Ways to Releive Grumpiness:

1) Jump up and down with the subject until either both of you, or just the subject are completely exhausted and have to crumple up on the ground with laughter.Æ

2) Make a fish-face, then have the subject make one too. Both of you sit there staring at each other until one or the other laughs, or explodes.

3) Tell the subject the funniest joke you've heard in a long time.

4) Do an amazingly good impersonation of the "Yo Quiero Taco Bell" dog.

5) Put the most random object you can find in the current room, on your head, and then stare at the subject as if nothing happened.

6) Tell a totally random story. It must be as outrageous as possible, to the point where the subject has to ask if it is true. Answer, quite matter-of-factly, "No." Then go on with other things.

7) Act like you've given up trying to Un-Grumpify the subject, then go on about another completely random subject. (i.e. your lunch.)

8) Tell stories with as many abstract words, like "Thingamawhatsahoosit" and "Shishkabibble" until the subject has absolutely no idea what you're talking about. (It doesn't matter if you don't either though.) If they interrupt you while you're telling your abstract story, state very authoritatively that you're not done with your story and you'd like to finish. Eventually, if done well and long enough, the subject will give an exasperated sigh, and be too annoyed to be grumpy.Æ

9) If you've gotten to this point without any luck. To give yourself something, at least for trying, tell the following joke: "Why did the chicken get run over when he crossed the road? Because he was grumpy!" This should perplex anybody who is actually listening. If you get absolutely no response, that you're subject has passed into one of the two realms. Total, complete tiredness, where the subject cannot respond to any stimulus. In which case, it isn't worth trying to Un-Grumpify them until they have received a good nights sleep. OR, the more morbid realm. The Realm Of Eternal Grumpiness. Where absolutely no human being can get to without extreme grumpys surrounding and covering it. If you happen to come across an individual with the tell-tale signs of the Realm Of Eternal Grumpiness, ask them how they are feeling, if their reply is along the lines of a moan, grunt, or aggressive action, they have already passed into the Realm Of Eternal Grumpiness. The best course of action now is only to wait a day or two, because every other day or so, openings open up in the Realm Of Eternal Grumpiness to allow a select few in, and out. Only during these select times may you try and Un-Grumpify this individual. And may their Un-Grumpiness genes live on in peace.ÆÆ