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Cat in the Hat blog

In the book the Cat in the Hat there is one character that’s stands out to me as a super ego. A super ego can be explained as a person who’s personality is very morally orientated. A super ego is explained as the dictator who’s values and morals are determined from the right thing to do. This super ego is usually represented as an angel sitting on ones shoulder. I feel that the character that is a super ego in the story Cat in the Hat is the fish.

One reason I feel the fish is a super ego is because from the beginning of the story, once the cat is in the house, the fish starts testifying that the mom clearly stated no one can be in the house when she is out. So once the cat arrives in the house the fish keeps saying “No,no,no” to the cats games. This is an example of a super ego because in this situation the fish is being very cautious about the children’s activities in order to please mother.

Another example in which the fish portrays a super ego is when thing one and thing two are introduced to the house an released by the cat. In the pictures you can see the saddened and angered look on the fish’s face. His expressions shows that he knows that this is not acceptable and eventually his feelings wear off onto the kids. This is an example of a super ego because both examples show how the fish was listening to his angels voice on his shoulder, or the mothers words in the beginning of the story. This decision about the whole events in this day were formed by others morals, that is one prime example of a super ego.

The fish, throughout the book, showed several examples of a super ego. From the beginning in which he protests that the cat should not be in the house because of mothers rules to when the fish persuades the kids to put and end to thing one and thing two. These are both two examples of how the fish demonstrated being a super ego throughout the book.

PERSEPOLIS Blog Response number dos

Describe the writers voice. is it appealing? which aspect of Marji's character do you identify with or like the most, the least? did your reaction to the little girl affect your reading experience?

Satrapis voice throughout the story is one of thoughtfulness and opinions. She always has an opinion or thought about something her father says or her teacher says. She is the kind of girl who appears to herself as if she knows it all and is always right. In real life if I knew some one like this they would probably annoy me, but for the books purpose its appealing. Heres this little girl, who in the midst of this "revolution" and chaos is sticking strong and going against the grain. The main aspect of Marji that I can say I am the most similar to is her strong opinions. I am a very opinionated person and I feel she is too. The aspect of her that I dislike the most is when she brags to her friends about her grandpa. The reaction to Marji, I could say, affected my reading in the sense that it intrigued me to see this eight year old girl thinking so deeply about her environment.

"Every situation has an opportunity for laughs"(pg97) give some examples of how the ordinary citizens of Iran enjoyed life despite the oppressive regime. What made you laugh? How does Satrapi add comic relief? How are these scenes relevant to the story as a whole?

An everyday example of how the citizens of Iran enjoyed life was by parties. Even though they knew they were against the rules of the leaders it was said that if there was no parties that people would go crazy from all the other drama going on. It was the only way to forget about the craziness of the other aspects in their life. In a way a party was like a way for the citizens to step out of their life and into another they wish they could have, but know they couldn't. I cant really think of anything that made me laugh honestly. Satrapi adds comic relief in the book by Marjis opinionated comments and her far out thinking. These scenes are relevant to the story as a whole because the whole book involves Marjis opinions and thoughts.

"In site of everything, kids were trying to look hip, even under risk of arrest." (pg 112) How did they do this? What do you think you would have done had you been a child in this environment? What acts of rebellion did you do as a teen? In what ways is Satrapi just a normal kid?

A perfect example of how Marji tried looking hip was in the chapter Kim Wilde was after her parents came back from Turkey and got Marji what she asked for. She asked for a jacket, two posters and a pin of Michael Jackson. Since these things all represented the West it was against the rules to wear them. Yet Marji did and this was her way of rebelling. I think that if I were a child in that physco environment i would probably be in jail. I don't take lightly to doing things I really don't want to do and I feel I would probably be the same there. I think I would have started a demonstration and tried to get rid of all these crazy sexist rules in Iran. As a teen, which I am still, I think I havn't really done anything rebellious. My parents are really cool and well liberial if I had to label them. So like piercings and tight showy clothes to other families would be considered rebellious but to my family its how I am. So I cant really rebel I guess, I have nothing to rebel over anyways.

PERSEPOLIS Blog Response number uno

Written as a memoir, is Persepolis more powerful than if Satrapi had fictionalized the story? Why or why not? Compare this book to other memoirs you have read. What are the benefits and drawbacks of memoirs?

