The List

160-151

160. Put it in your English paper.
"Why Jack Watson Has Five Days To Live" by B. Smith

159. Put it on a grocery list.
Gal. milk
1 tombstone for your cancer-wracked body
Doz. eggs

158. Take them out to an amusement park.
Tell them right before a steep drop.
"I just wanted to tell you, Stan...a bunch of junkies killed your wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiife!"

157.

156 Crop Circles.
"Though at first there was no recognizable pattern to the signs appearing in fields all over the mid-west, cipher specialists have now found out that it's
morse code for 'Sorry, Joe, your whole family died in a massive train wreck'"

155. Play "Who Am I" as him/her
You: "Do I wear glasses?"
Others: "YES!"
You: "Do I have brown hair?"
Others: "YES!"
You: "Do I have cancer and will die in the next 6 months?"
Others: "YES!"
You: "Oh, I know, I'm Charlie!"
Charlie: "What?"


154. Change their username
iHaveAIDS has logged on
iHaveAIDS: Who changed my name?
Joe: Your doctor...


153. Two words - Google bombing.
"So, Dave, maybe when you have a little free time, you'll go to Google and type in 'people with chlamydia'...yeah, yeah, and then you click 'I'm Feeling Lucky'...yeah, uh...oh, no reason. Bye!"

152. Let it slip out while golfing.
"Well, Stan, I think you'll shoot however many days you have left to live. So, you should shoot...about a three."

151. Tell them with a mix CD.
Nothing says it quite like Matchbox Twenty's "Disease".


150-141

150. Tell them in an IM.
JoeHasHerpes53: r u joe?

149. Make them pay for drinks.
"Drinks are on the guy with the inoperable brain tumor! Phil, you buying?"

148. Tell them to look on the bright side.
"Hey, sweetie, you know how you've always wanted a guest room? Well, I figured that since our son is going to jail and he's not going to need that room for about five years, we could talk about redecorating."

147. Use a sextuple negative.
"Hey, Bob, you don't not not not not not have cancer!"

146. Tell them at a sporting event.
"We'd like to give a hearty hello the fan in seat 33-C, who has 5 days to live!"

145. Put it on a T-Shirt.
"Your wife was killed in a car accident and all she left me was this lousy T-Shirt"

144. Talk to their neighbours about it.
"Yeah, ever since I heard he has AIDS, I'm really sorry for him? What, you didn't know? Well, you should ask him then, I'm sure he meant to tell you."

143. Put it on your answering machine and tell them to call you.
"Hi, I'm not at home. You can leave me a message. Unless it's you, Frank: You only got 24 hours to live, you should be out there and use what little time is given to you!"

142. Make a bad webcomic about it!



141. With the Old Military Trick
Allright, you maggots. Everyone who's got a wife that's alive step forward. PRIVATE MILLER, STAY IN LINE!


140-131

140. Through the magical art of Mime



139. Get Sir Elton John to release another new version of "Candle in the Wind"
Goodbye Bobby's mom
Though he never knew you're rich
You had the grace to hold yourself
Until you hit that ditch
That truck, it hit you so hard
And it splattered all your brains
The servants, all in your will
Have your millions to their name
But it seems to me you lived your life
Like a candle in the wind
Never knowing who to cling to
When the greed set in
And I know your son disowned you
So he's not in your will
Your candle burned out long before
He went in for the kill


138. This way!
Well, all I can really say to you right now is that YOUR WIFE DIED WHEN HER OFFICE BURNED DOWN so sorry. Also YOU HAVE SYPHILLIS that you got when you had that affair the week before YOUR WIFE DIED AND YOUR MISTRESS IS PREGNANT I know this may be a lot to lay on you at the current moment, but really.

137. Hide it in a link
Yo, dude. You know how you just got an iPod, I think you should read this so you know how to enjoy it to its fullest potential for the next 3 to 6 months !

136.

135. Surrealism!
A purple polka-dotted hungry giraffe swims in a bath tub while your wife was killed in a plane crash while the sun in Napoléon's eye collapsed like a monkey bird.

