Use a courtesy phone to make a page:

"Will BDO please meet your party at TDC"

ok, childish, and would never do such a thing, but I can think of some funny PA announcements.

Back to shoes:

Leave pair of old shoes with gum attached to bottom colored in brown shoe polish at the x-ray

What if I wore a flip-flop on one foot and a boot on the other?

Yes, like I said the other day here, make em lava rocks straight from Hawaii. If you believe in Madam Pele's curse, they will all be doomed to drool for the rest of their lives.

If you told them about the curse I bet they would charge you with making a terroristic threat.

OMG, that's funny and hurts no one. Make sure they are all decorated with TSA slogans in neon glitter.

I think I would embarrass my poor wife if I did that. It is bad enough I aggravate her with all this TSA stuff.

I may print up some cards like Steve Martin http://9.media.tumblr.com/gopjZw2t0l...gPYuo1_500.jpg

I think you should wear a T shirt with an image of a sleeping TSO on it.

Slogan: We are tired of security, too.

Over the shirt, the cheapest looking black windbreaker you can find with Security emblazoned on the back in bright pink letters.

Wear one bright red shoe, and one black shoe.

carry a small inexpensive gym bag packed to "bulging status" with only crumpled newspapers.
if the tsa appears at your gate, stand nearby and keep making eye contact with the hopes that you'll get gate raped.
if "you win" and are asked, "may we search your bag", say "no, but you can keep it" and give the gym bag to the tso and then head on down the jetway

Carry a full Airsickness bag through security. Tell them it's a medical item.

How about playing it simple?

Don't stage anything ... go through security as you would normally do. At the end of the process, ask for a comment card. Your motivation, as you state above, is to offer honest feedback on your experience, and to complement those who have done their jobs well. (Of course, we've read reports here that the mere act of asking for a comment card may be enough to cause an incident ... supervisors inappropriately asking for ID, TSOs concealing their identity, and so on.)

The advantage of this plan is that you've not done anything to deliberately provoke anyone, should someone decide to charge you with "interfering with the screening process". All you've done is ask for a comment card, which the TSA invites you to do at any time.

Perhaps you can carry a Seven-Up can safe.

Maybe at your airport, but TSA inconsistency and power-tripping knows no bounds. Several times at MHT, the WTMD screener has been checking every (male) pax for a wallet, regardless of alarm status, and then demanding to paw through it right there at the WTMD if he has one. TSA "got feedback" has declined to respond to my inquiry as to if this is acceptable. I'm pretty sure whoever ordered such actions is not thinking about WEI but hoping to make a "big catch" with regard to a fake ID or membership card for a subversive organization like Ron Paul's Campaign for Liberty or the Republican Party.

To TK: Consider writing something in a black sharpie on your Freedom Baggie. A few years ago, a FTer wrote "Kip Hawley is an Idiot" on his and got all kinds of absurd overreaction from the TSA at MKE, including a classic soundbite that "the first amendment doesn't apply at the checkpoint." For a long time, I wrote "Land of the Free? Home of the Brave?" on mine, but never got any comments. For a while, I strongly considered writing "Live Free or Die" on my baggie, especially for flights to/from MHT (it's the state motto of NH and printed on every license plate), but given the absurditiy of TSA, I can see some morons actually interpreting that as a threat and causing a serious delay.

Refusing to speak to them at all is also a good tactic where you're doing nothing wrong but might provoke a power-tripper. It's not extremely common, but some of them get upset about that, particularly if they are actual or wannabe BDOs/SPOTters.

I like this one.

Put the other flip flop and the other boot in your carry-on and as soon as you have retrieved it, take them out of your bag and put them on, putting the ones you sent through scanning into your bag.

Cut a small piece of sheet aluminium into the shape of a gun. Use as bookmarker. Leave in carryon.