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Location: good ol@ devon. cullompton to be precise
Posted:
29 THINGS TO DO IN AN ELEVATOR
... and no thats not one of them!
1When there's only one other person in the elevator, tap them on the shoulder and then pretend it wasn't you.
2Push the buttons and pretend they give you a shock. Smile, and go back for more.
3Ask if you can push the button for other people, but push the wrong ones.
4Call the Psychic Hotline from your cell phone and ask if they know what floor you're on.
5Hold the doors open and say you're waiting for your friend. After a while, let the doors close and say, "Hi Greg. How's your day been?"
6Drop a pen and wait until someone reaches to help pick it up, then scream, "that's mine!"
7Bring a camera and take pictures of everyone in the elevator
Move your desk in to the elevator and whenever someone gets on, ask if they have an appointment.
9Lay down a Twister mat and ask people if they'd like to play.
10Leave a box in the corner, and when someone gets on, ask them if they hear something ticking.
11Pretend you are a flight attendant and review emergency procedures and exits with the passengers.
12Ask, "Did you feel that?"
Stand really close to someone, sniffing them occasionally.
13When the doors close, announce to the others, "It's okay. Don't panic, they open up again."
14Swat at flies that don't exist.
15Tell people that you can see their aura
16Call out, "group hug!", then enforce it.
17Grimace painfully while smacking your forehead and muttering, "Shut up, all of you, just shut up!"
18Crack open your briefcase or purse, and while peering inside, ask, "Got enough air in there?"
20Stare at another passenger for a while, then announce in horror, "You're one of THEM!" and back away slowly.
Wear a puppet on your hand and use it to talk to the other passengers.
22Listen to the elevator walls with your stethoscope.
23Make explosion noises when anyone presses a button.
24Stare, grinning at another passenger for a while, and then announce, "I have new socks on."
26Fart loudly then exclaim "Not I said the wolf. There's no way I could do that one because unfortately mine don't come out loud."
27Before the elevator door opens shout "DING" and then laugh and say "beat you again Mr Elevator."
28Hire a labrador, wear sunglasses and repeatedly walk into the walls whilst pretending to not hear the other passenger's direction
29Jump up and down then look at the floor and shout " let go you bastard "
29 THINGS TO DO IN AN ELEVATOR
... and no thats not one of them!
1When there's only one other person in the elevator, tap them on the shoulder and then pretend it wasn't you.
2Push the buttons and pretend they give you a shock. Smile, and go back for more.
3Ask if you can push the button for other people, but push the wrong ones.
4Call the Psychic Hotline from your cell phone and ask if they know what floor you're on.
5Hold the doors open and say you're waiting for your friend. After a while, let the doors close and say, "Hi Greg. How's your day been?"
6Drop a pen and wait until someone reaches to help pick it up, then scream, "that's mine!"
7Bring a camera and take pictures of everyone in the elevator
Move your desk in to the elevator and whenever someone gets on, ask if they have an appointment.
9Lay down a Twister mat and ask people if they'd like to play.
10Leave a box in the corner, and when someone gets on, ask them if they hear something ticking.
11Pretend you are a flight attendant and review emergency procedures and exits with the passengers.
12Ask, "Did you feel that?"
Stand really close to someone, sniffing them occasionally.
13When the doors close, announce to the others, "It's okay. Don't panic, they open up again."
14Swat at flies that don't exist.
15Tell people that you can see their aura
16Call out, "group hug!", then enforce it.
17Grimace painfully while smacking your forehead and muttering, "Shut up, all of you, just shut up!"
18Crack open your briefcase or purse, and while peering inside, ask, "Got enough air in there?"
20Stare at another passenger for a while, then announce in horror, "You're one of THEM!" and back away slowly.
Wear a puppet on your hand and use it to talk to the other passengers.
22Listen to the elevator walls with your stethoscope.
23Make explosion noises when anyone presses a button.
24Stare, grinning at another passenger for a while, and then announce, "I have new socks on."
26Fart loudly then exclaim "Not I said the wolf. There's no way I could do that one because unfortately mine don't come out loud."
27Before the elevator door opens shout "DING" and then laugh and say "beat you again Mr Elevator."
28Hire a labrador, wear sunglasses and repeatedly walk into the walls whilst pretending to not hear the other passenger's direction
29Jump up and down then look at the floor and shout " let go you bastard "
ive learned
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Location: wales
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Location: wales
Posted:
Have you done all of these?
Or are you just trying to get everyone to road test them for you?
Have you done all of these?