134. Department store flyer



Hey Bob! It's the great YOUR ENTIRE FAMILY HAS JUST
BEEN DEVOURED BY A PRIDE OF LIONS SALE!

Great savings in every department!
10% off all black clothing for the poor widower.
This week only and only at Gigantic Tiger!

133. ENG13 .
Url, Ebo! V xvyyrq lbhe cneragf! (whatever that means)

132. Be an ass
Look, just because both your parents got hit by a truck does not give you the right to demand that I stop leaving the toilet seat down!

131. Use a popular character as a help device
You're not the only one, Jessie! Look, this book is called "Harry Potter and the Kidney Stone".



130-121


130. Reminisce about it
Hey, remember that time when your dad shot and killed your mother yesterday and was killed by the police after a stand off?

129. The <your name here> Memorial Parking Lot.

128.

127. Haiku
Cherry blossoms grow
When the spring comes around here
Too bad you have AIDS

126.

125. Spray-Paint it on their cat
Be sure to include 'sorry' for a touch of empathy

124.

123. Get stranded on an island
and spell it out in rocks.

122. Hack Wikipedia.
You have new maladies.. (last tumor)

121. Give them a sign



Sorry Max'd out this message Continued below

120-111


120. Enroll them in a club
Dear Sally Jenkins,

This is a nominal invitation to join the Orphans Club. For details see the attached flier. Please register at our HQ (address below) or in our website www.youareorphaned.com

119. Yours to discover!



118. Lighthearted Comparison
"Wow! That boy's growing as fast as your malignant tumor!"

117. Leave messages in the phone machine

• Message 1: "Hey, Jim, you remember Buttons? Well, he's stuck in a tree and no matter what we try we can't get him down."
• Message 2: "Jim? We got Buttons down, but he was hypothermic and was rushed to the Vet's."
• Message 3: "The Vet says he's trying everything, but it's not looking good."
• Message 4: "I'm sorry Jim, but Buttons' gone to the big litterbox in the sky."
• Message 5: "Hey Jim it's Ted, want to go get drunk on Vanilla Extract and throw Cherry Danishes at the hookers?
  What?
  Oh, right... Jim, Buttons would have wanted you to Cherrify the hookers."
  

115. Misfortune cookie.



114. Create a sandwich.
I think I'll have the Paul Fields Memorial BLT

113. Tattoo it on your knuckles
| Y | O | U | L | | L | D | I | E |

112. Thru Radio
Jason Mann would like to send a big hug to his friend Bill Lavender and tell him his son got eaten by an elephant! *elephant noise*

111. Hold a parade
The First Annual Macy's You Have Testicular Cancer Day Parade.


110-101


110.Scrabble
Simply insert some subtle hints into a friendly game of Scrabble.



109. In poetry
Roses are red
Violets are blue
I have HIV
And now you do too.

108. Trust in the Bible.
I am glad to inform you that the court has found a suitable resolution to your long-standing child custody dispute. This court has consulted the timeless wisdom of King Solomon and on the basis of the doctrine of stare decisis has decided to simply chop the child in half.

107. Name a new species
"And we will call this dinosaur the Billsmomhascancersaurus Rex."

106. During the holidays
Give them a big present with a fancy red ribbon for Christmas and tell them that it's a surprise. Then, when they open it, it will be a child-sized coffin with a note that says "This is for Billy. He has late-stage leukemia. If he doesn't die (not fucking likely) he can turn it into a soapbox derby car or something. Cheers. Your family physician."

105. Nominate them
for the Having AIDS Hall of Fame or start sewing their panel for the AIDS quilt

104. Rock, paper,
cancer!

103. Buy a vowel



102. Steal their phone
and record it as their ringtone.



100-91


100. Russian Reversal
"Hey Billy, in Soviet Russia, a plane crash died in your parents!"

99. Good news/Bad news
"Miss Hamilton? We have some good news and some bad news for you. The good news is that Detective Taylor over there has just got engaged. Congratulations again, Chip! The bad news is your son's dead." Another variant is duplicating those GEICO commercials.

