1.Adjust the tint on your TV so that all the people are green, and insist to others that you “like it that way”.
2. Drum on every available surface.
3.Sing the Batman theme incessantly.
4. Staple papers in the middle of the page.
5.Ask 800 operators for dates.
6.Produce a rental video consisting entirely of dire FBI copyright warnings.
7.Sew anti-theft detector strips into people’s backpacks.
8. Hide dairy products in inaccessible places.
9.Write the surprise ending to a novel on its first page.
10.Specify that your drive-through order is “dine-in”.
11. Set alarms for random times.
12.Learn Morse code, and have conversations with friends in public consisting entirely of “Beeeep Bip Bip Beeeep Bip…”
13.Buy large quantities of mint dental floss just to lick the flavor off.
14. Order a side of pork rinds with your filet mignon.
15.Instead of “Gallo”, serve “Jack Daniel’s” next Thanksgiving.
16.Publicly investigate just how slowly you can make a “croaking” noise.
17. Honk and wave to strangers.
18. Dress only in clothes colored Hunter’s Orange.
19.Change channels five minutes before the end of every show.
20. Tape pieces of “Sweating to the Oldies” over climactic parts of rental movies.
21.Wear your pants backwards.
22.Decline to be seated at a restaurant, and simply eat their complementary mints by the cash register.
23.Begin all your sentences with “ooh la la!”.
24.Rouse your roommates from slumber each morning with Lou Reed’s “Metal Machine Music”.
25. Leave someone’s printer in compressed-italic-Cyrillic-landscape mode.
26.ONLY TYPE IN UPPERCASE.
27. only type in lowercase.
28.dont use any punctuation either
29.Buy a large quantity of orange traffic cones and reroute whole streets.
30. Pay for your dinner with pennies.
31. Tie jingle bells to all your clothes.
32.Repeat everything someone says, as a question.
33.Write “X – BURIED TREASURE” in random spots on all of someone’s roadmaps.
34.Inform everyone you meet of your personal Kennedy assassination/ UFO/OJ Simpson conspiracy theories.
35.Repeat the following conversation a dozen times: “Do you hear that?” “What?” “Never mind, it’s gone now.”
36.Light road flares on a birthday cake.
37. Wander around the restaurant, asking other diners for their parsley.
38. Leave tips in Bolivian currency.
39.Demand that everyone address you as “Conquistador”.
40.Push all the flat Lego pieces together tightly.
41.At the Laundromat, use one dryer for each of your socks.
42.When Christmas caroling, sing “Jingle Bells, Batman smells” until physically restrained.
43. Wear a cape that says “Magnificent One”.
44.As much as possible, skip rather than walk.
45.Stand over someone’s shoulder, mumbling, as they read.
46.Finish the 99 bottles of beer song.
47.Sing the “This is the song that never ends…” song.
48.Leave your turn signal on for fifty miles.
49.Pretend your mouse is a CB radio, and talk to it.
50.Try playing the William Tell Overture by tapping on the bottom of your chin. When nearly done, announce “no, wait, I messed it up”, and repeat.
51. Drive half a block.
52.Name you’re dog “Dog”.
53. Inform others that they exist only in your imagination.
54.Ask people what gender they are.
55.Reply to everything someone says with “that’s what YOU think.”
56.Lick the filling out of all the Oreos, and place the cookie parts back in the tray.
57.Cultivate a Norwegian accent. If Norwegian, create a Southern Drawl.
58.Forget the punchline to a long joke, but assure the listener it was a “real hoot”.
59.Routinely handcuff yourself to furniture, informing the curious that you don’t want to fall off “in case the big one comes”.
60.Follow a few paces behind someone, spraying everything they touch with a can of Lysol.
61.Deliberately hum songs that will remain lodged in co-workers’ brains, such as “Feliz Navidad”, the Archies’ “Sugar” or the Mr. Rogers theme song.
62.While making presentations, occasionally bob your head like a parakeet.
