Okay, so 9/9/9 is not going to get as much attention as 7/7/7 did nor 8/8/8 (Beijing Olympics), but this doesn’t mean we should not celebrate it. As a result, I now present the following 99 ways to celebrate 9/9/9.
1. Play the board game that was your favorite when you were 9 years old.
2. Catch up (via a phone call or email) with 9 friends or relatives.
3. Dial 999-9999 and see who answers.
4. Put your radio on 99.9 FM n the morning and listen and listen for 9 seconds.
5. Try to remember what you might have been doing on 9/9/99.
6. Keep 99 cents in your pocket all day.
7. Leave work 9 minutes early.
8. Remember a ninth grade spin the bottle party you attended.
9. Go see the new movie 9 (it opens 9/9/9
10. Make “Love Potion #9″ your ring tone for the day
11. Change your screen saver to turn on after 9 minutes.
12. At work, intentionally waste 999 seconds (16.65 minutes) and encourage others to do the same.
13. Call the 9th person on your cell phone directory.
14. Count to 9 like the Count from sesame street in front of a co-worker.
15. Brag to someone that you know that William Henry Harrison was the 9th president
16. Buy something for $9.99.
17. After using the copy machine, set it so the next person will make 99 (or if you like trees) 9 copies.
18. Pet 9 K-9′s
19. Watch an episode of Star Trek Deep Space Nine
20. Refer to yourself as Agent 99 (from movie Get Smart).
21. Count nine clouds in the sky and name the ninth one.
22. Text a screen full of 999999999’s to a complete stranger.
23. Decide what different things you would do if you had 9 lives
24. Tell 9 people that Pluto is no longer the 9th planet
25. Watch Channel 9 on your TV for 9 minutes, no matter how bad the show
26. Watch a 9 inning baseball game.
27. Be naked at 9:09 (you get two chances at this)
28. Have at least 9 glasses of water.
29. Steal the number 9 and the letter I (the ninth letter) from a co-workers’ keyboard
30. Be especially nice to Sagittarius, the ninth sign of the Zodiac
31. Go to a strip club and watch Nine Ladies Dancing (12 days of Christmas)
32. Eat at a Ninety-Nine Restaurant
33. Wear a Wayne Gretzky (#99) jersey
34. Take your Nine-West purse to work today
35. Listen to Beethoven’s 9th Symphony
36. Honor the 9th Commandment and do not bear false witness against your neighbor
37. Bet on all horse #9’s at the track.
38. By now, you should know how much to bet, $9.99
39. Enjoy 9 scoops of your favorite ice cream
40. Play a game of pool (I should not have to tell you what type of game)
41. Try and draw a nonagram (a nine sided polygon)–It is pretty hard
42. Tell 9 people that 99 is a lesbian sexual posiiton (no, I’m not making this up, look it up)
43. Visit nine.com
44 And 99.com
45. And 999.com
46. Watch the movie, The Whole Nine Yards
47. or Nine Months
48. Workout with 9 minute abs
49. Play a round of golf starting on the Back 9
50. Mention to 9 people that New Hampshire was the 9th State
51. Make sure your shower is at least 9 minutes
52. Say thank you 9 times
53. Jump over every 9th crack on a sidewalk
54. Chew 9 pieces of gum at once
55. Throw rocks in a pond
56. Come up with 9 ways to skin a cat
57. Listen to a song from Nine Inch Nails
58. Take a 9 minute walk
59. Don’t work more than 9 hours
60. Experience an nine minute kiss
61. Hold your breath for 9 seconds
62. Come up with 9 reasons why this post is a waste of time
63. Tell 9 that in England instead of calling 911, you call 999
64. Confirm on a calculator that square root is 81 is 9
65. Hold hands with someone for 9 minutes straight
66. If you get gas today, insist on exactly $9.99 worth
67. Use 9 ice cubes in a drink.
68. Play the 9th song on the Cd in your car first
69. Or listen to the 9th song on your Ipod
70. Put 9 staples in an actual work document
71. Debate whether or not there will be a Rocky 9
72. Keep 9 cents in your shoe all day
73. Bet someone $9 that they can’t fold any piece of paper in half 9 times
74. Try to remember how many teeth you were missing when you were 9
75. or who your best friend was.
76. Listen to a song you liked when you were in the ninth grade
77. Order a Number 9 at a Chinese Restaurant
78. If you happen to be on Interstate 9 or 99, or any Ninth/Ninety-Ninth Street/Avenue, you must honk your horn–9 times.
79. Write down 9 words that rhyme with nine
80. Hit F9 and see what happens
81. Change your Facebook/Twitter Status to “Today is brought to you by the number 9″
82. Eat 9 of your favorite cookies (Oreo Double Stuff for me)
83. Do not use the number 8. Refer to it as the number before 9 all day.
84. Order an adult beverage that costs at least $9 dollars.
85. Drink this beverage in exactly 9 sips.
86. Tell 9 people that you were Juror #9 in the OJ case
87. Set a goal for yourself with a deadline of October 10th of next year 10/10/10.
88. Inform Nine co-workers that “Work Sucks” contains 9 letters
89. Hit your snooze button nine times
90. Try to eat exactly 9 of your favorite potato chips and then stop
91. or M&M’s
92. Watch a woman’s college soccer game to honor Title 9
93. Pretend you have OCD and tie your shoes 9 times
94. Use exactly 9 squares of toilet paper each trip to the bathroom
95. Name the main 9 characters in The Brady Bunch
96. Add 9 Facebook friends
97. Party like it was ’99
98. Since 999 is 666 upside down, do a random act of kindness for nine people to help make this day an “Anti-Evil” day
99. Make sure that this post gets read at least 999 times by Stumbling, Tweeting, Facebooking etc. about it
I made it an anti-evil day!
I love the count from sesame street he was fun to watch. Great creative ideas for celebrating 9/9/9.