Bored in college
Try to develop psychic powers, then use ‘em.
2. Inflate a beach ball and throw it around the room.
3. Sing Show Tunes.
4. Make loud animal noises then deny doing it.
5. Think of new pick lines. See if they work.
6. Pretend you're flying a jet fighter in the Gulf War.
7. Churn some butter.
8. Conceive a brand new language.
9. Walls made of brick. Count 'em.
10. Plot revenge against someone.
11. Think of nicknames for everyone you know.
12. See how long you can hold your breath.
13. Take your pants off and give them to the professor.
14. Chew on your arm until someone notices.
15. Change seats every three mi***es.
16. Think of ways to cheat at Trivial Pursuit.
17. Shave.
18. Run across the room, tag someone and say "You're it.".
19. Announce to the cl*** that you are God and that you're angry.
20. Think of five new ways to use your shoes.
21. Start a wave.
22. Walk around the room begging for spare change.
23. Roast marshmallows.
24. Practice phrasing your answers in the form of a question.
25. Crawl around the room humming the music from Mission Impossible.
26. Take apart your desk.
27. Pretend to communicate with your home planet.
28. Play rock-paper-scissors with yourself. Accuse your left hand of cheating.
29. Do a quick tap dance routine.
30. Try bird-watching.
31. Walk up the aisle yelling, “Popcorn! Hot popcorn here!”.
32. Throw your backpack at someone.
33. Run to the window, then say, “Sorry, I thought I saw the Bat-signal”.
34. Ask the person in front of you to marry you.
35. Start laughing really hard and say, “Oh, now I get it.”.
36. Make a sundial.
37. Give yourself a new identity.
38. Write a screenplay about a diabetic Swedish girl who can’t swim.
39. Dig an escape tunnel.
40. Announce your candidacy for President.
Bored at your house
-Wax the ceiling
- Rearrange political campaign signs
- Sharpen your teeth
- Play Houdini with one of your siblings
- Braid your dog's hair
- Clean and polish your belly button
- Water your dog...see if he grows
- Wash a tree
- Knight yourself
- Name your child Edsel
- Scare Stephen King
- Give your cat a mohawk
- Purr
- Mow your carpet
- Play Pat Boone records backwards
- Vacuum your lawn
- Sleep on a bed of nails
- DON'T toss and turn
- Boil ice cream
- Run around in squares
- Think of quadruple entendres
- Speak in acronyms
- Have your pillow X-rayed
- Drink straight shots...of water
- Calmly have a nervous breakdown
- Give your goldfish a perm
- Fly a brick
- Play tag...on West 35th Street
- Exorcise a ghost
- Exercise a ghost
- Be blue
- Be red
- But don't be orange
- Plant a shoe
- Sweat
- Give a Rorschach test to your gerbil
- Turn
- Write a letter to Plato
- Mail it
- Take your sofa for a walk
- Start
- Stop
- Dial 911 and breathe heavily
- Go to a funeral...tell jokes
- Play the piano...with mittens on
- Scheme
- Sit
- Stay
- Water your family room
- Cause a power failure
- Roll over
- Play dead
- Find a witch
- Burn her
- Donate your brother's body to science
- Ask why
- Wriggle
- Regress
- Sleepwalk without sleeping
- Try to join Hell's Angels by mail
- Wonder
- Be a square root
- Ask ****** questions
- Weld your car doors shut
- Spew
- Vacation at Three-Mile Island
- Surf Ohio
- Teach your pet rock to play dead
- Go bowling for small game
- Be a monk...for a day
- Wear a sweatband to your wedding
- Staple
- Run away
- Intimidate a piece of chalk
- Abuse the plumbing
- Bend a florescent light
- Bend a brick
- Annoy total strangers
- Let the best man win
- Believe in Santa Claus
- Throw marshmallows against the wall
- Hold an ice cube as long as possible
- Adopt strange mannerisms
- Blow up a balloon until it pops
- Sing soft and sweet and clear
- Sing loud and sour and gravely
- Open everything
- Balance a pencil on your nose
- Pour milk in your shoes
- Write graffiti under the rug
- Embarr*** yourself
- Grind your teeth
- Chew ice
- Count your belly button
- Sit in a row
- Stack crumbs
- Gesture
- Save your toenail clippings
- Make a p*** at your blender
- Punt
- Make up words that start with X
- Make oatmeal in the bathtub
- Search for the Lost Chord
- Chew on a sofa cushion
- Sing a duet
- Balance a pillow on your head
- Hold your breath
- Faint
- Stretch
- Flash your mailman
- Teach your TA English
- Learn to speak Farsi
- Swear in Russian
- Use an eraser until it goes away
- Dis***emble your car
- Put it together inside out
