During WWII, our troops were issued "crickets" - clicking devices used to signal and identify each other that sounded somewhat like crickets. I still see them for sale at flea markets and such. The idea of hundreds of those clicking away during speeches amuses me.
We should do this.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/WWII-repro-...576?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item20caa09f08
on ebay
This is a reproduction of a clicker used by the soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division of the U.S. Army to communicate with each other following their parachuting into Normandy (from the west, not the north) during the D-Day landing, one of the most significant events of the 20th Century.
Ok. If only one person does it, periodically during the day, it's "foreshadowing". D-Day is coming. Airborne shoes a comin!
I like the Is - Ra - El chant periodically during the day. It's the kind of thing you wouldn't get kicked out for, so you can do it. I'm guessing. And you can do the cricket thing off and on all day. Before you feel like leaving for the day, just get near a live TV camera, yell something offensive at the top of your lungs, and get out very quickly. Unless you want to stick around for the chants during Romney and the shoe throwing at the end. There is a long tradition of fistfights at republican conventions (1912, 1952 that I found immediately), and this is the type of convention where you would expect fights between factions. Romney's speech is a good time for us to do something like that.
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