1. At dinner, guard your plate with fork and knife, so as to give the impression
that you'll stab anyone, including the waiter, who reaches for it.
2. Collect
the salt shakers from all of the tables in the restaurant, and balance them in a
tower on your table.
3. Wipe your nose on your date's sleeve. Twice.
4. Make
funny faces at other patrons, then sneer at their reactions.
5. Repeat every third
third word you say say.
6. Give your claim to fame as being voted "Most Festerous"
for your high school yearbook.
7. Read a newspaper or book during the meal. Ignore
your date.
8. Stare at your date's neck, and grind your teeth audibly.
9. Twitch
spastically. If asked about it, pretend you don't know what they are talking about.
10.
Stand up every five minutes, circle your table with your arms outstretched, and make
airplane noises.
11. Order a bucket of lard.
12. Ask for crayons to color the
placemat. This works very well in fancier venues that use linen tableclothes.
13.
Howl and whistle at women's legs, especially if you are female.
14. Recite your
dating history. Improvise. Use pets.
15. Pull out a harmonica and play blues songs
when your date begins talking to themselves.
16. Sacrifice french fries to the
great deity, Pomme.
17. When ordering, inquire whether the restaurant has any
live food.
18. Without asking, eat off your date's plate. Eat more from their
plate than s/he does.
19. Drool.
20. Chew with your mouth open, talk with
your mouth full, and spray crumbs.
21. Eat everything on your plate within 30
seconds of it being placed in front of you.
22. Excuse yourself to use the restroom.
Go back to the head waiter/hostess and ask for another table in another part of
the restaurant. Order another meal. When your date finally finds you, ask him/her
"What the heck took you so long in the restroom?!?"
23. Recite graphic
limericks to the people at the table next to you.
24. Ask the people at the neighboring
table for food from their plates.
25. Beg your date to tattoo your name on their
derriere. Keep bringing the subject up.
26. Ask your date how much money they
have with them.
27. Order for your date. Order something nasty.
28. Communicate
in mime the entire evening.
29. Upon entering the restaurant, ask for a seat
away from the windows, where you have a good view of all exits, and where you can
keep your back to the wall. Act nervous.
30. Lick your plate. Offer to lick
theirs.
31. Hum. Loudly. In monotone.
32. Fill your pockets with sugar
packets, as well as salt and pepper shakers, silverware, floral arrangements...i.e.
anything on the table that isn't bolted down.
33. Hold a debate. Take both sides.
34.
Undress your date verbally. Use a bullhorn.
35. Auction off your date for silverware.
36.
Slide under the table. Take your plate with you.
37. Order a baked potato for
a side dish. When the waiter brings your food, hide the potato, wait a few minutes,
and ask the waiter for the potato you "never got." When the waiter returns
with another potato, have the first one back up on the plate. Repeat later in the
meal.
38. Order beef tounge. Make lewd comparisons or comments.
39. Get
your date drunk. Talk about their philosophy. Get it on tape, and use good judgement
in editing to twist their words around.
40. Discuss boils and lesions, as if
from personal experience.
41. Speak in pig latin throughout the meal. Or ubber-dubber
language. Or just nonsense.
42. Take a break, and go into the restroom. When
you return to the table, throw a spare pair of underwear on the back of one of the
chairs. Insist that they just need airing out.
43. If they are paying, order
the most expensive thing on the menu. Take one bite.
44. Bring 20 or so candles
with you, and during the meal get up and arrange them around the table in a circle.
Chant.
45. Save the bones from your meal, and explain that you're taking them
home to your invalid, senile old mother, because it's a lot cheaper than actually
feeding her.
46. Order your food by colors and textures. Sculpt.
47. Take
a thermos along, and hide it under the table. Order coffee, and fill the thermos
one cup at a time, taking advantage of the free refills.
48. Insist that the
waiter cuts your food into little pieces. In a similar vein, insist that he take
a bite out of everything on the plate, to make sure no one poisoned it.
49. Accuse
your date of espionage.
50. Make odd allusions to dangerous religious cults.
51.
Don't use any verbs during the entire meal.
52. Pass the hat in the restaurant.
Use the proceeds (if any) to pay the bill.
53. Break wind loudly. Add color
commentary. Bow.
54. Feed imaginary friends, or toy dolls you've brought along.
55.
Bring a bucket along. Explain that you get frequently ill. Oh yeah...
56.
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57. Make sure your entire outfit was purchase at the Clemson University bookstore.
The colors orange and purple are proven aphrodisiacs (for elephants, whales, and
hippos!).
58. Quote Beavis and Butt-head...especially in reference to how your
date would like to be pleased.
59. Listen to violent music before going out.
Recite all the expletives during your meal.
60. After kissing him/her explain
that you're doing a study on the spread of mononucleosis.
61. Shoot hoops with
shrimp in his/her wine glass.
62. Show up with makeup on 90% of your body...all
lipstick...especially if you're male.
63. Dominate the conversation. Every time
your date opens his mouth, interrupt and start a new conversation.
64. Belch.
Rate yourself.
65. Complain of the effects of the acid you dropped before the
meal.
66. Comment that the table would look simply marvelous with a severed head
as a centerpiece.
67. As your food arrives, mention how long it's been since
you've eaten raw meat.
68. Count your contraceptives.
69. Stroke your thigh
while commenting how much you can't wait until the meal is over.
70. Yawn. Don't
cover your mouth. Roar.
Bonus: When the meal is done and the question
arises of wheter to go someplace else, politely decline saying that you have had
your fill of bad taste for the night.