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- From: piglet.caltech.edu!nathan (Nathan Mates)
- Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
- Subject: Re: Roommate Bashing
- Date: 15 Nov 1992 23:32:40 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- Originator: nathan@piglet
-
- A while ago, I got this off one or another newsgroup. Ok, so it's a
- little weird, but if you want to get rid of a roommate, why not:
- Nathan Mates nathan@cco.caltech.edu
-
-
- 50 WAYS TO CONFUSE YOUR ROOMMATE
-
- 1. Smoke jimson weed. Do whatever comes naturally.
-
- 2. Switch the sheets on your beds while s/he is at class.
-
- 3. Twitch a lot.
-
- 4. Pretend to talk while pretending to be asleep.
-
- 5. Steal a fishtank. Fill it with beer and dump sardines in it. Talk to
- them.
-
- 6. Become a subgenius.
-
- 7. Inject his/her twinkies with a mixture of Dexatrim and MSG.
-
- 8. Learn to levitate. While your roommate is looking away, float up out
- of your seat. When s/he turns to look, fall back down and grin.
-
- 9. Speak in tongues.
-
- 10. Move you roommate's personal effects around. Start subtlely.
- Gradually work up to big things, and eventually glue everything s/he
- owns to the ceiling.
-
- 11. Walk and talk backwards.
-
- 12. Spend all your money on Jolt Cola. Drink it all. Stack the cans in
- the
- middle of your room. Number them.
- 13. Spend all your money on Transformers. Play with them at night. If
- your roommate says anything, tell him/her with a straight face,
- "They're
- more than meets the eye."
-
- 14. Recite entire movie scripts (e.g. "The Road Warrior," "Repo Man,"
- Casablanca,") almost inaudibly.
-
- 15. Kill roaches with a monkey wrench while playing Wagnerian arias on a
- kazoo. If your roommate complains, explain that it is for your
- performance art class (or hit him/her with the wrench).
-
- 16. Collect all your urine in a small jug.
-
- 17. Chain yourself to your roommate's bed. Get him/her to bring you
- food.
-
- 18. Get a computer. Leave it on when you are not using it. Turn it off
- when you are.
-
- 19. Ask your roommate if your family can move in "just for a couple of
- weeks."
-
- 20. Buy as many back issues of Field and Stream as you can. Pretend to
- masturbate while reading them.
-
- 21. Fake a heart attack. When your roommate gets the paramedics to come,
- pretend nothing happened.
-
- 22. Eat glass.
-
- 23. Smoke ballpoint pens.
-
- 24. Smile. All the time.
-
- 25. Collect dog shit in baby food jars. Sort them according to what you
- think the dog ate.
-
- 26. Burn all your waste paper while eying your roommate suspiciously.
-
- 27. Hide a bunch of potato chips and Ho Hos in the bottom of a trash can.
- When you get hungry, root around in the trash. Find the food, and
- eat
- it. If your roommate empties the trash before you get hungry, demand
- that s/he reimburse you.
-
- 28. Leave a declaration of war on your roommate's desk. Include a list
- of
- grievances.
-
- 29. Paste boogers on the windows in occult patterns.
-
- 30. Shoot rubber bands at your roommate while his/her back is turned, and
- then look away quickly.
-
- 31. Dye all your underwear lime green.
-
- 32. Spill a lot of beer on his/her bed. Swim.
-
- 33. Buy three loaves of stale bread. Grow mold in the closet.
-
- 34. Hide your underwear and socks in your roommate's closet. Accuse
- him/her of stealing it.
-
- 35. Remove your door. Ship it to your roommate's parents (postage due).
-
- 36. Pray to Azazoth or Zoroaster. Sacrifice something nasty.
-
- 37. Whenever your roommate walks in, wait one minute and then stand up.
- Announce that you are going to take a shower. Do so. Keep this up
- for
- three weeks.
-
- 38. Array thirteen toothbrushes of different colors on your dresser.
- Refuse
- to discuss them.
-
- 39. Paint your half of the room black. Or paisley.
-
- 40. Whenever he/she is about to fall asleep, ask questions that start
- with
- "Didja ever wonder why...." Be creative.
-
- 41. Shave one eyebrow.
-
- 42. Put your mattress underneath your bed. Sleep down under there and
- pile your dirty clothes on the empty bedframe. If your roommate
- comments, mutter "Gotta save space," twenty times while twitching
- violently.
-
- 43. Put horseradish in your shoes.
-
- 44. Shelve all your books with the spines facing the wall. Complain
- loudly that you can never find the book that you want.
-
- 45. Always flush the toilet three times.
-
- 46. Subsist entirely on pickles for a week. Vomit often.
-
- 47. Buy a copy of Frankie Yankovic's "Pennsylvania Polka," and play it at
- least 6 hours a day. If your roommate complains, explain that it's
- an
- assignment for your primitive cultures class.
-
- 48. Give him/her an allowance.
-
- 49. Listen to radio static.
-
- 50. Open your window shades before you go to sleep each night. Close
- them
- as soon as you wake up.
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- Wm. Randy Esposito "What is arrogance to your
- Lehigh University enemies, is self-confidence
- Bethlehem, PA to your friends."
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