> Fun Things to Do During a Boring Lecture:
> 
> 1.  Bring a blowhorn. Use it when you ask or answer a question.
> 2.  Heckle the professor.
> 3.  Hire a video crew to come to the class. If asked about it, say that you
>     have to tape the lecture for a friend.
> 4.  Bring a water gun. Shoot the professor when his back is turned.
> 5.  Get the other students in your row to do the wave.
> 6.  Bring a small chalkboard to class. Ask the professor if you can borrow
>     his chalk to take notes.
> 7.  Contradict everything the professor says. Offer irrefutable scientific
>     proof.
> 8.  If it's a math lecture, claim that the professor misspelled pi.
> 9.  When the professor asks a question, raise your hand. If the professor
>     calls on you, point to someone in the next row and say "He knows." Pick a
>     different person each time.
> 10. Buy a doll. When you go to class, leave the doll in your chair, 
>     along with your notebook and pen. Say that you have an important 
>     meeting to go to, and that the doll will be taking notes for you.
> 11. Bring a typewriter. Use it to take notes.
> 12. Write a love note. Sign it "a secret admirer". Get someone to pass it
>     to the professor.
> 13. Get up to go to the bathroom five or six times during the class. Change
>     clothes every time.
> 14. While taking notes, write vulgar words every few lines. If anyone asks,
>     say you have Tourette's syndrome. [who would notice?  -Allan]
> 15. Buy a watermelon. Give it to the professor. If he/she asks, say "They were
>     out of apples."
> 16. Bring a small tape player. Play a tape of the previous lecture. Take notes
>     on both.
> 17. If it's an English class, ask how the theory of relativity relates to
>     Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night's Dream".
> 18. Pretend to be asleep until five minutes before the end of class. Then wake
>     up and explain that you missed the lecture, and ask the professor to
>     summarize what he/she talked about.
> 19. Bring a can of spray paint. Use it to take notes on the classroom wall.
> 20. Bring a fully-stocked picnic basket to class. Explain that you didn't
>     have time to eat breakfast.
> 21. Wear a loincloth to class. If anyone asks, say that it is your costume
>     for the school play, and you didn't have time to change out of it.
> 22. Tear out pages of the textbook and make little origami animals out of
>     them. Have a whole menagerie by the end of class. Give them to the
>     professor as a token of your esteem.
> 23. Bring a fishing rod. Try to catch things on the professor's desk.
> 24. Bring a tape player and a tape of a thunderstorm. Keep it hidden.
>     Sometime during the lecture, start the tape, stand up, claim that the
>     professor has angered the gods and leave. Watch to see how many students
>     follow you after the tape starts playing.
> 25. Make reserved seating cards and place them on the desks before class. 
> 26. Tell the professor you are on a new experimental cold medication that may
>     have strange side effects. Every ten minutes or so, run around the room
>     screaming. Afterward, claim that you have no memory of what just happened
> 27. Claim that you are the new student teacher, and that you are to give the
>     lecture for that class. If the professor agrees, lecture on a subject
>     completely opposite the to subject of the class. If the professor objects,
>     say that the students should have a wide range of knowledge.
> 28. Switch the professor's lecture notes with your history notes from last
>     term.
> 29. Raise your hand and ask when the movie is going to start.
> 30. Bring a flash camera. Take pictures every few minutes, using a very bright
>     flash. If anyone complains, say that you didn't see any sign saying you
>     couldn't bring cameras.
> 31. Bring a light bulb. Hold it over your head whenever you have the answer
>     to a question.
> 32. Bring an easel and a paint set. Paint a portrait of the professor during
>     the lecture. Say that it is a homework assignment for art class.
> 33. Sneeze very loudly. Then, have the person next to you sneeze, then the
>     person next to him, and so on. See how long it takes before the professor
>     sneezes.
> 34. When the professor comes in, say, very loudly, "Hey! A substitute! All
>     right!" Claim that the real professor said you could have lecture
>     outside.
> 35. Come to class wearing the same outfit as the professor. Call the professor
>     a copycat.
> 36. If it's a geology lecture, switch the quartz crystals with New Folger's
>     Crystals and see if the professor notices. Have a hidden camera.
> 37. Hide a ticking clock under the podium. Call in a bomb threat.
> 38. Write your assignment on Plato on your little sister's modeling clay. 
> 39. Ask questions in a foreign language you know the professor doesn't know.
>     Act angry when he/she doesn't understand you.
> 40. Come to class dressed as a professional wrestler. Tell people you joined
>     the wrestling team. Bodyslam anyone who doesn't believe you.
> 41. When the professor comes in, suddenly scream, "NOOOOOO! Not him! Not
>     professor Johnson!! They let him teach again! Noooooooooo!" then run
>     out of them room. See how many people follow you.
> 42. Turn your row into a mosh pit.
> 43. Before class starts, turn all the desks upside down. Sit on them like you
>     would normally.
> 44. Two words: American Gladiators.
> 45. Make requests like people do at rock concerts. ("Relativity! Relativity!
>     Einstein rocks!")
> 46. Bring popcorn. Throw it and the professor. Complain that these trained
>     animal shows aren't what they used to be.
> 47. Bring a tape player and a tape of the school bell. Play it every 15
> minutes.
> 48. When the professor calls on you, mumble inconprehensibly. Answer
>     every question in this fashion. See how long it takes before the professor
>     stops calling on you.
> 49. When you take a test, hire a security guard to stand by your desk and make
>     sure no one cheats off your paper.
> 50. Make up a strange religious cult and distribute flyers for it during
>     class. If it is a religious studies class, complain that your cult was not
>     included in the textbook, and demand that they get a new one.
> 51. Make cool armpit noises and blame them on the person next to you.
> Written by Rocky Kassos