50 Ways to Scare People in the Computer Lab

 
1.     Log on, wait a sec, then get a frightened look on your
 face and scream, "Oh my! They've found me!" and bolt. 

2.     Laugh uncontrollably for about 3 minutes and then 
 suddenly stop and look suspiciously at everyone who looks at
 you. 

3.     When your computer is turned off, complain to the monitor
 on duty that you can't get the darned thing to work. After
 he/she's turned it on, wait 5 minutes, turn it off again, and
 repeat the process for a good half hour. 

4.     Type frantically, often stopping to look at the person
 next to you evilly. 

5.     Before anyone else is in the lab, connect each computer
 to a different screen than the one it's set up with. 

6.     Write a program that plays the "Smurfs" theme song and
 play it at the highest volume possible over and over again. 

7.     Work normally for awhile. Suddenly look amazingly
 startled by something on the screen and crawl underneath the 
 desk. 

8.     Ask the person next to you if they know how to tap into
 top-secret Pentagon files. 

9.     Use Interactive Send to make passes at people you don't
 know. 

10.    Make a small fake ritual sacrifice to the computer before 
 you turn it on. 

11.    Bring a chainsaw, but don't use it. If anyone asks why
 you have it, say "Just in case..." mysteriously. 

12.    Type for awhile. Suddenly start cursing for 3 minutes
 about everything bad about your life. Then stop and continue
 typing. 

13.    Enter the lab, undress, and start staring at other
 people as if they're crazy while typing. 

14.    Light candles in a pentagram around your terminal
 before starting. 

15.    Stand on your chair and yell, "Help! There's a mouse."
 as you point to the computer's mouse. 

16.    Every time you press return and there is processing time
 required, pray "Ohpleaseohpleaseohpleaseohpleaseohplease," 
 and scream "YES!" when it finishes. 

17.    "DISK FIGHT!" 

18.    Turn the brightness on the monitor way down. Pull out a
 flash light and shine it on the screen. Act as if it helps you
 see the text on the screen. 

19.    Put a straw in your mouth and put your hands in your
 pockets. Type by hitting the keys with the straw. 

20.    If you're sitting in a swivel chair, spin around 
 singing "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" whenever there is processing 
 time required. 

21.    Draw a picture of a (wo)man on a piece of paper and tape
 it to your monitor. Try to seduce it. Act like it hates you
 and then complain loudly that (wo)men are worthless. 

22.    Try to stick a Nintendo cartridge in the 3.5 disk drive.
 When it doesn't work, get the supervisor. 

23.    When you are on an IBM and when you turn it on, ask
 loudly where the smiling Apple face is when you turn on one 
 of those. 

24.    Print out the complete works of Shakespeare, then when
 it's all done (two days later) say that all you wanted was
 one line. 

25.    Sit and stare at the screen, biting your nails noisily.
 After doing this for awhile, spit them out at the feet of the
 person next to you. 

26.    Stare at the screen, grind your teeth, stop, look at the
 person next to you. 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. 

27.    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. 

28.    Put a large, gold-framed portrait of the British royal
 family on your desk and loudly proclaim that it inspires you.

29.    Come to the lab wearing several layers of socks. Remove
 shoes and place them on 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. 

30.    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. 

31.    Laugh hysterically, shout "You will all perish in
 flames!!!" and continue working. 

32.    Bring some dry ice and make it look like the computer
 is smoking. 

33.    Assign a musical note to every key (ex. the delete key
 is A flat). Whenever you hit a key, hum its note loudly.
 Write an entire paper this way. 

34.    Attempt to eat your computer's mouse. 

35.    Borrow someone else's keyboard by reaching over,
 saying "Excuse me, mind if I borrow this for a sec?",
 unplugging the keyboard, and taking it. 

36.    Bring in a bunch of magnets and have fun. 

37.    When doing calculations, pull out an abacus and say that
 sometimes the old ways are best. 

38.    Play Pong for hours on the most powerful computer in the
 lab. 

39.    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. 

40.    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.) 

41.    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.

42.    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 "COVEEEEERRRRR!"
 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. 

43.    Keep looking at invisible bugs and trying to swat them. 

44.    See who's online. Send a total stranger a talk request.
 Talk to them like you've known them all your lives. Hang up 
 before they get a chance to figure out you're a total stranger. 

45.    Bring a small tape player with a tape of really absurd
 sound effects. Pretend it's the computer and look really lost.

46.    Pull out a pencil. Start writing on the screen. Complain
 that the lead doesn't work. 

47.    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. 

48.    Run into the computer lab, shout "Armageddon is
 here!!!!!", then calmly sit down and begin to type. 

49.    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." 

50.    Bring a sleeping bag and pillow. Login to all the
 machines in one row. Lay down and go to sleep. 

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