63. Lie obviously about trivial things such as the time of day.
64.Make beeping noises when a large person backs up.
65.Leave your Christmas lights up and lit until September.
66.Change your name to John Aaaaasmith for the great glory of being first in the phone book. Claim it’s a Hawaiian name, and demand that people pronounce each A.
67.Sit in your front yard pointing a hair dryer at passing cars to see if they slow down.
68. Chew on pens that you’ve borrowed.
69.Invent nonsense computer jargon in conversations, and see if people play along to avoid the appearance of ignorance.
70. Wear a LOT of cologne.
71.Ask to “interface” with someone.
72.Listen to 33rpm records at 45rpm speed, and claim the faster speed is necessary because of your “superior mental processing”.
73. Sing along at the opera.
74.Mow your lawn with scissors.
75.At a golf tournament, chant “swing-batatatatatata-suhWING-batta!”
76.Finish all your sentences with the words “in accordance with prophesy”.
77.Ask the waitress for an extra seat for your “imaginary friend”.
78.Go to a poetry recital and ask why each poem doesn’t rhyme.
79.Ask your co-workers mysterious questions, and scribble their answers in a notebook. Mutter something about “psychological profiles”.
80.Incessantly recite annoying phrases, such as “sticky wicket isn’t cricket.”
81.Stare at static on the TV and claim you can see a “magic picture”.
82.Select the same song on the jukebox fifty times.
83.Scuff your feet on a dry, shaggy carpet and seek out victims.
84. Silences with the impression that you’ll be saying more any moment.
85.Never make eye contact.
86. Never break eye contact.
87. Signal that a conversation is over by clamping your hands over your ears.
88.Construct elaborate “crop circles” in your front lawn.
89.Give a play-by-play account of a person’s every action in a nasal Harry Carey voice.
90.Say random numbers while someone is counting.
91. Make appointments for the 32nd of April.
92. Invite lots of people to other people’s parties.
93.Send fifty copies of this list with my link to everyone you know.
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1. Take shopping carts for the express purpose of filling them and stranding them at strategic locations.
2. Ride those little electronic cars at the front of the store.
3. Set all the alarm clocks to go off at ten-minute intervals throughout the day.
4. Start playing Calvinball; see how many people you can get to join in.
5. Contaminate the entire auto department by sampling all the spray air fresheners.
6. Challenge other customers to duels with tubes of gift-wrap.
7. Leave cryptic messages on the typewriters.
8. Re-dress the mannequins as you see fit.
9. When there are people behind you, walk REALLY SLOWLY, especially thin narrow aisles.
10. Walk up to an employee and tell him in an official tone, “I think we’ve got a Code 3 in Housewares,” and see what happens.
11. Tune all the radios to a polka station; then turn them all off and turn the volumes to “10″.
12. Play with the automatic doors.
13. Walk up to complete strangers and say, “Hi! I haven’t seen you in so long!…” etc. See if they play along to avoid embarrassment.
14. While walking through the clothing department, ask yourself loud enough for all to hear, “Who BUYS this junk, anyway?”
15. Repeat Number 14 in the jewelry department.
16. Ride a display bicycle through the store; claim you’re taking it for a “test drive.”
17. Follow people through the aisles, always staying about five feet away. Continue to do this until they leave the department.
18. Play soccer with a group of friends, using the entire store as your playing field.
19. As the cashier runs your purchases over the scanner, look mesmerized and say, “Wow. Magic!”
20. Put M&M’s on layaway.
21. Move “Caution: Wet Floor” signs to carpeted areas.
22. Set up a tent in the camping department; tell others you’ll only invite them in if they bring pillows from Bed and Bath.