98. Use a festive occasion to soften the blow
"Merry Christmas, Mr. Richards! You have an inoperable tumor."

97. Try to throw them off
"I have some positive news for you, Miss Wilson. HIV-positive, that is!"

96. "Wag the dog"
"By the way, Bob, I've been sleeping with your wife for two years." *promptly shoot the television*

95. Use a foreign language
Deliver it to them in a crazy foreign language like Spanish and then teach them just enough of that language to make them understand what you said: "Tu tenías una madre. You may notice that in this sentence 'tener' is used in the past tense"

94. Deliver the bad news in a chat room or through IM
"OMGWTF!!!11 its malignant0rz!"

93. Zork narrator
[QUOTE]
Bad news! Score:1 - Moves: 13
------------------------------------------------------------------------

You have been eaten by a Grue.

Oh, and by the way, your spouse just got run over by a freight train.
Isn't that great?

• Give up [color]
• [color=red]Die

------------------------------------------------------------------------

92. Use Bomgo Drums played in morse code
this is actually so silly they may laugh when they hear their son had syphilis and had to have his head amputated. I know I did!


91. Make up something even worse to make them relieved when you tell the truth

"All our kids died in a playground shooting! I'm kidding, it was just little Annie."

and below

90-81

90. Play it as an April Fool's joke
"I burned down your house. April fools! It was actually the Russian mob."

89. Distract them with physical pain
*punch in the face* You only have two weeks to live!

88. Use a Rebus



87. Use a knock knock joke
"Knock knock"
"Who's there?"
"Yule"
"Yule who?"
"Yule have to use a colostomy bag for the rest of your life."

86.

85. Skywriting
Have "Your baby has died" written in 40 foot high letters of red smoke above the town where they live. Don't forget to include their names.


84. Take out a two-page ad in the New York Times



83. Make them feel guilty to take the blame off yourself
"I'm sorry Billy, we couldn't save your mother. God has taken her up to heaven. I guess you just didn't love her enough."


82. Make a page about it on Wikipedia
Hey, anyone can edit it, and there probably isn't an article entitled "I killed your baby"

81. Make a page about it on uncyclopedia (Dave I am Leaving You)
Create a Worst 100 list; entitle it "Worst 100 Diseases your wife could have".


80-71


80. Using You have two cows
"You have two cows. First you have to visit Your Mom in the Hospital and then you have your Wife".

79. Reprogram Windows XP



78. Play I spy
"I spy with my little eye something ending with... AIDS
"What?"
"You!"

77. Use an allegory
"So the evil trolls from the land of Leukaemia traveled through the red rivers of Circulus, and the Grand Wizard Immuno was powerless to stop them."

76. Killing them
"Just wait till you see who's waiting for ya at the pearly gates!"

75. Make them guess
Give them a hint every now and then to keep it going.



74. Soften the blow with a present
"Your house has burnt down with your children in it. Here, I got you an iPod".
"Hi honey, I'm home. I just got back from the high street where I bought some fine fresh flowers for your gravesite. Oh, by the way, Doctor Smedley called and said there was something he needed to tell you..."

73. Make Lance Armstrong tell them
"huff huff huff huff huff... uh so huff huff yeah, your huff huff huff son died."

73. Edit Uncyclopedia
so that there are two #73's

73. And add a third
just for good measure.

73. But four
is too much.

72. Cockney Rhyming Slang
Versatile for any occasion -

• "Do you have a knife?" - "I am shagging your wife"
• "My name is Bob" - "I am afraid you have penile cancer and I will have to operate"

71. Distract them with sheer panic
Lock them in a room with a starving, rabid Polar bear and shout the bad news through the key hole.


70-61

70.

69
[QUOTE]

For those obsessed with So-Called-Experts, Wikipedia has an article about: Bad News

68. Point out irony to lighten the mood
"And your son committed Suicide with the gun that you bought to protect your family. Ironic, isn't it..."


67. Charge money for every bit of information
Might as well make some cash out of it.
"It has to do with your mother."
"What does? Just tell me."
"You know the rules. Ten bucks, or no new information"
"Ok, here!"
"Thank you. It's something bad."
"Oh for f@#k's sake! Just tell me already."
"We'll get there eventually. Would you like to continue?"
"Jesus Christ! Here."
"It happened this afternoon..."


