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alien2
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Cassandra is in topnotch health, driving in a smallish car of hers, which only two people can occupy at a time. She sees two men, and stops the car, and soon she is driving in her car with one of them. If she didn't have her purse, with standard objects inside, he might have died. What happened?
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Re: Cassandra
« Reply #1 on: Aug 6th, 2007, 6:30pm » |
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The guy is suffering from hypoglycemia, and Cassandra saved him by feeding him her private stash of Mars.
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Re: Cassandra
« Reply #2 on: Aug 6th, 2007, 8:38pm » |
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He needed a pocket mirror to suture himself. 
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Re: Cassandra
« Reply #3 on: Aug 6th, 2007, 11:28pm » |
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WTF; WTF NICE though. No, one of them was fatally ill, she rang up the hospital on her phone, but the lines were jammed so she drove him to the hospital. Dont know if it would fit though in her purse.
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Re: Cassandra
« Reply #4 on: Aug 7th, 2007, 8:20am » |
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on Aug 6th, 2007, 6:30pm, JiNbOtAk wrote:| The guy is suffering from hypoglycemia, and Cassandra saved him by feeding him her private stash of Mars. |
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That isn't a standard object.
on Aug 6th, 2007, 8:38pm, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot wrote:| He needed a pocket mirror to suture himself. |
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No because cars have mirrors, like rear-view mirror, for instance.
Nice try both.
on Aug 6th, 2007, 11:28pm, mikedagr8 wrote:| No, one of them was fatally ill, she rang up the hospital on her phone, but the lines were jammed so she drove him to the hospital. Dont know if it would fit though in her purse. |
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I don't get the point you are making.
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Re: Cassandra
« Reply #5 on: Aug 8th, 2007, 5:10am » |
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If Cassandra didn't have her driving license in her purse, she couldn't have driven and pick up the man. As it happens, the second man was later murdered. The first man would have been either murdered also or executed as the prime suspect for that murder. But since Cassandra picked up the man (and they went to the yearly barbecue of the police), the man had a perfect alibi.
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Re: Cassandra
« Reply #6 on: Aug 8th, 2007, 7:08am » |
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Nope.
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Re: Cassandra
« Reply #7 on: Aug 8th, 2007, 8:17am » |
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on Aug 6th, 2007, 8:38pm, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot wrote:| He needed a pocket mirror to suture himself. |
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WTF's answer is a good try, but I mentioned two men, not just one. So because of the 2nd man, you're not the winner. 
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Re: Cassandra
« Reply #8 on: Aug 8th, 2007, 8:54am » |
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Cassandra got aids?
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Re: Cassandra
« Reply #9 on: Aug 8th, 2007, 9:05am » |
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Good try, Grimbal. But one doesn't necessarily get the disease if there is no protection, so no.
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Re: Cassandra
« Reply #10 on: Aug 12th, 2007, 8:07pm » |
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WTF is on the right track. Yep, we need some other version here, even though it might be a bit questionable. Just a bit. Then again, I'm not a woman, so maybe everything is just fine. 
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Re: Cassandra
« Reply #11 on: Aug 12th, 2007, 11:28pm » |
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or are you... only kidding i believe you.
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Re: Cassandra
« Reply #12 on: Aug 13th, 2007, 9:59pm » |
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A bit questionable, eh? Perhaps she carried a sewing needle and thread then.
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Re: Cassandra
« Reply #13 on: Aug 13th, 2007, 11:01pm » |
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on Aug 13th, 2007, 9:59pm, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot wrote:| A bit questionable, eh? Perhaps she carried a sewing needle and thread then. |
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If those are considered standard items in a women's purse, so is the stash of Mars. 
Anyway, the guy had a huge zit, that's gonna pop at any moment, causing him to haemorrhage and die from the blood loss. Cassandra gave her lipstick to put on the zit, so it won't pop.
What, you didn't know lipstick is effective for zits ? 