Or are you just trying to get everyone to road test them for you?
Eat when you're hungry
Sleep where it's dry
No one is ever what they seem
Gabriel King - The Wild Road
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Location: London/ Surrey
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Location: London/ Surrey
Posted:
...mark out a large area of the floor with tape and announce to the other passengers that 'that is MY SPACE'.
...mark out a large area of the floor with tape and announce to the other passengers that 'that is MY SPACE'.
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The pessimist fears this is true.
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Location: Nova Scotia, Canada.
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Location: Nova Scotia, Canada.
Posted:
Get two people to jump up and down, triggering the safety shut off switch in the elevator and trapping you for 30 minutes untill the elevator repair guy shows up.
^^^ guilty.
also, another one I found amuseing that a rather cute girl who lives in my friends apartment complex did. I reached to push my button, and she lounged infront of me and hit before I could make contact, then she was like "sorry I hate delay"
im not sure if this was an advance but I consider it most unlikely, at the time my only reaction was a slightly irritated "you stole my button" comment, feeling akward as I considered her insane and the elevator took me to my destination.
if I ever see her again, I am lungeing ahead of her before she pushes the button and pushing ALL THE BUTTONS. Then I am going to run through the list from 1 to 29 before the elevator reaches her floor.
also, another fun game is when an elevator is particulary scary sounding and shakey, start mumbling about poor elevator safety records and bounce up and down on the balls of your feet (if your standing behind the person) so you cause the elevator to bounce even worse, causeing them to suspect something will go seriously awry with the operation of the elevator.
Also, once I broke my leg when I was in junior high, as a result I got the key to the elevator (an elevator using a hydraluic for no apparent reason)
The cool thing about this elevator is you could stop it at any point in the shaft, I liked to stop it so I was at eye level with the crack under the door so I could push a five dollar bill under the door crack, and pull it away when someone goes to grab it. I also discovered if you rapidly engage and disengage the switch, the elevator gets stuck, and you can only unstick it by continuing to rapidly engage and disengage it.
Get two people to jump up and down, triggering the safety shut off switch in the elevator and trapping you for 30 minutes untill the elevator repair guy shows up.
^^^ guilty.
also, another one I found amuseing that a rather cute girl who lives in my friends apartment complex did. I reached to push my button, and she lounged infront of me and hit before I could make contact, then she was like "sorry I hate delay"
im not sure if this was an advance but I consider it most unlikely, at the time my only reaction was a slightly irritated "you stole my button" comment, feeling akward as I considered her insane and the elevator took me to my destination.
if I ever see her again, I am lungeing ahead of her before she pushes the button and pushing ALL THE BUTTONS. Then I am going to run through the list from 1 to 29 before the elevator reaches her floor.
also, another fun game is when an elevator is particulary scary sounding and shakey, start mumbling about poor elevator safety records and bounce up and down on the balls of your feet (if your standing behind the person) so you cause the elevator to bounce even worse, causeing them to suspect something will go seriously awry with the operation of the elevator.
Also, once I broke my leg when I was in junior high, as a result I got the key to the elevator (an elevator using a hydraluic for no apparent reason)
The cool thing about this elevator is you could stop it at any point in the shaft, I liked to stop it so I was at eye level with the crack under the door so I could push a five dollar bill under the door crack, and pull it away when someone goes to grab it. I also discovered if you rapidly engage and disengage the switch, the elevator gets stuck, and you can only unstick it by continuing to rapidly engage and disengage it.
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Posted:
in a bank with an elevator, were all black clothes, a mask, and fill a bag with stuff that gives the effect of money in it.
in a bank with an elevator, were all black clothes, a mask, and fill a bag with stuff that gives the effect of money in it.
I start it, I end it,
I kill and words will defend it.
Got big plans,
blood stained hands
Wanna put my name on the map.
On my way to save the world.
-Missionary, Operation Ivy
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do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and good to eat!
if at first you do succeed, try not to look too astonished!
smile! :grin: it confuses people!
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Tantamount to fatuity
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Location: Down the road, United Kingdom
Tantamount to fatuity
15,967 posts
Location: Down the road, United Kingdom
Posted:
Blow your nose and offer to show the contents of your tissue to other passengers.
Make racecar noises when anyone gets on or off.
Whistle the first seven notes of 'It's a Small World' incessantly.
Sell Girl Scout cookies.
On a long ride, crash from side to side as if you're on rough seas.
Shave. (Like in the immac advert)
Grimace painfully while smacking your forehead and muttering, "Shut up, dammit, all of you just shut UP!"