Well it could be said that if the book was fictionalized it could be just as powerful of a story. Yet I feel that the reason the story was not fictionalized and was kept as a memoir is because it is the truth. Satrapi wants to represent her truth and I think it is best conveyed in the way she made her graphic novel. I feel this book is more powerful then if it were fictionalized because this book is written form truth. This book is not only interesting and educating yet powerful because it is real! I have not read nay other memoirs, i don't read much so I cannot quite compare this memoir to another. I believe the drawbacks of memoirs is that one is speaking the truth, and some people don't like to hear the truth so the author could upset the readers. Yet the benefits to a memoir is that it is a personal story that others could relate to.

How is Persepolis organized and structured? What has Satrapi chosen to emphasize in her childhood? How is the passage of time represented? Describe Satrapis drawings. How do the drawings add to the narrative of the story?

I have noticed from the story that Satrapi has appeared to emphasize her childhood thoughts and opinions through out the book. I also feel that her views of how her country is being ruled are very emphasized just by the comments/thoughts she makes. For example when Marj declare that she is going to protest and goes and protests though told not to. she emphasizes the way she feels about the "current" situation. The passage of time is represented by the current and telling stories of the past. The two time aspects intertwine to give a good idea of time.  Satrapis drawing are not very detailed or colorful, yet they do get the main point across when looked upon. Though not detailed, the pictures are powerful to the story. The drawings add a sense of narration to the story. The pictures in the book give the reader the sense of understanding the context of the book. They pictures also add to the narrative in the sense that Satrapi drew them herself which shows how she represents each situation, in which the reader can try to understand what Satrapi feels/felt.

What is the role of woman in the story? Compare and contrast the various woman: Marj, her mother, her grandmother, her school teachers, the maid, and the neighbors.

From what I have read so far in Persepolis I have picked up on the fact that where Marj lives women are expected to be submissive and "protect" themselves from dangers, for example woman are suppose to wear the veil because if a guy sees there hair it "turns" them on. Its like natural beauty in the woman is hidden. woman are also viewed that they are basically trash and can be used for sex if they don't follow the rules of the leaders. So overall the woman in the book seem to suppose to be very submissive. yet Marj and her mom are very out spoken. Marj speaks up for what she believes and her mother participates in demonstrations against the new rules, they even refuse to wear the veil. The grandmother seems neutral to me so far. She tells stories of her life and it seems that she always lived in fear for her husband. It makes it seem like woman are dependent on the man. The school teachers don't seem to think for themselves and they even impose this on the children by telling them to all wear the veil. The maid is viewed as lower then other woman because off her class. This is how the woman in Persepolis compare in the story. 

Feed final (paper edition)

What does your feed contain and why? My feed contains:

• Pictures of friends- this is in my feed because I think about my friend’s daily. They also are a big reason that I am always smiling and laughing.
• Homosexual ads- this is in my feed because I feel that ALL humans have the same right. A gay person is still made up of the same parts as a straight person, still has the same feelings and should have the same rights. I strongly believe in equality for all and that is why I have the gay ad in my feed.
• Comic strip- the comic strip is in my feed because I love being funny! And it shows a sense of humor I like.
• My boyfriend Zach- well this is the person that is always on my mind. I miss him when im not with him and ive been with him for 2 and ½ years so he’s a big part of my family and me.
• Butterflies- I just love butterfly. They’re so beautiful and they’re the symbol of free to me. That is why they are in my feed.
• Animals- well I have always loved animals and never lived without one. So they’re a big part of my life too. Also they are the reason I know what I want to be when im older, a veterinarian.
• Drawing of a couple – this is part of my feed because to me it symbolizes love and romance. That is important to me and would be in my feed all the time.
• Smiley face- well I love smiling and laughing. Im so happy all the time my nick name is giggles (-:
• Chipotle burrito-OMG my addiction they are delicious and chipotle ads would be in m y feed whenever I was hungry!
• Music notes- music is my entertainment! Music can make my day and set my moods it also occupies me when im bored. Also I love listening to music and then signing along.
• Thought bubbles- those three thoughts are literally what goes through my head every friggin day (not lying) so they had to be in my feed!