23. Test the fishing rods and see what you can “catch” from the other aisles.
24. Ask other customers if they have any Grey Poupon.
25. Drape a blanket around your shoulders and run around saying, “…I’m Batman. Come, Robin–to the Batcave!”
26. TP as much of the store as possible.
27. Randomly throw things over into neighboring aisles.
28. Play with the calculators so that they all spell “hello” upside down.
29. When someone asks if you need help, begin to cry and ask, “Why won’t you people just leave me alone?”
30. When two or three people are walking ahead of you, run between them, yelling, “Red Rover!”
31. Make up nonsense products and ask newly hired employees if there are any in stock, i.e., “Do you have any Shnerples here?”
32. Take up an entire aisle in Toys by setting up a full scale battlefield with G.I. Joes vs. the X-Men.
33. Take bets on the battle described above.
34. Nonchalantly “test” the brushes and combs in Cosmetics.
36. Hold indoor shopping cart races.
37. Dart around suspiciously while humming the theme from “Mission: Impossible.”
38. Attempt to fit into very large gym bags.
39. Attempt to fit others into very large gym bags.
40. Say things like, “Would you be so kind as to direct me to your Twinkies?”
41. Set up a “Valet Parking” sign in front of the store.
42. Two words: “Marco Polo.”
43. Leave Cheerios in Lawn and Garden, pillows in the pet food aisle, etc.
44. “Re-alphabetize” the CD’s in Electronics.
46. When someone steps away from their cart to look at something, quickly make off with it without saying a word.
47. Relax in the patio furniture until you get kicked out.
48. When an announcement comes over the loudspeaker, assume the fetal position and scream, “No, no! It’s those voices again!”
49. Pay off layaways fifty cents at a time.
50. Drag a lounge chair on display over to the magazines and relax. If the store has a food court, buy a soft drink; explain that you don’t get out much, and ask if they can put a little umbrella in it. *BONUS* Attempt all of the above during the same visit.
10. Your hairdresser doesn’t wash and clean your rear end.
9. You don’t go for 8 weeks without washing or brushing your hair.
8. Your hairdresser doesn’t have to give you a sanitary trim.
7. Your hairdresser doesn’t have to clean your ears.
6. Your hairdresser doesn’t have to clean boogies from your eyes.
5. You sit still for your hairdresser.
4. Your haircut doesn’t include a manicure or pedicure.
3. Your hairdresser only washes and cuts the hair on your head.
2. You don’t bite or scratch your hairdresser. (I hope not anyway).
And the Number 1 reason your dog’s haircut costs more than yours….
1. The likelihood of you pooping or peeing while your hair is being cut is extremely slim.
1. Make racecar noises when anyone gets on or off.
2. Blow your nose and offer to show the contents of your Kleenex to other passengers.
3. Grimace painfully while smacking your forehead and muttering: “Shut up, shut up, all of you just SHUT UP!”
4. Whistle the first seven notes of “It’s a Small World” incessantly.
5. Sell Girl Scout cookies.
6. On a long ride, sway side to side at the natural frequency of the elevator.
7. Shave.
8. Crack open your briefcase or purse, and while peering inside ask: “Got enough air in there?”
9. Offer nametags to everyone getting on the elevator. Wear yours upside-down.
10. Stand silent and motionless in the corner, facing the wall, without getting off.
11. When arriving at your floor, grunt and strain to yank the doors open, then act embarrassed when they open by themselves.
12. Lean over to another passenger and whisper: “Noogie patrol coming!”
13. Greet everyone getting on the elevator with a warm handshake and ask them to call you Admiral.
14. One word: Flatulence!
15. On the highest floor, hold the door open and demand that it stays open until you hear the penny you dropped down the shaft go “plink” at the bottom.
16. Do Tai Chi exercises.
17. Stare, grinning, at another passenger for a while, and then announce: “I’ve got new socks on!”
18. When at least 8 people have boarded, moan from the back: “Oh, not now, cotton-pickin’ motion sickness!”
19. Give religious tracts to each passenger.
20. Meow occasionally.
21. Bet the other passengers you can fit a quarter in your nose.
22. Frown and mutter “gotta go, gotta go” then sigh and say “oops!”
23. Show other passengers a wound and ask if it looks infected.
24. Sing “Mary had a little lamb” while continually pushing buttons.
25. Holler “Chutes away!” whenever the elevator descends.
26. Walk on with a cooler that says “human head” on the side.
27. Stare at another passenger for a while, then announce “You’re one of THEM!” and move to the far corner of the elevator.
