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porphyrian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-22-07 11:56 PM
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You're stuck in a room with no windows and no doors...
...and all you have with you is a can of Vienna sausages (plain, pull tab lid), a VHS cassette of Pootie Tang and Kid Rock, who appears to be drinking his own pee. How do you get out?
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cuke Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-22-07 11:59 PM
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1. Use the stairs
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porphyrian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-23-07 08:33 AM
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19. That would get you out of the room, but you don't want to go that way. - n/t
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Forkboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-23-07 12:01 AM
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2. Kill myself.
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QueenOfCalifornia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-23-07 12:42 AM
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6. I am with you
death is better than the music selection and the food is begging for a suicide.

stupid villagers.
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porphyrian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-23-07 08:34 AM
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21. You should see how bad it is in the other rooms. - n/t
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porphyrian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-23-07 08:34 AM
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20. Probably not a bad idea if you're stuck in this room. - n/t
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JTG of the PRB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-23-07 12:02 AM
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3. Plasma grenade.
Edited on Tue Oct-23-07 12:02 AM by jtg33
I always keep one on hand just in case.
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quip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-23-07 12:36 AM
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4. You, too? NT
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porphyrian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-23-07 08:35 AM
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24. Another Scout? - nt
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quip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-23-07 09:06 AM
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37. Nearly, but no
My dad is an Eagle Scout; I dropped out before WEBELO because I didn't like the sound of it. ;-)
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porphyrian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-23-07 09:10 AM
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38. Good for you. However, it's obvious "be prepared" was hammered into your head. -n/t
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quip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-23-07 09:23 AM
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39. Yup. "be prepared"; in other words "think first" n/t
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porphyrian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-23-07 08:35 AM
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22. You must've been in the Scouting program. - n/t
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JTG of the PRB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-23-07 05:54 PM
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43. Up through Webeloes. I still remember the last lesson I was given...
"Now listen up guys, because what I tell you know could someday save your life. This is a dangerous world we live in, and there may come a time when you discover you are trapped in a room with no windows and no doors. In this case it is CRITICAL that you always, ALWAYS keep a plasma grenade with you no matter where you go. Make sure it's not a fragmentation grenade, because those will spray shrapnel everywhere. It HAS to be a plasma grenade."

Words to live by...
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porphyrian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-23-07 05:59 PM
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44. Wise words. - n/t
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Guaranteed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-23-07 12:40 AM
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5. Pull the tape out of the VHS cassette, triple it up, tie it to the
pull tab of the Vienna sausages, shove the can up Kid Rock's butt, then throw Kid Rock over the wall. No ceiling, right?

Climb your way to freedom!
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porphyrian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-23-07 08:36 AM
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25. "No ceiling, right?"
Only if you're white and male.
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Rhythm and Blue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-23-07 12:42 AM
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7. Just walk out. No walls, right? nt
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Guaranteed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-23-07 12:43 AM
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8. Wouldn't it be difficult to then call it a "room?"
Edited on Tue Oct-23-07 12:44 AM by BullGooseLoony
Or are we getting into another argument of semantics and connotations?
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Rhythm and Blue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-23-07 12:45 AM
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10. I'd say this house has rooms.


Just no walls yet.
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Guaranteed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-23-07 12:47 AM
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11. Aren't there walls in that picture? nt
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Rhythm and Blue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-23-07 12:48 AM
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12. Pretend the plywood isn't there.
I'd still say it has rooms, despite not having walls.
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Guaranteed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-23-07 12:49 AM
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13. I dunno....without the walls, tough to say there are actual
Edited on Tue Oct-23-07 12:51 AM by BullGooseLoony
rooms...

There are places where rooms will be.

Hey, I said a room doesn't have to have a ceiling. So ding me on that one.
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Rhythm and Blue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-23-07 12:53 AM
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14. A philosophical quandary.
Edited on Tue Oct-23-07 12:53 AM by Rhythm and Blue
I would say that, because there is an enclosure of sorts (despite being made of just planks of wood) in what is clearly recognized as a "house," there is a "room." You, observing that there are no walls and thus there is no actual enclosement of space, declare that there is not yet a room, but merely the marked intent of future room-ness.