 

What does this say about how this defines American culture and identity?

From what would be in my feed it could say many things about the American culture and their identity. I believe that from my feed one can only make generalizations about American culture and that ones feed cannot represent the main parts of American culture. Yet what my feed could say about American culture is that the value food, politics, happiness, and relationships.

 

What are the social implications of technology use, consumerism or anti-consumerism? Are these good or bad? Is it okay to resist?

            The social implications of technology use and consumerism tie together. It seems that every week a new device is coming out. This is implying that it is ok to toss the old and get with the new. Yet it is so wasteful. Most the time the device is a piece of crap or super similar to the last version. It forms our country to be on of waste! Well the main social implication is bad, since when is wasting good? And of course it’s okay to resist. A perfect example of these is all the people who jumped on the “ go green” wagon. It is okay to resist but it is very hard!

How does media, consumerism, reliance on technology, and/or popular culture personally affect you? Do they mold us? Or do we mold them?

Personally reliance on technology and consumerism affects me quite a bit. But not any more then others I know. I shop at least two times a week, yet every time I go shopping there’s always something that “ we need” when really we don’t. We always find something to need. And I go a little crazy without my cell phone. It’s the way I connect with people. I think technology molds us in a way but cannot complitly mold us. We mold technology though too. The only reason it exists is because we want it. We design it to what we want, so yes we mold technology too.

 

How does it impact you? Define you? What does it say about your personal habits, your individuality?

            Technology and consumerism impact me in a good way. I mean it makes things ten times more convenient. I don’t even need to memorize phone numbers, or have a calculator, or worry about a schedule. My devices can do that all for me.  It defines me in not such a big way. If I had to say it defined me I would be lying, I CAN live without a cell phone or going shopping all the time, it would suck, but I could do it. This says about my personal habits that I rely on the current situation of my life to keep me going and it also shows that I an like the whole world are getting lazy since these devices do everything for them.

 

If there is a moral to the story, what is it?

         Yes there is a moral to feed. The main moral is that if we keep up the technological usage like today and only advance it we could end up brainless and having technology control us. It is a symbol of how we are today.

 

Are people anything without the feed, in the world of the story?

What does the feed interlude at the end of the book mean (everything must go…)?

             Yes people are “anything” without the feed. They don’t fit in as well but they are way smarter and are more then the people with feeds will probably ever be. Look at Violet. When “Everything must go.” is being repeated over and over at the end of the book it is saying that our habits of today must be left behind if we as a country and world don’t want to be a bunch of mindless idiots letting a corporation and a microchip control their life, CHANGE!

watch this to laugh ( has nothing to do with FEED, yet is funny)

CONSUMERISM-THE BAD, THE WORSE AND UH.. THE WORSER LOL

Erin mentioned it, it is quite funny... watch

Visual Essay

My theme that I picked to represent Feed was one) confusion in consumerism and two) the fact that people buy and buy and buy.

The skull represents the thought of many americans yet tells the truth. It seems that america is in competition with itself for who can own the most stuff ( yet most people dont own half the crap that is in their house.) The picture next to it and the one in the lower left corner represent that the media is purposefully confusing one so they think they need the product now, or to fit in or because a celeb has it. I find the last picture funny. The trees are our world and us, humans, are eating it away like were animals. To me that picture is saying we will eat away our world even if we know its not good, we cant stop our consuming ways, its how the world was "meant to be". These two themes I decided to do my visual essay on are things I have learned to recognize through peoples habits and even my own. I could go in to a store and a sign would say 50% off, so im drawn to it and then you get up to pay and the deal wasnt what you thought because you didnt realize that in really really really little letters it says like when you buy a shirt at regular price get the 2nd half off. Thats a purposeful confusion, theres a reason the text was super small, to confuse the consumer. The second theme I can personally identify with. My whole life I have gotten basically everything I wanted ( besides a car!!!) Honestly when me and my mom are bored we go shopping, its like entertainment, we just buy and buy and buy though we have everything we need. Consumerism has become a past time in America. Yet one must  remember our enormously productive economy demands that we make consumption our way of life, that we convert the buying and use of goods into rituals, that we satisfy our selfs with consuming... we need things consumed, burned up, replaced and discarded at an ever accelerating rate. This is america, this is consumerism.

