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WAYS TO CONFUSE, WORRY, OR JUST SCARE PEOPLE IN
THE COMPUTER LAB
- Log on, wait
a sec, then get a frightened look on your face
and scream "Oh my God! They've found me!" and
bolt.
- Laugh uncontrollably
for about 3 minutes & then suddenly stop and look
suspiciously at everyone who looks at you.
- When your computer
is turned off, complain to the monitor on duty
that you can't get the damn thing to work. After
he/she's turned it on, wait 5 minutes,turn it
off again, & repeat the process for a good half
hour.
- Type frantically,
often stopping to look at the person next to you
evily.
- Before anyone
else is in the lab, connect each computer to a
different screen than the one it's set up with.
- Write a program
that plays the "Smurfs" theme song and play it
at the highest volume possible over & over again.
- Work normally
for a while. Suddenly look amazingly startled
by something on the screen and crawl underneath
the desk.
- Ask the person
next to you if they know how to tap into top-secret
Pentagon files.
- Use Interactive
Send to make passes at people you don't know.
- Make a small
ritual sacrifice to the computer before you turn
it on.
- Bring a chainsaw,
but don't use it. If anyone asks why you have
it, say "Just in case..." mysteriously.
- Type on VAX for
a while. Suddenly start cursing for 3 minutes
at everything bad about your life. Then stop and
continue typing.
- Enter the lab,
undress, and start staring at other people as
if they're crazy while typing.
- Light candles
in a pentagram around your terminal before starting.
- Ask around for
a spare disk. Offer $2. Keep asking until someone
agrees. Then, pull a disk out of your fly and
say, "Oops, I forgot."
- Every time you
press Return and there is processing time required,
pray "Ohpleaseohpleaseohpleaseohplease," and scream
"YES!" when it finishes.
- "DISK FIGHT!!!"
- Start making
out with the person at the terminal next to you
(It helps if you know them, but this is also a
great way to make new friends).
- Put a straw in
your mouth and put your hands in your pockets.
Type by hitting the keys with the straw.
- If you're sitting
in a swivel chair, spin around singing "The Lion
Sleeps Tonight" whenever there is processing time
required.
- Draw a pictue
of a woman (or man) on a piece of paper, tape
it to your monitor. Try to seduce it. Act like
it hates you and then complain loudly that women
(men) are worthless.
- Try to stick
a Ninetendo cartridge into the 3 1/2 disk drive.
When it doesn't work, get the supervisor.
- When you are
on an IBM, and when you turn it on, ask loudly
where the smiling Apple face is.
- Print out the
complete works of Shakespeare, then when its all
done (two days later) say that all you wanted
was one line.
- Sit and stare
at the screen, biting your nails noisily. After
doing this for a while, spit them out at the feet
of the person next to you.
- Stare at the
screen, grind your teeth, stop, look at the person
next to you, grinding. Repeat procedure, making
sure you never provoke the person enough to let
them blow up, as this releases tension, and it
is far more effective to let them linger.
- If you have long
hair, take a typing break, look for split ends,
cut them and deposit them on your neighbor's keyboard
as you leave.
- Put a large,
gold-framed portrait of the British Royal Family
on your desk and loudly proclaim that it inspires
you.
- Come to the lab
wearing several layers of socks. Remove shoes
and place them of top of the monitor. Remove socks
layer by layer and drape them around the monitor.
Exclaim sudden haiku about the aesthetic beauty
of cotton on plastic.
- Take the keyboard
and sit under the computer. Type up your paper
like this. Then go to the lab supervisor and complain
about the bad working conditions.
- Laugh hysterically,
shout "You will all perish in flames!!!" and continue
working.
- Bring some dry
ice & make it look like your computer is smoking.
- Assign a musical
note to every key (ie. the Delete key is A Flat,
the B key is F sharp, etc.). Whenever you hit
a key, hum its note loudly. Write an entire paper
this way.
- Attempt to eat
your computer's mouse.
- Borrow someone
else's keyboard by reaching over, saying "Excuse
me, mind if I borrow this for a sec?", unplugging
the keyboard & taking it.
- Bring in a bunch
of magnets and have fun.
- When doing calculations,
pull out an abacus and say that sometimes the
old ways are best.
- Play Pong for
hours on the most powerful computer in the lab.
- Make a loud noise
of hitting the same key over and over again until
you see that your neighbor is noticing (You can
hit the space bar so your fill isn't affected).
Then look at your neighbor's keyboard. Hit his/her
delete key several times, erasing an entire word.
While you do this, ask: "Does *your* delete key
work?" Shake your head, and resume hitting the
space bar on your keyboard. Keep doing this until
you've deleted about a page of your neighbor's
document. Then, suddenly exclaim: "Well, whaddya
know? I've been hitting the space bar this whole
time. No wonder it wasn't deleting! Ha!" Print
out your document and leave.
- Remove your disk
from the drive and hide it. Go to the lab monitor
and complain that your computer ate your disk.
(For special effects, put some Elmer's Glue on
or around the disk drive. Claim that the computer
is drooling.)
- Stare at the
person's next to your's screen, look really puzzled,
burst out laughing, and say "You did that?" loudly.
Keep laughing, grab your stuff and leave, howling
as you go.
- Point at the
screen. Chant in a made up language while making
elaborate hand gestures for a minute or two. Press
return or the mouse, then leap back and yell "COVEEEEERRRRRR!"
peek up from under the table, walk back to the
computer and say. "Oh, good. It worked this time,"
and calmly start to type again.
- Keep looking
at invisible bugs and trying to swat them.
- See who's online.
Send a total stranger a talk request. Talk to
them like you've known them all your lives. Hangup
before they get a chance to figure out you're
a total stranger.
- Bring an small
tape player with a tape of really absurd sound
effects. Pretend it's the computer and look really
lost.
- Pull out a pencil.
Start writing on the screen. Complain that the
lead doesn't work.
- Come into the
computer lab wearing several endangered species
of flowers in your hair. Smile incessantly. Type
a sentence, then laugh happily, exclaim "You're
such a marvel!!", and kiss the screen. Repeat
this after every sentence. As your ecstasy mounts,
also hug the keyboard. Finally, hug your neighbor,
then the computer assistant, and walk out.
- Run into the
computer lab, shout "Armageddon is here!!!!!",
then calmly sit down and begin to type.
- Quietly walk
into the computer lab with a Black and Decker
chainsaw, rev that baby up, and then walk up to
the nearest person and say, "Give me that computer
or you'll be feeding my pet crocodile for the
next week".
- Two words: Tesla
Coil.
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