180. Keep some worms in a shoebox. When doing homework, go and consult with the worms every so often. Then become angry, shouting at the worms that they're stupid and they don't know what they're talking about.

181. Watch "Psycho" every day for a month. Then act excited every time your roommate goes to take a shower.

182. Wear a paper hat. Every time your roommate walks in, say, "Welcome to McDonalds, can I take your...Oh, it's just you." Take off the hat, sit, and pout.

183. Go through your roommate's textbooks with a red pen, changing things and making random corrections. If your roommate protests, tell him/her that you just couldn't take it anymore.

184. Leave the room at random, knock on the door, and wait for your roommate to let you back in. If he/she asks about it, go on a tangent about the importance of good manners.

185. Hang a horseshoe above the door. Make up stories about having had good luck. Then, take the horseshoe down and wrap your head in bandages. When you see your roommate, look above the door where the horseshoe used to be, hold your head, and mutter, "Stupid horseshoe...."

186. Carve a jack-o-lantern. Complain to your roommate that the jack-o-lantern has been staring at you. The next day, tell your roommate that the jack-o-lantern thinks he/she has been staring at it. Confide in your roommate that you really don't like the jack-o-lantern, but you can't convince it to move out.

187. As soon as your roommate turns the light off at night, begin singing famous operas as loud as you can. When your roommate turns on the light, look around and pretend to be confused.

188. Hang a basketball net on the wall. Challenge your refrigerator to basketball games, and play them in front of your roommate. Do so for about a month. Confide in your roommate that you think the refrigerator has been taking steroids.

189. Drink lots of lemonade. Talk obnoxiously for hours about how much you love lemonade. Then, one day, paint your face yellow. From then on, complain about how much you hate lemonade.

190. Late at night, start conversations that begin with, "Remember the good old days, when we used to..." and make up stories involving you and your roommate.

191. Whenever your roommate sneezes, go and hide in the closet for about an hour. Look around nervously for the rest of the day.

192. Sit and stare at your roommate for hours. Bring others in to join you. Eat peanuts, throwing a few at your roommate. Then say, "Boy, these zoos just aren't what they used to be."

193. Tell your roommate that your toe hurts, and that means there's going to be an earthquake soon. While your roommate is out, trash everything on his/her side of the room. When he/she returns, explain that the earthquake hit, but only on one side of the room.

194. Buy a gun. Clean it every day. One day, put a band-aid on your forehead, and refuse to discuss the gun ever again.

195. Buy a lobster. Pretend to play cards with it. Complain to your roommate that the lobster is making up his own rules.

196. Make pancakes every morning, but don't eat them. Draw faces on them, and toss them in the closet. Watch them for several hours each day. Complain to your roommate that your "pancake farm" isn't evolving into a self-sufficient community. Confide in your roommate that you think the king of the pancakes has been taking bribes.

197. While you are ironing, pretend to burn yourself. Start a garbage can fire in the middle of the room. Toss the iron inside. If your roommate objects, explain that you are just trying to get even.

198. Buy some turtles. Paint numbers on their backs. Race them down the hall.

199. Create an army of animal crackers. Put them through basic training. Set up little checkpoints around the room. Tell your roommate that the camel spotted him/her in a restricted area and said not to do it again. Ask your roommate to apologize to the camel.

200. Put out a plate of cookies at night. Tell your roommate that they're for the Sandman. Take a bite out of one of the cookies while your roommate is asleep. The next morning, accuse your roommate of having bitten one of the cookies. If he/she tries to tell you the Sandman did it, insist that you know what the Sandman's teeth marks look like and that those are, in fact, not the Sandman's teeth marks. Grumble angrily and storm out of the room.

201. Steal a tire from a fraternity lawn. Bring it to your room. Bathe it. Name it. Sleep in it.

202. Leave your room and lock the door. Proceed to bang on the door, screaming, "Let me in." Get mad at your roommate for locking you out.