Feed blog number two

Respond to the following(pg80-81) (TOO LONG TO WRITE OUT) relate this to marketing tactics in todays society. what is your "type"? what ads would you get if you had a feed? how would "chatting" affect modern day communication?

The passage says that they ( the corporations) are waiting to make you want things. You get ads on what your supposdly like, they try to figure out who you are and make you conform to one of their types. This is relatable to todays society in many ways. for example when they say that the corporations are waiting for you to want things they really are. they will send out ads and commercials about one product that a "cool" person likes or a age rewinding serum that will make you look ten yours younger. they label these things there waiting for you to want with not so true information. and as far as the targeting certain types of people the big companies do that. look through a target ad, they have very nice looking stuff for cheap, they try to copy the cool trends and market them because thats what the general population wants. i believe my type is a more vain type, clothes, makeup, all that girly crap. if i had a feed i would get ads that deal with animals probably, and uh make up, especially neon makeup, and uh jewelery and clothes. Im such a typical girl. I think chatting would affect modern day communication in that we wouldnt really truly communicate. communicating to me is actually face to face talking and if we chatted we would never really truly communicate.

We enter a time of "calamity" what does this mean? 

In the book when the saying "we enter a time of calamity" is repeated it is the beginning of the official corrupting of the feeds. (an event resulting in great loss and misfortune, this is the definition of calamity) I find this definition very true to the text. the feed, to most people in the book would be a great lost and misfortune if they didnt have the feed, they rely on the feed twenty four seven! yet violet relaizes that the feed is bad, she seems to be the only one to realize this in the beginning, violet even tries to corrupt the feed and screw with the big corporations. 

The author dedicates the book " to those that resist the feed." what does he mean by this? what is "the feed" in real life context, and how can it be resisted? what are the benifits and drawbacks of doing so? in what way do you "resist the feed?"

The author, to me, means that this book is dedicated to all those that do not give in to media and the worlds views and conform to fit in. the feed in real life context is every little thing that you do not think of yourself that can change your mind for the worst. like the media, tv, radio, internet, corrupt leaders, religion. he is referencing to those that think for themselves. it may be hard for "slower, less independant" people to resist the feed. i see people evry day that change themselves from class to class just to hang with new people, like really? that is really lame, and those are the people that cannot resist the feed. i dont think there is a certain way to resist it but to think for your damn self! the benifits of feeding into the feed are that youll "fit in" and youll usually be liked by more. the drawbacks are that you may not have as much advantages as the people who follow the feed, but it is better to go against it. I resist the feed by thinking for myself and investing things on myself, and i am the same person no matter who im with, i do not conform i have my own mind and my own opinions, which i credit for helping me resist the feed!

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My first blog about FEED

Well hello there fellow blog readers (-:

So this is my first OFFICIAL blog and uh the topic is

about this book called Feed by M.T Anderson. (Better then Shakespeare)

So here it goes….

 

Topic one: What are the “lesions” a reference to? What causes them? Is there anything similar to today?

 

            The lesions are a reference to these gapping, bloody open cuts that the characters in the book get from their feeds (microchips implanted in their brain.) An example of the mentioning of the lesions is made by Quendy. On page 26 Quendy comes back from the bathroom and says “ omigod! Like big thanks to everyone for not telling me that my lesion is like meg completely spreading.” This reminds me of girls and pimples yet not as severe. What causes these lesions is most likely that there is a MICROCHIP in their head, basically a cell phone, internet and radio in one transmitting radioactive waves in your brain which when exposed to high levels of radio activity over a long time period can cause the body to react in many negative ways, for example in this book the lesions that everyone has. In the book it is like the lesions are normal, yet I wonder if they really even know what is causing them, but then again what is causing them probably doesn’t teach these kids the negative effects of this chip in their brain! Today I feel that there are a few things that could be comparable to the lesions today. For example nuclear plants or pollutants that cause defects and then people get mad and ask, “ Why does my baby have fifteen toes?" While right next to their house is a gynormous company that is causing all these defects in people and animals that we pay for( No one is really trying to stop it, but they complain about it, but their supporting it, similar to the feeds.) Also this is similar to a cell phone. Every time we have the cell phone on and it is in our pocket or we are talking on it waves are being emitted and in turn go into our body which equal bad!

