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1. Wax the ceiling.
2. Loosen the lug nuts on your dad's new
car.
3. Drop your cat from a high place, to see
if it really does land on all four feet.
4. Repeat above until failure.
5. Rearrange political campaign signs.
6. Sharpen your teeth.
7. Play Houdini with one of your siblings.
8. Braid your dogs hair.
9. Clean and polish your belly button.
10. Water your dog...see if he grows.
11. Wash a tree.
12. Genuflect to Lawrence Welk.
13. Knight yourself and some close friends.
14. Found the Jim Jones' School of Modern
Bartending.
15. Flirt with an evergreen.
16. Scare Steven King.
17. Give your cat a mohawk.
18. Purr.
19. Mow your carpet.
20. Rake your carpet (to clean up the
clippings.)
21. Whine.
22. Play Pat Boone records backwards.
23. Re-elect Richard Nixon.
24. Dress like your favourite Heavy Metal
group...surprise your grandmother.
25. Listen to a painting.
26. Play with matches.
27. Buff your cat.
28. Raise professional racing ferrets.
29. Paint your home...Day-Glo orange.
30. Dial-a-Prayer and argue.
31. Read Homer in the original Greek.
32. Learn Greek.
33. Change your mind.
34. Change it back.
35. Watch the sun...see if it moves.
36. Mail Jerry Falwell a Hustler magazine.
37. Recite romantic poetry...to your
toaster.
38. Paint your windows.
39. Flash your goldfish.
40. Paint.
41. Smile.
42. Paint a smile.
43. Shoot at a fire hydrant.
44. Apologise to it.
45. See if you really can build a small
nuclear device in your basement.
46. Rotate your garden...daily.
47. Plant a shoe.
48. Write letters to all the political
officials that are representing you, and tell them what a good job
they are doing...on April 1st.
49. Sweat.
50. Give a Rorschach (Ink-blot) Test to your
gerbil.
51. Take apart all your major kitchen
appliances.
52. Mix and match the parts.
53. Turn your TV picture tube upside down.
54. Take your sofa for a walk.
55. Write a letter to Plato.
56. Mail it.
57. Start.
58. Stop.
59. Dial 911...breath heavily.
60. Go to a funeral...tell jokes.
61. Put lighted EXIT signs on all your
closets.
62. Carry a tune.
63. Drop it to see if it breaks.
64. Starch your shoes.
65. Contemplate a cockroach.
66. Get a dog to chase your car.
67. Let him catch it.
68. Form a political party.
69. Throw a political party.
70. Climb a sidewalk.
71. Ride a loaf of bread.
72. Annoy yourself.
73. Get angry with yourself.
74. Stop speaking to yourself.
75. Kiss and make-up.
76. Stand on your head.
77. Stand on someone else's head.
78. Learn everything there is to know about
the Holy Roman Empire.
79. Read a Harlequin Romance Novel...but
only if you're REALLY bored.
80. Build a pyramid.
81. Paint your teeth.
82. Wear a salad.
83. Speak with a forked tongue.
84. MAKE a drive in window at your local
bank.
85. Walk on water...but DON'T get caught.
86. Shave a shrub.
87. Have a proton fight.
88. Watch a car rust.
89. Quiver.
90. Confess to a crime that you didn't
commit.
91. Learn to type...with your toes.
92. Buy the Brooklyn Bridge.
93. Mail it to a friend.
94. Be in the wrong place at the right time.
95. Be someone special.
96. Plot the overthrow of your local School
Board.
97. Request covert assistance from the CIA.
98. Factor your social security number.
99. Take the fifth.
100. Take the sixth.
101. Read the 1962 Des Moines White Pages.
102. Join the Foreign Legion.
103. Learn to write Sanskrit.
104. Learn to read Sanskrit.
105. Exist...existentially of course.
106. Search for buried treasure...in
Nebraska.
107. Hot wax the bottoms of your
brother's dress shoes.
108. Print counterfeit Confederate money.
109. Kick a cabbage.
110. Take a picture.
111. Put it back.
112. Go back to square one.
113. Sand a mushroom.
114. Find the heat capacity of your
chemistry professor.
115. Play solitaire...for cash.
116. Abuse your patio furniture.
117. Run for Pope.
118. If you don't win, run for God.
119. If you still don't win, run for Mayor
of Toledo.
120. Write a book about a previous life.
121. Count to a million...fast.
122. Have your cat bronzed.
123. Make a quilt out of used cocktail
napkins.
124. Revert.
125. Sleep on a bed of nails.
126. Don't toss and turn.
127. Think shallow thoughts.
128. Run around in squares.
129. Boil ice cream.
130. Sterilise your stereo, with Jack
Daniels.
131. Carve your girl/boyfriends
initials...in a marshmallow.
