If you're like everyone
else in the world you've tried hundreds of ways to beat stress and, not
surprisingly, none of them have worked. Oh sure, you were extremely chilled
Thai stick and Henderbeer binge but even that laid back feeling didn't
last. Police dogs and DEA agents have a habit of harshing mellows.
You've even tried
mainstream approved methods. Things like exercise, diet, yoga and handfuls
of Valium, Xanax, Ativan, Ritalin, Valtrex, Klonopin, or whatever pill
du jour your psychiatrist was bribed to use is all washed down with that
ever present bottle of Henderbeer.
As you've no doubt
found out after weeks of detox to get the prescribed monkey off your back
and thousands spent trying to keep a zipper off your chest, none of that
really works.
But we at Bound &
Gags know how to calm your bad self down. It has taken us years to accumulate
the hypertension, blocked arteries and drunken black outs necessary to
accumulate the secrets to a calm and soporific life.
We know that once you read these words of comfort you'll want to have
them with you always. So it's a good thing we put these words of wisdom
on a poster. All you have to do to get your own personal 100 Sure-Fire
Ways To Beat Stress poster is to click any graphic to your left and the
Bound & Gags 100 Surefire Ways To Beat Stress will be in your home
before you can say Myocardial infarction.
So sit back, put
your butt in an up right and relaxed position and learn what we at Bound
& Gags already know: there is only so much stress in the world and,
in this case especially, it is much better to give than receive. And now
you are about to receive:
100
Surefire Ways To Beat Stress
Take public transportation
and at each stop call out, 'Are we there yet?'
Read and discuss
the back of a cereal box.
Debate the true meaning
of belly button lint.
Hang glide naked
while eating a bowl of pudding.
Walk up to a total
stranger and ask them why they weren't at the meeting last night.
During a lull in
conversation stand up and scream 'Stop staring at me!'
Go to a restaurant
and ask for some extra parsley.
Call up a friend
and ask them if they want paper or plastic.
Go to the movies
and ask a perfectly quiet person to shut up.
Shout 'Bingo!' whenever
you hear a B-52's song.
Start a conversation
with someone wearing headphones.
When someone answers
your question with 'Huh?' answer 'Thousand Island or vinaigrette.'
Keep your fly unzipped
and when someone tells you say, 'I know.'
Call up a friend
and ask if they know why you called.
Ask a waitperson
what's good and, when told, make retching sounds.
Walk up to an adult
with a tissue, put it to their nose and say 'Blow.'
Answer a pay phone
with 'Deposit twenty-five cents for the next three minutes.'
Go to a baseball
game and scream, 'Swing batter.' during the entire game.
Walk up to a total
stranger and ask 'Does this look infected to you?'
Ask your best friend
to let you borrow some underwear.
Pick out your new
office wardrobe at the golf pro shop.
Contemplate how different
your life would be if you were a Flintstone.
Call up a truck rental
place and tell them your life story.
Get in a long line
and face the opposite way.
Tell all your friends
that you can understand what dogs are saying.
Try to elevate objects
with your mind.
Give foreign currency
to a homeless person.
Ask if you can be
put back on hold because you love the song that was playing.
Start a heartwarming
conversation with the person at the urinal next to you.
Bring a vegetarian
to lunch and eat a slab of raw meat.
Ask for directions
and then head in the opposite direction.
When someone says
something obvious slap your forehead and say 'Why didn't I know that?'
Call a sperm bank
and ask how you can open an account.
Ask someone to borrow
$1000 to go to a grand opening.
Ask a grocer for
the prune juice to toilet paper conversion chart.
Actually skip to
the loo.
During a job interview
sit up and scream, 'Nap Time!'
Get on an elevator
and sing along with the muzak.
Tell everyone that
you could have been rich if you'd have had parents with more money.
Get extremely dressed
for a date and go to a fast food drive-thru.
Invite all your friends
over for homemade croutons.
Wear a cape with
your initials on it all day.
Ask a stranger to
get the change out of your pocket.
Set up a heavy petting
zoo.
Turn down the volume
on a family video and make animal noises.
Go to a gas station
rest room then tell the attendant that the ambiance was 'Magnificent.'
Tell your friends
that you're in training for the professional Karaoke tour.
When told to 'Sit
anywhere.' at a restaurant take the advice literally.
Tell everyone its
your birthday just to make them feel stupid for forgetting.
Have a conversation
with a store clerk in baby talk.
Walk around with
an empty goldfish bowl calling out, 'Here fishy, fishy.'
Every time someone
walks out of a room scream, 'Elvis has left the building.'
Dot your I's with
little snarly faces.
Rent a limousine
and keep it parked in your driveway all night.
Grow a garden of
vegetables that you're allergic to.
Wear something that
you know is ugly and ask everyone you meet if they like it.
Proudly exclaim that
you are a homo sapien.
Go see a movie with
sub-titles and read out loud.
Have a party in your
pants with cheese-whiz.
Go to a fast food
restaurant and ask for one of the paper hats.
Point at passing
cars with a worried expression on your face.
Go to a retirement
home and see how many people know all the words to 'Wooly Bully.'
Spend a day giving
pet names to your bodily functions.
Call PBS during Pledge
Week and pledge your undying loyalty.
Go to a library and
read over someone's shoulder.
Ask a real short
person if they play basketball.
Jot down the graffiti
from a public rest room.
Sneak up on a total
stranger, touch their shoulder, say 'Tag, you're it.' and run away.
Excuse yourself to
make a phone call and then don't leave.
Spend ten minutes
raving about the fragrant bouquet of a glass of tap water.
Tell people how old
you are in dog years.
Drive around a rotary
until a passenger pukes.
Open a beer and say,
'You know, it really doesn't get any better than this.'
Put $10.00 in a jukebox
and play the same song.
Send a chain letter
using real chains.
Go up to a stranger
in a club and say, 'Excuse me, that's my drink.'
Window shop at a
lawyers office.
Heckle at a religious
service.
Make a big deal about
how fast your finger nails grow.
Brag about your collection
of random thoughts.
Hum your favorite
snack food commercial all day.
Scream 'Watch it,
little buddy!' every five minutes during an episode of Gilligan's Island.
Start complaining
because you've lost your virginity.
Invite all your friends
to your house for a party and then don't show up.
Try to book a flight
of fancy.
Bring your sick stuffed
animal to the vet.
Take up a collection
at work for a collection jar.
Go up to someone
and say, 'Stop me if you've heard this one.' then recite the Gettysburg
address.
Carry groceries with
you on a Stairmaster.
Go to a hairdresser,
ask who does their hair and then go to that person.
Tell everyone that
you're looking forward to some serious social intercourse tonight.
Give directions to
someone who hasn't asked.
Gleefully shout 'Wheeeeee.'
during an escalator ride.
Ask a neighbor to
borrow a cup of water.
Send a new father
card to someone who will be real surprised.
Spend an hour reading
the directions of minute rice.
Think of ways to
make your knuckle hair grow faster.
Go to a strangers
funeral and ask the family for the twenty bucks the deceased owed you.
Ask someone else's
boss to give you a letter of recommendation.
Read another (or
better yet, purchase) one of Bound & Gags' hilarious comedy pieces.