Why does our nose start watering when we eat spicy things?

Answer 1

It is a reaction to capsicum/capsum. It causes irratation to the mucus lining of the nose and tear ducts. It is what makes spicy food hot, as well as the primary ingredient in pepper spray self defense products.

Answer 2

Tiny Bones Bearing Tear Ducts

Answer 3

basically the nose responds for foreign materials like spices andsome flavours not only this evento air when the nose is sneezing means its try to compensate the foreign materials effect If your nose not watery even you eat spicy food means your nose got problem

Answer 4

My nose beads up with sweat and doesn't necessiarrily run. I think its because there are odors that irritate the lining of the nose. Just like the way onions and garlic cause tearing and nose irritation.

Answer 5

Whats more interesting is why we eat spicy food. Capsicum or the spice releases endorphins in our brain. The same way chocolate does. Go figure.

Answer 6

My nose doesn't water. It does tingle a little bit, though.

Answer 7

That may just be you. I never have any problems when consuming hot and/or warm food. Try taking cold or fever reducers and see what happens.

Answer 8

I don't, but i so sweat a little. Body reaction I suppose.

Answer 9

athe same as when people sneeze

Answer 10

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Pulsing Bloodbags
Shake your hand really hard, for a fairly long time, until your fingertips feel like they're turning into rubber. Stop for a moment. Now do it again. It takes less time the second time for "rubberization" to commence, eh?

[Big ugly closeup of my teeth w/lips stretched] Enhanced Awareness
Look in the mirror, use both hands to pull your lips wide, then snap your teeth open and closed as shown in the photo. This makes you "AWARE OF YOUR SKULL." Why, your face is just a thin layer of meat! Now be honest, can't you feel your Death sitting up there in the future, patiently waiting? You Americans, you talk and you talk, but you don't consider The Salmon Mousse! All too soon that skull in the mirror won't be moving any more. Might there be something important you should be doing right now? (Once the full-blown skull awareness wears off, find another mirror and restore it to full strength.)

(kaboom)
While yawning, notice that rumbling sound right near the end of the yawn. You can control it consciously, and make a "boom" sound which only you can hear. Walk down the street while accompanying yourself on the Invisible Bass Drum. Launch thought-balls at irritating drivers and hear them explode. Burst out giggling while walking along at work, and nobody knows why!

Garden of delights
Keep a pocketful of dimes and quarters with you at all times, and constantly leave them in knee-level weird places where only a child would ever look. Inside the hollow shafts of toilet-paper holders. Balanced along the ridges of decorative molding. Inside pencil sharpeners at the local elementary school. In the coin slots of gumball-dispensers (give 'em a half-turn.) Imagine the eventual entertainment that will result.


Gleeking
Yawn. (no, REALLY yawn), then immediately curl your tongue backwards and force it against the roof of your mouth. The saliva glands under your tongue will squirt like a squirtgun! You can only squirt once or twice before another yawn is required. Also works while eating (or sucking on hard candy.) Practice this in front of a mirror until you can slightly part your lips and silently hit a target with deadly accuracy. Hey! Is it raining in here?

Waskilly Wabbit
Say "aah-eeee-ahh-eee" with a deep voice, but relax your face and shake your head back and forth hard and fast so that your cheeks flap. Sounds like Elmer Fudd when he's trying to shake off the dizzyness that comes from being hit on the head. Try this next time you get flattened by a falling anvil, see if it helps.

A Feynman trick
Before you eat that apple, sniff it well. Smelling can be better than eating. Smell the table. Smell the floor. Smell the computer screen. Why should dogs have all the fun?

Greenblatt's Legacy
Rub your palms together hard, so you make those little black rolls of dead skin. Those are called "Blatties." They're named after an early computer hacker at MIT.

Zen Fluid Dynamics
Sit in a sunbeam in a dimly-lit room. Light a stick of incense, hold it vertically, then move it upwards and stop suddenly, with a jerk. A perfect smoke-ring will be launched from the burning tip. Move the incense upwards, then suddenly jerk downwards, then repeat. You can launch fast smoke-rings through the center of slow ones, create side-by side rows, etc. In a draft-free room they persist for ages, and soon the air will be full of huge grey thin circles. Contemplate the silent Chaos.

Where'd I leave it?
Teach yourself to talk understandably while your mouth is wide open. If you ever accidentally cut your lips off or misplace your lower jaw, this will come in quite handy. "Tleese take ne tll a hos-thitle innnediatly!"
Use both hands to stretch your lips wide, then talk to friends with your jaw clamped shut. They will become VERY aware of your skull, and it won't wear off very quickly either. Maybe never.

Gravity warped
Another childhood trick: when riding in the car, and approaching some railroad tracks (or other large hump), hold your arms upwards! The sudden drop in g-forces makes your stomach feel VERY weird, and holding your arms over your head seems to amplify the effect. Like lifting your arms while going downhill on the roller-coaster at the amusement park

Two-inch sparks
Create REALLY BIG "static" sparks: on a winter's day, scuff your feet on the rug so that your body becomes electrified. Now stand near a victim. Wiggle your shoes while pressing on the rug, so that you build up some charged footprints. Now suddenly LEAP INTO THE AIR and touch your victim with your finger at the same time, while you're still in flight. The spark will be much stronger than normal. (It's called "capacitve voltage multiplication." and VandeGraaff generators employ this effect.)

[animation, one eye crossed, then the other.] Cross one eye
This is a very simple trick. Just cross your eyes at somebody so everything becomes doubled, then stare at just one of the pair of people you see. If you look at the left-hand twin, that person will see your right eye cross, but your left eye will not. Crossing one eye is supposed to be a come-on in the South Pacific and Indonesia. In Kabuki theater it's called 'mie.'

Plasma jellybeans
While waiting in the dark outside a movie theater or pub, violently shake your head back and forth while observing nearby neon signs. (this only works with clear-tube orange signs.) See those frilly filgerees in the bands of light? All neon signs have them, but normally they wiggle back and forth so fast that humans can't see them. Physicists call them "positive column striations," while neon signmakers call them "jellybeans". Tell bystanders what you are doing, and soon you'll have a crowd of people shaking their heads in the dark like fools.

Sticky eyeballs
Learn to cross just one eye (see above.) Walk near a victim, cross one eye, then say "Hey something's wrong!" Shake your head as if to fix the stuck eye. No good. Blink repeatedly. Finally strike yourself on the side of the head repeatedly, then straighten your eyes. Whew! Don'cha hate it when that happens?

Backwards Student
Teach yourself to read upside-down. Comes in handy: you can read the books of people sitting across the table from you. Teach yourself to write backwards in cursive. Da Vinci did this, it was years before people realized that his notebooks weren't written in unbreakable cypher.


Do the Celestial Crawl
On a cloudless warm night, walk around until you can put a nearby building or tree very close to a bright star in the eastern sky. Now lay on the ground and move yourself until the corner of the building or the top of the tree just BARELY covers that star. Wait a moment. The star will reappear. Wiggle along to cover up the star again. It reappears. Keep wiggling along. (Um... notice that the entire Earth is rotating beneath you?)

Burst of flavor
While reading, eat something. Notice that the flavor vanishes as soon as you get involved with the story you're reading? Now concentrate on your mouth, and the flavor explodes into reality. By concentrating on the text or on your mouth, you can make the flavor flash on and off. WEIRD!

Finger of PAIN
After getting out of the car, quickly touch one of your passengers. Snap! Why waste a good "zap" on the car door? (If you don't enjoy sparks, then use the car keys to touch your passenger. The shock still occurs, but YOU won't feel it!)

Visible Touch
Look to the left, close your eyes, then touch the rightmost edge of your right eyeball with a fingertip. (Push gently on your eyelid, don't touch the eye itself!) Wiggle your finger up and down. See anything off to the left? That's the "image" of your fingertip, but the retina of your eye is feeling it, not seeing it. Move your finger UP, and the black/silver splotch moves DOWN. Use two fingertips, and you see two splotches. This is the realm where touching meets seeing.

Some more cool things involving eyelashes, light waves, etc.

Twang Optic Nerve
Here's the other way to "touch your retina." Much funnier. First teach yourself to cross just one eye (see above.) Now jam one finger up your nose, tap your friend on the shoulder, and say "I can touch my optic nerve!" Simultaneously tense your hand and swerve one eye back and forth, as if your finger is pushing upon it from within.
NOTE: don't really insert a finger in your nostril. Instead create the illusion: extend all fingers but fold your pinky finger under, then push your pinky finger knuckle against your nostril. Practice in the mirror to perfect this "skill."

Restaurant Super-candle
...with a foot-high flame. While in a restaurant, tear off a bit of a napkin or other paper, and twiddle it into a little rod the thickness of a pencil lead. Dip both ends into the liquid candle wax so the whole thing is wetted, then wait for it to harden (or chill it in your drink.) Carefully jab this hard wax rod into the top of the candle so it becomes a second wick. Tilt the candle to expose this extra wick to flame. Now REPEAT THE PROCESS! Five wicks create a tall flame like a blow torch which makes a soft roaring noise.