66. Charades



65. Blog it
That way, you add links everywhere to help them!

64. Get a Parrot to say it [1][/b]


Awk!
"Your daddy got hit by a bus."
Awk!

63. Save it for when you're losing an argument
"Oh Yeah? Well... Well.... You've got lung cancer!"

62. Spam them
They get home, open their inbox and find spam about kidney cancer. They talk about it the next day, then you tell them you signed them up for it as you thought they would like to see what can cure them.

61. Take them sky diving and tell them right before they jump out
"Ok Phil, remember to pull the cord after about ten seconds. Also, your dog was run over by a steamroller."

and below

60-51


60.

59. Pay their favorite celebrity to tell them
"Hi, Mikey, I'm Michael Jackson! I heard you're a big fan of mine! Well, I just came to your house to let you know you'll be dead in three months!"

58.

57. Using JavaScript
private Message (double RapedInTheEar)
{
super ("sorry" );
Your Mom = RapedInTheEar;
}

56. Write it in blood on their brand new white carpet
"Sorry Jim, should've saved that money for the chemo!"

55. Make an entry on bash.org

54.

53. Do it on a cheezy talk show (ie Maury Povich or Jerry Springer)

"Uh, honey, I couldn't tell you this unless I was with Maury, but I've been cheating on you with your best friend, and our baby may not be yours, and our baby may actually be an alien."

52. Get yourself on the news and say it on live television
"God told me to do it, I'm so sorry for the families of all the seven people I killed, but I didn't have any choice. Oh by the way Nick, I know you're watching this, your daughter has AIDS."

51. Tell them during sex.

I have Dyarrhea


50-41


50. Edit their user page:

49. Blame it on foreigners
"Those damn Mexicans gave you a brain tumor!"

48. Do it at the end of the world
"I dropped you on your head when you were a baby." "Oh, daddy! I love you so much!" *blam*

47. Use
YTMND [2]

46. A
singing telegram.

45. Engrish
ALL YOUR HIV ARE BELONG TO CARL. YOU ARE ON THE WAY TO AIDS-STRUCTION. HA HA HA.


44. Write an Encyclopedia Dramatica article
"hahahaha yeah so ronnie456 is the gayest LiveJournal user ever, also too bad you've got lung cancer mark =(".

43. Rig a magic eight-ball to always answer positive
"Did Bobby's fiancee drown in the pool this morning? Definitely true..."


42. Pretend they won a prize
"Congratulations, Dianne! You're the one millionth person to get a check-up at our hospital! Guess what you've won!"
"What?"
"Free healthcare for the rest of your life! Two months worth! Woo!"


41. Bake them a cake.




40-31


40. Master the art of ventriloquism
and make it look like somebody else said it.

39. Microsoft Excel Pie Chart



38. Tell them at the altar during the wedding ceremony
"I do. Also, I have a penis. Yeah, I probably should have mentioned this sooner, heh..."

37. Use humor to relieve the tension
"Have you heard the one about the guy whose mom had terminal cancer?"


36. Using a Bad crypric crossword clues
"You haven't WON this battle, NEO. You've got only _ _ _ more day to live". (1)


35. After a Light sabre battle while your opponent is hanging on for dear life
"I am your father."

34. Inhale some helium from a balloon
to add a touch of hilarity.

33. In a business meeting



32. Make them their very own Oscar Wilde quote
"Richard Stevenson? Ahh yes, the young man with the terminal illness. My condolences."


~ Oscar Wilde

31.
"Happy Final Birthday!"

and below

30-21


30. By giving subtle hints


Who has cervical cancer? Spin the wheel!

29. Make them go find on their own
"Why I haven't seen your kitty cat all morning Susie; but maybe you should look under the front of daddy's car."