- Record your walls
- Interview your feet
- Make a list of your favorite fungi
- Sell formaldehyde
- Repeat
- Ad lib
- Fade
- File your teeth
- Whine
- Rake your carpet
- Re-elect Richard Nixon
- Critique "Three's Company"
- Listen to a painting
- Play with matches
- Buff your cat
- Race ferrets
- Paint your house...Day-Glow Orange
- Have a formal dinner at White Castle
- Read Homer in the original Greek
- Learn Greek
- Change your mind
- Change it back
- Watch the sun...see if it moves
- Build a pyramid
- Stand on your head
- Stand on someone else's head
- Spit shine your Nikes
- See how long you can stay awake
- See how long you can sleep
- Paint your teeth
- Wear a salad
- Speak with a forked tongue
- Paint stripes on a lake
- Ski Kansas
- Sleep in freefall
- Kill a Joule
- Test thin ice...with a pogo stick
- Apply for a unicorn hunting license
- Do a good job
- Crawl
- Invite the Mansons over for dinner
- Paint your windows
- Watch a watch until it stops
- Flash your goldfish
- Paint
- Flirt with an evergreen
- Smile
- Rotate your garden...daily
- Paint a smile
- Shoot a fire hydrant
- Apologize to it
- Pretend you're blind
- Annoy yourself
- Get mad at yourself
- Stop speaking to yourself
- Be a side effect
- Ride a bicycle...up Mt. McKinley
- Duck
- Redecorate...your garage
- Develop a complex
- Join the Army...be someone simple
- Try harder
- Hit the deck
- Put leg-warmers on your furniture
- Cut the deck
- Crumple
- Translate Shakespeare into English
- Skydive to church
- Cheer up a potato
- Do aerobic exercises...in your head
- Play cards with your swimming pool
- Pinstripe your driveway
- Play Kick the Fire Hydrant
- Harness chipmunk power
- Build a house with ice cubes
- Call London for a cab
- Mug a stop sign
- Change your name...daily
- Go for a walk in your attic
- Challenge your neighbor to a duel
- Build a house out of toothpicks
- Howl
- Wear a lampshade on your head
- Memorize the dictionary
- Stomp grapes in the bathtub
- Find a bug and chase it
- Make yourself a pair of wings
- Be immobile
- Dance 'til you drop
- Check under chairs for chewing gum
- Squish a loaf of bread
- Moo
- Bounce a potato
- Outmaneuver your shadow
- Climb the walls
- Appreciate everything
- Challenge yourself to a duel
- Make napalm
- Tattoo your dresser
- Watch a bowling ball
- Buy some diapers
- Eat everything
- Begin
- Pour milk in the sink
- Make cottage cheese
- Tie-dye your sheets
- Carpet your ceiling
- Hold your earlobes
- Fold your earlobes
- Flap
- Squawk
- Read tea leaves
- Analyze the Koran
- Be Buddha
- Award yourself a Nobel Peace Prize
- Plug in the cat
- Turn on everything
- Drop pebbles down the chimney
- Turn off your neighbor
- Kill a plant
- Buy a 1931 Almanac
- Memorize the weather section
- Think lewd thoughts about yourself
- Blow bubbles
- Send chills down your spine
- Peel grapes
- Make paper from the skins
- Bloat
- Catch them with your radiator
- Get run over by a train of thought
- Make up famous sayings
- Bite your pinkie
- Get your dog braces
- Shave a shrub
- Have a proton fight
- Watch a car rust
- Quiver
- Rotate your carpet
- Learn to type...with your toes
- Set up your Christmas tree in April
- Be someone special
- Buy the Brooklyn Bridge
- Mail it to a friend
- Go back to square one
- Factor your social security number
- Take the fifth
- Memorize a series of random numbers
- Read the 1962 Des Moines white pages
- Join the Foreign Legion
- Learn Sanskrit
- Exist...existentially, of course
- Print counterfeit Confederate money
- Kick a cabbage
- Take a picture
- Put it back
- Sandpaper a mushroom
- Play solitaire...for cash
- Abuse your patio furniture
- Run for Pope
- Count to a million...fast
- Make a schematic drawing...of a rock
- Commit seppuku...with a paper knife
- Revert
- Think shallow thoughts
- Starch your shoes
- Polish your Calvin's
- Contemplate a cockroach
- Get a dog to chase your car
- Let him catch it
- Investigate the Czar
- Form a political party
- Climb a sidewalk
- Have a political party
- Get diagonal...with a good friend
- Ride a loaf of bread
- Sharpen a carrot
- Interrogate a gerbil
- Go bow hunting for Toyotas
- Kidnap Cabbage Patch Kids
- Jump back
- Play to lose
- Scalp a street light
- Have your car painted...plaid
- Read a tomato
- Sharpen your sleeping skills
- Watch a game show...take notes
- Put out a fire
- If you can't find a fire, make one