Tube of Boob
Tune your TV to a blank station and adjust it for good "snow". Stare into the snow. Imagine the number "3", and it will appear as a 3-shaped flickering. But then it will start to slowly rotate. Mentally erase the 3, then imagine a horizontal line. It appears, but it won't stay still, it wants to drift and rotate. Make it shrink and vanish. Keep staring, and soon the snow will smoothly ripple, as if you were looking through the distorting water of complicated waves in a swimming pool. Think of more stuff to create mentally. View the "snow" with one eye covered with dark sunglasses. Who says that watching TV for hours isn't worthwhile?!

Music of Infinity
While painting murals in the "graffiti tunnel" under the U. of Rochester quad, I was humming and hit a resonance which got very loud. Over weeks I made it my habit to hum at the fundamental acoustic resonance of the width of the long concrete corridor. The slight humming would slowly grow until I could almost feel the hair on my arms buzzing. It didn't work as well with crowds of people in the tunnel (acoustic damping of sentient protein-blobs), but I doubtlessly weirded-out the lone student late at night.

Un SELF -ishness
This person (I?) has just remembered an idea from last year. Write a long email or a story, but do not say "I" or "me", instead say "this one" or "the body." After a couple of hours of this, THIS ONE encounters a slightly drunken state, and THE BODY becomes prone to fits of giggling, and certain childish verbal gyrations begin to arise spontaneously in the writing. Beware, for if the body should accidentally send the resulting email message to a similar body at another location, that distant body will aquire the conviction that the originating body has gone entirely whack-o. Expose numberous extraneous bodies to the same message and they will forever gaze on the initiating body with perhapsvalid suspicions about its sanity. THIS ONE also suggests employting this self-cancellation technique when dressed as an alien for Halloween. A genuine hivemind organisms would refer to the hive members as "this one", and if all selfreferential internal selftalk terminology is altered until a certain temporal threshold is exceeded, the body will not only THINK borg, but will become in danger of BEING borg!

Now go forth and also eliminate the verbs "is, was, were..." Aha! The experts already know about this "self-cancellation" stuff.

Balloon gyroscope.
Put a coin inside a balloon, then blow it up and tie it off. Shake it and then swirl the balloon around, and the penny will start rolling around in a circle! It makes a whirring noise and smoothly circulates. Get it going fast, then let it go, and the balloon whirrs and wobbles maniacally.

Once you get good at spinning the coin, get it going in a vertical circle, and place the balloon gently against one ear. Loud mechanical roaring noise! Do this with TWO balloons at the same time, and put one balloon against each of your ears. It's LOUD, and has stereo effects. Better yet, sneak up behind your victims and put them on THEIR ears. Sounds like UFOs touching down right outside your building.

The noise from the Monolith
Get a "bloogle" (one of those corrugated plastic hose noisemakers.) Spin it around while holding the end over your mouth, then say "eeeeeeeeee" with a deep voice. The sound comes from all directions and inside your head. WEEEEEEIRD. Now go "ooooo" like a police siren, and it sounds like a UFO full of elephants.

Make 'smoke' with your mouth
Compress the air in your mouth, then let off the pressure, then let the air out slowly. You'll see fog!
Detailed version: Face a light source such as a bare light bulb. Tightly close you lips. Fill your cheeks with air partially, breathe normally through your nose, then fiercely tense your cheeks and lips while blowing to compress the air inside. (It helps if you push fingers on your lips to keep air from spurting out.) Now relax your cheeks, part your lips, and spit the air out very slowly. (Don't breathe out, instead spit the air out with cheeks and tongue.) Smoke! Fog comes out of your mouth. It's just like the fog in the neck of a freshly opened bottle of cola. This works great in the dark with a flashlight.

Psych. Experiment
Get some epoxy or crazy-glue and attach a quarter to the floor. Who can resist stopping to grab it? Arrrg! Put it in a spot that you pass by every day and see how long it survives. Eventually somebody will come along with a pocketknife and pry it loose. Once I did this in the entrance of the Psychology department at the U. of Rochester. The quarter lasted for weeks. After awhile a black blossom of markings appeared around it. People were scuffing the floor while trying to kick it loose. Years later at a party somebody mentioned seeing the quarter there, but they were afraid to mess with it because they assumed that some psychology student was watching it with a hidden video camera as part of some experiment.

Make your 'self' vanish
As a child, while all alone, pretend that you are not who you think you are, but that you have suddenly woken up in this human body, and your memories of your whole entire life have just been placed in your head. Your real memories of your "real" life are gone. Your mom and dad are not your real parents, they are the parents of the child you've just been forced to occupy. You know you were just somewhere else a moment ago, but now you are here on this "Earth" thing, and you don't know how to escape and go back to your real home!

When done right, the shivers and black sparklies encroach, and you feel like you are nearing a precipice in the darkness. EEWWWWWW!

The Hot Chocolate Effect
Get a mug, a METAL spoon, and some hot water. Mix in the chocolate powder, then while the spoon is still immersed in the liquid, tap it against the bottom or sides of the mug. It goes "thunk" instead of "clink." Keep tapping, and you'll hear the pitch rise higher and higher. Now stir the liquid. Resume tapping, and hear that the pitch is low again (but then it rises.) If you keep tapping for long enough time, the tone will eventually become a high-pitched "clink" sound. Acoustics researchers give this phenomenon the exotic name... hot chocolate effect! (The underwater foam-cloud is the cause. The speed of sound is slower in foam. Beaten egg-whites or ice cream in root beer create similar effects.)

Swimming pool "hot chocolate effect"
Take two rocks into a swimming pool. Splash around in order to create a huge cloud of underwater bubbles. Quickly knock the rocks together underwater inside the bubble-cloud. You'll hear a loud musical tone, like a gong, and as you hit the rocks together repeatedly, the pitch rises. (No rocks? Sometimes you can whack your knuckles together hard enough to make the "dong" sound. Hurts though.)

Foam blast
Mix a bit of whipped cream with a little water, stir well, then pour in a large amount of warm cola. FOOSH! Giant explosion of foam all over. If you do the same with milk and cola, very little happens. The microscopic bubbles in the whipped cream are the cause. The same thing happens when melted ice cream hits carbonated beverage, thus explaining why "rootbeer floats" make foam, yet pouring milk into rootbeer creates only boredom. Ice cream is actually a "miniaturized foam," and it only needs some carbonated water to let it expand back its true size. Prepare a trap: put a small dab of the dilute whipcream or melted ice cream in a cup, then ask someone to pour in your chosen carbonated beverage. Make a cola-rocket by injecting a turkey-baster-full of diluted whipcream deep into a full bottle of warm carbonated liquid. And finally, if you ever see people eating ice cream, offer them a big gulp from your cup of cola. It will tend to spray out of their nostrils.

Longer Seeing
Modify your perceptions with physics rather than psychopharmacology: put an infrared filter in some welding goggles, then wear them outdoors on a bright, sunny day. (Choose a filter that is in the near-IR, so a bit of light is visible still. Or try theatrical gels, congo blue combined with primary red, several of each.) The world will become EXTREMELY BIZARRE. Wait a couple of minutes until your eyes grow accustomed to the darkness. Then the bright pink clouds drift in the dark sky above the frosty white trees. The world is dusk, yet the sun still shines. Car tail-lights blaze brightly. The houses and roads are dark. But the grass! The trees! They are frosty blazing red, like snow which has been sprayed with cherry Kool-aid powder. Everyone's clothes are altered. Blue-jeans are almost white. Some black clothing turns light grey. The artwork of T-shirts is almost invisible, and everyone's hair is grey. (New: see the article.)

I've heard that some types of clothing are transparent to the infrared, so stagger on down to the beach and verify if this is so. "Mister, why are you wearing those goggles?"

Caught in a Facewarp
Find a piece of mirror material about 30cm across (or just take a small mirror out of its frame.) If your mirror has sharp glass edges, grind them off with emery paper or put scotch tape on the edges. Next, stand in front of a larger mirror so you can see your reflection. Place your smaller mirror against your face so that its edge runs vertically down the middle and is slightly crushing your nose. Tilt your mirror sideways until you see your reflection in the bigger mirror. Your face will look perfectly symmetrical because your small mirror is reflecting the other half: you'll have a face that's composed of two left halves or two right halves.
Look to the side and YOUR EYES MOVE IN OPPOSITE DIRECTIONS! Gah! Tilt your head one way and your cranium expands hugely, tilt it the other way and you become a pinhead with a gigantic neck. Move the edge of the mirror so your nose has one nostril and you develop a single large eye. Hide one hand behind the non-reflective side of the mirror and extend one finger under the mirror's edge against your face. A worm appears on your face (a worm with fingernails.) Wiggle your finger. Open your mouth and and grasp your finger between your teeth, and the fatnecked-pinhead has bitten the worm! Swallow it (and perhaps use your hidden hand to push your neck flesh sideways, to form a lump that moves down your throat.)
By this point I will have become "overly amused" and in danger of damaging myself.

See your Blood
Get one of those red LED keychain flashlights. Close your eyes, then glance rapidly back and forth while placing the bright red LED against your eyelid. You see sharply-focused "trees"! If it doesn't work, move the LED to different spots while continuing to wiggle your eyes by glancing back and forth. The "trees" are the blood capillaries that cover your whole retina. The spot where they all converge is your blind spot, and in the exact center of your viewpoint is a small dark blotch that has no capillaries. Very strange that your eye is constructed with the blood vessles ON TOP of the retina, where they can cast shadows! Remeber those "retina pattern ID" readers from SF stories, that read your eyes like fingerprints? These blood vessles are what they detect. Now try the same thing with your other eye.