28. Burp, and then say “mmmm…tasty!”
29. Leave a box between the doors.
30. Ask each passenger getting on if you can push the button for them.
31. Wear a puppet on your hand and talk to other passengers “through” it.
32. Start a sing-along.
33. When the elevator is silent, look around and ask “is that your beeper?”
34. Play the harmonica.
35. Shadow box.
36. Say “Ding!” at each floor.
37. Lean against the button panel.
38. Say “I wonder what all these do” and push the red buttons.
39. Listen to the elevator walls with a stethoscope.
40. Draw a little square on the floor with chalk and announce to the other passengers that this is your “personal space.”
41. Bring a chair along.
42. Take a bite of a sandwich and ask another passenger: “Wanna see wha in muh mouf?”
43. Blow spit bubbles.
44. Pull your gum out of your mouth in long strings.
45. Announce in a demonic voice: “I must find a more suitable host body.”
46. Carry a blanket and clutch it protectively.
47. Make explosion noises when anyone presses a button.
48. Wear “X-Ray Specs” and leer suggestively at other passengers.
49. Stare at your thumb and say “I think it’s getting larger.”
50. If anyone brushes against you, recoil and holler “Bad touch!”
29 pounds with “too many scars to count”- Child Reunification Pressures In Philly Social Services Partly To Blame In 6 Year Old Boy’s Death
Dyana Jean (The Magdalene Mantra)
Not many people understand the way juvenile justice works in the Family Court system. Juveniles can either be adjudicated delinquent or dependent. Children can live with foster parents, in group homes, or with other relatives. Up until recently, the push for reunification with biological parents took a back seat, often because the biological parents were the root of the child’s issues that either lead to delinquent acts, or lead to the child being removed from the home.
Such was the case for 6 year old, Khalil Wimes, who died from head trauma March 19, 2012, at the hands of his biological parents, with “too many scars to count,” according to one source in the investigation. He was also only 29 pounds. He lived with his foster-mother until he was 3 when child advocate attorneys, DHS social workers and a family court judge decided to return him to his biological parents. This is another child gone way too soon.
Since 2004, The Department of Human Services in Philadelphia, has undergone major financing restructuring due to constant cuts to social services funding from the State. Since 2006 until recently, cuts that were made to foster care specifically, made the Department call on social workers to push to reunite children with their biological parents. The social workers are specifically trained to work with the biological parents on addressing what is needed in order to make the reunification process successful. Reunification with biological parents falls into performance based contracting with non-profits. Those non-profits will get penalized financially if they do not reunify the families on their caseloads. The pressure is real. People’s lives and jobs are on the line. If you don’t get it right, this is what happens.
What we have here is a system squeezing out as much work as possible, with as little resources as possible, resources that can detect abuse and deal with neglect and/or issues of violence in the home. Reunification is not always possible no matter how much pressure being placed on social workers, child advocate attorneys, and DHS in general. How can we gamble with children’s lives like this only because the State doesn’t want to pay out to foster parents? Seriously?? Is that the issue? Shrinking the government so much that we get rid of the cost of paying loving foster parents , moving towards adoption of at-risk youth? That was called giving Khalil a chance to live the American dream? What a slap in the face to loving foster parents all over this country and the children who love them back.
One child dying at the hands of his biological parents, like Khalil Wimes, is a disgrace. The fact that DHS can’t do a better job because of budget cuts is an outrage. How many children will die before DHS is fully supported to do the job they do?
Millions of social workers show up every day to make a difference for all kinds of at-risk children and families. The majority of social workers work hard and there are success stories. However, if we believe our children are truly our future, what stops us from pouring all the resources we have into an investment for their well-being? 29 pounds with too many scars to count.
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