- Interview a cloud
- Play tiddlywinks...go for blood
- Play basketball...in a minefield
- Don't talk to things
- Draw Lewis structures on your ceiling
- Have your cat bronzed
- Have your gerbil gilded
- Write books about writing books
- Create random equations
- Mispell words
- Tell your feet a joke
- Throw a tomato into a fan
- Sing the ABC song backwards
- Pretend you're a dog
- Dial-a-prayer and argue with it
- Grease the doorknobs
- String up a room
- Stack furniture
- Relive fond memories
- Tie your shoelaces together
- Gargle
- Count your teeth with your tongue
- Decay
- Find your half-life
- Design a better toilet seat
- Shred a newspaper
- Have a headache
- Scratch
- Sniff
- Hatch an egg
- Play air guitar
- Act profound
- Spill
- Spell
- Stare
- Truncate
- Slouch
- Develop hearing problems
- Put your feet behind your head
- Tie bows in everything
- Hold your hand
- Watch the mi***e hand move
- Grow your fingernails
- Pretend you're a telephone
- Ring
- Radiate
- Skip
- Play hopscotch...with real scotch
- Clock the velocity of your REMs
- Put your shoes on the opposite feet
- Cross your toes
- Roll your tongue
- Crystallize
- Baby oil the floor
- Hide
- Attack innocent bunnies
- Declare war
- Destroy a tree
- Hide the scrabble bag
- Seduce your stick shift
- Wink
- Memorize the periodic table
- Mummify
- Pretend you're a roadie
- Buy a Ginsu knife
- Collect electrons
- Correct typos that aren't there
- Polish your neck...use Pledge
- Recopy the Bible substituting your name for God
- Loosen the lug ***s on your dad's new car
- Drop your cat off the roof to see if it lands on all four feet
- Count the bags under Walter Mondale's eyes
- Unscrew all the lightbulbs and rearrange the furniture
- Found the Jim Jones School of Bartending
- Listen for non-satanic messages (i.e. "Drink milk")
- Dress like Motley Crue...surprise your grandmother
- Dial-a-Prayer and tell them they're wrong
- Go into a bar and ask for a Molotov Cocktail
- Learn everything there is to know about the Holy Roman Empire
- Make a drive-in window at your local bank where there wasn't one before
- Walk on water...but don't get caught
- Confess to a crime...that didn't happen
- Be in the wrong place at the right time
- Plot the overthrow of your local School Board
- Request covert ***istance from the CIA
- Discover the source of the Mississippi
- Search for buried treasure...in Nebraska
- Hot wax the bottom of your brother's dress shoes
- Preach the philosophy of Marx...Groucho, that is
- Drink as much prune juice as you can
- Write a book about your previous life
- Serve ping-pong balls...as hors d'oeuvres
- Jump up and down...on your alarm clock
- Make a quilt out of used cocktail napkins
- Sterilize your stereo...with Jack Daniels
- Carve you and your girlfriend's initials...in a marshmallow
- Drive the speed limit...in your garage
- Sing the national anthem...during your calculus final
- Wear a three-piece suit...in a sauna
- Pay off the national debt...with a bad check
- Go to a cemetary and verbally abuse dead people
- Give yourself a hernia...for Christmas
- Defend your neighborhood from roving Mongol hordes
- Recite romantic poetry...to your toaster
- See if you really can build a nuclear device in your own basement
- Go to McDonald's and pretend you can't speak English
- Write to your congressmen, senators, President, etc. to tell them what a good
- job they're doing...On April 1st
- Find the heat capacity of your chemistry professor
- Take apart all your major kitchen appliances...mix and match them
- Turn your TV picture tube upside down
- Phone in a death threat on President Kennedy
- Put lighted EXIT signs on all your closets
- Carry a tune...drop it, see if it breaks
- Be planar...but don't tell your parents
- Play hockey with your little cousin...as the puck
- Make a deal with the devil...but keep your fingers crossed
- Put instant concrete in your big brother's waterbed
- Give a lecture on the historical significance of cream cheese
- Debate politics with a fern
- See how small you can scrunch your face
- Sell firewood door to door...in Atlantis
- Found the TLO (Toledo Liberation Organization)
- Play nuclear chicken with a small third world nation
- Raise professional certified racing turnips
- Give your grandmother a raise and another day of paid vacation
- Lead an aerobics cl***...for patients of the I.C.U.