28. Treat them to a full body wrap at the spa
and tell them when they are cocooned in saran wrap and cucumber puree.


27. Send in the clowns



26. Use a Monty Python reference.
"Honey, there's a Mr. Death here, come to see about the reaping..."
"Your third castle just burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp! But you tell the kids that these days..."
"Nobody expects the Salmonella Inquisition!"
"Is that parrot a Norwegian Blue?"
"You've got AIDS...nudge, nudge, wink, wink, say no more, say no more."


25. Leave a post-it on their work desktop.
"Meeting at 3 pm. Also, your mom drowned in the tub."

24. Make a song about it
"Hey, Larry
You're nice and all
But I'm sorry to tell you
You have cancer in your balls..."


23. Spray paint it
on their car, house and, if possible, rear-end.

22. À la Nelson Muntz
"Aaron, your family was violently murdered. Haw haw!"

21. Pieces of Info
Tony: "Do you have health insurance?"
Linda: "Yea, why?"
Tony: "No reason. Just asking. Uh, how do you feel about cancer?"



20-11


20. Call someone with Tourette's to do the job for you.
"You have FRIG two weeks to CUNTRAG POOPY live."

19. Imitate The Ring
"Seven... days... until your medula melts."

18. Get it into the top 40
"And now, the new Backstreet Boys hit single: 'Dave, I forgot to feed your cat and it died, really sorry. Love, Matthew'"

17.

16. Throw them
a 'bad news' surprise party.

15. Kick Me!
Tape a "kick me in the crotch, then tell me that I have penile cancer" sign to his back.

14. Make a card, but not the kind Hallmark would make



13. Disguise it as an award



12. Try to compare it to a famous example
"Remember when Freedy Mercury got AIDS and ended up wasting away and dying? Well, this is kinda like that. Except you're a shitty singer."

11. Use the power of Radio
For Bubba from Tallahassee, whose only son just got eaten by a hungry alligator, here's Sir Elton John's smash hit "Crocodile Rock"!
This long-distance dedication goes out to Joe Schmuck of Moose Breath, Sasquatchewan from all the fine doctors at Billy-Bob's Blacksmithery and Cancer Clinic. Here's Another One Bites The Dust, a former Queen-sized top-one single which may well be the last song Joe Schmuck hears before the malignant tumor spreads to the rest of what was once his brain.



10-1


10. Summon the town crier.
"Oyez, oyez! People of this fine village, lend my thine ears! Syphilis has taken its toll and this fine citizen shall be dead upon the morrow! Oyez, oyez!"


9. Seek mummers or carollers to deliver your festive message.
Joy to the world, the school burned down
And all your children died...

8. Deliver a message using a squad of crazed underage cheerleaders
"Give me a "P", give me a "L", give me an "A" , give me a "G" , give me a "U", give me an "E", what does that spell? The PLAGUE, the PLAGUE, you dead, you dead! Rah, rah, rah, go TEAM!! YAY!!!"

7. Halftime at the Super Bowl
We cut away briefly from our coverage of this year's wardrobe malfunction to show the Not A Good Year blimp, and its message "Billy, Your Papa Just Died Of A Heart Attack". And, on that note, here are a few words from our sponsors Marlboro...


If nothing works, you can always combine 6 & 7.

6. The awesome power of
Interpretive dance

5. Talk about the TV shows "Lost" or "Survivor"
Hey, wouldn't it be weird if the reason Locke can walk on the island is because your sister just had a miscarriage?
Hey, do y'know waht I think is under the hatch? Your mother's corpse that was dug up last week.
Six doctors have voted. You have been voted off the island. Guess we won't see you next week. For everyone else, same time, same channel...

4. Supportive Comparison
"Good luck at the concert tonight, Sally. You'll kill 'em, just like the rabid bear killed your parents!"

3. Double jeopardy
"Here we go, it's Fatal Carbon Monoxide Poisonings for $100. The answer is YOUR ENTIRE FAMILY, now what was the question? You have three seconds..."


2. Write it on stone tablets
then send some guy up Mount Sinai to collect.

1.
Hey Matt, I know you hang out at uncyclopedia, so if you're reading this,
your daughter jumped off a roof this morning. Dave13:04, 12 Jan 2006 (UTC).:

Done