The Top Ten ways to make your home more like SDC!
10. Have an enclosed seat built on top of your garage. Place a man in a convict costume to sit there and tell you to keep your hands inside the car as you enter the garage.
9. Dress a mannaquin as a BaldKnobber and have it peering in your windows!
8. Blacktop the entire backyard (I said this in a previous post)
7. Charge admission to BBQ's you throw
6. Rig your bathtub or shower faucets to play the Flooded Mine song when you turn them on (this one is revised from a previous post)
5. Record the FITH shout at the end of the ride, play it when building a fire in the fireplace
4. Ask the wife to dress up 1880's style when making the family meals
3. Install a slanted floor in the den
2. Ask the plumber how to install the kitchen faucet so the water will flow "up?"
And the number one way to make your home more like SDC.....
Refer to all of the neighborhood boys as Tom and Huck!
Ha! ;)
Quote from: Andymeets1880s on June 18, 2010, 03:40:33 PM
5. Record the FITH shout at the end of the ride, play it when you flush the toilet
Fixed ;)
Love the fix, Swoosh. Nice! :D
11. Charge people to watch your wife make a meal, then give them a bite and a recipe and send them out to make their own.
12. Tell people to park three miles away, then pick them up in your own car and drive them to the front door.
13. Make people show you a photo ID when they enter the front door.
7-B. Sell passes that allow one to go to the front of the line at your BBQ's.
14. Give candlelight tours of your basement.
15. Install "ride" restraints on your toilet.
16. Put a height restriction yardstick on the bathroom door.
17. Install a turnstile at your front door.
18. Install a central sound system in your house and play bluegrass music through it 24/7.
19. Ask the wife to put on a Saloon dress and dance the can-can on the breakfast bar.
18...done
19...her feathered head dress kept getting caught in the ceiling fan
LOL
20. Give your children their allowance in silver dollars.
21. Make the kids wait behind a white line until you say "All aboard" when giving piggy back rides.
22. Install a rising table in the dining room.
23. Purchase a set of tin plates and mugs to replace the china in your china cabinet. Serve meals with these when you have guests.
24. Cook everything in a giant skillet.
25. Call all strangers darlin' and sugar.
26. Stop all visitors, postmen, solicitors, Jahovah's Witnesses etc. and ask them to get together for a photo
27. Hand out pathfinders detailing the events for the day
grass cutting demonstration 11:00am
fued in the kitchen with the wife 12:15pm
etc.
28. Deputize passerbys on the sidewalk
(moved from other thread)
29. Install a $7 million water ride takes you and your family on a not-to-be-missed river adventure where passengers/ family armed with super-soaker water guns wage an all-out water war on the neighbors and postman.
30. Ornately write directions to areas of the house in chalk on the floor
27. (addition) and include a floor plan of your house with complete list of amenities.
31. Put a sign over the back door that says "Hurry out, we lost our lease".
32. (from the other thread) Get a dalmatian puppy.
33. Decorate the family with battery-operated Christmas lights and walk up and down the hallway waving and smiling at the walls.
34. Ask everyone every day "where y'all frum?"
35. When groups of your female relatives drive up, yell out to them "Howdy hussies!"
36. Insist on pointing out the emergency exits before turning on the TV.
37. At least once a day, inform your family that all seating in the den is currently out of order. Make them all leave the room and come back in five minutes.
38. Run all powered items in your home from a central turning wheel in the house with a network of cables, and belts and levers to engage them when needing to turn something on.
39. When your passangers get into the car, walk around both sides really fast pulling and tugging on their seat belts, then return to the drivers side and give a thumbs upto show the riders are ready.
40. Throw peanut shells on the floor.
41. Bump into people and forget to say excuse me.
42. Install Germ-X outside of every bedroom.
43. Install a waterway in your backyard with a waterwheel and a grindstone so you can grind your own flour.
44. Do an internship at Peter Gossamer's Magic Show so you can learn how to make your wife and kids disappear when you need some peace and quiet.
45. Do not allow people to wear flip-flops while sitting on the sofa.
46. Start a fansite for people to discuss everything that happens at your house, what painting they think you'll put above the mantel, what color you'll paint the nursery, how they noticed the new felt on the pool table in your game room, whether you colored the water blue in your toilets. They can post random pictures of places in your house and have others guess which room they were in when they took the pictures. They can discuss the quality of the meals you serve, which direction you might build on, and how your house compares to a house near Kansas City, a house near St. Louis, and four houses in Orlando.
47. Send mom and dad to live in Georgia, but leave the kids at home.
Quote from: History Buff on June 19, 2010, 12:55:07 AM
47. Send mom and dad to live in Georgia, but leave the kids at home.
For. The.
WIN!
48 Make ya'r house smell like cedar.
49 If ya have a garden, use SDC dirt.
50 When ya have guests over, use SDC cups & charge a nickle for refills.
51 Use a spare bedroom for a hospitality house, sell ol' nails, wood, & stuff you have found at City.
52 Have strollers & electric carts. Gosh! This topic could be endless.... :D
53 Get ya'r guests up at 5-6am to get ready for breakfast.
54. Have your house guests fill out survey cards detailing their impressions of your home.
55. Replace all the grass in your yard with wood chips.
56. Put a gazebo in your front yard instead of the back yard.
57. Put lockers at the front door, and make guests check all their loose items.
58. Get rid of all bath towels; install a big fan outside the shower and charge $3 to use it.
59. Buy the house down the street. Spend millions to fix it up. Then leave it vacant.
60 Dont forget the lil' boxes to put ya'r stuff in while ya'r out in the yard or on the couch watch'n TV.
61 OH!! Let vines, weeds, & moss grow all over ya'r house. LOL!! I've been weed-eat'n today..
62 Line ya'r driveway & walkways with old wooden fencing, and add a smoking bench with a bucket for ya'r butts.
63 Put ole corn liquor jugs and various old things in y'ar front yard.
64 Use old tree stumps as planters.
True fact here.. we had a wooden sign made at SDC for our bathroom door that says - "Bath House" ::)
Quote[59. Buy the house down the street. Spend millions to fix it up. Then leave it vacant./quote]
ahhh hahahahahahahahahahah ha so true
Good grief!! I think I created a monster! Boy, you all sure took off with this thread!!
