101 Ways to Be Annoying
- Sing the Batman theme incessantly
- In the memo field of all your checks, write "for sensual massage"
- Specify that your drive-through order is "to go"
- Learn Morse Code, and have conversations with friends in public consisting entirely of "Beeep Bip Bip Beeep Bip...."
- If you have a glass eye, tap on it occasionally with your pen while talking to others
- 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
- 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"
- Leave the copy machine set to reduce 200%, extra dark, 17 inch paper, 99 copies
- Stomp on little ketchup packets
- Sniffle incessantly
- leave your turn signal on for fifty miles
- Name your dog "Dog"
- 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"
- Follow a few paces behind someone, spraying everything they touch with a can of Lysol
- Practice making fax and modem noises
- Highlight irrelevant information in scientific papers and "cc:" them to your boss
- Make beeping noises when a large person backs up
- 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"
- Finish all your sentences with the words "in accordance with prophecy"
- 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
- Signal that a conversation is over by clamping your hands over your ears
- Disassemble you pen and accidentally flip the ink cartridge across the room
- Give a play-by-play account of a person's every action in a nasal Howard Cosell voice
- Holler random numbers while someone is counting
- 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
- Staple papers in the middle of the page
- Ask 1-800 operators for dates
- Produce a rental video consisting entirely of dire FBI copyright 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
- Set alarms for random times
- Order a side of pork rinds with your filet mignon
- Instead of Gallo, serve Night Train next Thanksgiving
- Publicly investigate just how slowly you can make a "croaking" noise
- Honk and wave to strangers
- Dress only in clothes colored Hunter's (fluorescent) 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 backward
- Decline to be seated at a restaurant, and simply eat their complimentary mints by the cash register
- Begin all your sentences with "ooh la la!"
- ONLY TYPE IN UPPERCASE
- only type in lower case
- Don't use any punctuation
- 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 road maps
- Inform everyone you meet of your personal Kennedy assassination/UFO/O.J. Simpson conspiracy theories
- Repeat the following conversation a dozen times: "Do you hear that?" "What?" "Never mind, its gone now."
- Light road flares on a birthday cake
- 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
- When Christmas caroling, 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
- Pretend your computer's mouse is a CB radio, and talk into 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
- Inform others that they exist only in your imagination
- Ask people what gender they are
- 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
- 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
- While making presentations, occasionally bob your head like a parakeet
- Lie obviously about trivial things such as the time of the day
- Leave your Christmas lights up and lit until September
- Change your name to "John Aaaasmith" for the great glory of being first
- 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
- Wear a LOT of cologne
- 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 tournement, chant "swing-batabatabata-suhWING-batter!"
- Ask the waitress for an extra seat for an "imaginary friend"
- 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"
- 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 "tricorder" and "scan" people with it, announcing the results
- Make appointments for the 31st of September
- Invite lots of people to other people's parties
~anonym~