 

Topic two: “We went to the moon to have fun, but the moon turned out to completely suck.” How does this sentence set up the novel?

 

            This sentence sets up the novel automatically with appearingly spoiled, ungrateful children. It is clear from this sentence that there will be a vibe throughout the book that these kids do not understand what being able to go to the moon means to previous generations. That is an amazing accomplishment to be able to have stability for life on the moon and this just shows that this novel will contain a few ungrateful brats.

 

Topic three: What do you notice about the language

Anderson uses? What is his purpose for doing so? How is it effective?

           

            I notice that the language Anderson uses throughout the novel is as if they (main characters) never had English or reading class. (Im sure they have not really had that class…) The kids have even came up with new words such as null for bored and meg for very. Yet people today make up slang words that sound just as dumb so I guess its normal. I believe the purpose for him (Anderson) doing so is to show that this story is in another time period. Also I think it is a point that if today we rely to heavily on electronical devices and that becomes our life, we to could sound like idiots. I think it is effective for giving the book a vibe of dumb downed children (a not so smart generation because of the past)

2ndtest funny walmart

. Take shopping carts for the express purpose of filling them
and stranding them at strategic locations.

2. Ride those little electronic cars at the front of the store.

3. Set all the alarm clocks to go off at ten-minute intervals
throughout the day.

4. Don't bother doing your ownshopping.  Simply find someone with a full trolley containing roughly the items you need, and when they are not looking take it and go pay for it at the checkout. (this is not stealing, they did not own the items yet, they were simply 'moving them around')

5. Contaminate the entire auto department by sampling all the
spray air fresheners.

6. Challenge other customers to duels with tubes of gift-wrap.

7. Leave cryptic messages on the typewriters.

8. Re-dress the mannequins as you see fit, then arrange them into erotic poses. (be creative with the gift-wrap tubes used in point 6).

9. When there are people behind you, walk really slowly,
especially in thin aisles.

10. Walk up to an employee and tell him in an official tone, "I
think we've got a code 3 in housewares," and see what happens.

11. Turn all the radios to polka stations; then turn them off
and turn the volume up to full blast.

12. Re-enact a fatal incident involving the automatic doors.

13. Walk up to complete strangers and say, "Hi. I haven't seen
you in so long." etc. See if they play along.  Insist on calling them 'Bob', and if they protest, get angry about it (violent if necissary).

14. While walking through the clothing department, ask yourself
loud enough for all to hear, "Who buys this crap anyway?!"

15. When you leave the store, try your car keys in the door of every car in the car park until you get to your own.  Then drive off as if this is perfectly normal. (Note- if you don't actually own a car and walked to the store, attempt the above by substituting car keys with your house keys).

16. Ride a display bicycle through the store; claim you are
taking it for a test drive.

17. Follow people through the aisles, staying about 5 feet
behind them. Do this until they leave the store.

18. Ask if you can test some super-glue before buying it, then walk around the store gluing random items to other items/customers/staff.  For added fun: See how many cashiers you can glue to each-other before any of them notice.

19. As the cashier runs your purchase over the scanner say "BEEP" in a loud voice.  Repeat this for every item, and for other customers items.  If the cashier protests, kill them.

20. Take off your shoes and tell them you want to return it and
when they say you didn't buy it there say "The customer is always right dammit!!"  Make a scene.

21. Move "Caution : Wet Floor" signs to carpeted areas.

22. Set up a tent in the camping department; tell others you
will only invite them in if they bring pillows from Bed and Bath.

23. Test the fishing rods and see what you can catch from other
aisles.

24. Ask other customers if they have any Grey Poupon.

25. Drape a blanket around your shoulders and run around saying,
"I'm Batman. Come Robin, to the Batcave."

26. Climb things.

27. Randomly throw things over into neighboring aisles.

28. Play with the calculators so that they all spell "hello"
upside down. Once you have mastered this, progress to "boobs".

29. When someone asks you if you need help, begin to cry and
say, "Why won't you people just leave me alone?"

30. When 2 or 3 people are walking ahead of you, run between
them yelling "Red Rover."

31. Make up nonsense products and ask employees if there are any
in stock. (i.e.: Shnerples).  Do a vague hand-mime of what a 'Shnerple' looks like to assist them.

