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[The evil penguin]

Anybody know how to rids ones house from koreas most annoying pest.... the religious pamphlet giver....?????

Whether it's just my apartment block or the whole area I don't know, but the place seems currently infested with 'em....

Last week had a couple of wrinkled granny versions of 'em outside my door. I tried ignoring em but my guitar playing gave me away and they kept kept ringing the bell. They were so astonished when they saw a foreigner opening the door that their jaws dropped and and at least an hours application worth of make-up cracked off and fell to the floor.... I pleaded complete ignorance to the language and eventually they left.... An hour later...they're back. With a konglish speaking friend in tow to act as a translater..... A few mornings later there was ringing at my door again.... same old biddies and AGAIN astonished that a foreigner was opening the door..... Today the same thing. 8:30am. I'd had a late night and consquently feeling a wee bit shabby. My red eyes, stubbly face and hairy disgusting smelly body (still encrusted in peanut butter- don't ask, long story) clad in just a ratty pair of holey (ie- with holes- definitely not a religious or HOLY pair) torn and stained boxers seemed to work as an effective god-halmonie deterant and they were quick to leave. Ahhhhh problem solved.... or so I thought...... Nope. Hour later and there's my door bell again........ the grannies have been replaced by their business suited gold toothed husbands.....

is there a spray I can buy? the moggie man has been pumping his lovely toxic clouds around the block for the last few weeks but this doesn't seem to have any effect....

[Demonicat]

Ost pictures of satan on the door, and pour some karo and red food coloring in a pentagram shape in the hallway. That'll work

[Bulsajo]

Just give them the Gene Simmons tongue-wiggle while flashing the 'Longhorns' signs. Then say something in English loud and fast, and slightly hysterical; It could be anything, for example- "please open your textbooks to chapter 10, page 32, and complete exercise 3a."

[baldrick]

Come on penguin, you should just do as all civilized folk would - invite them in for scones and tea and entertain them with your acoustic version of kum bay yah, whilst one of your friends goes downstairs and sets fire to their car........

PS: the peanut butter. Did it A) involve a female, or B) involve being hungry and drunk. Just curious.

[Freezer Burn]

Marilyn Manson always works for me, I have a DVD that I play behind me, once they see it they know I'm a lost cause, or I'll grab my boyfriend and kiss him in front of him (havent't tried that yet, but would be funny to see thier faces)

[Dan The Chainsawman]

The downside about the Korean bible bashers is they don't understand my statement, "I'm Jewish."

However they do understand me opening up the door in nothing but a towel. That tends to run them off.

[Moldy Rutabaga]

Learn a little of a foreign language and then pretend you don't speak any English. Or you could invent a new language; might be fun. I've found a few blank stares and "perdone, no entiendo tus parablas" said a few times has gotten rid of Jehovah's Witnesses pestering me in the subway malls.

Being a Christian already should keep them away, but it doesn't; it seems to make them more determined to 'convert' me. No use trying that.

Ken:>

[The evil penguin]

[Ya-ta Boy]

[Lizara]

[teachmeenglish]

About one week after I first came to Korea, I took my leatherman tool, opened up the door bell button and cut the wire. Never had a problem since! And if you order pizza, you just leave your door open 1cm and you can hear them. Did the same to that stupid speaker on teh apt wall too.

[Dan The Chainsawman]

I don't know many Koreans who are 6 foot brown hair and blue eyes Yata boy.

I stay away from the full nude as that can have other problems attached to it, you might get the old biddy coming back for more than a kum bay yah session.

[Dazed and Confused]

My husband has a solution that works pretty well. We've got two small dogs. One is psycho and will bite at times. Whenever anyone comes and rings the door bell they go ballistic jumping up and down and barking at the top of their little doggy lungs. Well you get the picture. So...when the religious converters stop by my husband always tells them politely that we aren't interested and if they don't go away he threatens to open the door and set the dogs one them. Works every time. They never come back.

[pet lover]

I also have two small white dogs that bark their little heads off whenever anyone knocks on the door. They are LOUD and will NOT shut up until the door is open so that they can slather the visitor with doggy kisses. This has worked in my favor numerous times. If I just open the door a crack, they continue to bark, lunge at the door, and really work themselves into a frenzy. They SOUND aggressive and whoever is at the door is afraid unless he/she knows them. Religion hawkers generally leave quickly.

Luckily, I now live in a building where you have to enter a security code in order to enter. And, since someone finally scrubbed the security code number off the wall next to the panel, no one gets in unless they live here or someone who lives here lets them in. NICE!

[tomato]

On one such occasion, I looked up the word "evolution" on my pocket dictionary and told my visitors that that was what I believed in.

They were horrified.