The Vanishing Rod
If you're in a place where cotton candy is available, you can make a large "rod" vanish. Get a small cup of warm water (or use your cup of stale cola so you don't draw attention to your preparations.) Then stretch and wad one whole batch of cotton candy into a solid rod-shaped mass. Then take your rod and shove it into your cup. The entire thing vanishes! The water soaks the tight-packed fibers, which dissolve almost instantly, so the wave of "sludge-ification" is very fast.

Vanishing Mass
This one's dangerous, so take your life in your hands. (Better do it outside.) Connect up an aquarium air-stone to your gas kitchen stove, dunk it in a bucket of sudsy water, and let it create a gigantic mass of bubbles. Carefully light the mass with a match. It doesn't flame. It doesn't go bang. Instead it WINKS OUT OF EXISTENCE! Every tiniest bubble vanishes in an instant. This big white "object" is suddenly not there anymore. (After getting overconfident, I held these white bubble-masses in my hand and lit them. No burns, just slightly warm water.) Probably the water in the bubbles boils, which slows down the flame-front. [DANGER! DON'T USE PROPANE! I used city gas in Rochester NY. I tried the same trick using propane. YAAARRG, it creates a huge fireball which will leave soot on your ceiling and perhaps ignite your curtains!]

THE NULL ZONE
Stare straight ahead, then concentrate on things in your peripheral vision. Try wiggling your fingers while moving your hand out "beyond the edge." Is the edge fuzzy? What color is it out there? It's not black. It's too weird, since there's a boundary, but there's NOTHING on the other side of it. It's not really an edge at all, since an edge divides two regions. This "edge" has NO REGION on the other side!

NEPTUNE'S HAMMER
Obtain some V8 juice or orange juice in a small glass bottle. (Any vacuum-packed non-carbonated liquid should work.) Hold it in one hand and strike the top with the heel of your other hand. If you strike it hard, the glass bottom will fly off and the liquid will blast downwards. If you strike it more softly, you'll hear a loud "snap" sound. Practice striking it sofly enough to obtain the interesting noise. Now break the seal and let in the air, and you'll find that you can't create the snapping sound anymore. The sound is caused by cavitation, by a "water hammer" effect. Liquids are held together by atomic bonding, and if you create negative pressure, you can tear open some bubbles made of vacuum. When the bubbles slam shut again, the water pressure becomes momentarily immense. But if the liquid is at atmospheric pressure to begin, you can't create enough negative pressure to get to the cavitation realm. (This works with canned vegetables too, and with glass jars of pasta sauce.)

Aware of your ENTIRE SKELETON
Taverns with black light tubes are rare now, but if you should find one, make sure to have a couple fluorescent green "highliter" markers in your posession. Under black light the skin on human arms looks purple-brown. Draw a marker line on your knuckle. Blazing yellow-green! Sketch in some crude finger bones and your hand looks like a moving skeleton. Do up both of your hands. Add arm bones, Ulna and Radius. Metacarples even! On a busy night the onlookers may demand that you to set up a phosphorescent tatoo parlor. (This all seems to wash away in the shower, but try viewing it again under black light the following evening. It's still there!)

Never drive with a Jerk
As you slow your car at a traffic light, the deceleration is relatively constant, but when your car actually halts, the deceleration vanishes. Your passengers feel the sudden change as they fall back into their seats. This effect is so common and expected that we can play with everyone's heads: remove the jerk! As you brake to a halt, simultaneously ease off the pedal so your car decelerates less and less. Time it right and you will stop braking entirely just as the car halts entirely. Unless your riders are looking out the window, they won't realize that the car has actually stopped. (This works particularly well with a van full of kids who are waiting to leap out as soon as you come to a complete stop.) [I'm told by a commercial pilot that this is a common practice on airlines. At the end of the flight when passengers are waiting to leap up and rush to the overhead bins, they'd better look out the airplane windows. The passengers who run by inertial guidance (waiting for the final jerk) will be intentionally misled!]

Wearing the Invisible Mask
During primitive festivals (Mardi Gras, halloween) we hide our identities, and if we take the right mental turning, we discard our everday personalities. A stranger takes charge. But why wait for Fat Tuesday? No masks needed! Take a lesson from the little kid in "The Shining" and just start talking funny. Continuously. For hours. Donald Duck Voice works, but I prefer a mutant version of Grover from Sesame Street. Open your eyes wide and stare into the distance (altered states are attracted with the eyes.) Eliminate the word "I," if you really must. Scare loved ones. "THIS ONE IS SORRY, MRS. BEATY, BUT THE WILLIAM FRAGMENT IS NOT CURRENTLY PRESENT. FULL CONTROL OF VOCAL CHORDS IS ATTAINED, BUT OTHER MAJOR MUSCLES ARE NOT ON LINE." (jerk arms spastically for effect.) When they stop smiling and loudly insist that we cut it out, we're approaching the proper "Mask Wearer" state.

Dry your tongue!
Get a clean cloth or paper towel. Stick out your tongue, then dry it thoroughly with the cloth. Keep sticking it out so it will air-dry a bit more. Now challenge your friends to feel your dry tongue surface. Weird and creepy. Grab the hands of an unsuspecting passersby, and force them up against your warm dry tongue.

Halloween costume optics: your head in a jar.

1. Find a flexible 9" fresnel lens. Often they're sold in bookstores as reading aids.

2. Smash it onto your face, bend the edges to touch your ears. Tape it there.

3. The bent lens makes it look as if your face is under water.

Unfortunately you can't see a damn thing while wearing this. It's giving you "Head-in-jar Vision!" Cut some small eyeholes. Now go out and play in traffic
at night.

Suck a paperclip up your nose!
This one's from Jim Burrows Get a medium-small rubberband and a paperclip. Put the rubberband around your palm and the back of your hand. Thread the paperclip onto the band, then hold the paperclip between thumb and forefinger. If you let it go, the paperclip should instantly snap back, vanishing from sight. OK, now hold the paperclip again, draw attention to yourself. When everyone's watching, stick the paperclip partly up your nose, then snort violently while letting it go. The rubberband will make it vanish. [Alternately, put a second paperclip in your mouth beforehand. After you've vanished the first one, "cough up" and spit out the second one. Perhaps put paperclips in mouth, both ears, bellybutton...]

BE THE GOD OF THE GNATS
On NPR "Livng on Earth", an entemologist mentioned that swarms of gnats will move towards anything that emits the low humming sound of female gnat wings. Apparently you can "suck" an entire cloud of (male?) gnats towards you by humming with low pitch... and they'll stop drifting the instant you stop the sound. Two people can "pull" the insect cloud back and forth between them. But... does this mean that gnat-clouds are always male? Really? Maybe instead your humming is screwing up the gnat navigation. If the gnat-cloud can remain on station while ignoring small breezes, they're doing something exotic, and perhaps the incoming sound waves at nearly their wing-beat frequency causes them to misjudge their horizontal speed, so the whole cloud moves towards the sound source. I wonder what various frequencies will do to the cloud. Maybe you could play a very special tune to them, and cause the gnat-cloud to sculpt itself into shapes. Letters. Ads for Pepsi, etc.

TWO-LAYER COLA
Diet drinks will float on full-sugar drinks, but only if you add a layer of crushed ice to disrupt the flow from the spigot. Do this: first add about an inch ice, then fill it half way with normal NON-diet cola, then top it off with a different color of diet drink (such as Lite lemonade, or diet orange, or lemon-lime, etc.) It's like a "Black & Tan" beer! Then you can either drink the first layer and leave the second one, or dip your straw to different levels to drink one layer at a time (and people will see the two colors of beverage going up your clear straw. Strange!) If you use a clear plastic cup, then you can also make subsurface waves that slosh back and forth in slow motion like those blue "ocean wave" paperweight thingies.

PENNY CYCLOTRON ACCELERATOR
I had a big potato-chip bowl. I had a penny. After some practice I could fling the penny along the inside surface so it would run around about seven times before hitting bottom. (If this is too difficult, then first practice with a marble or ball-bearing) Then I realized, OF COURSE! AH HAAAAAAA, YES! WE CAN CREATE *INFINITE COIN VELOCITY* by swirling the bowl along the table as the penny rolls. Pump the penny each time it passes. Yep, it works, and the sound-effects are notable, but the penny climbs to the top edge of the bowl then flys outwards in a random direction. Observe, Eegore, for if we wish to attain a coin velocity which approaches the Relativistic, we cannot use a snack bowl which is at all cone-shaped.

Dare to be Different
Besides daring to sing loudly where others can hear, have you ever dared to "think out loud" in public? Perhaps even start a long conversation with yourself? Now finally it's possible without embarrassment: just get an old defunct cellphone and an earphone/mike. Sit in the park with the cellphone in your lap and say anything you want, right out loud. Nobody will care. (Just don't dare to try this WITHOUT an obvious cellphone and microphone-headset!) Hmmm. Even better. Just wear a mike-headset alone, but with the plug dangling loose in your lap. Passersby will assume that you have a cellphone. But perhaps one or two people will look more closely, realize that no cellphone is involved, then suddenly stop smiling. And back away from you carefully.

