miles. * Pretend your mouse is a CB radio, and talk to it. * Freeze bugs in ice cubes. * Vaguely insinuate that someone's toothbrush or comb was dropped in the toilet. * Name your dog "Dog". * Ask people what gender they are. * Wander through the shoe department sniffing the merchandise. * Insist on keeping your car windshield wipers running in all weather conditions "to keep them tuned up". * Reply to everything someone says with "that's what YOU think." * Claim that you must always wear a bicycle helmet as part of your "astronaut training". * 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". * Practice hog calling in a tile bathroom. * Routinely handcuff yourself to furniture, informing the curious that you don't want to fall off "in case the big one comes". * When visiting someone's home, fish for change under their sofa cushions. Elaborately display any embarrassing items you uncover. * Follow a few paces behind someone, spraying everything they touch with a can of Lysol. * Practice making fax and modem noises. * While making presentations, occasionally bob your head like a parakeet. * Stand outside the window of a restaurant and stare at people eating. * Hang out every day at a waterbed store wearing an old Navy uniform. * Lie obviously about trivial things such as the time of day. * Highlight irrelevant information in scientific papers and copy them to your boss. * Frequently become mesmerized by shiny objects. * Make beeping noises when a large person backs up. * Assure little kids that they can, in fact, be sucked down the bathtub drain. * Spell your name strangely, such as Jhonne Psmythe, and sue those who misspell it. * Throw the pasta into cold water. * Throw the chips...I mean fries...into cold oil. * Invent nonsense computer jargon in conversations, and see if people play along to avoid the appearance of ignorance. * Pour your soup on your entre "as gravy". * Chew your ice. * Listen to 33rpm records at 45rpm speed, and claim the faster speed is necessary because of your "superior mental processing". * Write a check for 48 cents. * Sing along at the opera. * Frown, sniff the air, and ask someone, "Is that you?" * Erect an elaborate network of ropes in your backyard, and tell the neighbors you are a "spider person". * Finish all your sentences with the words "in accordance with prophesy". * Whenever a co-worker sneezes or coughs, make elaborate waving motions at them, and explain that you have a "gift of healing". * Use inappropriate nouns as verbs. * 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". * Stare at static on the TV and claim you can see a "magic picture". * Select the same song on the jukebox fifty times. * 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. * Never make eye contact. * Never break eye contact. * Signal that a conversation is over by clamping your hands over your ears. * Write long, windy letters to the mailbag page of comic books. * Disassemble your pen and "accidently" flip the ink cartridge across the room. * Roam the neighborhood digging for buried treasure. * Crack your knuckles, neck, back, arms, knees, and whatever other of your appendages produce disconcerting noises. Given a sufficiently rickety skeletal system, you may be ready to start again by the time you've finished them all once. * 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. * Buy a toupe for your one-year-old. * Holler random numbers while someone is counting. * Chug water from an empty vodka bottle. * Give the phone number for Army Recruiters to dates you don't want to see again. * Go to a musical jam, start several songs, then stop just before the chorus and announce "I guess I don't know that one either!". Back to Gallery of Funny Stories | Back to Gallery of Funny Stuff |
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