Offer name tags to everyone getting on the elevator. Wear yours upside-down.
Stand silent and motionless in the corner, facing the wall, without getting off.
When arriving at your floor, grunt and strain to yank the doors open, then act embarrassed when they open by themselves.
Greet everyone getting on the elevator with a warm handshake and ask them to call you, "Admiral".
On the highest floor, hold the door open and demand that it stay open until you hear the penny you dropped down the shaft go "plink" at the bottom.
Blow your nose and offer to show the contents of your tissue to other passengers.
Make racecar noises when anyone gets on or off.
Whistle the first seven notes of 'It's a Small World' incessantly.
Sell Girl Scout cookies.
On a long ride, crash from side to side as if you're on rough seas.
Shave. (Like in the immac advert)
Grimace painfully while smacking your forehead and muttering, "Shut up, dammit, all of you just shut UP!"
Offer name tags to everyone getting on the elevator. Wear yours upside-down.
Stand silent and motionless in the corner, facing the wall, without getting off.
When arriving at your floor, grunt and strain to yank the doors open, then act embarrassed when they open by themselves.
Greet everyone getting on the elevator with a warm handshake and ask them to call you, "Admiral".
On the highest floor, hold the door open and demand that it stay open until you hear the penny you dropped down the shaft go "plink" at the bottom.
Meh
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Former Raver Invader... Not sure what i am now...
284 posts
Location: Southern California, USA
Former Raver Invader... Not sure what i am now...
284 posts
Location: Southern California, USA
Posted:
1- breakdance when the elevator door opens and make sure to take up enough space so that they can't get in and just look at you til the doors close again.
2- start talking about absurd sex positions
3- cover someone's eyes and shout "guess who!"
4- sing a love song and give someone a rose
5- play a love song on an acoustic guitar WHILE singing to it and give someone a rose
6- be playing "bop it" then offer everyone else a try
7- be playing gameboy and then start cussing and screaming at it consistantly
8- listen to a walkman and have your back leaning up against the buttons so noone else can push them and pretend not to hear them trying to get your attention
9- try to start a chant like "when i say heyyy you say hooooo... HEYYY!"
10- start blowing little gusts of winds in random passenger's ears until they ask you to stop, then apologize... and do it again.
1- breakdance when the elevator door opens and make sure to take up enough space so that they can't get in and just look at you til the doors close again.
2- start talking about absurd sex positions
3- cover someone's eyes and shout "guess who!"
4- sing a love song and give someone a rose
5- play a love song on an acoustic guitar WHILE singing to it and give someone a rose
6- be playing "bop it" then offer everyone else a try
7- be playing gameboy and then start cussing and screaming at it consistantly
8- listen to a walkman and have your back leaning up against the buttons so noone else can push them and pretend not to hear them trying to get your attention
9- try to start a chant like "when i say heyyy you say hooooo... HEYYY!"
10- start blowing little gusts of winds in random passenger's ears until they ask you to stop, then apologize... and do it again.
Clean for 6 months and counting... ah yeah, that's nice.
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Location: ireland
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Location: ireland
Posted:
heh heh, funny. though i don't fancy my chances of coming out of the elevator alive if i actually tired some of these.
i always say "weeeeee" when i'm in an elevator.
heh heh, funny. though i don't fancy my chances of coming out of the elevator alive if i actually tired some of these.
i always say "weeeeee" when i'm in an elevator.
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Location: Australia
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Location: Australia
Posted:
The one I love is....
Step into the elevator on the ground floor and hit every single floor button then stand facing the people in the elevator with your back up close to the door as it opens and closes at each floor while you stare each person in the eyes one after another. It is an unusual fact that the elevator one of the most socially stressful spaces to be in. Add an extra factor like this and you will find that some people may just crack.
Another good one is to stand facing a wall. Stand so close to the wall that your nose is almost touching it. I just love the simplicity and the effectiveness of this one, strangely it really freaks people out!
The one I love is....
Step into the elevator on the ground floor and hit every single floor button then stand facing the people in the elevator with your back up close to the door as it opens and closes at each floor while you stare each person in the eyes one after another. It is an unusual fact that the elevator one of the most socially stressful spaces to be in. Add an extra factor like this and you will find that some people may just crack.
Another good one is to stand facing a wall. Stand so close to the wall that your nose is almost touching it. I just love the simplicity and the effectiveness of this one, strangely it really freaks people out!
HOW TO FLY 101:
step 1. Throw your self at the ground.
step 2. Miss.