203. Talk on the phone a lot. Don't pick up the receiver.

204. Talk to your roommate but don't let any sound come out. Get mad at him/her for not listening to you.

205. Ask your roommate if Bob, your invisible friend, can stay the night.

206. Ask your roommate if s/he can turn down the music. Explain that Bob has a headache.

210. Invite the Dean to sleepover.

211. Invite the school President to sleepover.

212. Invite your roommate to sleepover.

213. Let your alarm clock go off and refuse to turn it off. If your roommate comments, pretend not to hear anything.

214. Walk into walls.

215. Leave little notes in the shower for him/her.

216. Every time you take a shower, yell audibly, "I'm melting, I'm melting!"

217. When your roommate has friends over, get under your covers and stare at them through a little hole in the covers. Use a telescope.

218. When you leave the room, put on a screensaver that says, "I'm watching you."

219. Make a care package for your roommate. Leave the room and ride back and forth outside your window saying, "Speedy Delivery!" until s/he comes out.

220. Move very stiffly and grin. Tell your roommate that you've turned into Gumby.

221. Study computer science and listen to techno while talking about robots taking over the world.

222. Sleep with a banana (or lemon) and refuse to throw it out even after it rottens.

223. Wear a silly hat.

224. Tell him/her that you're committing suicide, and let him/her find some dynamite under your bed.

225. Leave lots of pills in your drawer, and walk around like a zombie.

226. Move your bed around the room once a day, and leave it in a new position every night.

227. Lock your door every time you go through it. Tell him/her that you're afraid of aliens.

228. Eat raw pasta for dinner.

229. Put bricks in the middle of the room, and explain to him/her that you intend to make a fireplace to save electricity.

230. Write letters to yourself from famous people. Mail them to yourself.

231. Arrange your pillows and blankets every night to make it look like you are asleep. Do this for three weeks. Buy a cantalope and a knife. Stick the knife in the cantalope. Lay it on the pillow where your head should be.

232. Spend hours in your room on personal hygiene. Spend at least an hour a day clipping your nails, another hour combing your hair, yet another hour washing your face and hands, etc.

233. Buy copies of Playgirl if you are male, or Playboy if you are female. Read the magazine very slowly. If your roommate comments, grin and say, "I bought it for the articles."

234. Take a thirty-minute shower. Turn the water off. Go to the toilet for five minutes. Get back in the shower and take another thirty-minute shower. If your roommate comments, shake your head and mutter, "damn diarrhea..."

235. Talk on the phone in gibberish. Use a high-pitched, squeaky tone.

236. Leave morbid outgoing messages on your answering machine. Be creative.

237. When your roommate is about to come home, hide in the closet. Five minutes after he gets home, walk out. If he comments, act as if you don't know what he's talking about.

238. Carve grotesque, morbid, and/or erotic pictures into your bedframe with a butcher knife.

239. Place porn mags, both soft- and hard-core, around the room. Buy ten or twenty jars of Vaseline. Stack them in a pile in a corner on the floor. Whenever your roommate is expecting company, smear your hands with Vaseline. When greeting them, shake hands vigorously for a minute.

240. Whenever you're talking to your roommate, add extra words to your sentences ("Hey Dan, did you turn in your Calculus -lick- homework?"). When talking to other people around your roommate, add his name to your conversation ("Can you give me the -Dan- notes for Friday's physics class?"). If your roommate comments, act as if you don't know what s/he's talking about.

241. Take up playing a musical instrument. Practice constantly in the room, but don't play anything coherent. Play "Hot Cross Buns" or similar three-note songs twenty times until you get it perfect.

242. Take up cooking. Cook exotic foods from scratch without using any cookbooks or recipes.

243. Come home at three in the morning wearing shredded jeans and no shirt. Dive into the room and under your bed. Tell your roommate that you were being held captive by ten Mesopotamian foot soldiers in full battle array.

244. Burn candles at night. Yell at your roommate if s/he turns on any light and claim that they'll scare "your friends" away.

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