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[Andymeets1880s]

 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!

[Junior]

Ha!

[Swoosh]

5. Record the FITH shout at the end of the ride, play it when you flush the toilet

Fixed 

[History Buff]

Love the fix, Swoosh.  Nice!

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.

[Zephon]

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.

[rubedugans]

18...done
19...her feathered head dress kept getting caught in the ceiling fan

[Zephon]

LOL

[History Buff]

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.

[rubedugans]

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

[rubedugans]

(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

[History Buff]

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?"

[History Buff]

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.

[rubedugans]

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.

[History Buff]

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.

[Zephon]

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.