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[chrishansenhome]

You may often wish for something very farfetched. If your wish were to be granted, you may be in for a surprise. Watch this video for the results.

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[mrpandabehr.livejournal.com]

Cute video. Very road runner like.

[chrishansenhome.livejournal.com]

MEEP-MEEP!

[trawnapanda.livejournal.com]

now that's amusing. as you said, be careful what you wish for.

how very Edgar Allen Poe. Or Aida for that matter.

when I was about 9 I was the child in a play put on by my parish's amateur dramatics group. The play was Speaking of Murder, which features a walk-in safe in someone's living room . The murderer ends up hiding inside the safe and gets locked in, poetic justice and all that.

Google is amazing. I've just learned it was a 3-act melodrama, written in 1956 or so, and closed after only 37 performances on Broadway. Now THAT was an unexpected trip down memory lane.

[chrishansenhome.livejournal.com]

Dorothy Sayers wrote a Lord Peter Wimsey short story which turned on a gang leader stroke murderer being trapped in an airtight safe in Wimsey's flat, which could only be opened by Wimsey saying the password into a speaker that compared his voice to one he'd recorded previously. Wimsey saved himself from death at the hands of the gang by ensuring that they knew that only he himself could open the safe. The gang leader's mistress orders the rest of the gang to leave Wimsey to her and she takes him to his flat, where he croaks the password and when the door slides open, the man slumps to the floor into the arms of the mistress, who asks "Will he live?" Wimsey answers "He'll live, to stand his trial." Most melodramatic.