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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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