After a high like the “Die Nibelungen” premiere, there often comes a brief letdown period. Work reasserts itself. The piled-up mail has to be dealt with. It starts to rain. Energy levels sag.
But if you’re lucky, you may then run into a web page with suggestions like this:
Gleeking:
Yawn. (no, REALLY yawn), then immediately curl your tongue backwards and force it against the roof of your mouth. The saliva glands under your tongue will squirt like a squirtgun! You can only squirt once or twice before another yawn is required. Also works while eating (or sucking on hard candy.) Practice this in front of a mirror until you can slightly part your lips and silently hit a target with deadly accuracy. Hey! Is it raining in here?
Plasma jellybeans:
In the dark outside a movie theater or pub, violently shake your head back and forth while observing nearby neon signs. (this only works with clear-tube orange signs.) See those frilly filgerees in the bands of light? All neon signs have them, but normally they wiggle back and forth so fast that humans can’t see them. Physicists call them “positive column striations,” while neon signmakers call them “jellybeans”. Tell bystanders what you are doing, and soon you’ll have a crowd of people shaking their heads in the dark like fools.
Not to mention:
Do the Celestial Crawl:
On a cloudless warm night, walk around until you can put a nearby building or tree very close to a bright star in the eastern sky. Now lay on the ground and move yourself until the corner of the building or the top of the tree just BARELY covers that star. Wait a moment. The star will reappear. Wiggle along to cover up the star again. It reappears. Keep wiggling along. (Um… notice that the entire Earth is rotating beneath you?)
…The intro to the page says it all:
ATTENTION ALL GROWNUPS. Your “inner child” has long been waiting for a chance to usurp control of your body and force it to perform certain actions. The time is now at hand. Read and follow the instructions below. Do this now.
Thanks so much to William J. Beaty.
