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How to direct attention to yourself

Sat Aug 11, 2007 12:58 AM EDT
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By Tim.

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I think I can, I think I can!

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So I read a story about how some wacko nut went crazy after hearing the performance of a terrible karaoke singer. She started attacking the singer ordering him stop singing also attacking people around around them even attacking an off duty police officer! Is this woman really whacked or was this just a desperate cry for attention? I mean sure she's probably going to jail, but she's got fame baby! That's right, thousands of people are reading out her now, she was just a nobody before?
So that got me thinking, how can get attention? How can you become popular? Well I thought of some ways and you wont even go to jail for doing them (but don't quote me on this).
1. Dress up in a dog costume and run around chasing all the dogs, cats, rodents and mailmen you can find. Oh, and don't forget to stop and sniff all the fire hydrants! Do whatever it takes to get noticed. When someone comes up to you and asks "Excuse me but, what the heck are you doing?" Reply to them by barking until they leave. Repeat Do this enough and I'm sure you'll get some kind of attention
2. Run around screaming "Dr. Snuffles is bicologizing the ectosphere!" While holding up a picture of the creature seen in image "A" After doing this for awhile try to find a news reporter. Doesn't matter how long that takes, just make a scene out of it. When you find one, you know what to do.
3. Stand on top of a roof or on top of another high structure presenting the following speach:
"Meso biberbosh, flugen wirshil etantion. Belosi say doodely do lu giangerwashen. de super, et the huferuphen. Iker blam bash, uber vitataque in cookie. Fur de spoofy? Desophabit! Yerker see thy uber gistervlant! Me purple monkey, like sider inderswuave. You green shoe tip issuing vanderbal. Intherfik, bebaloo, gingerashian! I therefore disep that gingerswuave is to be binderbaged hiko, filuptree!"
Of course, you can add your own gibberish to lengthen the speech.
4. After giving that speech, dress up as a bat and act like your going to try to fly of the top of a tall building, hey you may even get on T.V.
5. Set up a sleeping bag in the outside of an apple store and wear a sign on your chest that says that you will wait outside until the iPhone 3 comes out. After a week or two of waiting start building a contraption that you can make look as odd as posible and claim that your are building a time machine so that you can travel into the future to get aniPhone 3. Again, you may get on T.V as the crazy nut trying to build a time machine to get the iPhone 3

I wish you good luck with your adventures and hope to see you on T.V soon.

Disclaimer:
I am not responsible for anything that may happen to you if you decide to listen to any of my tips

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  • Public Discussion (8)
Tim.

It's getting kind of late and I got up early, but I'M NOT TIRED!
Woo haha, weeeeee!! The UAA is making a comeback!!!!!

  • 3 votes
Reply#1 - Sat Aug 11, 2007 12:58 AM EDT
tke132

About time you showed your proverbial face around here, Tim. It's been normal without you!

  • 3 votes
Reply#2 - Sat Aug 11, 2007 1:26 AM EDT
A. H. Min

6 Run around Silicon Valley yelling, "Windows rocks!!!" You will then go on TV as the first person that Apple employees mugged.

  • 2 votes
Reply#3 - Sat Aug 11, 2007 7:56 AM EDT
Tim.

Gee, you'd have to be pretty brave to do that.

  • 2 votes
#3.1 - Sat Aug 11, 2007 10:10 AM EDT
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Raat ki Raani

Good to have you back among the land of the living Tim. Clearly you tried all those attention grabbing tricks elsewheres and found there was one trick you'de forgotten. Doing so on Newsvine is always bound to grab max exposure:-)

Hilarious tips. Don't mind if I say pass to trying any. Reminded me of a customer when I was in insurance. He had defaulted on everything and was getting decidely cagey about paying up. Just as matters got heavy and ready fot the legals, he was spotted walking down the High Street. In a frogman's outfit. He was a family practitioner!

  • 3 votes
Reply#4 - Sat Aug 11, 2007 5:34 PM EDT
Tim.

Lol, I'd pass up all my tips to ;)

  • 3 votes
#4.1 - Sat Aug 11, 2007 9:37 PM EDT
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Scott (Scoop) Butki

Great list. Welcome back.

  • 1 vote
Reply#5 - Wed Aug 15, 2007 9:43 PM EDT
Tim.

Aha... funny that I wrote this whilst I'd never intentionally draw that much attention to myself.

...why are you commenting on your old articles?

I don't know.

  • 1 vote
Reply#6 - Mon Dec 7, 2009 5:30 AM EST
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