From: piglet.caltech.edu!nathan (Nathan Mates)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Roommate Bashing
Date: 15 Nov 1992 23:32:40 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
NNTP-Posting-Host: piglet.caltech.edu
Originator: nathan@piglet

A while ago, I got this off one or another newsgroup. Ok, so it's a
little weird, but if you want to get rid of a roommate, why not:
Nathan Mates    nathan@cco.caltech.edu


50 WAYS TO CONFUSE YOUR ROOMMATE

1.  Smoke jimson weed.  Do whatever comes naturally.

2.  Switch the sheets on your beds while s/he is at class.

3.  Twitch a lot.

4.  Pretend to talk while pretending to be asleep.

5.  Steal a fishtank.  Fill it with beer and dump sardines in it.  Talk to
    them.

6.  Become a subgenius.

7.  Inject his/her twinkies with a mixture of Dexatrim and MSG.

8.  Learn to levitate.  While your roommate is looking away, float up out
    of your seat.  When s/he turns to look, fall back down and grin.

9.  Speak in tongues.

10.  Move you roommate's personal effects around.  Start subtlely.
     Gradually work up to big things, and eventually glue everything s/he
     owns to the ceiling.

11.  Walk and talk backwards.

12.  Spend all your money on Jolt Cola.  Drink it all.  Stack the cans in  
the
     middle of your room.  Number them.
13.  Spend all your money on Transformers.  Play with them at night.  If
     your roommate says anything, tell him/her with a straight face,  
"They're
     more than meets the eye."

14.  Recite entire movie scripts (e.g. "The Road Warrior," "Repo Man,"
     Casablanca,") almost inaudibly.

15.  Kill roaches with a monkey wrench while playing Wagnerian arias on a
     kazoo.  If your roommate complains, explain that it is for your
     performance art class (or hit him/her with the wrench).

16.  Collect all your urine in a small jug.

17.  Chain yourself to your roommate's bed.  Get him/her to bring you  
food.

18.  Get a computer.  Leave it on when you are not using it.  Turn it off
     when you are.

19.  Ask your roommate if your family can move in "just for a couple of
     weeks."

20.  Buy as many back issues of Field and Stream as you can.  Pretend to
     masturbate while reading them.

21.  Fake a heart attack.  When your roommate gets the paramedics to come,
     pretend nothing happened.

22.  Eat glass.

23.  Smoke ballpoint pens.

24.  Smile.  All the time.

25.  Collect dog shit in baby food jars.  Sort them according to what you
     think the dog ate.

26.  Burn all your waste paper while eying your roommate suspiciously.

27.  Hide a bunch of potato chips and Ho Hos in the bottom of a trash can.
     When you get hungry, root around in the trash.  Find the food, and  
eat
     it.  If your roommate empties the trash before you get hungry, demand
     that s/he reimburse you.

28.  Leave a declaration of war on your roommate's desk.  Include a list  
of
     grievances.

29.  Paste boogers on the windows in occult patterns.

30.  Shoot rubber bands at your roommate while his/her back is turned, and
     then look away quickly.

31.  Dye all your underwear lime green.

32.  Spill a lot of beer on his/her bed.  Swim.

33.  Buy three loaves of stale bread.  Grow mold in the closet.

34.  Hide your underwear and socks in your roommate's closet.  Accuse
     him/her of stealing it.

35.  Remove your door.  Ship it to your roommate's parents (postage due).

36.  Pray to Azazoth or Zoroaster.  Sacrifice something nasty.

37.  Whenever your roommate walks in, wait one minute and then stand up.
     Announce that you are going to take a shower.  Do so.  Keep this up  
for
     three weeks.

38.  Array thirteen toothbrushes of different colors on your dresser.  
Refuse
     to discuss them.

39.  Paint your half of the room black.  Or paisley.

40.  Whenever he/she is about to fall asleep, ask questions that start  
with
     "Didja ever wonder why...."  Be creative.

41.  Shave one eyebrow.

42.  Put your mattress underneath your bed.  Sleep down under there and
     pile your dirty clothes on the empty bedframe.  If your roommate
     comments, mutter "Gotta save space," twenty times while twitching
     violently.

43.  Put horseradish in your shoes.

44.  Shelve all your books with the spines facing the wall.  Complain
     loudly that you can never find the book that you want.

45.  Always flush the toilet three times.

46.  Subsist entirely on pickles for a week.  Vomit often.

47.  Buy a copy of Frankie Yankovic's "Pennsylvania Polka," and play it at
     least 6 hours a day.  If your roommate complains, explain that it's  
an
     assignment for your primitive cultures class.

48.  Give him/her an allowance.

49.  Listen to radio static.

50.  Open your window shades before you go to sleep each night.  Close  
them
     as soon as you wake up.
-- 



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