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enginerd
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This one is a classic:
A man was driving to work listening to the radio when it occurred to him that he is doomed.
What happened?
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Re: Doomed
« Reply #1 on: Feb 16th, 2005, 12:19pm » |
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It is a classic...
Pretty sure it's on here already with several suggested solutions ...
My lips are sealed 
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Re: Doomed
« Reply #2 on: Feb 17th, 2005, 7:48pm » |
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He's on a shortwave radio and he hears "There's someone in the back of your car!" Or is that a different story.
How about the whole War of the Worlds fiasco, didn't some people think they were doomed when they heard that?
Or, it's election day and he hears "The votes are in, and (Bush/Clinton/whoever) has been reelected." 
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Re: Doomed
« Reply #3 on: Feb 18th, 2005, 2:34am » |
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He works at the hospital. And in that hospital, every doctor knows about all the diseases the others have, but not for himself. The news came out that some doctors, at least one, have a fatal disease. These must resign on the day they know it.
He knows about eight cases, and it occured to him, on his way back from work, that it was the 8th day since the announcement.
And nobody resigned...
(Of course, the fact that the radio was playing music is irrelevant.)
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enginerd
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very creative...but the radio does have relavence....
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Re: Doomed
« Reply #6 on: Feb 21st, 2005, 7:46am » |
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A song was playing: "My heart is broken...", this reminded him of the announcement  .
OK, uh....
1. He heard on the radio about mad people sending anthrax over the mail. He realized what was that funny envelope with a white powder he received this morning.
2. He borrowed from a loan shark to invest in the stock market. He heard on the radio that the market just crashed.
3. He found a nice pebble, shining in the night. He took it back to show it to his family. The next morning, he heard on the radio that a highly radioactive meteor fell on the region and broke down to small pebbles.
4. He was part of the so-called manned mission on the moon. Actually, an empty rocket was flying to the moon while all the "walking on the moon" pictures were staged somewhere in a desert. He heard on the radio that the rocket coming back from the moon failed reentry. He realizes that if he shows up, the story will be uncovered. So they'll have to kill him.
5. He is a Hero, saving the world every morning before breakfast. He heard an urgent announcement on the radio telling him that wherever he is, he should not take his car. If he exceeds 80 km/h it will arm a bomb under his seat that will explode as soon as he slows down. But he is on the highway already.
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enginerd
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#4 shares a similar theme...lying about work (however it is not as creative as a faked moon mission)
#5 this was stolen from Keanu in Speed! 
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Re: Doomed
« Reply #8 on: Feb 21st, 2005, 2:24pm » |
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Okay then, I'll tamper with grimbal's hard work.
It's September 11, 2001. He works in the Twin Towers. He was having an affair, and running late to the office. The impending divorce will bankrupt him. That's a pretty bad fate.
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a shade of wit and the art of farce.
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enginerd
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So, I will give the hint that he should have been at work but he wasn't and it wasn't due to an affair.
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Re: Doomed
« Reply #10 on: Feb 25th, 2005, 7:12am » |
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He was pilot in the air force during the war and was supposed to be on duty during the week-end. But usually, all there was to do on week-ends were the alerts, where he had to run out in flight gear and stand near the airplane until the alert was over. So he trained a chimp to do that part and went to have good time.
But on that week-end the alert was more serious. He heard that the airplanes went out to engage in real combat. He heard himself being cited as being especially good today at shooting foreign airplanes.
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Re: Doomed
« Reply #11 on: Nov 3rd, 2005, 5:18pm » |
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He leaves some music to play at HIS radio station to have an alibi and go commits a crime. then he hears no music playing and knows the music he left didn't work
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He same setting but he left the door unlocked and someone came in and replaced him, thus destoying his alibi
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errrrrrrrrrrr........ 24
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| hidden: | | So this guy was part of the police and he's supposed to back up his partner who was with an armed man... and he forgot. And then he heard his intercom radio in the car say something along the lines of "I'm dying help!" and the man knew he was doomed because he had failed to back up his partner and would be severly punished and shunned. |
I don't know ! LoL
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Re: Doomed
« Reply #13 on: Aug 11th, 2006, 5:46pm » |
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Either he was listening to a program about death and realised that he was doomed to die sooner or later
Or he had been part of an undercover opperation to steal somathing from the mafia and he has just heard that his partner has been found murdered
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The theory goes that a million monkeys typing at a million typewriter will produce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the internet, we know that's not true.
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Re: Doomed
« Reply #14 on: Aug 11th, 2006, 6:03pm » |
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"Hillary Clinton is the new president of the United States!"
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Re: Doomed
« Reply #15 on: Aug 11th, 2006, 10:36pm » |
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| hidden: | | For a long time now, the man had assumed his wife was having an affair. Determined to catch her in the act, her placed a tape recorder under their bed before he went to work in the mornings. After a couple hours, he got off work early and came home,snuck up to their bedroom, to find the two lovers together. In a jealous rage, he killed the two of them. He then grabbed the tape from the recorder, and headed toward the police station to report the murder, planning on using the tape as evidence of his wife's affair, to justify his actions. While driving, he decided to listen to the tape himself. But as it played for several mintutes, he heard only static, upon which he knew immediently that he would be exucted for his crime. |
EDIT: Whoops. Just saw enginerd last post, so this wouldn't work.
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Re: Doomed
« Reply #16 on: Aug 12th, 2006, 5:55am » |
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It could have been some sort of interview with a zen obsessed guy who wanted to open all the world's ears about the fact that whether we like it or not, we will all die eventually, we are doooooooooooomed
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Re: Doomed
« Reply #17 on: Aug 12th, 2006, 6:13am » |
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If I remember the story well
He was doing night shifts alone at a radio station and knew or suspected that his wife was having an affair every night he was on duty. He prepared a recording of one night's program and on that night played the recording and left the station. It would help to make his wife confident that he is at the office and serve as an alibi to the police.
He went home, saw them together, killed them and was driving back, listening his own chanel, when he heard the recording being stopped and one of his colleagues, who was supposed to be sick, wondering on air where the hell he has gone, and why he pre-recorded the night's program.
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Re: Doomed
« Reply #18 on: Aug 12th, 2006, 8:26am » |
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I'm gonna go with a stock market crash he could have prevented (or that was his fault) due to him not being at work.
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Another one: He is an air traffic controller and hears on the radio that a plane crashed due to not having assistance in landing.
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Of course he is doomed: he is driving to work.
Or he is driving in Texas and he heard on the radio that a Bushman bought a nuclear missile in a store in Russia. Bushman thought this missile is a calculator, since he never saw a calculator before, and typed in by mistake coordinates of Texas and then pressed the launch button.
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Re: Doomed
« Reply #20 on: Aug 18th, 2006, 10:49am » |
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He could have been part of a mafia hit, and he had rounded up a few 'annoyances', beat them up and left them for dead. However, the police has just announced that a suvivor has been found and has givenn details on the man who did this.
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The theory goes that a million monkeys typing at a million typewriter will produce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the internet, we know that's not true.
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