This editor attempted to escape his school's drama festival by, when forced to take part in the singing - specifically by people who utterly hated him - he picked a song that would be capable of insulting anyone with two brain cells to rub together, hoping to get himself outright disqualified. Unfortunately, the people taking acts were ''not'' one of the aforementioned anyones and he wound up forced to sing it on stage in front of the entire school. Students loved it. Teachers did not and he spent two solid weeks in detention.

This Troper wants to note that the above troper is his hero.

What this troper wants to know is what the song was...

"Springtime for Hitler"?

This troper had a similar experience when he was made to sing at one point in a music class. This troper is a phenomenally bad singer, but rather than actually try, he apparently upstaged everyone actually trying with a horrifically bad version of the American national anthem.

Music class required we perform a classical song with instruments of our choosing every three weeks, one would think a death metal version of Greensleeves would fast put an end to being asked to perform in front of the class. Not so.

That's because a death metal version of Greensleeves would be Awesome.

This Troper does this for every theater audition, after it worked spectacularly the first time by accident - after screwing his intended audition hilariously badly, He stopped midway through, looked the Casting director and Stage director straight in the eyes and said "You know what? I can't sing, I can't dance, and I can't act." He was not only hired on the spot, he received local critical acclaim for the role - as a quasi-underworld man with a cynical, cold-hearted, mercenary personality placed into normal society by a woman inexplicably drawn to him, and who starts to question himself both morally and emotionally by the end of the play. The critics even noted "the long scraggly goatee sported by the lead character only stands as yet another stark contrast between the character and the world he's been drawn unwillingly into" (Actually, I just refused to shave off my goatee) and "The execution of the lead character's self examination was masterful to the point where it isn't just plausible, you really believe this is a man slowly accepting his own morality is fractured and abnormal, and isn't entirely comfortable with the idea, with the actor's performance lending a credibility to the role rarely seen in theater." (Nope - I'm just a terrible actor. It was entirely unintentional.)

Wow. That's almost like an inversion of DisasterDominoes.

This Troper was attending a creative writing course where the teacher stated that he couldn't stand Science Fiction, so, for this troper's second piece, he wrote a Sci Fi short story, only to be applauded by the teacher for being "confident".

When this troper was in high school, she tried to lower her GPA so she would not be salutatorian and therefore have to give a speech at graduation. For reasons still unknown, she was named anyway. She's fairly sure it was either because the other major candidate failed Spanish or the principal was afraid of her mother.

This Troper successfully did that. Then the board decided that I was so close and had been working so hard (not really), that I should give a brief speech and present an award anyway.

I recently intentionally wrote a bad story, and even though it was purposely bad, I hated how bad it was.

This Troper considers himself the AnthropomorphicPersonification of this and MurphysLaw. It gets to the point where he wonders whether he has a superpower, namely failing in the most spectacular ways possible - near everything he does ends in MurphysLaw, and if he tries to be GenreSavvy by using this - he fails at failing at failing.

During one visit to Buffalo Wild Wings, this troper was facing off against his mate in no-limit Texas Hold-Em poker on the restaurant's digital games. He was getting tired of the game, and so purposely went all-in ''twice'' in order to bust out. His mate matched the all-in bet...and got busted, himself, as a result.

This Troper, for an AP Government project, made a campaign commercial for Bob Barr (the Libertarian candidate in the '09 election). He purposely tried to make it laughably over-the-top, with such fine details as creepy photoshopped pictures of Obama and McCain, a deep and echoey voiceover, and hyperbolic, exaggerated statements about how much better the nation would be with Bob Barr in the presidency. Apparently his teacher was so impressed that she showed it her other hours, and, moreover, it even ''convinced some people to vote Libertarian.''

This troper's school is putting on a production of TheSoundOfMusic. Some of her friends decided they wanted to be Nazis. Their decision? All the Nazis should band together and ''actually sing SpringtimeForHitler''. When this troper told her mother their plan, she began wondering if it might become its own SpringtimeForHitler. However, the likelihood of this actually happening is slim to nil....sadly.