32. Take up an entire aisle in toys by setting up a full-scale
battle with G.I. Joe vs. X-men.

33. Take bets on the battle from above.

34. Test the brushes and combs in Cosmetics on all the live animals in Pet-Care.

35. While handling guns in the hunting department, suddenly ask
the clerk where the anti-depressants are. Act as spastic as
possible.

36. Hold indoor shopping cart races.

37. Dart around suspiciously while humming the theme from
Mission Impossible.

38. Attempt to fit into very large gym bags.

39. Attempt to fit others into very large gym bags against their will.

40. Say things like, "Would you be so kind as to direct me to
your Twinkies."

41. Set up a "Valet Parking" sign in front of the store.

42. Two words: Marco Polo.

43. Leave Cheerios in lawn and garden, pillows in the pet
section, etc.

44. "Re-alphabetize" the CD's using an alternative alphabet of your choosing.

45. In the auto department, practice your Madonna look with
various funnels.

46. When someone steps away from his or her cart to look at
something, quickly place random combinations of items in their cart, such as 'A Large Cucumber and a Tub of Vasceline'.

47. Relax in the patio furniture drinking beer until you get kicked out.

48. When an announcement comes over the loudspeaker, drop to
your knees and scream, "No, no, its those voices again."

49. Pay off layaways 50 cents at a time.

50. Drag a lounge chair over to the magazines and relax. Go to
the food court, buy a drink, and explain that you don't get out
much and ask if they can put a little umbrella in it.

101 ways to annoy people

HELLO whoever is reading this.

This blog is just a test post- nothing

serious, but hey read on there are

some interesting ways to annoy

Erin (im just playing)

1. Sing the Batman theme incessantly. 

2. In the memo field of all your checks, write "for sensual massage." 

3. Specify that your drive-through order is "to go." 

4. Learn Morse code, and have conversations with friends in public consisting entirely of "Beeeep Bip Bip Beeep Bip..." 

5. If you have a glass eye, tap on it occasionally with your pen while talking to others.

6. Amuse yourself for endless hours by hooking a camcorder to your TV and then pointing it at the screen. <

7. Speak only in a "robot" voice. 

8. Push all the flat Lego pieces together tightly. 

9. Start each meal by conspicuously licking all your food, and announce that this is so no one will "swipe your grub". 

10. Leave the copy machine set to reduce 200%, extra dark, 17 inch paper, 98 copies. 

11. Stomp on little plastic ketchup packets. 

12. Sniffle incessantly.

13. Leave your turn signal on for fifty miles. 

14. Name your dog "Dog." 15. Insist on keeping your car windshield wipers running in all weather conditions "to keep them tuned up." 

16. Reply to everything someone says with "that's what YOU think." 

17. Claim that you must always wear a bicycle helmet as part of your "astronaut training." 

18. Declare your apartment an independent nation, and sue your neighbors upstairs for "violating your airspace".

19. Forget the punchline to a long joke, but assure the listener it was a "real hoot." 

20. Follow a few paces behind someone, spraying everything they touch with Lysol. 

21. Practice making fax and modem noises. 

22. Highlight irrelevant information in scientific papers and "cc:" them to your boss. 

23. Make beeping noises when a large person backs up. 

24. Invent nonsense computer jargon in conversations, and see if people play along to avoid the appearance of ignorance. 

25. Erect an elaborate network of ropes in your backyard, and tell the neighbors you are a "spider person." 

26. Finish all your sentences with the words "in accordance with the prophesy." 

27. Wear a special hip holster for your
remote control. 

28. Do not add any inflection to the end of your sentences, producing awkward silences with the impression that you'll be saying more any moment. 