We cannot further proceed :P
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Guaranteed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-23-07 01:01 AM
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15. Not sure I would call it a house, either.
Edited on Tue Oct-23-07 01:02 AM by BullGooseLoony
But even if it was a house, that doesn't mean it has to have rooms. In the situation you're speaking of, for example- if that structure was a house, but had no walls.

I say we start a poll. We NEED a consensus on this! :hide:



Don't worry. I'm the "village" guy. ;)
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porphyrian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-23-07 08:43 AM
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27. Walls are just a way to keep Jeff Goldblum from watching you pee. - n/t
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porphyrian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-23-07 08:37 AM
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26. That depends on whether you're here before or after the guys with plasma grenades. - n/t
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Shine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-23-07 12:45 AM
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9. You had me with: You're stuck in a room with no windows and no doors...
I. WOULD. BE. FREAKING. OUT.

Claustrophobia....:scared:
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porphyrian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-23-07 08:44 AM
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28. Well, it could be a big room, but yeah, that sucks. - n/t
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Richard Steele Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-23-07 01:50 AM
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16. Open and eat the sausages, then use the lid to slit my jugular and I'm OUTTA THERE! nm
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porphyrian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-23-07 08:44 AM
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29. Can't hold that against you. - n/t
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Deep13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-23-07 08:09 AM
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17. How did I get in? n/t
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porphyrian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-23-07 08:45 AM
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30. It was near the bottom of the last User's Agreement you clicked "yes" to install. -n/t
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yellowdogintexas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-23-07 08:21 AM
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18. it appears to be a cave and I would just follow my party leader out
because of course you never go caving alone. Maybe we would have used the tape to leave a trail back to the entrance. Yes I have eaten Vienna Sausages underground although I prefer canned chicken, heated on Sterno tabs and with a side of canned fruit and some canned pudding for dessert.



I spent the weekend with old cavers so this was just obvious to me.

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porphyrian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-23-07 08:46 AM
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32. Don't (or do) watch The Descent. Creeeeeepy movie. - n/t
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zingaro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-23-07 08:35 AM
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23. I'd astrally project myself somewhere more preferable...like hell.
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porphyrian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-23-07 08:47 AM
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33. That's assuming you aren't already there. -n/t
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Orsino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-23-07 08:45 AM
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31. First you use the can of sausages smash the screen of the implied TV...
...to put it out of its--and your--misery. Then smash the tape. Props to Pootie Tang and all, but some sacrifices must be made. Because you've watched Kid Rock, you must then crush your own skull with the can.

It's the only way to be sure. There might be Kid Rock sex footage, for all you know.
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porphyrian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-23-07 08:48 AM
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34. Good reasoning. - n/t
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meegbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-23-07 08:53 AM
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35. Is this the new SAW movie?
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porphyrian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-23-07 08:59 AM
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36. Only if it's shot with a green filter. - n/t
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porphyrian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-23-07 04:48 PM
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40. This is what I would do...
First, if I have a can of plain Vienna sausages, it certainly isn't because I intend to eat them. And if I've got a VHS copy of Pootie Tang, it must've been given to me by someone who doesn't know I no longer have a VCR which, given that he is the only other person there, must have been Kid Rock. But since he is now drinking his own pee, he's got to be wasted (who gives someone a copy of Pootie Tang and starts drinking their own pee?) or completely insane. So, using a series of directed suggestions, I would use Kid Rock's irrational beliefs to alter and affect probability, and thus reality, on a quantum level until not only a door appears, but a number of bizarre and seemingly-coincidental causative chains of events manifested in simultaneous explosive diarrhea from everyone responsible for the current administration.
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-23-07 04:48 PM
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41. I'd go choke on the sausage...
I only hope it'd be big enough.

:hide:
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porphyrian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-23-07 06:02 PM
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45. An entendre technician will be dispatched to your location immediately. - n/t
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Arugula Latte Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-23-07 05:20 PM
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42. My brain hurts
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porphyrian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-23-07 06:03 PM
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46. That's what we keep telling you right before your short term memory fails. -n/t
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