# What's the weirdest thing you've done while bored? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 1, 2003, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-weirdest-thing-youve-done-while-bored/146019 "2003-01-01T07:06:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce7236/32.png) [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lisa_Simpson)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2003, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-weirdest-thing-youve-done-while-bored/146019/81 "2003-01-04T23:50:01Z")
I once started my project where I evaluated the popularity of name spellings in the phone book. How many MACDonalds vs McDonalds (restaurants NOT included) Then how many Read, Reed Reid and Rede listings. Then my roommate told me to get a life and go to Wreck Beach with him. Then I got arrested. ---
**Author:** ![DarkPrince](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@DarkPrince](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarkPrince)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2003, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-weirdest-thing-youve-done-while-bored/146019/82 "2003-01-05T00:54:48Z")
Whenever I visit my mom’s house I usually end up so bored I’m drooling. So far during this visit for christmas I’ve: +Run around the house attacking various things with a wrapping paper tube pretending it’s a lightsabre. +Written angsty poetry and read it to my cat. +Used candles to cover my entire left hand in wax. +Pondered about how hot wax feels kind of neat. +Attacked the cat with my lightsabre. Results- Darth Kitty: 1 Darkprince: 0. +Tried to beat **Hastur** ’s record, but had to stop at 13. During a seminar my friend and I had to take(on responsibility and maturity of all things), we started writing up commercials like **KRC** did. We were doing pretty good at keeping it to low snickering until he came up with Ghengis Kahndoms. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![SC\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@SC\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SC_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2003, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-weirdest-thing-youve-done-while-bored/146019/83 "2003-01-05T03:17:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by kitarak \* > **I have to know more… More specifically, I can’t see how topology relates to this. The problem is that for deformations in topology you assume everything is infinitely stretchable, in which case it’s easy: Just stretch your underwear down one leg, pass it over your foot, repeat for the other side.** That’s the one method, yes. And while you can have infinite stretchablity for theoretical thought experiments, when dealing with a pair of cotton briefs, it becomes a lot more of a challenge. It helps to be flexible. ---
**Author:** ![Flowerchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/858c86/32.png) [@Flowerchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flowerchild)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2003, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-weirdest-thing-youve-done-while-bored/146019/84 "2003-01-05T08:13:18Z")
Thanks Sc wolf and kitarak. I have now spent 30 seconds fighting boredom with the ability to remove my underwear with removing my pants. Now to get them back on wihout removing my pants? that will be easy. ---
**Author:** ![dougs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@dougs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougs)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2003, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-weirdest-thing-youve-done-while-bored/146019/85 "2003-01-05T20:18:06Z")
I’ve done lots of weird things while bored. But a friend of mine has done this: > **[It seemed like a good idea at the time...](https://latexiron.livejournal.com/127831.html?delayedid=)** > > So I am sitting in this girl's apartment, completely naked (well, we both were, actually). She's gone off to the bathroom to do whatever she does in there for 45 minutes, 6 times a day, and I am left sitting under a blanket trying to watch American... ---
**Author:** ![KJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b2d939/32.png) [@KJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KJ)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2003, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-weirdest-thing-youve-done-while-bored/146019/86 "2003-01-05T23:42:59Z")
Things I have done out of boredom: - Sang the entire song “99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall” very loudly, much to the annoyance of my sister, who couldn’t get away from me because we were riding in a car. - Once in a particularly tedious math class, wrote down the names of all the Simpsons characters I could think of. By the end of 15 minutes, I had over 70 characters. - Shaved my pubic hair, and decided I like it better shaved. - Made a 3D rotating correct-perspective wireframe model of the ship from Starfox on my TI-83 calculator. - Also tried auto-fellatio (who hasn’t?) - Tried to change into one pair of pants without taking off the first pair first…_and succeeded!_ (I’m not joking…I had a really stretchy swim suit, and it took me about 15 minutes, but I did it.) ---
**Author:** ![\_etalhea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/779978/32.png) [@\_etalhea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_etalhea)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2003, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-weirdest-thing-youve-done-while-bored/146019/87 "2003-01-07T07:28:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Incubus \* > \*\*I used to work as a grocery bagger, and when we would close we would use these ‘manual forklifts’ (I don’t know what they’re called, they’re used to move pallets of stuff around. They can lift up a few inches off the ground like a car jack, and you can move a pallet of heavy stuff around with one by hand quite easily. > > On a slow day, after cleaning up and having some idle time to fool around, I got the idea to use the thing as a skateboard when I was taking it back (the only other employee in the store was in the upstairs stockroom at the time). The thing rolled so smoothly, after building up speed by ‘skating’ with it, I could coast the thing much like a scooter. Because the steering mechanism was similar to that of a Radio Flyer, the thing could turn on a dime and I spent many a quiet evening at work zooming up and down the isles, doing super sharp hairpin turns. Man that thing was fun 🙂 \*\* That’s funny, 'cause I fire people for doing that all the time!! I once had a job babysitting a mainframe on the weekends. I’d ket a bunch of stuff in and then just sit there for hours while it ran. I used to make white-out sculptures. You can work it so there’s a big drop on the end of the brush and get it to pile up. Some were well over 1" high. When they gave me someone else to work with, we linked rubber bands and made a rubber band chain as long as the warehouse. (easily over 100 yards). When the person on the other end let go, you could hear it coming and see it balling up in mid-air. It left bruises. We caught the security guard sleeping once, and I held it up to his phone book. When it hit, the book exploded and he launched himself outta that chair like he was bein’ electrocuted. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2003, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-weirdest-thing-youve-done-while-bored/146019/88 "2003-01-07T08:12:29Z")
Last night, I was hanging out on an Unreal server, trying to see how low of a score I could get before someone else won the level. I got up to -65 in a game being played to 20 frags. My strategy was to head straight for the nearest lava after each respawn-- preferably shallow lava that you could jump up and down in for a while before you fried. I had set up a text-message macro, so the whole thing looked a lot like this: > [@](#): > > mudd was incinerated > ratboy gave mudd a new definition of pain > mudd was incinerated > mudd was incinerated > mudd was incinerated > Your dick thoroughly decapitated ratboy > mudd was incinerated > mudd was incinerated > mudd was incinerated > Andros gave ratboy a new definition of pain > mudd was incinerated > **mudd:** I’m not really this lame. I use a suckbot. > mudd was incinerated > mudd was incinerated > Your dick destroyed Andros > **mudd:** I’m not really this lame. I use a suckbot. Oh yeah, I was bored. Another time I tried to approximate a Newton fractal using a pendulum, a huge sheet of graph-paper, three massive speaker magnets, and magic markers. I’m sure you can imagine how _that_ worked out. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2003, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-weirdest-thing-youve-done-while-bored/146019/89 "2003-01-07T15:43:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Oblong \* > \*\* > BTW, did you kow that while GW Bush is our 43rd President, he’s only the 42nd man to hold the office? > \*\* ? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-weirdest-thing-youve-done-while-bored/146019.md?page=4)