"if i jump in the fire, will you?"
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Location: USA, wishing I was in SA
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Location: USA, wishing I was in SA
Posted:
face a corner , wrap your arms around yourself and pretend that youre making out with someone!
face a corner , wrap your arms around yourself and pretend that youre making out with someone!
i like breaking the Law 
, of Gravity 
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Location: ffidrac
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Location: ffidrac
Posted:
I love these elevator things, people kept sending me lists of them on email because they thought i'd actually do them, which is true, however i live in a city that is far too low for this sort of thing and never have to travel in elevators for more than about 2 seconds, if that is i don't take the stairs... there just isn't enough time! anyone care to lend me a skyscraper??
I love these elevator things, people kept sending me lists of them on email because they thought i'd actually do them, which is true, however i live in a city that is far too low for this sort of thing and never have to travel in elevators for more than about 2 seconds, if that is i don't take the stairs... there just isn't enough time! anyone care to lend me a skyscraper??
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not a stranger
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Location: wales
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Location: wales
Posted:
Funniest thing I ever saw was when I lived in some high rise flats with crap lifts. They kept getting stuck and then the fire brigade would come and jack the door open about a foot and everyone would have to squeeze out.
Well one day it all happened just like that but the lift was full of all these huge fat women who were all moaning that they couldn't get through the gap.
I really found it funny, I suppose it's not really, but I did laugh.
You make your own fun in places like that
Funniest thing I ever saw was when I lived in some high rise flats with crap lifts. They kept getting stuck and then the fire brigade would come and jack the door open about a foot and everyone would have to squeeze out.
Well one day it all happened just like that but the lift was full of all these huge fat women who were all moaning that they couldn't get through the gap.
I really found it funny, I suppose it's not really, but I did laugh.
You make your own fun in places like that
Eat when you're hungry
Sleep where it's dry
No one is ever what they seem
Gabriel King - The Wild Road
NYC
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Location: NYC, NY, USA
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Location: NYC, NY, USA
Posted:
Honestly, I think you'd trip people out even more... if you just spun poi.
Honestly, I think you'd trip people out even more... if you just spun poi.
Well, shall we go?
Yes, let's go.
[They do not move.]
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Location: Down the road, United Kingdom
Tantamount to fatuity
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Location: Down the road, United Kingdom
Posted:
fire poi
fire poi
Meh
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Location: Nova Scotia, Canada.
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Posted:
if it weren't for the risk of very large fines, I would film me or someone else spinning tiny rubbing alcohol fueled fire poi in multiple crowded elevators. Im sure the results would be hilarious.
Written by: Cantus
fire poi
if it weren't for the risk of very large fines, I would film me or someone else spinning tiny rubbing alcohol fueled fire poi in multiple crowded elevators. Im sure the results would be hilarious.
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Location: ffidrac
Posted:
it could be a new measure of size of place. i.e. "this room is/isn't large enough to swing a cat" = "This elevator is/isn't large enough to spin poi...."
it could be a new measure of size of place. i.e. "this room is/isn't large enough to swing a cat" = "This elevator is/isn't large enough to spin poi...."
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Josh and Katinca spunned in a storm drain. I've seen the photos. It was muchly cramped.
Josh and Katinca spunned in a storm drain. I've seen the photos. It was muchly cramped.
Meh
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Posted:
I got into an elevator yesterday, just me and some guy (probably an accountant (no offence to accountants, I just think you're all boring)),and Icouldn't stop thinking of this thread. I kept bursting out laughing. Freaked the poor fella right out. He couldn't wait to get off.
I got into an elevator yesterday, just me and some guy (probably an accountant (no offence to accountants, I just think you're all boring)),and Icouldn't stop thinking of this thread. I kept bursting out laughing. Freaked the poor fella right out. He couldn't wait to get off.
enthusiast
302 posts
Location: good ol@ devon. cullompton to be precise
302 posts
Location: good ol@ devon. cullompton to be precise
Posted:
im likin the new suggestions and may have to try some out, fronm the origonal list i have done, 1 , 3, 12 , 13, 24 and 27. i have also done the standing with your nose almost touching the wall and just staying there not getting off the lift.
another one my friends made me do was turn the lift lights off, and each timne you go past a floor it goes black, then as you get to doors it lights up again, (kinda like really slow strobes) if you change where u are standing when it goes dark, it really spins people out. however u cant do this much as some people dont like the dark.!!