- Go to a drive-in movie in a tank
- Go to a non-drive-in movie in a tank and drive in anyway
- Send President Reagan an alarm clock...wind it up first
- Found a cockroach stable and stud ranch
- Send your goldfish to obedience school
- Free the oppressed toasters of America
- Weave a tablecloth out of copper tubing
- Give your cat a suntan...in the microwave
- Park your car...with a friend
- Park your car...with a group of friends
- Frame your first statement of bankruptcy
- Place it on the wall of your office
- Solve the population problem (x^2 + y^2 = population...solve for x)
- Contribute to the population problem
- Wear a T-shirt that says "I'll walk on you to see The Who" and a peace sign
- Practice the Aztec method of heart removal on your professor
- Find out who made the super glue commercials and give them your Ginsu knife
- Get Ronco and K-tel to merge...they sell the same stuff anyway
- Sneak into a nuclear physics lab and stay the night
- Play with anything that looks interesting
- Drop piston engines on two people and see who squishes first
- See if your goldfish can live in Coors rather than water
- Try to ignite water...the Mississippi might work
- Draw Venn diagrams...screw them up
- State fallacies as fact (like, "pea***s grow on bushes")
- Visit the Architecture building...loudly criticize its design
- Make a schematic drawing...of a rock
- Wallpaper your laundry room...with pages from books you don't like
- See if diamonds really do cut gl***...on everything in your neighbor's house
- Tenderize your tongue...chew on it for a while
- See how long you can stare at a fluorescent light...try green
- Bronze your sister's turtle
- See how long it takes for her to notice
- See what she does when she notices
- Bronze your sister- If you lose, stop watering it and try again.
- Increase your territorial holdings by force
- Find out how many ways there really are to skin a cat
- Boldly go where no man has gone before
- Be a threat to the American way of life
- Do research into the cause of World War III
- Be a threat to the Northwestern Tibetan way of life
- Re-establish the Roman Empire...in Pittsburgh
Blink wildly and then close your eyes really tight for an interesting light show
(Amusement Potential: 1-5 mi***es)
See a variety of blobs, stars and flashes. Try to make out shapes and see if your
subconscious is trying to send you a message (perhaps that funny shape is saying, 'send
all your money to urban75.com'?)
See how long you can hold a note
(Amusement Potential: 4-20 mi***es)
Not that much fun, but it sure p***es the time. Play with a friend, or try to beat your
own personal best. Inhale deeply and then try and make a noise for as long as you can.
Earn extra points for making your partner laugh or ending on an amusing note.
Try to not think about penguins
(Amusement Potential: 1-5 mi***es)
This is especially hard, because by trying too much, you remember what you were trying to
avoid thinking of. If you try too little, you end up thinking about penguins anyway.
Use your secret mind power
(Amusement Potential: 5-10 mi***es)
Pick a p***ing by and try to use your mind power to command them do something, like drop
their bag or knock into someone. The law of averages dictates that sooner or later one of
your mind commands will come true, so you can convince yourself that you really have super
human powers and waste even more time trying them out.
