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Caleb Strange Special user Manchester UK 676 Posts |
A puzzle for you.
Last night I was reading about a particularly nasty cryptozoological creature - an airborne worm that descends on its prey with great speed to bite them, then it slinks off into the desert sands, while the the victim thrashes about in the agonies of a poisoned death. Anyway, all this reading was thirsty work, so in a state of dress that could best be described as minimalistic, I padded downstairs to the kitchen to get a glass of water. So far so good. I got the water, switched off the kitchen light, and with delicious thoughts of the airborne worm still slithering in my head, I heroically made my way across the pitch blackness of the dining room. Then suddenly there was a terrible sound, and something assaulted me at tremendous speed. Something bit me in what can coyly be referred to as my equatorial region. And with a pitiful yelp I slumped to the floor like they'd stolen my bones. When my gibbering senses had returned and my heart had stopped break-dancing, I crawled over to the light switch, and flicked it on. Then, clammy and shaking, I spent several feverish minutes assessing the damage (minimal, thank goodness); then several more establishing what the heck had just happened. I will tell you this - it wasn't a Mongolian night worm that had come out of the darkness, and left its mark on me, but considering how my heart stuttered and thumped, it might just as well have been such a thing. No. Nothing so exotic. But what was it? Go on, have a guess... Regards, Caleb Strange.
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ChrisZampese Veteran user Hamilton, NZ 341 Posts |
A small flying mammoth?
A duck? A 'being from Outer Space'? A Jolly Man in a Red Suit with a bag of presents? Hmmmm, might need a few more clues on this one!
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are
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RiffClown Inner circle Yorktown, Virginia (Previously Germany) 1579 Posts |
Potted Plant?
Rob "Riff, the Magical Clown" Eubank aka RiffClown
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GlenD Inner circle LosAngeles, Ca 1293 Posts |
Your foot hooked the leg of a chair. It then scraped across the dining room floor and twisted just right until a corner of the back of the chair wedged up into just the right position! All of it happening in a fraction of a second as you were preoccupied with holding your book and the freshly poured glass of water? Yah ???
Not likely huh... GlenD
"A miracle is something that seems impossible but happens anyway" - Griffin
"Any future where you succeed, is one where you tell the truth." - Griffin (Griffin rocks!) |
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27297 Posts |
Hey Glen... Good analysis. I'll go with something similar. Something on a shelf or counter that was sticking out that you bumped or brushed by that toppled. A vase with a rose (bit by the thorn perhaps?) or the like perhaps?
...to all the coins I've dropped here
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Caleb Strange Special user Manchester UK 676 Posts |
Good guesses everybody, but no one's close yet. I'll give this a while longer before I add to the clues given in my original account.
I will say this, though - it'd make the basis of a great method for a haunted house/seance. Enigmatic regards, Caleb Strange.
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RiffClown Inner circle Yorktown, Virginia (Previously Germany) 1579 Posts |
Your imagination! Static Electricity from something metallic?
Rob "Riff, the Magical Clown" Eubank aka RiffClown
<BR>http://www.riffclown.com <BR>Magic is not the method, but the presentation. |
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Caleb Strange Special user Manchester UK 676 Posts |
Rob,
Imagination certainly played a part in my subsequent terror, but there WAS a terrible sound, and then something DID physically impact with me at tremendous speed. That's all I'm saying for now. Teasing regards, Caleb Strange.
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RiffClown Inner circle Yorktown, Virginia (Previously Germany) 1579 Posts |
The Floor!
Rob "Riff, the Magical Clown" Eubank aka RiffClown
<BR>http://www.riffclown.com <BR>Magic is not the method, but the presentation. |
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Caleb Strange Special user Manchester UK 676 Posts |
Rob, I hit the floor only after this something happened and hit me.
I'll leave it up in the air for now, as bed-time once again approaches, and I must dare the rushing terror that, for all I know, still waits for me in the pressing darkness of the dining room. Regards, Caleb Strange.
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Margarette Special user Memphis area 956 Posts |
Fire ant maybe? I had one crawl up my leg and wait until it was mid-thigh before it bit me. Felt like a red hot poker being jammed in my leg!
Margarette
The only stupid question is the one not asked.
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Doug Byrd Veteran user VA 361 Posts |
I'll go with you stepped on the cat's tail and it yelpped, spun around, shot upwards, and hit you in the mid-section with a flurry of deadly paws of death.
Doug
"Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc"
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Caleb Strange Special user Manchester UK 676 Posts |
No actual creatures involved, but Doug has seen the shape of what happened, if not the details.
It's Bank Holiday weekend where I am, so, rather than toy with you ad infinitum, I'll post the solution on Monday, if no one has got it by then. Regards, Caleb Strange.
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jazzman New user manchester, UK 69 Posts |
Could it be that your footsteps triggered the Hot Wheels Deluxe Twin Loop toy which you had been playing with earlier. The tiny car was released due to vibrating floorboards, it then accelerated around the first loop all the time creating a heartstopping roar. Then the next loop, at the apex of the loop the car accelerated downwards once again before reaching the end of the track which was angled stright at your nether regions. The resulting impact left you in the state described, and a piteous sight it sounds.
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Caleb Strange Special user Manchester UK 676 Posts |
Jazz,
Not quite, but the closest yet. (Great to see a fellow Mancunian here at the Café!) Pneumatically yours, Caleb Strange.
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Schaden Inner circle Purgatory 1253 Posts |
Did the ice machine mess up and shoot ice cubes at you?
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Magix Elite user 432 Posts |
You stepped on a toy rocket, the kind that uses air to launch, and it launched into you?
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Andy H Regular user London 106 Posts |
When you walked into the room you activtated the motion sensor on the record player which then screeched out some kind of bad sound because there was no disc before flying off the edge of the plate and into your bits.
Paul Harris: My Astonishing Hero
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the_great_stupido New user 29 Posts |
A guitar? I often trip over/knock over my guitars at night, and they scare the #$@! out of me. Serves me right for being an untidy so-and-so, I'm sure my mother would tell me....
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HiveMind Veteran user 303 Posts |
err... you knocked over a wine bottle and it popped
and you got hit with a cork.
"Free will is an illusion." - B.F. Skinner
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