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Re: Cassandra
« Reply #14 on: Aug 14th, 2007, 12:48am » |
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The guy is depressed (the other guy is his boyfriend and he misses him) and suicidal. The standard item is an anti-depressor pill.
The guy owes $100'000 to the local mafia, and they are chasing him. The standard item is the money. Or a credit card.
The guy has drunk a lot and is about to light a cigarette. The standard item is a nicotine patch.
The guy is hungry and the standard item is a sandwitch.
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Re: Cassandra
« Reply #15 on: Aug 14th, 2007, 1:01am » |
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Maybe one of the guys couldn't breath and needed a tracheotomy, and luckily by shoving part of a ballpoint pen into his neck to create a breathing hole she was able to safe his life.
Then she drove him to the hospital.
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Re: Cassandra
« Reply #16 on: Aug 14th, 2007, 3:03am » |
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Actually, towr, that was my first thought too. ( That particular scene was depicted in a local movie here ) However, given the precision of the procedure ( the pen needs to go into the windpipe, rite ? ) and the will of actually stabbing yourself with a pen, I consider it very unlikely. But hey, with Icey, even a crowbar could create a spark enough to combust a man, so who knows ?
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Re: Cassandra
« Reply #17 on: Aug 14th, 2007, 3:24am » |
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on Aug 14th, 2007, 3:03am, JiNbOtAk wrote:| However, given the precision of the procedure ( the pen needs to go into the windpipe, rite ? ) and the will of actually stabbing yourself with a pen, I consider it very unlikely. |
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Well, I'd assume someone else would do the stabbing. Actually, you shouldn't stab with the pen-part, but first use a knive to make a cut; then use the pen to keep the hole open.
I'm not sure how much precission is needed, but for the sake of the story we might assume either the other man or the woman in the car knows enough first aid to accomplish it succesfully.
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Re: Cassandra
« Reply #18 on: Aug 14th, 2007, 3:38am » |
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on Aug 14th, 2007, 3:24am, towr wrote:
Actually, you shouldn't stab with the pen-part, but first use a knive to make a cut; then use the pen to keep the hole open. |
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Really ? The movie I saw had the guy stabbed the lady with a pen right away. 
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Re: Cassandra
« Reply #19 on: Aug 14th, 2007, 3:55am » |
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Well, a pen isn't that sharp, so you'd need a lot more force. Consequently you'd do a lot more collateral damage when just shoving the pen in, and with a knive you have better control about how deep/big a hole you make in someones windpipe.
Of course, if no knife or other sharp utensil is at hand, some collateral damage is better than death.
[e]Looking around the web a bit, it does not seem to be a recommended procedure. It's better left to professionals with proper equipment (well duh); in any case not something done at the descretion of bystanders that saw it in a movie once [/e]
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Re: Cassandra
« Reply #20 on: Aug 14th, 2007, 4:53am » |
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I believe there are movies that show things exactly how they are in real life. I believe no TV and no cinema wants to actually show them. This leaves us with the completely surrealistic but entertaining movies you see daily on TV.
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Re: Cassandra
« Reply #21 on: Aug 14th, 2007, 7:46am » |
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No intended answer yet. WTF's answer is fine, but I hadn't that in mind.
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Re: Cassandra
« Reply #22 on: Aug 14th, 2007, 9:24am » |
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Why do you mention that Cassandra is in topnotch health if it is one of the men who might have died?
And does the other man have a role in the solution?
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Re: Cassandra
« Reply #23 on: Aug 14th, 2007, 10:17am » |
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on Aug 14th, 2007, 9:24am, Grimbal wrote:
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Yes.
on Aug 14th, 2007, 9:24am, Grimbal wrote:Why do you mention that Cassandra is in topnotch health if it is one of the men who might have died?
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So you don't come up with the idea that she had pills in her purse.
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Re: Cassandra
« Reply #24 on: Aug 14th, 2007, 12:46pm » |
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Is the event that she drives with one of them significant?
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