SEATTLE GUERRILLA ART MEME
Kids tie their old sneakers together and then pitch them over a phone line. Harness their raw power, little one! Print out a sign you've designed, seal it with clear spray paint, glue it onto cardboard, and then find a rock or a large iron bolt and a length of twine. Tie the rock to the sign, and hurl them over a phone line above a street. How many years will it remain there, twirling in the breeze? (Um... be sure to make the sign large enough to read from a distance! Testing is required...) Print two different words, one on each side, so it flashes them alternately while it spins.

POP YOUR EYEBALL WITH A FORK
At a restaurant with friends, give everyone the jitters by playing with a fork very close to your eyeball. Use the tines to pull your eyelid down, etc. Everyone is creeped out. Now take one of those tiny plastic cups of ultrapasturized creamer, cup it in your hand and hold it up to your eye without anyone noticing, use the fork to poke holes in the paper lid (looks like you're stabbing your eye,) then squeeze the cup and scream while dropping the fork! White gunk will squirt all over the table. This one comes from Penn & Teller's PLAY WITH YOUR FOOD, a book that readers of this website just GOTTA have! Twisted insightful tricks by vengeful nerd social outcasts.

BIG GIANT HEAD
Get two identical cola cans or yogurt cups or bottles of white-out. Place them in front of you on the desk, a couple of inches apart horizontally, then rotate them so they look identical. Then cross your eyes so you see three of them. Concentrate on the middle one, and tilt your head a bit so it isn't doubled (maybe rotate one object until the middle one looks perfect.) The middle object looks perfectly 3D... but it's tiny! Actually, the angles of your eyes make them act farther apart than usual, as if your head was huge. OK, now carefully grasp the two objects and very slowly draw them apart while concentrating on the middle one. It will get smaller and smaller while staying exactly the same size. (Or your head will grow larger and larger.)

LOBSTER BOY!
Cross your fingers, and curl your middle finger around your index finger. Now grab your ring finger and curl it over the back of your curled middle finger. Do the same with your pinky. Your hand looks damaged. LOBSTER BOY!! Now do the same with the other hand too. LOBSTER BOY IS HERE TO TAKE AWAY THE BAD CHILDREN.

GIANT CLOWN LIPS
In front of a mirror, stick out your lower lip. Curl it way down using fingers. Now stick out your tongue at the same time and use it to push your lower lip down. Presto, GIANT CLOWN LIPS! Now make lobster-boy hands and cross one eye as well. Too bad the giant clown lips make gleeking impossible.

MISPLACE YOUR HEAD
Stolen from Michael Jackson "Thriller" video. Stand facing away from friends. Bend your head down, chin resting on chest, and hunch your shoulders up a bit. Your friends will see your head TOTALLY DISAPPEAR. Stagger around while feeling the empty spot with hands. Make noises like a wet esophagus.

MONSTER STATIC DISCHARGES
Another good one: buy some "snap-n-pops"; the little paper-wrapped sand balls that go "bang" when stepped on. Find a colleague who is working on live electronic equipment. Hold up a snapper and twiddle it in your fingers HARD. The little explosion sounds EXACTLY like an accidental short to 120V, or maybe like a capacitor discharge.
Now scuff on the rug, then twiddle a snapper while touching somebody on the elbow. The "bang" sounds like the worlds most painful electric spark. (Obviously this is for the benefit of onlookers, since your victim felt nothing.)

COLA CAN BEATBOX
Crush two sides of a coke can inwards, but only near the top, then rotate it 90deg and crush two sides inwards near the bottom. Now push the top and bottom together (or stomp on it) and it very easily collapses into a small round puck. Now pull it partway apart again and you'll hear all sorts of snaps and poings. Push it in and out and the sequence of poings will play forwards and back like a recording. It's a mechanical beatbox sequencer, a toy marimba, a percussion accordian. Make mouthsounds to accompany the noises (such as whistling while humming, or sucking lips to make swarms of mosquitoes.)

Living with an echo
Try speaking a simple sentence, but repeat each word twice. "Testing-testing one-one two-two three-three." It sounds a bit like a genuine echo. OK, now speak each individual syllable twice: "Tes-Tes Ting-Ting One-One Two-Two Three-Three." Say it a few times fast. That sounds very much like an echo. Finally, say it with the accent on the first of each syllables, with no pause between pairs but a slight pause between the different syllables. Speak with constant tone, not like conversation but like making a PA announcement at a ball game. Keep the timing between syllable-pairs always exaclty the same. "TES(tes,) TING(ting,) ONE(one,) TWO(two,) THREE(three). It echos! Sounds disturbingly real!

SOUNDSsounds

DISdis

TURBturb

INGing

LYly

REALreal

Now practice until you can do it fast. Go find unattended microphones, and screw with the sound engineer's head. How to get rid of that echo? Try different hookups. Is it still there? YEP-yep. DAMN! UH-uh. TIC-tic. TUH-tuh. TES-tes.

Head without a body
Walk smoothly. Walk REALLY smoothly. Try to walk so your body and head do not move up and down at all. Especially keep your head from bouncing slightly as you walk. Try to drift along like the princess descending the stairs; like the vampire's wives approaching the sleeping victim's bed. You'll start to feel like a floating TV camera, a disembodied viewpoint. Not really there. Or move fast along the hall, and you become a jet plane flying down the shafts of the gigantic Alien Construction. Put your face next to the side of the hall and race along, and the wall becomes the floor, racing below you at supersonic speed. Soar upwards to avoid the thermostat and the drinking fountain, and don't fall into the chasm or you'll end up in somebody's math class.

Nipple Cola
I accidentally pulled the ring off a can of soft drink. Yet there was a tiny hole in the center. I started drinking. I could shake and invert the can, producing an intense squirtgun effect. Like drinking from a cow?! It's hard to make a small enough hole with the pull-tab, so instead use a needle, or use the awl on your swiss army knife. If the hole is tiny, the can will squirt like a squirtgun for a good long time after each shake. If the hole is too large, it drains quickly. In that case just turn it sideways and suck powerfully on the tiny hole, draining the can and causing it to collapse. When colleagues ask you what the hell you think you're doing, be sure and tell them what the technique is called.

Another Feynman trick
Hold out your arms and point your index fingers at each other with fingertips touching. Now move your arms in a circle with fingertips together. Easy. Do the same but with fingertips at opposite points of the circle, as if you're rolling an invisible cylinder. Easier! OK, now keep circling one arm, but suddenly stop the other one. Harder, eh? And it makes you feel like a machine. Now start circling both again, then suddenly stop the other one this time. Now for the hard part. Keep one arm circling, but CIRCLE THE OTHER ONE BACKWARDS. Your fingertips should pass each other twice per revolution. Hard? No, that's trivial. Trivial! The REALLY hard trick is to circle both arms in the same direction, but circle one of them SLIGHTLY FASTER than the other. Say for every seven turns of one arm, your other arm should turn around eight times so the phasing fingertips approach and pass each other every eight turns.

Unibrow
In third grade I remember this kid on the playground who could only close both eyes. She hadn't yet learned to close just one. That's no big flaw, since most of us never learned how to raise and lower just one eyebrow. The Unibrow is a state of mind, not something on your face. Much sporadic practice in front of convenient mirrors can cure our sad ignornant state.

The Ultimate Challenge
Say you've learned to cross your eyes. And maybe you've learned the above simple trick for crossing just one eye. And maybe you can quiver your eyes at high speed or change your pupil diameter. That's nothing. NOTHING! Your eye muscles are perfectly capable of moving your eyes to a huge variety of positions, and there is no physical connection between your two eyes. So go to a mirror and learn to move one eye up... and the other eye down! Or cross your eyes, then bring them out to converge on the distant horizon, then keep going and really uncross your eyes. Read a book with one eye while surfing the web with the other. (Is any of this even possible? It might require brain damage. Perhaps trod the path of free-eye viewing of stereopticon cards... then slowly move the two stereo photos to some very un-Viewmasterly positions..)




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o Be the Coolest Dad on the Block
o Mind Hacks , and see Authors' site
o Tricks With Your Head, the book *I* wanted to write!
o Penn & Teller: Play with your food and
Play in Traffic , also cruel tricks.
o Happy Mutant Handbook
o Totally Useless Office Skills
o Totally Useless Skills
o ReSearch: PRANKS
o The Prankster's Ultimate Handbook
o The World's Best Simple Bar Tricks
o 97 Foolproof Tricks with Everyday Objects
o Mouth Sounds
o Nightwork: History of MIT Hacks & Pranks
o How to Whistle with your Fingers
* Cards as weapons
* The Cacaphony Society
* 1930 Masonic prankery catalog
* Forced Housefly Cooperation
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* BillB's list of physical (not just mental) Cool Toys
* Bill B. Techno Hoaxes and Bill B. More Screwy Ideas
* Hoaxes Museum
* Tavern Tricks
* Wacky uses for household products
* Hitchhikers Guide: face gymnastics



* Modified Billboards, also movie posters
* Pen tricks
* Zippo Tricks
* Bizarre Stuff you can make in your kitchen
* Project Payphone
* The Great Joey Skaggs
* Brainflower
* The Halfbakery
* General Semantics: eliminating is,was,were
* Hunkin's Experiments
* Party Tricks
* Fire Magic devices
* Richard Feynman anecdotes
* Suggestions for time in elevators
* Spinning magnets affect your brain
* Pulsed coils affect your brain too
* Induced Hyperaesthesia
* Aprons shift your personality
* Contact Lenses, as good as a mask
* the Surveillance Camera Players

The Big Book of Pranks. $19.99.
A great book. Interviews with world famous troublemakers.
A wakeup call for anyone who's not entirely dead. Inspiring!

