50 Fun Things to do to Scare People in a Computer Lab

50 WAYS TO CONFUSE, WORRY, OR JUST SCARE THE BEJEEZUS 
OUT OF THE PEOPLE IN THE COMPUTER LAB

 1.     Log on, wait a sec, then get a frightened look on your face and scream
         "Oh my God!  They've found me!" and bolt.
 2.     Laugh uncontrollably for about 3 minutes & then suddenly stop and
         look suspiciously at everyone who looks at you.
 3.     When your computer is turned off, complain to the monitor on duty
         that you can't get the damn thing to work.  After he/she's turned it
         on, wait 5 minutes,turn it off again, & repeat the process for a
         good half hour.
 4.     Type frantically, often stopping to look at the person next to you
         evilly.
 5.     Before anyone else is in the lab, connect each computer
         to different screen than the one it's set up with.
 6.     Write a program that plays the "Smurfs" theme song and play it at the
         highest volume possible over & over again.
 7.     Work normally for a while. Suddenly look amazingly startled by
         something on the screen and crawl underneath the desk.
 8.     Ask the person next to you if they know how to tap into top-secret
         Pentagon files.
 9.     Use Interactive Send to make passes at people you don't know.
10.     Make a small ritual sacrifice to the computer before you turn it on
11.     Bring a chainsaw, but don't use it. If anyone asks why you have
         it, say "Just in case..." mysteriously.
12.     Type on VAX for a while.  Suddenly start cursing for 3 minutes at 
         everything bad about your life.  Then stop and continue typing.
13.     Enter the lab,undress, and start staring at other people as if
         they're crazy while typing.
14.     Light candles in a pentagram around your terminal before starting.
15.     Ask around for a spare disk.  Offer $2.  Keep asking until someone
         agrees. Then, pull a disk out of your fly and say, "Oops, I forgot."
16.     Every time you press Return and there is processing time required,
         pray "Ohpleaseohpleaseohpleaseohplease," and scream "YES!" when it
         finishes.
17.     "DISK FIGHT!!!"
18.     Start making out with the person at the terminal next to you (It
         helps if you know them, but this is also a great way to make new
         friends).
19.     Put a straw in your mouth and put your hands in your pockets.  Type
         by hitting the keys with the straw.
20.     If you're sitting in a swivel chair, spin around singing "The Lion
         Sleeps Tonight" whenever there is processing time required.
21.     Draw a picture of a woman (or man) on a piece of paper, tape it
         to your monitor.  Try to seduce it.  Act like it hates you and then
         complain loudly that women (men) are worthless.
22.     Try to stick a Ninetendo cartridge into the 3 1/2 disc drive, when it
         doesn't work, get the supervisor.
23.     When you are on an IBM, and when you turn it on, ask loudly where the
         smiling Apple face is when you turn on one of those.
24.     Print out the complete works of Shakespeare, then when its all done
         (two days later) say that all you wanted was one line.
25.     Sit and stare at the screen, biting your nails noisily.  After doing
         this for a while, spit them out at the feet of the person next to
         you.
26.     Stare at the screen, grind your teeth, stop, look at the person
         next to grinding.  Repeat procedure, making sure you never provoke
         the person enough to let them blow up, as this releases tension,
         and it is far more effective to let them linger.
27.     If you have long hair, take a typing break, look for split ends, cut
         them and deposit them on your neighbor's keyboard as you leave.
28.     Put a large, gold-framed portrait of the British Royal Family on you
         desk and loudly proclaim that it inspires you.
29.     Come to the lab wearing several layers of socks.  Remove shoes and
         place them of top of the monitor.  Remove socks layer by layer and
         drape them around the monitor.  Exclaim sudden haiku about the
         aesthetic beauty of cotton on plastic.
30.     Take the keyboard and sit under the computer.  Type up your paper
         like this.  Then go to the lab supervisor and complain about the bad
         working conditions.
31.     Laugh hysterically, shout "You will all perish in flames!!!" and
         continue working.
32.     Bring some dry ice & make it look like your computer is smoking.
33.     Assign a musical note to every key (ie. the Delete key is A Flat,
          the B key is F sharp, etc.).  Whenever you hit a key, hum its note
         loudly. Write an entire paper this way.
34.     Attempt to eat your computer's mouse.
35.     Borrow someone else's keyboard by reaching over, saying "Excuse me,
         mind if I borrow this for a sec?", unplugging the keyboard & taking
         it.
36.     Bring in a bunch of magnets and have fun.
37.     When doing calculations, pull out an abacus and say that sometimes
         the old ways are best.
38.     Play Pong for hours on the most powerful computer in the lab.
39.     Make a loud noise of hitting the same key over and over again
          until you see that your neighbor is noticing (You can hit the space
          bar so your fill isn't affected).  Then look at your neighbor's
          keyboard. Hit his/her delete key several times, erasing an entire
          word.  While you do this, ask: "Does *your* delete key work?"
          Shake your head, and resume hitting the space bar on your keyboard.
          Keep doing this until you've deleted about a page of your neighbor's
          document. Then, suddenly exclaim: "Well, whaddya know? I've been
          hitting the space bar this whole time.  No wonder it wasn't deleting
          Ha!" Print out your document and leave. 
40.     Remove your disk from the drive and hide it.  Go to the lab monitor
          and complain that your computer ate your disk.  (For special effects
          put some Elmer's Glue on or around the disk drive.  Claim that the
          computer is drooling.)
41.     Stare at the person's next to yours screen, look really puzzled,
          burst out laughing, and say "You did that?" loudly.  Keep laughing,
          grab your stuff and leave, howling as you go.
42.     Point at the screen.  Chant in a made up language while making
          elaborate hand gestures for a minute or two.  Press return or the
          mouse, then leap back and yell "COVEEEEERRRRRR!"  peek up from under
          the table, walk back to the computer and say.  "Oh, good.  It worked
          this time," and calmly start to type again.
43.     Keep looking at invisible bugs and trying to swat them.
44.     See who's on-line.  Send a total stranger a talk request.  Talk to
          them like you've known them all your lives.  Hang-up before they get
          a chance to figure out you're a total stranger.
45.     Bring an small tape player with a tape of really absurd sound
          effects.  Pretend it's the computer and look really lost.
46.     Pull out a pencil.  Start writing on the screen.  Complain that the
          lead doesn't work.
47.     Come into the computer lab wearing several endangered species of
          flowers in your hair.  Smile incessantly.  Type a sentence, then
          laugh happily, exclaim "You're such a marvel!!", and kiss the screen
          Repeat this after every sentence.  As your ecstasy mounts, also hug the
          keyboard. Finally, hug your neighbor, then the computer assistant,
          and walk out.
48.     Run into the computer lab, shout "Armageddon is here!!!!!", then
          calmly sit down and begin to type.
49.     Quietly walk into the computer lab with a Black and Decker chainsaw,
          rev that baby up, and then walk up to the nearest person and say,
          "Give me that computer or you'll be feeding my pet crocodile for the
          next week".
50.     Two words:  Tesla Coil.