Ski season...

16. Visit your local butcher and pay $30 to sit in the walk-in freezer for a half an hour. Afterwards, burn two $50dollar bills to warm up.

15. Soak your gloves and store them in the freezer afterevery use.

14. Fasten a small, wide rubber band around the top half ofyour head before you go to bed each night.

13. If you wear glasses, begin wearing them with glue smearedon the lenses.

12. Throw away a hundred dollar bill-now.

11. Find the nearest ice rink and walk across the ice 20times in your ski boots carrying two pairs of skis, accessorybag and poles. Pretend you are looking for your car.Sporadically drop things.

10. Place a small but angular pebble in your shoes, line themwith crushed ice, and then tighten a C-clamp around yourtoes.

9. Buy a new pair of gloves and immediately throw one away.

8. Secure one of your ankles to a bedpost and ask a friend torun into you at high speed.

7. Go to McDonald's and insist on paying $8.50 for ahamburger. Be sure you are in the longest line.

6. Clip a lift ticket to the zipper of your jacket and ride amotorcycle fast enough to make the ticket lacerate your face.

5. Drive slowly for five hours - anywhere - as long as it'sin a snowstorm and you're following an 18-wheeler.

4. Fill a blender with ice, hit the pulse button and let thespray blast your face. Leave the ice on your face until itmelts. Let it drip into your clothes.

3. Dress up in as many clothes as you can and then proceed totake them off because you have to go to the bathroom.

2. Slam your thumb in a car door. Don't go see a doctor.

1. Repeat all of the above every Saturday and Sunday untilit's time for the real thing!