SUGGESTIONS ADDED BY OTHERS ( Add your own.)

Got a LASER POINTER? Boil the kettle, when lots of steam is pouring out (you have to keep the kettle boiling), turn out the lights and CAREFULLY point the laser up just below the spout through the rising steam, it's FREAKY because it looks just like a thin stream of red liquid pouring UPWARDS and spreading on the roof!

Mark
Brisbane, QLD Australia - Saturday, September 09, 2006 at 08:22:46 (PDT) If you work with computer or electronic circuit boards you'll know most people don't like STATIC ELECTRICITY in the workplace because it wrecks stuff, so hide a little piece of BUBBLE WRAP in your left hand (assuming you are right handed), walk up to some expensive and delicate piece of gear, just as you touch it with your right hand, POP THE BUBBLE WRAP to make a 'crack' sound and pull your hand back and say 'OUCH!' it sounds and looks like you just gave the gear a massive static zap... check the looks on your co-workers faces!
Mark
Brisbane, QLD Australia - Saturday, September 09, 2006 at 08:10:44 (PDT) get one of those sqaure batterys get some gas and a little paint brush like the paintbrush you use to paint a picture and dip the paintbrush in gas then coat the top of the battery with the gas then light it on fire and then get back you'll see what happens.....tell me was it awesome,cool,are just lame,cause i did it and man it was AWESOME. :} :] :{ :[ :| :\ :/ :> :< :+
Dedric Alexander
Brooksshire, Texas USA - Sunday, August 27, 2006 at 10:11:53 (PDT) Okay, get a regular 60-watt round lightbulb. stick the end (the one thats means to go in the socket) into a small cup of water. the cup has to be small enough to keep the lightbulb from slipping in and there has to be enough water to completely cover the end.

Put it in a microwave. It will flash bright purple, bright blue, then several other colours. Then explode.
Donald Bowins
Sudbury, ON Canada - Tuesday, August 22, 2006 at 02:55:53 (PDT) Pluck out a hair from your head, and hold it vertically onto a flat computer monitor, being sure you are holding it over a white patch on the monitor. Now, holding the top of the hair still, slowly move the bottom of the hair side ot side a little - you see all the differetn colours? eh? do ya?!
Jack Thompson
USA - Wednesday, August 09, 2006 at 08:48:01 (PDT) This isn't necessarily a trick, but it's cool. you need yourself and someone else. make them turn their head either left or right, keeping their eyes wide and just tell them to look straight and slowly turn their head like they're saying "no" their eyes should do like a computer scanning thing where they keep pausing and going again, even though they think it's smooth. now you do it to them and watch them get freaked out. then you start feeling like your not human anymore and instead robots, and other people around you will give you weird looks.

Enjoy!
Renea Kitten
Hicksville, OH USA - Monday, August 07, 2006 at 13:57:56 (PDT) The journey starts with a step
Smoothly and rapidly walk down stairs while skipping alternate steps. (It requires some practice alone, but it's not that hard.) I started doing this in grade school where the "hall monitors" would call the teacher if they caught any kids skipping steps while going upstairs. So I started skipping steps going down. This confused them, and they had no rule to cover it.
billb
USA - Tuesday, June 27, 2006 at 20:35:01 (PDT) i don't know if this is one here or not...but get a 2 liter bottle of coke and a tube of mint mentos (htey must be the mint kind)...go to a big parking lot or your driveway. Open the pack of mentos, drop it in the soda and back away...it shoots like 20 feet in the air because the menthol in the mentos releases all the CO2 in the soda at once
Matt....anonymous
USA - Friday, April 28, 2006 at 08:36:00 (PDT) Chew a piece of Big Red gum in your mouth for about 3 minutes. Then take a sip of coke and keep it in your mouth. It should sting quite a bit!
Sam
Melbourne, Victoria Australia - Friday, April 28, 2006 at 01:10:02 (PDT) Use liquid nitragen and freeze your hand then hit it with a hammer. Your hand should shatter in a thousand pieces
Dumbo
Orlando, Florda USA - Thursday, April 27, 2006 at 15:30:21 (PDT) Move your foot clockwise in the air while trying to draw out a six with your finger (Use the same side) Notice your foot will change directions are you are making the loop of the 6.
Amanda <*-*joshsbaby_4e*-*@yahoo.com>
Jellico, TN USA - Thursday, April 06, 2006 at 22:42:53 (PDT) Some pyro stuff:

TORCH
Wrap some newspaper into a rod about 1' 8" long. Cut a 1" slit in each end. Take some string, tie a knot in one end, put the knotted end into one of the slits. Then wind the string down the rod with a 1" spacing until you reach the bottom slit. Tie a knot in the bottom of the string, and put it in the slit. You now have your handle. Next, fold a pair of pages lengthwise so you have a strip about 6" wide. Wrap this around the top of your handle. Cut a 1.5" slit in the top of the head, but don't cut into the top of the handle. Take about 4' string, tie a knot in the end, put the knot in the slit and wrap with no spacing until you get to 1" above the bottom of the head. Wrap it up and down the head until the string just reaches your original slit. Tie a knot in the string and put it in the slit. Then take a 1" wide strip of newspaper and put the end in the slit. Wrap it down and back up and put the end in the slit. You now have a torch. The extra wrap of paper over the string is to help it light. If you have a roll of candle wick, use that on the head (but not on the handle). Before you use it, use a spray bottle to spray the handle just below the head.

FLAT CANDLES
Take some newspaper, about 4-6 sheets, and pour some molten wax on it. While the wax is still hot, light the edges of the paper.
or
Cut out some 4-6 thick circles. Fold the edges up a bit. Pour wax on them and light the edges.
Ian Oliver
Calgary, AB Canada - Sunday, April 02, 2006 at 11:05:25 (PDT) Curl your index finger down so that there is a tiny hole in the center. Then look through this hole at this page and move your eye and hand around. You will see the text at the edge of your view warp.
Ian Oliver
Calgary, AB Canada - Saturday, April 01, 2006 at 11:56:11 (PST) Growabrain: non-childhood brain modification
bill beaty
USA - Thursday, March 30, 2006 at 19:25:10 (PST) When ordering food, make it your habit to always be specific: ask for COW'S milk. And don't forget the COW'S milk icecream. Order some scrambled BIRDS eggs. Hamburgers and burritos made from DEAD cows, pig bacon, etc. Be the outsider who subtly suggests that a trout egg omlet with raccoon sausages might appear if their order at Denny's wasn't clear enough. Or dogs' eggs! Mmmmmmm, dog's eggssss.
W. Beaty
seattle, USA - Thursday, March 30, 2006 at 18:56:54 (PST) I did this one at boarding school and got in a little trouble (it was a very strange place). Put a (peeled) hard-boiled egg in a microwave for a minute or two, and it'll explode, blowing the door open and sending small slivers of egg white all over the place. I just wanted a warm egg!
poopface
USA - Monday, March 27, 2006 at 02:58:58 (PST) This is very simple: put a pencil on the palm of your hand, and make it so that when you throw it, it rolls from the palm all the way to the fingers and keeps spinning. It will make a whirring noise and will display some interesting aerodynamics.
Zack
Barongarook, Vic Australia - Thursday, March 23, 2006 at 01:52:31 (PST) Cool site!
omega watch
New York, NY USA - Wednesday, March 22, 2006 at 23:01:26 (PST) have your lips barely touching eachother.
Start humming in a continuous tone in your throat while keeping your lips together.

You should feel a strong urge to scratch your nose.
Skip
Australia - Wednesday, March 22, 2006 at 19:12:24 (PST) hey this is kind of cool

walk up to a pole and put both of your hands on it,
now spin around the pole but you have to use your hands
to spin around the pole, amazingly the pole is mounted into the ground,but it feels like the pole is spining to. :]
Dedric Alexander
Brookshire, Texas USA - Saturday, March 18, 2006 at 18:20:23 (PST) If you're anything like me you're weak at doing burps. But fear no more, here are the instructions for doing the biggest burp ever!
Lie down and swallow, make sure that the air you swallow gurgles down into your gut. Keep swallowing for about 5 minutes. Then, sit up slowly - you may feel a little queezy at this point or maybe like you will throw up - but you won't. Now just sit and wait. Your friends won't know when it's coming, not even you will know when it comes but all of a sudden BEOUUUURRRRP!!!!

Another fun thing to get others to do:
Use your canine teeth to gently bite down on your pinky fingernails for about 15 seconds. Now lock your pinky fingers like your doing a pinky swear with yourself and pull hard.
Elocin
Canberra, ACT Australia - Thursday, March 16, 2006 at 15:07:34 (PST) A personal favorite of mine for when travelling on a long train journey with a friend, who, ideally is equally as strange as you, is to invent an Eastern European language on the spot and hold lengthy conversations with them, while receiving confused looks from other passengers. Then, at the end of the journey, thank each of the cohabitants of your carriage personally in your best Oxford English for proving to be simply marvellous travelling companionis. Yes, I know it's neither big nor clever, but I'm still amused by it.
Annonymous
UK - Monday, March 06, 2006 at 12:48:36 (PST) My apologies if these are repeats:

1- Train Ride: Hop on a train and sit on the very back seat facing toward the back window. When the train starts moving, stare directly out the back window at the horizon point so that all the scenery is racing past, away from you. Do not look away. When the Train stops at the next stop it will look as though the scenery is now racing towards you. It's creepy. (Works best after a long, tiring day at work.