132. Converse...with a flatworm.
133. Speak in acronyms.
134. Drive the speed limit...in your garage.
135. Make a schematic drawing...of a rock.
136. Be a rabid Boxcar Willi fan.
137. Sing the National Anthem...during your
calculus final.
138. Pay off the national debt...with a bad
check.
139. Calmly have a nervous breakdown.
140. Give your goldfish a perm.
141. Fly a brick.
142. Play tag...on the nearest interstate.
143. Exocise a ghost.
144. Exercise a ghost.
145. Go to a cemetery and verbally abuse
dead people.
146. Paint stripes on a lake.
147. Ski Kansas.
148. Wear a bowler...hat, stupid.
149. Test thin ice...with a pogo stick.
150. Apply for a Unicorn Hunting License.
151. Defend your neighbourhood from roving
Mongol hordes.
152. Do a good job.
153. Crawl.
154. Be a side affect.
155. Ride a bicycle...up Mt. McKinley.
156. Play hockey with your little
cousin...as the puck.
157. Duck.
158. Redecorate your garage.
159. Develop a complex.
160. Join the Army...be someone simple.
161. Try harder.
162. Hit the deck.
163. Cut the deck.
164. Make a deal with the Devil...keep your
fingers crossed.
165. Put legwarmers on all your furniture.
166. Be number six.
167. Sit.
168. Stay.
169. Roll over.
170. Play dead.
171. Scheme.
172. Sprinkle your family room.
173. Cause a power failure.
174. Pour instant concrete in your brothers
waterbed.
175. Give a lecture tour on the historical
significance of cream cheese.
176. Wriggle.
177. Be cherubic.
178. Debate politics with a fern.
179. If you lose stop watering it.
180. Donate your brother's body to science.
181. Join Hell's Angels by mail.
182. Wonder.
183. Give your cat a suntan...in the
microwave.
184. Be a square root.
185. Park your car...with a friend.
186. Park your car...with a group of
friends.
187. Ask stupid questions.
188. Spew.
189. Surf Ohio.
190. Go bowling...for small game.
191. Have your first statement of bankruptcy
framed.
192. Hang it on the wall in your office.
193. Staple.
194. Solve the population problem. i.e. x +
2y - 16x = population; solve for x.
195. Contribute to the population problem.
196. Interview a cloud.
197. Play tiddly-winks...go for blood.
198. Go to a drive-in movie in a tank.
199. Go to a non-drive-in movie in a tank
and drive in anyway.
200. Crumble.
201. Crumple.
202. Translate Shakespeare into English.
203. Skydive...to church.
204. Send the president an alarm
clock...wind it up first.
205. Do aerobics...in your head.
206. Play card with your swimming pool.
207. Found a cockroach stable and stud farm.
208. Send your goldfish to obedience school.
209. Pinstripe your driveway.
210. Play "Kick the fire-hydrant."
211. Harness chipmunk power.
212. Free the oppressed toaster-ovens of
America.
213. Free the obsessed toaster-ovens of
America.
214. Mug a stop sign.
215. Change your name...daily.
216. Go for a walk...in the attic.
217. Challenge the neighbour kid to duel.
218. Find a witch.
219. Burn her.
220. Regress.
221. Find out how many ways there really are
to skin a cat.
222. Go bow hunting...for Toyotas.
223. Kidnap Cabbage Patch Kids.
224. Boldly go where no man has gone before.
225. Jump back.
226. Play to lose.
227. Scalp a VW.
228. Be a threat to the American way of
life.
229. Be a threat to the Northwest Tibetan
way of life.
230. Re-establish the Roman Empire...in
Toronto.
231. Have your car painted plaid.
232. Found the TLO (Toledo Liberation Organisation.)
233. Play nuclear chicken with a small third
world nation.
234. Race turnips.
235. Give your grandmother a raise...and
another
week paid vacation.
236. Sharpen your sleeping skills.
237. Put out a fire.
238. If you can't find one make one.
239. Ionise your new chemistry professor
(remember you took the heat capacity of the first one).
240. Make a life-sized replica of the Statue
of Liberty...out of grape Jell-O.
241. Tree a goldfish.
242. Get a college education.
243. Bury your fathers' Nissan.
244. Tell your him the dog did it.
245. Catch a falling star.
246. Throw it back.
247. Place your cat in hyper-space.
248. Again tell your dad the dog did it.
249. Corner the market on Agnew in '76
buttons.
250. Find out where all these cylinders
graduated from.
251. Install handicapped access to your
least favourite baseball team's dugout.
252. Kick-start your TV.
253. Kickstop your TV.
254. Perfect the internal combustion
telephone.
255. Prove once and for all that a cow can
jump over the moon.
256. Complain to God that Jupiter has more
moons than we do.
257. Make a list of things to do when bored.
258. Recite the bored list...