65. Make a "SHHHHHHH" sound when bringing your car into the driveway.
66. Invite people you know of different cultures over to dinners and BBQ's for your own "WorldFest"
67. Buy a bunch of waterslides, toys and inflatables. Have neighborhood kids over for KidsFest.
68. Refer to your parents as "Hatfields", the wife's parents as "McCoy's."
69. Place dummies in basement on pipes and water heater, next time basement floods..Presto! Your own Flooded Mine!
70. Stamp hands of everyone that leaves house so they can get back in.
Quote from: Andymeets1880s on June 19, 2010, 12:44:31 PM
Good grief!! I think I created a monster! Boy, you all sure took off with this thread!!
The monster has always been here; you just woke it up.
29. Revised: Take away your kid's Sit-n-Spin and replace it with a $7 million water ride takes you and your family on a not-to-be-missed river adventure where passengers/ family armed with super-soaker water guns wage an all-out water war on the neighbors and postman.
71. Greet each day with a salute to veterans.
72. Give folks the choice to sit backwards on the toilet for a whole new ride experience (There! I finally got a TNT reference in there.).
73. Install an intercom system in your minivan, but distort the speakers so you can't understand what the driver is saying over it.
74. Refer to the family boat as the "Showboat (your name here) Belle"
75. Provide ponchos for overnight guests when they shower.
76. Decorate all your umbrellas with flowers and rainbows. Include the name of the user.
77. Ship all your family members away and hire Terry Sanders to play all of their roles in costume.
78. Constantly remind people not to sit on the rail of your backyard deck.
79. Advertise around the neighborhood when you refinish the deck, build a shed and put together the kids playground, refer to it as your "Craftsman Festival."
80. Invite your entire church over including choir. Have a cookout in the backyard. Refer to this as your "Southern Gospel Picnic."
81. Hang canary in small cage in your house to alert for carbon monoxide. If bird is upside down, get out!
82. Have wife/girlfriend remind you each morning in a southern accent to "PUT YOUR PANTS ON!"
83. Instead of putting out those ol' pumpkins and monsters out at Halloween, place BaldKnobber dummies on porch, in yard and driveway.
84. Rig tv, radio, appliances and lights in house to come on by being shot with laser guns. Keep points with the family for extra fun!
85. Hang convict dummy in barrel from tv antenna.
86. While homeschooling your children, teach them how to cook and woodcarve. Refer to this as your "Culinary and Craft School."
87. In the garage, build line rails at front and back doors of car.
88. Build massive rocking chair for patio.
89. Charge separate fees for neighborhood and family children to play on playground or swim in pool. Charge special rate for both for the "best value!"
Teach the family dog to speak, fetch, roll over, play dead and jump into the kiddie pool. Refer to this as your "Stunt Dog Experience!"
^^ that was number 90.
91 2 in 1.. Make everyone who comes over wear a hillbilly hat and'a corncob pipe. Dont forget to include nametags so we can call them by their first names!
92. Print snowflakes on your driveway to keep you in the center.
93. Take pictures of your house, your kitchen, your bathroom, your bedroom, your garage, and print them out as postcards to sell to your houseguests.
94. Have a rubber postmark stamp made that features your house and zip code, then sell stamps and let people mail their postcards from your mailbox.
95. Hire convicts to dig a water well.
96. Make and eat a funnel cake, and call it lunch.
97. Use lye soap in the bathtub.
98. When company comes over, slip a bandana over your face and ask for everyone's coats......and watches and jewelry and money, etc.
99. Place a huge wooden family name sign on street edge of your front lawn. Sling and stick ax into top of sign with handle slightly tilted up.
100. Let the kiddies swim and play and you bbq until 10. Refer to this as your Moonlight Madness
Well folks, I guess it's only approproate that I got number 100 since I started the whole thing! ;) ;D :o
I think you should at least have one room decorated upside down.
^^^ Ok...there's number 101!
102. Take black and white family pictures. Cut family out of picture. Next, cut piece of tin or aluminum same size as family. Paste family to tin or aluminum. Presto!....tintype picture!
103. You start buying cups, mugs, plates, saucers and ashtrays and have your house, shed, backyard and neighborhood printed on them.
104. When you send out invitations for different family events and friendly get-togethers, you print brochures instead of actual invitations.
105. The guest room of your house becomes the "Hospitality" room.
106. You replace the chairs, sofa and loveseat with benches.
107. Get the family, friends and neighbors together to dress up in country clothes, have country karaoke with dancing in the backyard. Refer to this as your "GAC Nights."
108. Make the FITH or Flooded mine theme song your ringtone on your house phone.
109. Start making pork rinds and have everyone say "howdy!" if they want a piece.
110. You place speakers in every room of your house and have a constant loop of bluegrass music running.
111. Your grocery trips consist of corn dogs, pork rinds, kettle corn, popcorn, sarsaparilla and root beer.
I already do #110.....
112 Ya listen to the bluegrass channel in the mornin's before ya go to work on DirectTV
113. You buy mannequins and dress them as "citzens" and characters of SDC. You place them around your home accordingly.