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Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Fifty things to while riding an elevator

1. Make race car noises when anyone gets on or off.
2. Blow your nose and offer to show the contents of your Kleenex to other passengers.
3. Grimace painfully while smacking your forehead and muttering: Shut up, dammit, all of you just shut UP!
4. Whistle the first seven notes of 'It’s a Small World' incessantly.
5. Sell Girl Scout cookies.
6. On a long ride, sway side to side at the natural frequency of the elevator.
7. Shave.
8. Crack open your briefcase or purse, and while peering inside ask: Got enough air in there?
9. Offer name tags to everyone getting on the elevator. Wear yours upside-down.
10. Stand silent and motionless in the corner, facing the wall, without getting off.
11. When arriving at your floor, grunt and strain to yank the doors open, then act embarrassed when they open by themselves.
12. Lean over to another passenger and whisper: Noogie patrol coming!
13. Greet everyone getting on the elevator with a warm handshake and ask them to call you Admiral.
14. Censored by your son.
15. On the highest floor, hold the door open and demand that it stay open until you hear the penny you dropped down the shaft go plink at the bottom.
16.Do Tai Chi exercises.
17. Stare, grinning, at another passenger for a while, and then announce: I’ve got new socks on!
18. When at least 8 people have boarded, moan from the back: Oh, not now, damn motion sickness!
19. Give religious tracts to each passenger.
20. Meow occasionally.
21. Bet the other passengers you can fit a quarter in your nose.
22. Frown and mutter gotta go, gotta go then sigh and say oops!
23. Show other passengers a wound and ask if it looks infected.
24. Sing Mary had a little lamb while continually pushing buttons.
25. Holler Chutes away! whenever the elevator descends.
26. Walk on with a cooler that says human head on the side.
27. Stare at another passenger for a while, then announce "You’re one of THEM!" and move to the far corner of the elevator.
28. Burp, and then say mmmm... tasty!
29. Leave a box between the doors.
30. Ask each passenger getting on if you can push the button for them.
31. Wear a puppet on your hand and talk to other passengers through it.
32. Start a sing-along.
33. When the elevator is silent, look around and ask is that your beeper?
34. Play the harmonica.
35. Shadow box.
36. Say Ding! at each floor.
37. Lean against the button panel.
38. Say I wonder what all these do and push the red buttons.
39. Listen to the elevator walls with a stethoscope.
40. Draw a little square on the floor with chalk and announce to the other passengers that this is your personal space.
41. Bring a chair along.
42. Take a bite of a sandwich and ask another passenger: Wanna see wha in muh mouf?
43. Blow spit bubbles.
44. Pull your gum out of your mouth in long strings.
45. Announce in a demonic voice: I must find a more suitable host body.
46. Carry a blanket and clutch it protectively.
47. Make explosion noises when anyone presses a button.
48. Wear X-Ray Specs and leer suggestively at other passengers.
49. Stare at your thumb and say I think it’s getting larger.
50. If anyone brushes against you, recoil and shout "Stranger Danger!"

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Today is Wednesday, July 22, the 203rd day of 2009.

There are 162 days left in the year.

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Our Readers

Some of our readers today have been in:

Paris, Ile-De-France, France
Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal
Moscow, Moscow City, Russia
Amersfoort, Utrecht, Netherlands
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Lyon, Rhone-Alpes, France
Munich, Bayern, Germany
Brussels, Brussels-Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium
London, England, United Kingdom
Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Copenhagen, Kobenhavn, Denmark

Daily Horoscope

Today's horoscope says:

You'll witness an ugly exchange between two people you respect today.
One of them feels more deserving of the praise the other one received.
You know what it's like to feel overlooked, so you could be useful in helping heal the bruised ego in this situation.
Make a subtle overture of support, but don't step right in and start telling people what's what.
Offering your help is all you can do -- you can't make people accept it.

Yeah, lead'em to water and all that ....