im likin the new suggestions and may have to try some out, fronm the origonal list i have done, 1 , 3, 12 , 13, 24 and 27. i have also done the standing with your nose almost touching the wall and just staying there not getting off the lift.
another one my friends made me do was turn the lift lights off, and each timne you go past a floor it goes black, then as you get to doors it lights up again, (kinda like really slow strobes) if you change where u are standing when it goes dark, it really spins people out. however u cant do this much as some people dont like the dark.!!
ive learned
life is tough... but im tougher
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Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
HOP Mad Doctor
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Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
Posted:
Sounds like a typical day at the hospital. :-p
Sounds like a typical day at the hospital. :-p
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
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Jump up and down to make the elavator stop when you're stuck in there with a stranger, then stare and smile till the repair guy shows up?
Jump up and down to make the elavator stop when you're stuck in there with a stranger, then stare and smile till the repair guy shows up?
enthusiast
302 posts
Location: good ol@ devon. cullompton to be precise
302 posts
Location: good ol@ devon. cullompton to be precise
Posted:
hehe lol... has n e 1 tried more yet!?
hehe lol... has n e 1 tried more yet!?
ive learned
life is tough... but im tougher
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Tantamount to fatuity
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Location: Down the road, United Kingdom
Tantamount to fatuity
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Location: Down the road, United Kingdom
Posted:
We're meant to be trying these?
are you mental?
I haven't got a lift for one thing.
We're meant to be trying these?
are you mental?
I haven't got a lift for one thing.
Meh
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Location: London/ Surrey
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Location: London/ Surrey
Posted:
I'm going to print the list and tick them off as i go....
I'm going to print the list and tick them off as i go....
The optimist claims that we are living in the best of all possible worlds.
The pessimist fears this is true.
Always make time to play in the snow.
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Tantamount to fatuity
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Location: Down the road, United Kingdom
Tantamount to fatuity
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Location: Down the road, United Kingdom
Posted:
ooh ooh do my ones first
ooh ooh do my ones first
Meh
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Location: london
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Location: london
Posted:
this has brightened my day work on reception and the whole day i watch the elevators go up and down...listening to them 'ping' everytime they open on my floor...would be good if there was some excitement!
last christmas party though we had some shaggers in the lifts they just rode up and down all night till they were finished! (being the point when the doors opened to the MD)
this has brightened my day work on reception and the whole day i watch the elevators go up and down...listening to them 'ping' everytime they open on my floor...would be good if there was some excitement!
last christmas party though we had some shaggers in the lifts they just rode up and down all night till they were finished! (being the point when the doors opened to the MD)
people have one thing in common they are all different~robert zend
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Location: Austin, Texas, USA
Carpal \'Tunnel
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Location: Austin, Texas, USA
Posted:
I say print the list, make copies, and then post them in elevators all around, wherever you go!
Written by: polythene
I'm going to print the list and tick them off as i go....
I say print the list, make copies, and then post them in elevators all around, wherever you go!
-v-
Wiederstand ist Zwecklos!
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Location: ireland
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Posted:
heh heh vanize, that a really funny idea - then other ppl would have someting to do while waiting for the lift to get to their floor.!!
Written by: vanize
I say print the list, make copies, and then post them in elevators all around, wherever you go!
heh heh vanize, that a really funny idea - then other ppl would have someting to do while waiting for the lift to get to their floor.!!
enthusiast
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Location: good ol@ devon. cullompton to be precise
302 posts
Location: good ol@ devon. cullompton to be precise
Posted:
cool, i like u!!
how many so far?
cool, i like u!!
how many so far?
ive learned
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Location: Arizona, U.S.A.
Wit is not your strong point!
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Location: Arizona, U.S.A.
Posted:
I have the same problem as some of you...no elevator, and the ones that are around for me to get on aren't even long enough for me to do any of it on. Yes fire poi in small contained areas is cool.....Shattt I just remembered a good one.
Get a old pair of shoes and go in the elevator with only socks on. (and normal clothing of corse) Glue the shoes to the roof in the corner of the elevator. When the doors open, be under the shoes on the ground in an awkward position rubbing your head and moaning.
Have fun with that one!
I have the same problem as some of you...no elevator, and the ones that are around for me to get on aren't even long enough for me to do any of it on. Yes fire poi in small contained areas is cool.....Shattt I just remembered a good one.
Get a old pair of shoes and go in the elevator with only socks on. (and normal clothing of corse) Glue the shoes to the roof in the corner of the elevator. When the doors open, be under the shoes on the ground in an awkward position rubbing your head and moaning.
Have fun with that one!
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