Scratch yourself
(Amusement Potential: 1-3 mi***es)
Go ahead, scratch yourself now. Even if nothing itches, go ahead. Doesn't that feel pretty
good?
Repeat the same word over and over until it loses its meaning
(Amusement Potential: 1-3 mi***es)
Pick a random word out of a magazine and say it aloud to yourself until it becomes a
meaningless set of noises.
Hurt yourself
(Amusement Potential: 1-3 mi***es)
What is pain? Why is it unpleasant? There's nothing physical about it - it's all in your
mind. Plus, after pinching yourself for awhile, boredom will seem nice next to being in
pain.
Try to swallow your tongue
(Amusement Potential: 1-3 mi***es)
There's not much to say about this one. It is possible, but really ******.
Pretend to be a car
(Amusement Potential: 1-3 mi***es)
Make appropriate revving noises in your head as you walk along and add a racing commentary
as you p*** strangers in the street. Use blinking eyes as indicators for extra
authenticity.
Look at something for awhile, shut eyes, study after image
(Amusement Potential: 2-5 mi***es)
Another great time waster. It takes about 30 seconds of staring to create an after image,
and the image is then viewable for about the same length of time. Fun to combine this one
with pushing on your eyes.
Get yourself as nauseated as possible
(Amusement Potential: 5-10 mi***es)
Best achieved by looking straight up and spinning around. Try to be so dizzy you can't
even stand up. This is also entertaining due to the "makes boredom seem a lot better"
effect (see "Hurt Yourself").
Invent a weird twitch
(Amusement Potential: 5-10 mi***es)
Adopt a bizarre twitch (e.g. flicking your head irregularly, twitching with eye or busting
out sporadic cough noises) and try it out when you go shopping.
Make a low buzzing noise
(Amusement Potential: 15-30 mi***es)
Hours of fun in libraries! Keeping a totally straight face and looking nonchalant, make a
low pitch humming/buzzing noise and see who reacts.
See what's in your neighbor’s rubbish/trash
(Amusement Potential: 20-30 mi***es)
You can learn a lot about people by what they throw out. You might uncover some dark
secret about them. Plus, they might be throwing out something with value that still works,
like a VCR or a T.V.
Watch TV, repeat everything said in Italian accent
(Amusement Potential: 5-10 mi***es)
Sort of entertaining. Include flamboyant shoulder shrugs for added impact, or go for a
Marlon Brando set of grunts.
Send spooky emails
(Amusement Potential: 15-60 mi***es)
Look up someone's CV on the web, do some research on them via Google and then send them an
email full of personal references claiming to be an ex-work colleague who fell in love
with their shoes. Or something.
Play our useless games
(Amusement Potential: how long have you got?)
Waste away the hours with our collection of useless games
Make prank phone calls
(Amusement Potential: 20-60 mi***es)
Very entertaining, but requires discipline. Remember - vulgarities don't make a call
funny, but getting the other person to believe a ridiculous story will. Try seeing if you
can get them to make noises to 'test' the line. One to get you started off: Call McDonalds
with weird complaints about their food.
Pretend all humans will die except for people in room with you
Amusement Potential: 10-20 mi***es)
What would you do if this really happened? Would the group stay together, or would there
be factions? Who would join what group? Remember, there would only be power for a few days
before the plants ran out of fuel or broke. To travel, you would always have to be near
cars to siphon gas out of. Best to do with people you know.
Step off a curb with eyes shut, imagine it's a cliff
(Amusement Potential: 2-5 mi***es)
To get any benefit out of this one, you have to have a good imagination. Don't step off
immediately, build up to the jump. Study the ravine below. Feel the winds at that
altitude. Step off and...AHHHHHH!!!!!
Try and sound Welsh
(Amusement Potential: 1-3 mi***es)
The key to sounding Welsh is to make sure that your voice goes up at the end of the
sentence, so that everything sounds like a question. Throw in a superfluous 'isn't it?' at
the end of everything you say and you're halfway there. Isn't it?
Burn things with a magnifying gl***
(Amusement Potential: 5-30 mi***es)
Ants are always fun to use for this, but burning the face of someone you don't like, under
some circumstances, can be just as entertaining.
