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Confusion ¬ At Work
Perhaps trying to puzzle your co-workers is a dangerous thing, but at least it injects some interest into the otherwise monotonous work day. And anyway, some of the more subtle confusionisms really get the brain working, so when you are hauled up before the boss, you can at least say it was all in the aid of boosting moral and productivity. Well, you can try.
Confusionisms
¿> Wood magnet [
Suspend a wooden horseshoe by a string from the ceiling in the corridor, such that the horseshow dangles a couple of inches above the top of an upright broom. Most conventional brooms will stand on their straws with a little coaxing. Attach a sign labeling the horseshow "wood magnet." ¿> squirell story [ This honestly works at work or at school. Write a song or story about your boss/teacher with them as a squirrell where they marry you. Make the lyrics as odd as possible and leave it on there desk or in there pigeon hole and just see what they do. ¿> Sliding Doors [ Cross wire the sensor for an automatic sliding door, so that when someone walks towards it, it shuts - and when they walk away from it, it opens again. Watch as people try to keep their distance from the doors till they open, and then run at them to beat them closing. ¿> More Post It Confusion [ Take any post it note, write "This is not a post it note." and post it anywhere. Variants are writing "This is not a [insert name of object on which you will post the post it note]" and post it. etc etc. ¿> Use other door [ Simply post a 'Use other door' sign on a perfectly functional door, perhaps doing likewise on all the possible doors in a building. Watch to see how many times people walk around the building before trying a door. ¿> The Name Game [ Choose a suitably odd or archaic name. Ideas include Matilda, Harcourt, Jimmy-Joe, or Tim. Then inform your co-workers that you have changed your name by deed-pol, and only answer to the name in question. Continue this for 24hrs, then announce that you have changed it again. Do this until you become bored. Then sit in the corner. If anyone asks why, simply reply, "'Cause I'm a Walrus Stupid." This should thoroughly confusimicate everone. ¿> Post-It [ Label everything in sight with post-it notes. Leave post-it notes lying around and see if anyone joins in. ¿> Myself to checkout four [ Page yourself over the intercom making no attempt to disguise your voice. ¿> Time for Rhyme [ When writing e-mails to send round the office, compose them all in rhyming couplets. ¿> Low on office space [ Move your desk all around the building from day to day. Try such varied locations for working as the car park, the elevator, the canteen and the roof.
Practical Jokes
¿> Pin point [
Tell someone you can pin a glass of water to the wall -- a real glass, not a paper cup, using an ordinary straight pin. Naturally they won't believe, so you set out to prove it. Get a glass of water and a pin. Hold the glass up to the wall and start to pin it up. And then drop the pin. You've got the glass in position just right, so you ask your victim real nice to get the pin for you. When they bend down to pick it up, dump the water on their head. ¿> Disapearing Door [ Find a big peice of door sized card and attach to the coworker's office door paint it the same colour as the walls and presto, no door. ¿> Caffine high [ Make sure there is only decaffinated coffee in the coffee machine for at least three weeks. When everyone has got over their caffine addictions switch to expresso!
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