Here's my top 5 thing to do when it's too hot:
5.- Wait until it rains
4.- grab a piece of cardboard and flap it
3.- stick my head into the fridge
2.- yell "D#MN IT's HOT!!!"
1.- turn on the air conditioner... after mom turns it off because she's cold.                   

                     I have a/c but it doesn't work at all...  :cry:
I rely mainly on multiple box fans, ice, and very few clothes...                   

                     You're right about our Midwestern weather right now!
I get cold easily too.

To keep cool, I usually just use a fan. I live by the lake, so I get some nice lake breezes.                   

                     Or get tubs of ice and position the fan to blow across. They've been doing that as long as there've been fans. (Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. mentioned that in the first book of his autobiography.)

When I've been in a really hot apt., I either run a cool bath and read in there (with appropriate drink to hand) or go to the nearest bar.                    

                     According to an office mate here, it works very well.

A couple of years ago we had a very bad hot spell--I was so worried about my cat I was leaving the office early to check on him.

Anyway, this guy told me he got several fans, and some Tupperware tubs (big!). He ranged the tubs, filled with ice, around his bed, and put the fans around those.

He said it worked very well...clean-up wasn't much fun, though!                   

                     I'm talking about those big storage bins, when I was in college we used them for laundry.

They should be heavy-duty; ice is not lightweight!

I'm sure that even some dutch ovens or roasting pans would help. Just a few sturdy containers filled with ice!

(And SBJoe's wet sheet suggestion is also a very good one.)                   

                     lindy - I can vouch for your cold bath (with the requisite drink at hand, of course) - works wonders!  But I'm definitely going to try your ice bucket technique, sounds grand.  I've always relied on a good ice-cold shower just before going to sleep and forget the towels, just run straight to bed.  You're in heaven for about 10 minutes, so if you're lucky, you can fall asleep before you dry off completely.                     

                     :shock:  i couldn't be dealing with that- i'd pass out!

in hot weather i tend to:
1. wear shorts and a t-shirt/vest top
2. have a fan to hand at ALL times
3. drink gallons of nearly ice cold water
4. collapse in a heap on the sofa.
5. if i'm outside, come inside.
6. like charlie say "bloomin heck i'm gonna fry/die here!"

so really, that list has been a great deal of help to you hasn't it?!  :wink:                     

Wrong time of year for such a post, I realize, but reading it brought back nostalgic memories of truly warm weather.  Seems like every summer is a bit hotter here.

In the dorms at school our favorite "keep cool" trick was to turn the shower on full-blast cold and place a box fan in the bathroom door.  The cool air would be blown into the room.

I later found out that this same technique has been used back to antiquity.  A fan blowing across a pan of cool water is known in some parts as a "swamp cooler."  Here we'd call that same effect "lake breeze" as it's the same principal of sitting by Lake Michigan and enjoying the cool air blowing in off the lake.