THINGS YOU CAN DO WITH ANOTHER PERSON
Have a water drinking contest
(Amusement Potential: 5-10 mi***es)
While the competition is fun, you probably won't feel too good afterward. To give your
event an old western theme, slam the cups upside down on the tables after you have emptied
them.
Stare at the back of someone's head until they turn around
(Amusement Potential: 2-5 mi***es)
This works on the "I have the feeling I'm being watched" principle. Conduct an
experiment-does this really work?
Have a "Who is less competitive" competition
wonder (Amusement Potential: 1-3 mi***es)
Trying to win at this will make you lose. Trying to lose makes you win which makes you
lose. Not trying at all makes you lose which makes you win which makes you lose.
Pick up a dog so it can see things from your point of view
(Amusement Potential: 3-5 mi***es)
Think about it: your dog has only seen the house from a viewpoint from 6" to 2' high (15
to 60 cm for all you metric fans). It's never seen the tops of counters, what you keep on
your desk, the tops of shelves, etc. Try looking at things from its point of view, too.
Pull out a hair, stick in someone's ear
(Amusement Potential: 1-5 mi***es)
Best done to sleeping people. Added challenge in having no one else around, because then
you can't blame it on anyone else. Try to beat your record number of times before the
person catches on.
Pour water in hand, make sneeze noise, throw water on back of person's neck
(Amusement Potential: 5-15 mi***es)
Always a good gag. For an even bigger reaction out of the person, act like you're not
sorry at all for what they think you did. Comment instead on how big that sneeze was or
about how there was a lot of mucus in that one.
Find a nice piece of dog poo and put it on someones doorstep, then place a piece of paper
on top of it and light it. knock on the door and run. Tip: try to see what the person does
when they arrive at the door, cos it will be funny!
Pet a car for fun until someone notices and then deny it
When at school in the middle of cl*** start crying your head off. When someone comes over
to see what's the matter, just look at them and smile, trust me, they'll laugh.
Get a sizable group of friends in a crowded place (somewhere outdoors) like a park or
outside a department store. Get all your friends to simply look up at the sky for no
reason what so ever. Stick around and count how many randoms follow suit and try to see
what you're looking at.
If you live around an amusement park or a fair comes to town, all you have to do to make
the roller coasters a little bit more exciting is randomly toss some screws, ***s, or
bolts onto the seats. Makes everyone else feel safe J
Smile
Rotate your garden…daily
Paint a smile
Shoot a fire hydrant
Apologize to it
Pretend you’re blind
Annoy yourself
Get mad at yourself
Stop speaking to yourself
Be a side effect
Ride a bicycle…up Mt. McKinley
Wax the ceiling
Rearrange political campaign signs
Sharpen your teeth
Play Houdini with one of your siblings
Braid your dog’s hair
Clean and polish your belly button
Water your dog…see if he grows
Wash a tree
Knight yourself
Name your child Edsel
Scare Stephen King
Give your cat a Mohawk
Purr
Mow your carpet
Play Pat Boone records backwards
Vacuum your lawn
Sleep on a bed of nails
DON’T toss and turn
Boil ice cream
Run around in squares
Think of quadruple entendres
Speak in acronyms
Have your pillow X-rayed
Drink straight shots…of water
Paint stripes on a lake
Ski Kansas
Sleep in freefall
Kill a Joule
Test thin ice…with a pogo stick
Apply for a unicorn hunting license
Do a good job
Crawl
Invite the Masons over for dinner
Paint your windows
Watch a watch until it stops
Paint
Mug a stop sign then when asked what your doing say sorry and move onto another one
go into a store ask where you are walk in then do it again
Pick someone random and follow them
Put a slip and slide on you friends stairs at a sleepover wake him up at 2 am then ask for
a gl*** of water
Dive randomly
Take a brick and put it in a microwave
Yell I’m sorry at random
Trip and blame it on the ground
Sit down in a folding chair on a crowded sidewalk
Put your house on the market and place and buy it
Buy an apron
call your house and breath heavily
read this list then try to make more things to do that are all different
tear a piece of paper as much times as you can
read the entire Sunday newspaper in one day.
drink an empty cup of coffee until someone notices
open and close a door. Repeat
asked anyone you see to marry you
tell someone you just killed someone. When they ask who say you
ask a question then after the answer say why, repeat
do one of these things and say your at work
