I’m Pretty Cool If I Say So Myself

* Are elephants scared of mice? (They only did that because they were in Africa and had access to elephants.)

* Will a bull run amok in a china shop?

* Is it better to run zig-zag or straight when chased by an alligator?

I love these because NONE of them turned out the way they expected. They went into all three with pre-conceived ideas of how it would go, and each time they "failed." Elephants WILL cower from mice. A bull moves very gingerly through a china shop. It doesn't matter how you run because ALLIGATORS WON'T CHASE YOU.

And each time, they reacted with just... pure glee. "Holy shit, we were wrong! Oh my god! This is great! We were so wrong!"

(also, she was never judgey - if my meal was a single potato chip she would simply say good job eating a potato chip today <3 )

geocacheing

chain emails forwarded to you by an aunt you don’t talk to

writing on the walls of public bathrooms

complex system of Minecraft servers with interactive puzzles

hundreds of voice mails each sent to 100 subscribed members of the fandom each, who then have to piece everything together online

choose your own adventure but better

random people get released on stage during a stage play and can affect the plot however they choose

story is embedded in book of word find puzzles

people dressed as wizards kidnap you and you have to be the protagonist

news site that publishes weird stories and there are always weird comments in the comment sections

a group of people creates a story and memorizes it, and then they each have to teach the story to two other people, who must continue passing it on

links to questionable Wikipedia article edits

Instagram account whose photos start getting weirder and weirder until the person who runs the account disappears and the followers have to solve the mystery

recorded on random vhs tapes all over the globe

a podcast that is downloaded to 10,000 MP3 players that self-destruct if they are with the same person more than two weeks, forcing everyone to keep passing them on to new people

a composition book that is transported around the globe via hot air balloon

books left on McDonalds’ floors that say DO NOT READ

a gigantic park full of sidewalks with a story written on the sidewalk that can be read as you walk, and that has different endings depending on where you go

microchips placed inside feral cats

several hundred seemingly identical uploads of the devil went down to Georgia on YouTube, which each have different mistakes in the lyrics, and which can be pieced together to create a story

like jehovah’s witnesses but they walk around asking people if they want to hear a chapter of what is actually a very extended musical with dance numbers. yes, they will do this on your porch, and no, there is no way to get the chapters in order

book where you cut out a chapter every time you read it and write your own

vlog that gets increasingly more concerning

game where the only action is to pick up and read book and also to make coffee and pet your cat

movie put on dvds and scattered around random antique shops

found footage horror film that is just footage that you found

recipes passed down from generation to generation

an ever-expanding franchise that switches to a different type of media every time it creates a sequel. the first installment is a book, the second is a video game, the third is a Netflix series, the fourth is a broadway musical, the fifth is a podcast, the sixth is an alternative rock album, and the seventh is available only through oral tradition

story that is explained to the small children of the people who want to read it, and the children must in turn explain it to them. people without children can borrow someone else’s child.

They turned the stars off, something about light pollution. Light is still traveling through space. An old blue planet, infested with entirely ufashionable life, has been swept into the far corner and covered with a new "no smoking" sign. The world is over, for now, but it didn't end.

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