2- Falling Through the Floor: Takes Two people, the first lies stomach down on the floor with arms stretched above Thier head, their eyes must be closed at all times. The second one, while standing in front of the first persons hands, grabs their hands and pulls them upward, lifting their head, shoulders and torso off of the ground. Hold them lifted above the ground for a minute or two and then slowly lower them back down, It feels quite normal at first, until you actually feel like you are bending foward through the ground :O (ensure that the first person doesn't loosen their neck so that their head touches the ground or the affect will be lost)

3- Magnetic Pencils: Grab two pencils, one in each hand, and hold the two flat, unsharpened ends together. Push them together as hard as you can for 30 seconds or more. Try pulling them apart really slowly and it will feel as though they are being pulled together with magnets, or an elastic band. OR: grab one pencil, hold it at the tip and wriggle it from side to side. Behold! Magic rubber pencil.

4- Grab a piece of paper and right a message like hello there like this:

LO HEL
RE THE

in bold capital letters, then cross your eyes to reveal the message. Hard to do sometimes, but highly entertaining. Do it with more complex messages or even pictures.

5- Grab a pole and Play a game of limbo with yourself, you get to make your very own theme music, and you always win ;D

Have Fun Children *salutes*
Dee
Aus - Tuesday, February 28, 2006 at 09:12:52 (PST) This is really an old and stupid prank but it is fun to pull on someone. Get an empty bottle of dishwashing liquid, preferably a white bottle that had white liquid in it. Make sure it is completely washed out an dry inside. Now, take 2 feet of white kite string and thread it through the hole in the cap. Tie a small knot at each end and push the string into the bottle. When you squeeze the bottle, the string pops out just like dishwashing liquid would. It really is shocking to squirt the string on unsuspecting people (especially in good clothes)while saying 'whoops' or 'oh my!' But be ready to run away, most people do want to hit you after they realize you did not wet them with soap. Reload by unscrewing the cap and pulling the string back in.
jamie
Phila, PA USA - Tuesday, February 14, 2006 at 16:26:43 (PST) Try to swollow really fast, two times in a row...you can't...also... go to (http://marshallbowling.com/java_cyberToys/psychedeliscope/psych.html) it is a euphoric color thing

-me

Anonymous
USA - Friday, February 10, 2006 at 05:48:44 (PST) Enhanced Color Vision.

Find a snowy TV channel (hard to do nowadays with cable) that still shows color. Watch at night with only a single end table or floor lamp on. Watch the snowy picture for about 10 to 20 minutes. Then turn the TV off and look around the room. The enhanced vision that results lasts for only a short while, but everything takes on an almost impossibly beautiful appearance. While watching the snowy TV image your brain turns up your visual acuity to compensate. Now, try to figure out why your vision isn't always as sharp as it was for those few minutes all the time.
Joe
Milford, CT USA - Thursday, February 09, 2006 at 18:10:58 (PST) A lot of Aussies have jars of the now defunct 1 and 2 cent coins. what do you do with them? you can sent them to the
bank, but they're only going to be melted down anyway.

It occured to me that it might be fun sending them to friends
around the world, who would then secretly scatter them in
public places.

Though it would be better if the dumping day was set, so that
suddenly all these coins would begin appearing quite suddenly
in every country around the world.


Peter Sims (Wolfie!)
Melbourne, Vic Australia - Wednesday, February 08, 2006 at 19:14:02 (PST) OK this is really cool. you will need two people to do this. have one person lean over as if they are picking up a golf ball. then, have them inhale as much as they can and then exhale as much as they can ten times. but make sure to do this slowly. then after you have completed the tenth breath. inhale greatly and stand up strait and stiff. have the other person then come up behind you and put you in a choke hold, but they dont squeeze tightly!! make sure not to kill this person. but apply enough pressure so you know that they will have a little bit of trouble breathing. Flexing when you have the person in the hold helps. then in about 5-10 seconds the person in the hold will faint...but make sure not to exhale when your in the choke hold or it will not work. hold your breath the whole time. so the person will faint and lay them on the ground; its funny because some people make noises and flail there arms and/or body around. very fun to film and show the person because they wont remember any of it!!!!
Stephen
tampa, FL USA - Wednesday, February 08, 2006 at 06:46:04 (PST) 1. If you take a regular wooden ruler (it has to have the thin metal strip on one side) and rub it very fast on the bottom of your rubber soled shoe, for about 10 seconds and then put it on your skin, Incredible! It burns like hell! Burn your friends!

2. If you take an ordinary metal paperclip and bend it so it connects the + and - side of a AA battery and let it be for a while... Astounding, It burns like hell! Try leaving this on the plastic bumper of somebodie's car, They will wonder what left that ugly mark there and when they pick it up they will burn their hands!

3. Set your cellphone to the loudest setting and hide it in a public place. The next day start calling it like crazy.

4.Duck tape people's doors shut. Bliss.
Earl the Trucker
Paris, TX USA - Monday, February 06, 2006 at 17:30:38 (PST) Mabey its just me but every timeIi look up at the stars (and I mean strait up) and unfocus my eyes the stars seem to spin I find it mildly amuseing.It looks very cool but I havent tried it in years,pleese tell me if its the same for everyone or am I just nuts,
Crayola
VA USA - Saturday, February 04, 2006 at 19:35:54 (PST) A friend told me this one day when we both hand hangovers (it's especially good, then):

While walking along a busy shopping street, imagine that you are not walking along the street, but are, in fact, pushing the earth along beneath your feet (like a man balancing on a giant beachball at a circus). There is a horizontal pole in front, for you to hang on to and you are carefully pushing the earth beneath your feet.

When you have the effect going really well, stop suddenly. As the earth stops rolling everyone around you will fall over.

Also: try running quickly into bars to catch a glass that has been knocked over. The ONE time in your life you are actually in the right place to catch a falling glass it will look REALLY impressive.
Interlard
New York, NY USA - Tuesday, January 31, 2006 at 21:41:25 (PST) read through this list untill you find 'spit yo-yo', surprize your cat with a showing. It will be mildly bewildred.

sit in the front passanger seat of a car on a sunny day, close your eyes and get the driver to drive fast past a row of tall trees to get the 'strobe' effect. Especially good(in random situations) while having to listen to an over talkative driver on long trips in the countryside.
daniel
melbourne, vic australia - Tuesday, January 31, 2006 at 06:33:12 (PST) Put a neon light bulb (or tube) in the microwave oven (or in front of it) and turn it on. It will light up like it is connected to electricity. It might blow up, i was a kid when i was told sbout this.
Blakut
Bucharest, - Sunday, January 29, 2006 at 13:56:51 (PST) Here are a few from back when I was young:

Lay flat on your back, and have a friend stand on your head side and lean over, so you are both staring at eachother's faces, upside down. Now have them conceal their mouth and imagine that that's what their face looks like -- brows underneath their eyes and no mouth. Have them move their eyebrows randomly. Do the same for your friend. This should invoke a couple of giggles or laughs, which looks even funnier when you have no mouth and your brows are underneath your eyes.

Sit, close your eyes tightly and press (not too lightly) on your eyelids with your hands in any way you want. After a couple seconds, you should start seeing all sorts of different patterns; something to do with the pressure on your retina, I believe. Have a friend do the same and talk to eachother about what you see on your astral journey.

When looking at any seemingly random moving pattern with small enough grain size (such as the "snow" on your TV, or the pattern you see on a slightly lit object in the dark) you should be able to immediately pick out and see anything you're thinking of.

Any steady stimulus on any of your senses should gradually decrease to the point where you can (and then to the point where you do) ignore it; this is due to the way both your senses and your brain works. Stare at a fixed point long enough, and the image will shift to complete darkness. The drilling upstairs should stop annoying you too, after a few hours.

Touch all the fingertips on one of your hands to the corresponding one in the other. Now move your hands back and forth, tapping all your fingertips at once. (Try to tap the same part of your fingertip every time) Does it feel like there's glass in between your hands? How would you know better, short of looking at it?
aib
TR - Wednesday, January 25, 2006 at 04:37:50 (PST) "Pop" Your Nose!

Put your thumbs together, with the nails facing you. Put your thumbnails behind your upper teeth. Put your hands together covering your nose and hiding your thumbs. Gently flick your teeth with your thumbnails while wiggling your nose back and forth with your hands.

It will look and sound like you're popping your nose.

:-)
Zee's Heart
NM USA - Saturday, January 21, 2006 at 20:34:47 (PST) •1) place your hand flat on a table/ floor or whatever. then bend your middle finger so it is underneath your hand, push down fairly hard. now try and lift your 3rd finger up.

•2) make a humming noise and use your index and middle finger to tap the side of you voice box. you can make really good tunes, even add some Human Beatbox if you want.