This (male) troper once tried to fail the "How Well do You Know Men" quiz and chose intentionally wrong answers... and got the highest result. Ouch.

This troper was easily the laziest Little Leaguer in existence. He hated playing in the outfield, since our infield sucked and there was way too much damn running involved. So one day he decides he's not running in the outfield at all. He's gonna stand there and not run for the ball at all. He got 7 fly balls hit straight at him.

Everyone in my school thought that I was incapable of losing any game with teams invovled. So I purposely tried to fail, and I got every question right. Screw random games of chance.

A friend of mine entered a creative writing workshop thing during the school holidays one year, wherein they had to write several short stories. He wrote two short stories, one of which (a science fiction story) he was particularly proud of -- and both were marked very low by the (all female) judges, who had a very low opinion of science fiction and criticised his work for having no heart. So for the third and final short story (wherein they had to write a story based on several pictures), my friend decided '''"You want heart? I'll show you heart!!!"''' and wrote the most sickeningly glurge-filled TastesLikeDiabetes {{Narm}}ful story he could possibly write involving a poor dying old man, his young granddaughter and an adorable little puppy -- he submitted it, fuming, hoping that the judges would get his point. When he got it back he saw that it had ''full marks'', and a judge had written a comment like "This is the most touching story I've ever read! You didn't fulfill all the criteria, but I couldn't bear to mark it down!" Not only that, but ''there were tear stains on the pages''.

This Troper is a complex thing. You see, when I want to succeed at something, it will become EPIC FAIL. I have about 100 incidents that I can refer to. But when I want to fail at something, God is like, "No" and it suddenly becomes EPIC WIN. This becomes tricky, because when I intentionally fail, as to cheat the "system", it just becomes a regular fail. Moral of the story, "Don't cheat God. Let him decide whether or not you fail or win. Because he's going to make it EPIC."

Your name isn't George Costanza by any chance, is it?

This troper tried to be a JerkJock for a day and try to become a jerk whos heart of gold is kept hidden well away, and failed miserably. I wore one of those jackets, a snug red short sleeve shirt and long shorts. I even forgot to shave that day. What happens? I become adored by everyone, the exact opposite result and my one attempt to make Freshman jokes ended up giving the Soccer team its missing player that got the win that Saturday.

This troper's mother works for a cell phone repair company as a phone operator. She is docked for long calls. Mother has thus calculated exactly how much she can slack off at her job to get her full pay raise, as opposed to doing the best job she can for the customer and being docked in pay for long calls. Suffice to say, Mother is not pleased she's basically being forced to do a bad job to get paid the most.

The less this Troper does at his job, the more he gets praised for his work technique. The more he does, the more it bites him in the butt. Apathy seems to be the way to go.

Hey don't you have a meeting with the Bob's you need to get to?

MWchase: "It's getting late. I'll only play one more round of this, then go to bed." ... (three hours later) ... "WHY CAN'T I LOSE?"

One of this troper's friends made a Youtube video (called "Potato Skins") simply because he was bored and needed to create something, and never expected anything to come of it. He's now on Potato Skins TEN.

DrThinker: Sometime ago, I remarked that a Japanese Superhero Vs. Video Game Stars game on his website's forum that wouldn't becoming over--but then Capcom revealed that it is--with Added Characters!

This troper is fond of this. His art project which scored him an Excellence grade for being, ''"Audacious, bold and satirical in a primal and simplistic manner."'' was a torn piece of box cardboard with the word ART written in super glue.

The arts tend to be like this in general, since TrueArtIsIncomprehensible.

This troper had it played on him in a rather cruel manner. I entered a programming contest held by one of the IRC channels I frequent, and wrote deliberately obfuscative code to manufacture an inside joke... it backfired when I found out it was an '''OBFUSCATED''' Perl contest and I took first place.

My friends have decided that I am a superhero off of the fact that I can not fail when I attempt to. I can manage to win battles in Star Wars Battlefront despite haveing '''100 deaths''' in one battle. Once your entire team dies 150 times, you lose. Yes, I can fail so spectacularly at failing as to die over twice as much as my normaly incompentent army. I, still to this day, have yet to lose. Damn my army's ability to perform at ten times the normal level of competence.

