| How To Live Newsies Is Newsies "Just a movie" to you? Well, I've got new: It doesn't end when the credits pop up. Read on to learn how to "Newsify" your every day life. The Fine Print: These are just for fun. Notice, I'm not telling you that in order to be a good fan you have to do all these things. Please use common sense when deciding which of these to try and/or actually doing them.. Most of them are just to laugh at, so don't try all of them. There, I warned you, so don't send me any emails telling me you fell off a billboard and you want me to pay your hospital bill. Lol. Stuff to do on a normal basis 1. No matter what, no matter how serious the occasion is, even at your mother’s funeral, talk with a New York accent. 2. Call all your friends newsie names (Jack, Spot, etc.) no matter how much they protest until their spirits are finally broken and they respond to, “Hey Race.” 3. Call your teachers names of adults from the movie (The meanest one could be Pulitzer or Snyder, the cool one could be Klopman or Medda) and if they don’t respond after the third or fourth try, just get their attention by yelling, “hey!” 4. Use the 1899 slang found in the “Talking Newsies” section of the DVD, and laugh at people who have know idea what you’re talking about. 5. In every situation, find a way to quote Newsies. (ex. You stay with your grandma for the weekend, and when she asks you how you slept, you say, “On me back, Mush.” and then proceed to laugh hysterically and say, “Ya year that, fellas? I asked Jack how he slept, and he said, ‘On me back Mush!’”) 6. In the morning, if someone wakes you up, yell, “Get away from me, you’re mad!” 7. When you’re putting the date on your papers, always write 1899 after the day, no matter what your teacher says. (I don’t think it would work on checks, but go ahead and try anyway) 8. Sleep on your friend’s fire escape, and when they wake up, have breakfast on the roof. 9. Get a paper route, only instead of delivering the papers, just stand on the corner shouting out the headlines, and make your customers come buy the papes from you. See how long it takes to get fired. 10. Anytime anyone asks you if you’ll do something (like pass the ketchup or scoot over), respond by saying, “Don’t rush me, I’m perusing the merchandise,” even if it doesn’t make sense. 11. Pick a newsie and carry their trademark around with you wherever you go, (Ex. Jack-Rope and cowboy hat, Spot- Walking stick and slingshot, Racetrack- a cigar, etc.) even to special occasions like family reunions and weddings. 12. Seal all your deals, even when you’re begging the principal to let you get out of detention, with a spit shake. Stunts 1. Put on your newsie outfit (who doesn’t have one!), grab a stack of papers, and stand on your street corner shouting, “Extra, extra! Ellis Island in flames!” until either a.) someone buys a paper or b.) your dad comes outside and yells at you for being an embarrassment to the family. 2. Same thing as number one, only go to a nearby park and start coughing all over a paper and asking people if they’ll buy your last one. 3. When your teacher decides to have a pop quiz, or some other thing that really bugs you, stand on your desk and shout: “Pulitzer and –your teachers name- they think we’re nothing! Are we nothing?” If no one answers, yell no yourself. And then sing the rest of the song until a.) you get dragged to the principal’s office, b.) everyone joins in, including the teacher or c.) you find yourself in a straightjacket kicking and screaming in a padded room. 4. When you’re walking home from your friend’s house and it gets lonely, don’t start talking to yourself, start singing to yourself! Don’t forget to do a really embarrassing dance in the middle of the street and steal a horse. 5. When you sleep over at a friends house, wake everyone in their family up at the crack of dawn by yelling, “Get up! When it’s time to get up, you have to get up! Come on! Carry the banner! Sell the papes! Come on boy, get up! You dreaming about selling papers? Come on! Sell the papers! Carry the banner!” etc. 6. Go to a restaurant, and get in a fake argument with a friend, then grab a newspaper, jump on the table, and sing King of New York as loud as you can. 7. If you ever go to a wrestling or boxing match, get up and run through the middle of the ring. When the security guards start chasing you (and believe me, they will- I know from experience jk) yell to your friend, “Beat it! It’s the bulls!” 8. When you go to court after the security guards catch you following the stunt from number 7, yell, “Hey your honor, I object!” (“On what grounds?”) “On the grounds of Brooklyn your honor.” And then when the judge sentences you to something, say, “Hey, your honor, I’ll roll you for it, double or nothing.” 9. Next time you see a wagon (or truck) of papers, try to knock it over, and if it doesn’t work, start ripping them up. If someone tries to stop you, yell, “Scabber!” 10. Climb up the ladder to a billboard next to a road, and write “STRIKE” in big letters over whatever it says. 11. Go to a relative’s house, and when someone (an old, crabby relative) is reading a paper, take a scissors and start cutting it up while they’re reading it, and when they ask you what you’re doing, shrug and say, “It’s for the newsie strike,” as if they’re stupid for not knowing. From you guys: -WHEN YOUR FRIEND OR LITTLE BRO OR SIS AND YOU FIND SOMETHING THAT IS THEIRS SAY," LES. WHAT IS THIS?" - Keep you left eye closed all day to see what it felt like to be Kid Blink. -u and someone (smaller than u that u can lift up) go to a place that has tons of people in one spot (preferelbly- i can't spell- somewhere where u can get out of there quickly) put the smaller person on ur shoulders and yell in unison: we beat'em! and if want to b xtreem then u do it do it evryday at the same time trust me it's fun! ~cherry pie -This is incredably fun, you and your group of chosen Newsie friends go into a very public place and begin to have a loud conversation, only to Newsie lyrics. Make sure you say them, not sing. People give you strange looks when you begin to talk in rhyme with a rhythm. -some skools (like mine) ppl like to write who they like on there hand. if ur skool doesn't then start doin it cuse it help u get a bf!! lol! any way.......write : I then a heart and then ur fav. newsie on too. (ex. i heart Kid Blink) its fun!!! -get a group of friends who like the newsies as much as u(like me and my friends) and make a vote on who is the queen of brooklyn, princess of brooklyn, queen of manhattan, princess of manhattan, ect. , and then start passing notes to each other(and when u fold the note to give it to them, note: get newsie names!, write their newsie name on the front't, and whatever ure for, brooklyn or manhattan, write, ex. i am for brooklyn (im the princess), brooklyn lodging house, talk newsie in the notes, and make a symbol on ure note so that everyone knows it's u. it's so much fun, and if the teachers fined it , usually they have no idea what ure talking about! *note: it's much funner if u slip the note in ure friends locker, instead of giveing the note to them. try tnis me and my friends do it, it's so much fun, -From Slang You guys have been going crazy acting like newsies and sending me stories. Click here to read about it! 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