29. Signal that a conversation is over by clamping your hands over your ears. 

30. Disassemble your pen and "accidentally" flip the ink cartridge across the room. 

31. Give a play-by-play account of a persons every action in a nasal Howard Cosell voice. 

32. Holler random numbers while someone is counting. 

33. Adjust the tint on your TV so that all the people are green, and insist to others that you "like it that way." 

34. Drum on every available surface. 

35. Staple papers in the middle of the page. 

36. Ask 1-800 operators for dates. 

37. Produce a rental video consisting entirely of dire FBI copyright warnings. 

38. Sew anti-theft detector strips
into peoples backpacks.

39. Hide dairy products in inaccessible places. 

40. Write the surprise ending to a novel on its first page.

41. Set alarms for random times. 

42. Order a side of pork rinds with your filet mignon. 

43. Instead of Gallo, serve Night Train next Thanksgiving.

44. Publicly investigate just how slowly you can make a "croaking" noise. 

45. Honk and wave to strangers. 

46. Dress only in clothes colored Hunters Orange. 

47. Change channels five minutes before the end of every show. 

48. Tape pieces of "Sweating to the Oldies" over climactic parts of rental movies. 

49. Wear your pants backwards. 

50. Decline to be seated at a restaurant, and simply eat their complimentary mints by the cash register. 

51. Begin all your sentences with "ooh la la!" 

52. ONLY TYPE IN UPPERCASE. 

53. only type in lowercase. 

54. dont use any punctuation either 

55. Buy a large quantity of orange traffic cones and reroute whole streets. 

56. Pay for your dinner with pennies. 

57. Tie jingle bells to all your clothes. 

58. Repeat everything someone says, as a question. 

59. Write "X - BURIED TREASURE" in random spots on all of someone's roadmaps. 

60. Inform everyone you meet of your personal Kennedy assassination/UFO/ O.J Simpson conspiracy theories. 

61. Repeat the following conversation a dozen times: "Do you hear that?" "What?" "Never mind, its gone now." 

62. Light road flares on a birthday cake. 

63. Wander around a restaurant, asking other diners for their parsley. 

64. Leave tips in Bolivian currency. 

65. Demand that everyone address you as "Conquistador." 

66. At the laundromat, use one dryer for each of your socks.

67. When Christmas caroling, sing "Jingle Bells, Batman smells" until physically restrained. 

68. Wear a cape that says "Magnificent One." 

69. As much as possible, skip rather than walk. 

70. Stand over someone's shoulder, mumbling, as they read.

71. Pretend your computer's mouse is a CB radio, and talk to it. 

72. Try playing the William Tell Overture by tapping on the bottom of your chin. When nearly done, announce "no, wait, I messed it up," and repeat. 

73. Drive half a block. 

74. Inform others that they exist only in your imagination.

75. Ask people what gender they are. 

76. Lick the filling out of all the Oreos, and place the cookie parts back.

77. Cultivate a Norwegian accent. If Norwegian, affect a Southern drawl. 

78. Routinely handcuff yourself to furniture, informing the curious that you don't want to fall off "in case the big one comes". 

79. Deliberately hum songs that will remain lodged in co-workers brains, such as "Feliz Navidad", the Archies "Sugar" or the Mr. Rogers theme song. 

80. While making presentations, occasionally bob your head. like a parakeet. 

81. Lie obviously about trivial things such as the time of day. 

82. Leave your Christmas lights up and lit until September.

83. Change your name to "AaJohn Aaaaasmith" for the great glory of being first in the phone book. Claim it's a Hawaiian name, and demand that people pronounce each "a."

84. Sit in your front yard pointing a hair dryer at passing cars to see if they slow down. 

85. Chew on pens that you've borrowed. 

86. Wear a LOT of cologne. 

87. Listen to 33rpm records at 45rpm speed, and claim the faster speed is necessary because of your "superior mental processing." 

88. Sing along at the opera.

89. Mow your lawn with scissors. 

90. At a golf tournament, chant "swing-batabatabata-suhWING-batter!" 

91. Ask the waitress for an extra seat for your "imaginary friend." 

92. Go to a poetry recital and ask why each poem doesn't rhyme. 

93. Ask your co-workers mysterious questions, and then scribble their answers in a notebook. Mutter something 
about "psychological profiles." 

94. Stare at static on the TV and claim you can see a "magic picture." 

95. Select the same song on the jukebox fifty times. 

96. Never make eye contact. 

97. Never break eye contact. 

98. Construct elaborate "crop circles" in your front lawn.

99. Construct your own pretend "tricorder," and "scan" people with it, announcing the results. 

100. Make appointments for the 31st of September. 

101. Invite lots of people to other people's parties.