•3) cup your hands together as if you were shaking someones hand and grip really tight. Put your thumbs together but make a small gap inbetween them, like an oval shape. Now put your lips over the gap and blow, you should make an owl like whistle. This takes a lot of practice to master.
Billy
Huddersfield, UK - Saturday, January 21, 2006 at 11:40:31 (PST) SEE YOURSELF IN YOUR EYEBALL!!!
stand in front of a mirror and get so close that your nose touches and the glass. if you have glasses take them off you don't need them. if you stare after about 5 seconds you should see one eye and a reflection of your face.
now try puttting your finger near your face when doing this you can also move your head to the left or right, but make sure that you keep looking at the mirror.
this is really crazy!!!
daniel hall
mt. morris michigAN, MI USA - Thursday, January 19, 2006 at 21:14:49 (PST) If you want to feel like neo of the matrix than do this first you have to have a robe that goes down to your calves than put it on and tie it next go into your backyard and put both hands on the ground your right foot on the ground now swing your left leg over really fast and hit stuff works best if you know some karate
dylan
moore, oklahoma USA - Monday, January 16, 2006 at 10:43:39 (PST) Remove the flint and spring from an empty disposable lighter. Wedge the flint into the end of the spring. Hold the flint end of the spring over a lighter flame till the flint glows red. Throw it hard at a ceiling or high on a wall, it will explode in a shower of sparks.

Cut a small square of card into a right angled boomerang shape . place on a book with an arm of the boomerang overhaning the edge of the book. Hold the book on a slight angle and flick the end of the boomerang. With a bit of practice you have a returning minature boomerang

Get two wood matches, place one on the palm of your hand, hold the other match between thumb and index and middle fingers. Pretend you are trying to build up a static charge in the match head by rubbing it on the side of of your hand or through your hair, then bring the head of the match close to the other match head at right angles. Then using your finger nail on your ring finger, flick the end of the match.
this will cause the match on your palm to jump. For best effect let it fail a few times before the "charge builds up enough"
Bevan Miller
Wallace, Vic Australia - Tuesday, January 10, 2006 at 06:19:42 (PST) its a billy connelly idea....but...

lie on yur side with one arm umderneath your body weight. lie like this for a good long time , till yur arm has no feeling. numbed. now. masturbate. its like someone else is there for ya!
mark
dundee, uk SCOTLAND - Monday, January 09, 2006 at 10:40:26 (PST) I saw this one day but i forget where, if you have a pack of the Mentos, then put it in a test tube, then pour them all in the 2 liter coke bottle at the same time and the coke will shoot straight up. dont be stupid and do it in the house though.
Kevin
Louisville, KY USA - Wednesday, January 04, 2006 at 17:51:39 (PST) you no those party popper things well get one or a few then take it appart to get out the exaplosiv bit and the string. wax the string and brown bit in candel wax. put crdbord on a non flamable surfice and hang the string off the edge then light.
is not important
sheffield, USA - Saturday, December 31, 2005 at 16:13:20 (PST) Stick a bar of soap, it should be moist .....a little... and then turn it on(the microwave) after a couple secs the bar of soap will foam up and get all weird
Zoid
Latrine, shittyville USA - Wednesday, December 28, 2005 at 19:26:19 (PST) Hi!! This site is really cool... I saw the soda can idea (going cross-eyed etc.) and i found it also works with money... so you can put 2 2p coins (or equivalent in american money) near each other nd go cross eyed and make them smaller!
Joe Flood
Chatham, Kent England - Tuesday, December 27, 2005 at 14:28:39 (PST) When I was nine or ten I was virtually obsessed with snakes, mostly because I was a weird little girl living in the highly Christianised suburbs, and this was Just Not Correct back in the day--I think snakes don't freak females out the way they once did, a fact I am all too happy about. I was half-autistic and I think the snake thing was rooted in a deep need to keep humans away from me or offend their mentality in some deep way I was too young to truly grok. ANYWAY, that is why I had a large collection of serpents, both real living ones, and toy rubber ones. These are a few of the little tricks I used to play on people involving snakes in the mid nineteen-seventies. NOTE: Since Dominionist Christianity has unfortunately come back in vogue in many US regions, perhaps they'll work again, particularly in Bible belt zones, but in California, people will probably just laugh and not run screaming.

1. THE RATTLESNAKE. Get a small aquarium air pump, or any other device which is fairly silent but vibrates - maybe even a...well, vibrator, would work - I used the aquarium pump since I kept fish as well as reptiles and had a bunch of the things sitting around.

Then go to a toy store, or novelty shop, and find a rubber rattlesnake. Make sure it is one which is fairly realistic in appearance: the ones I used were cast from actual bodies of dead rattlers, and had the proper head shape and body proportions and didn't have that silly permanent forked-tongue-dangling from a closed mouth. (I always gave my rubber serpents "forked-tonguectomies" if their mouths weren't open because it made them look STUPID until I did this, nothing at all like snakes really look.) Halloween tends to bring out the rubber snakes in every shopping center imaginable so around October is your best time to find one. THE BEST kind are the ones with a WIRE inside them allowing you to twist them into a striking coil that looks very realistic.

Once you find the right rubber rattler you'll need one more item and this will be the most hard to find: a GENUINE rattle from an actual rattlesnake. (In California, these were or possibly still are illegal - it had to do with ecology, and we all know the eco-laws have gone to hell in a handbasket.) I got mine from Indian curio shoppe in Nevada around Las Vegas where my folks went for their big-deal summer vacation every year and I would always manage to pick up as many of the rattles as I could find. Of course, you could go rattlesnake hunting and find your rattle that way, but unless you know what you're doing, DON'T.

Paint the rubber rattler to look like a real diamondback, since chances are it will be carelessly painted by Chinese factory workers who never saw a rattlesnake in their lives.

Attach the rattle to the tail end. Place your rattler on a cloth item like a beat-up jacket or tablecloth and underneath the cloth put the electric vibrating object. Attach the latter to a long extension cord, plugged into the house current, and place snake, cloth and pump (or massager, vibrator, whatever) onto your front porch, in your yard, or next to the car that those jerks seem to keep breaking into.

Plug in the pump and you have what REALLY looks like a real live rattler. My folks, who weren't usually amused with my snake obsession, thought it was a fairly useful burglar deterrent. Intrepid minds might want to figure out a way to activate and deactivate the vibrational object so that it only starts rattling if someone's close to it. It will scare the crap out of them, especially if you live in a rattler-infested area.

2. THE OTHER RATTLESNAKE. This one will only work on kids and annoying old biddies who can't see well and who know nothing of snakes. Get a gopher snake, pine snake or hognose snake from a vivarium and a cage to keep it in. (Don't be an ******* and neglect taking proper care of the animal, incidentally. Feed it, clean up after it, it's not that much trouble.) These snakes have brown splotches resembling those of a rattler. You'll also need, as in the above, a real rattle from an actual rattler. Take some string and tie the rattle to the non-venomous snake's tail, and walk around with it where the person you want to annoy may be found. Just waving your pet around close enough ought to do the trick. Still, I got MUCH better results with the rubber snake. Go figure...

3. This one is silly--it's for psychedelic parties where everyone's stoned or tripping, or for kicks if you're a kid who like me just plain loved snakes. It's sort of an art piece. Get a LOT of rubber snakes of approximately the size of a garter snake, of the same variety - a toy store, novelty outlet, etc. will have them, or you can do as I did and just collect them for YEARS (I am now 40 and still buy every damn rubber snake I ever see anywhere.) Get two or three REAL garter snakes and a cage for them, and any other supplies required to maintain them (see #2 re: gopher snakes; garter snakes will be easier to feed since they'll eat goldfish which can be found anywhere.)

Last thing you need: an ordinary black light, and some fluourescent WATER BASED paint. (A black light will be easy to find if you live in a place where there are still head shops - I wouldn't live anywhere that didn't, so San Francisco is the best place in the nation for this and so many other things; it used to be you could buy a black light at any mall, at Spencer Gifts, ah, those were the days...)

Paint your hands with green fluorescent paint, or red if you prefer - the effect works best if you stick to one colour but it's not essential. Let the garter snakes slither through your hands while still wet with the paint. If it is nothing but water-based tempera it won't hurt them, but do NOT do this with acrylic or lacquer, it will harm the reptiles and that would be LAME.)

Paint the rubber snake pile - the more, the merrier - in the same general way.

Then, put the black light in the bathroom and all the snakes, real and irreal alike, into the bathtub. Turn off the regular lights and remove the lightbulbs.

When all your stoned and tripping friends go to the bathroom to take a piss watch what happens. Even the non-consciousness-altered will see 100 writhing reptiles instead of two or three real snakes and a pile of rubber. Excellent for Halloween parties but best for any other time since THEN it won't be expected and thus even more fun.


Priestess of Choronzon
Cibola, ON USA - Friday, December 23, 2005 at 17:29:38 (PST) DRY YOU TEETH

Dry your front teeth & gums by keeping your lips off them. It may help to rub your teeth and gums abit with your dry (clean) finger. Once sufficiently dry, roll your top and bottom lips up & down respectively. You get a real nice Jim Carey kind of smile.