This troper took over an NPC for a game of {{Runequest}}. The idea was to get something wrong on the boat on purpose, but so it looked like an accident. The character fumbled... Critically... This was a subversion, because something on the boat ACTUALLY went wrong...

My friend and I once tried to have a Fail Day, a day where everything we did made us out to be a failure, preferably a comical one. First period, I screwed that up. A girl lost her earring outside and worried about teachers hassling her when she went out to get it. I piped in with a clearly joking attempt to get myself in trouble for threatening teachers: "If any try, I'll beat them up for you!" She asked me to go outside with her and help her look, and we kinda, uh, bonded (no, not like that, get your mind out of the gutter). The only time I can succeed with girls is when I'm trying to fail!

A common story in this troper's circle of friends is about a teacher some of his friends had. This teacher had established a completely game breaking grading mechanic: during a test, one could bring in a can of food for extra points. There were no exceptions to this rule. One kid purposely failed a test, then brought in a bunch of canned food, and ended up getting over 100%.

This troper was playing ''Club House Games'' on Stamp mode, Normal, and faced {{chess}}. Since he sucks at chess, he tried to lose deliberately to gain a stamp, then lose again to get 2nd stamp and go onto another stage. So, he moved the king out in the open, hoping for quick checkmate for him, only for the computer to tried to check the king with queen, leaving it exposed to my queen and leaving forces on the right flank in a very bad position to get slaughtered by my queen. Then it proceeded to make more mistakes by spreading the forces and tried to continuously check him instead of moving its pieces to a more favorable position, ending with him checkmating it with his queen and a rook. So, he gained 3 stamps, and having a spare for next stage...huh?

This troper once half-assed and pretty much scribble-colored a drawing for this cover design contest at her old grade school. She then got 3rd place.

This troper is absolutely unable to read a map correctly. He always end up going the wrong direction. When he tries to be Genre Savvy about it and deliberately take the wrong way, it ends up to be just that. The wrong way.

This troper never seems to attract the kinds of women he's interested in, and since he has some pretty major communications difficulties (a mix of Asperger's and frighteningly low self-esteem), has been known to sandbag women who aren't his type to get rid of them. It never works.

This troper's brother often tries to show her some of the "epic deaths" he can get in games. 9 times out of 10, he fails to die.

This troper REALLY dislikes piano lessons. One day, my piano teacher had me play a song I didn't like, so I tried to play every note wrong. I played it perfectly and she congratulated me on it.

In one game of ''MarioParty 3,'' T.T. tried to purposefully ''lose'' all her coins, for a reason she doesn't remember (she may, however, have been trying to let her sister win.) She landed on Game Guy's square. She bet all her coins on the tiny, 64x Modifier square, fully hoping to lose. She won. When she attempted to lose at Game Guy ''again,'' figuring she couldn't possibly hit the 64x square ''again,'' not only did she succeed, she ended up with ''999 coins.'' Talk about failing at failing.

Played straight many times (not always) when I (there are times and places I want to use the term ''this troper;'' now is not the time) face someone I know at any racing game, be it Mario Kart (reduce speed), Burnout (crash), Need for Speed (drive in reverse) or Ridge Racer 6/7 (try hard not to drift). Three guesses to who won. Better blame my video game racing skills (and their lack thereof) dating back to the late 20th century.

This troper hates writing debates or articles. So he deliberately picks topics that are controversial, and picks the backward discriminatory and just plain wrong viewpoint , so as to fail them thereby show he hates doing them. However, I seem to do such a bad job that I alwayss get A's and my arguments end up changing peoples minds. This troper managed to win the debate, proposing that 'Smoking is Good for you.'

When this troper was young, he believed that love sucked and suffered from a ParalyzingFearOfSexuality. To ensure that he'd be passed by as a prospective love interest, he grew his hair long, dressed all in black, angsted a lot and otherwise ignored members of the opposite sex. Guess how they responded?

This troper got frustrated by a conversation while bowling with his family one time, and started messing up intentionally. In his first frame he decided to get an intententional gutterball. Instead, he bowled a strike.