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Subject: The "How To" thread

Written By: Red Ant on 04/04/08 at 6:35 pm

This thread is for posting anything dealing with "How To" do something. Recipes (e.g., "How to cook loobster"), puzzle solutions ("How to beat Game X"), ride a Segway, advice, etc. The wackier, the better, but all "How To" topics are welcome, as are questions.

I'll start with this video clip:

"How To Incite A Riot and Get Your Ass Kicked"

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/280491/

Step 1: Find a girl in a public place, with lots of people around, and start hitting her.
Step 2: Wait for your impending beatdown. It shouldn't take long.

And there you have it.

Ant

Subject: Re: The "How To" thread

Written By: gemini on 04/04/08 at 7:04 pm

"How to Break Up"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hfl9e53LX_U

Subject: Re: The "How To" thread

Written By: Red Ant on 04/04/08 at 7:19 pm


"How to Break Up"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hfl9e53LX_U


Too funny!

For the impatient men, here's...

"How To End a Relationship In Twelve Seconds" (The Perfect Girl)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX3iNQ_GMBo

Ant

Subject: Re: The "How To" thread

Written By: gemini on 04/04/08 at 7:21 pm


Too funny!

For the impatient men, here's...

"How To End a Relationship In Twelve Seconds" (The Perfect Girl)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX3iNQ_GMBo

Ant

Yea, that one was pretty quick and to the point  ;D

Subject: Re: The "How To" thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 04/05/08 at 3:43 am

"How to play cricket"

Subject: Re: The "How To" thread

Written By: Howard on 04/05/08 at 7:16 am


Too funny!

For the impatient men, here's...

"How To End a Relationship In Twelve Seconds" (The Perfect Girl)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX3iNQ_GMBo

Ant


I wish I could end a relationship in twelve seconds. ;D

Subject: Re: The "How To" thread

Written By: Red Ant on 04/06/08 at 10:57 pm

There was this puzzle in a game my wife was playing last night of which I do not know the name. The puzzle was like this:

I I I    I I I

The "I"s represent pegs on a linear board with just one space in the middle (a total of 7 holes, 6 occupied by the pegs). The object of the game is to get all of the blues pegs where the red ones are and vice-versa, so that the end result looks like this:

I I I    I I I


The rules of the game are:

~No double jumping
~No jumping a piece of its own color
~No moving any piece backward.

We tried for twenty minutes to solve this and couldn't.

Anyone know "How To" solve this puzzle or what it is called?

Ant

Subject: Re: The "How To" thread

Written By: karen on 04/08/08 at 12:36 pm

^ sounds a bit like a small version of Peg Solitaire.  I expect the way to solve it is similar

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peg_solitaire

Or perhaps Tower of Babel (though I can't find any details of this disc stacking game)

Edited to add:


Found this

http://www.economicexpert.com/a/Tower:of:Hanoi.htm

Subject: Re: The "How To" thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 04/09/08 at 3:09 am

How To Pop-Lock: Body Wave

A body wave is a pop-locking dance move which creates the illusion of a wave traveling through the body, from your head to your toes and back.  It is recommended that you know how to arm wave first, though you can still perform a body wave if you haven't.  The following directions cover a top to bottom wave, then the return wave.


Stand with your arms loosely at your sides.
Raise your shoulders straight utrying to touch them to your earsp, as if you were .
Roll your shoulders backwards, so they are being pulled behind you, and project your chest forward, as if trying to bump an invisible wall in front of you.
Pull your chest in, pushing your pelvis forward to make your stomach stick out.  Pulling your shoulders forward to further "cave-in" your chest helps to enhance the illusion.


Pull your abdomen slightly inward, while thrusting your hips forward.
Pull your hips back, and push your knees forward by raising your heels and standing on the balls of your feet.
Push your heels down, touching them back to the ground.
Straighten your knees and push your hips forward.
Pull your hips back and push your stomach forward.
Pull your stomach backwards, push your chest out.
Pull your chest in, and end the wave by raising and then dropping your shoulders.


As you begin practicing this move, start slowly, and build up speed.  Eventually, as the moves become more familiar, you'll get used to doing rapid body waves.  The best way for a beginner to practice is to perform waves in front of a full-length mirror, making sure that the above steps are performed in a smooth and continuous manner.  Avoid jerking movements.  The key to creating a wave illusion is to disguise the steps by blending them into each other.

It is also possible to do an arm wave into a body wave, and then return.  Directions for an arm wave can be found at How to Pop-Lock: Arm Wave.  First, perform an arm wave from your fingers to your shoulder, only raising the shoulder which performed that wave.  From there, lower that shoulder and pop out your chest, as you would in step three.  Continue to step ten.  Now, instead of raising both shoulders, raise only the shoulder which originally performed the arm wave, then perform an outward arm wave.

Subject: Re: The "How To" wake up unsuccessfully

Written By: Green Lantern on 04/09/08 at 3:48 pm

How to wake up unsuccessfully.


Step 1.  Wake up



Step 2.  Fall back to sleep.



Done!

Subject: Re: The "How To" thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 04/09/08 at 3:56 pm


How to wake up unsuccessfully.


Step 1.  Wake up



Step 2.  Fall back to sleep.



Done!
Let the alarm clock run out of batteries.

Subject: Re: The "How To" thread

Written By: Green Lantern on 04/09/08 at 4:42 pm


Let the alarm clock run out of batteries.


Depleted from use in one's personal vibrator ?

Subject: Re: The "How To" thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 04/10/08 at 2:26 am

How to Bathe a Pet Opossum

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