Mitch
Bismarck, ND USA - Friday, December 23, 2005 at 14:18:12 (PST) Take a candle,any kind it doesn't matter.
Now lite it with a wooden match(those floppy ones don't burn long enough)a lighter works too but it might burn you if you lean it to the side.Let it burn for 7 seconds then blow it out. Make sure it has a steady stream of smoke and that there is no wind. now put the match/lighter in the smoke kinda far away and....BOOM the flame zooms back!(this may require a few tries)
If you do this right you may question if you blew it out in the first place!
Erik Mayer
Albuquerque, NM USA - Thursday, December 22, 2005 at 16:49:14 (PST) STATIC ELECTRICTY (easy way)

One Chirsmas Eve I found an easy way to make highly visible static electricty. You get a fuzzy blanket and one of those smooth blanket in a dark room. Push them togather and rub your hands over them, smoothing them out. Then pull them apart and watch the static electricty jump to your fingers. If you are a star wars fan you can pretend to be the sith lord.
P.S. Works best if they are freash from the dryer
THE SITH LORD
the death star, The Empire - Thursday, December 22, 2005 at 11:58:16 (PST) The site before your eyes is a test which will take you back to childhood, in some strange ways. I tried some of it, and it took me to some simplifying but curiousity-filled place. dangerously fun, I giggle and laugh at my own self in these tests when the things the test-givers say are true! It all begins here, they say.
Kali
Comcord, NH USA - Tuesday, December 20, 2005 at 18:54:38 (PST) "Seeing through eyelids":
In a dark room with bright sunlight coming in a window or doorway, stare at the bright image outside for 15-30 seconds, making sure not to move your eyes. Then immedately close your eyes tight and cover them with the palms of your hands so it's really dark. You should be able to still "see" a fuzzy copy of the image you were looking at. It looks kinda like doomsday, and it's in stereo, so you think you're looking at something real.

Also works to a lesser extent in dimly lit auditoriums, and with lamps, TV, etc. People may think you're crazy, but hey, they're missing the fun!

If you keep holding your palms against your eye sockets, you'll soon see yellow rings and shadows of your optic nerves in the middle, that will stick around when you open your eyes.
Rob
Boston, MA USA - Monday, December 19, 2005 at 11:09:03 (PST) A way I've found to really -really- freak people out is to make it look and sound like you're cracking your neck, back, or fingers.

The way I do this is a little trick I learned with my tongue. If you pull air into your mouth correctly, and have enough muscle control on the side of your tongue, you can make a controllable "clicking" noise, high or low, loud or soft, fast or slow. I've never successfully taught anyone this trick, so you'll have to experiment until you can make the proper tone of "click".

Now pair this with a convincing twist of the head, back, or fingers. If you're doing the fingers individually, make sure you only do about three clicks for maximum realism.

If properly acted with a slightly pained look, and the obligitory "That felt GOOD!" afterwards, most normal people will become almost sick. Teeny-bopper girls will often scream or shout "Eeeeewww!" Good fun.

On a side note, it also seems to feel almost as good as really popping your neck, if you can convice yourself that it's real. *crack!*
Caligari.87
USA - Friday, December 16, 2005 at 00:40:51 (PST) See two different shades in each eye:

Stare at anything for 60 seconds while covering one of your eyes. Now uncover that eye and open it. Quickly cover one eye, then the other, and compare the shading differences.

In the eye you had covered for 60 seconds, everything should appear brighter than in your other eye.
Anonymous
USA - Saturday, December 10, 2005 at 06:31:08 (PST) want to be freaked out? next time u r in a bath, hold ur breath and go under, however when ur under there, imagine something real evil like scream or a clown over the bath with a nice big knife. Don't wanna come up now do ya?
chris
USA - Wednesday, December 07, 2005 at 11:36:54 (PST) Freak out sound engineers #2:

When someone's setting up a PA, whistle a really steady tone, starting quietly then getting louder and louder. It will sound like audio feedback, and no-one can really tell where a steady tone is coming from so it'll freak them out while they fade down all the faders on the desk and the feedback sound is STILL going on!

Great fun - I've "got" several sound professionals with this one! It works best if you're in a big, empty room. Try to hide the fact you're whistling, obviously!
Mark Harmer
Blockley, Glos UK - Tuesday, December 06, 2005 at 02:57:42 (PST) stand next to a wall and push your arm against the wall for 30 seconds at least then step away from the wall relaxing your arm after 2 or 3 seconds your arm will slowly rise.
lukas
USA - Saturday, December 03, 2005 at 07:53:44 (PST) More fun with harmonics: Find a resonant frequency of the mattress on your bed and sing into it. If you can get a lower harmonic you can make the bed vibrate (and you don't even have to put in a quarter!) My wife hates this.

May work for some sofas, it helps if they have springs.
Vinny
USA - Friday, December 02, 2005 at 14:18:49 (PST) Candle Mania

Ok this is really cool, but I cant be held responsible if you burn your face off, so dont try it unless you are willing to face the consequences.

That having been said, take one of those little candles in the aluminum foil, or just a small peice of a candle but TAKE THE WICK OUt

Next take a jar lid from a glass jar and burn the plastic coating off.

now build a small fire or do this on your stove, hold the jar lid with pliers, or anything to keep it away from your face.

put the candle into the jar lid and "cook" it over the fire until gray smoke starts to billow from the wax, and it catches on fire

although this is cool on its own, and you can throw the wax or dunk stuff in it, theres more

take the aluminum container or some thing to hold a tiny amount of water in, and put about 10-20 drops of water in it (this is very little water btw), next pour the water onto the burning wax AWAY FROM YOUR FACE and watch it explode into a 5 foot tall column of flame.

This is much less dangerous than it sounds, and ive done it like 40 times and was never hurt, my ethanol experiment was a whole other story though,

NOTE: dont do this experiment in high wind, or if you have really bad judgement, and have fun :)
Joe Pyro
USA - Tuesday, November 29, 2005 at 03:32:37 (PST) Candle Mania

Ok this is really cool, but I cant be held responsible if you burn your face off, so dont try it unless you are willing to face the consequences.

That having been said, take one of those little candles in the aluminum foil, or just a small peice ofa candle but TAKE THE WICK OUT
Joe Pyro
USA - Tuesday, November 29, 2005 at 03:24:53 (PST) Lick your elbow!
Proka
Bucharest, ROMANIA - Monday, November 28, 2005 at 14:49:32 (PST) Before you try this, it is helpful to learn how to look around your surroundings without actually moving your eyes. (if you can do this move on :P) Stare at something small, and lock your eyes there. it's hard to explain, but... sort of imagine you have a second eye, and look around without moving your first eye. its weird, you almost forget about what eye #1 is looking at while 'using' eye #2!!

Anywho..

I've tried this loads of times when i am really bored. Find a very small spot, that you can just barely see (can smetimes depend- try different spots!); say a piece of black dust on the skirting board or carpet of a room. Relax, and stare at it for a long time. Soon, your surroundings will start to go a bit weird!

WARNING: This may strain your eyes. Make syre you try this in decent light, if not it will indeed strain your eyes :)
Beanie
England - Sunday, November 27, 2005 at 07:32:27 (PST) dis is vetty vetty kewl put your hands together so everything touches and your fingers should automaticly spread out. now hold your hands in front of yu so your fingers are spread and pointing to the cieling where youre index fingernail is about next too your chin about tree inches avay. now pretend zat yourrists are pivots and slap all your fingers against your chin so they collapse and make a really keeeeewwwwlllll sound
shelby
helena, AL USA - Thursday, November 24, 2005 at 18:02:59 (PST) Even better than deliberately talking with an impediment, try using a (good) foreign accent instead. Even better, turn it on and off, or "parallel" your accent to a foreigner next to you in the bar. I usually use a Crocodile Dundee accent for this, but occasionally use Canadian just for a change-up. Regional accents work too. A game I used to do was when someone would ask where I'm from, I let them guess way off course. This worked as a Chicagoan with a controllable Alabama accent real good.
Michael Poulos
Chicago, IL USA - Wednesday, November 16, 2005 at 21:39:04 (PST) Sorry if this is already mentioned - haven't had time to read it all - great site btw.

Anyways, if you have glasses, try pushing the lenses closer ot your face (not too hard - we're not trying to make them break) at the edges. When focusing on something at close range it appears much more 3-dimensional than usual - freaky huh - try it out ;)
TC
Town, N/A UK - Tuesday, November 15, 2005 at 11:14:11 (PST) when someone is talking in a small group of people, I mean really concentrating on the subject, walk up to them from the side and quietly give them something to hold (odd, not everyday things) and walk away and watch them. eventually, they'll notice the thing and youll love the look on thier face! it helps if they know you so your presence wont throw them off.
dan
USA - Monday, November 14, 2005 at 09:30:11 (PST) Y'know those latex gloves you con steal from the doctor's office? Try putting one of those on and running water over it. It feels wet, but then when you take it off it's perfectly dry!
Ethan
???, ?? USA - Wednesday, November 02, 2005 at 08:05:12 (PST) hey ya'll,
This site is awsome, check out www.fable.com/bored.html and BRAINIAC on G4 its awsome...PEACE...GO DEEP RUN WILDCATS!!!
Matt Kenney
richmond, va USA - Wednesday, October 26, 2005 at 10:50:22 (PDT) stand behind a person your age ( if the person is older then you may get battered)



and say 'Oi, ****!'
and the person makes eye contact and say 'are you always called ****?!?'

check www.freewebs.com/kwll !
bananas