# More things that always mean trouble **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 4, 2011, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-things-that-always-mean-trouble/591399 "2011-08-04T00:54:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-things-that-always-mean-trouble/591399/81 "2011-08-05T06:06:26Z")
Don’t worry! All the robots in our town/ship/planet are equipped with state of the art combat inhibitors which prevent them from making unprovoked attacks! (N.B. - That’s one of the better jokes in Fallout 3 - combat inhibitors on the robots - ha!) ---
**Author:** ![Double\_Foolscap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85e7bf/32.png) [@Double\_Foolscap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Double_Foolscap)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-things-that-always-mean-trouble/591399/82 "2011-08-05T10:28:10Z")
The background music changes. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-things-that-always-mean-trouble/591399/83 "2011-08-05T19:57:28Z")
> [@Tangent](#): > > “I know a shortcut.” Nice username/post combo. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-things-that-always-mean-trouble/591399/84 "2011-08-05T21:36:22Z")
You wake up and find a strange bite mark somewhere on your body. You here a heavy thump on the roof in the middle of the night. Or tree branches scraping on the window. The cat stares at the corner and hisses and raises its back, but there’s nothing there. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2011, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-things-that-always-mean-trouble/591399/85 "2011-08-06T00:21:30Z")
When called into the office of the local head of The Corporation, he’s practicing his golf swing/putting. Anything dissolving into a puddle of slime, leaving no evidence. “Let’s not get the authorities involved”. Bullets don’t kill it. Polished steel cylinders with a prominent warning label on them. Having a twin who spends a lot of time out of the country on mysterious business. ---
**Author:** ![Vita\_Beata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@Vita\_Beata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vita_Beata)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2011, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-things-that-always-mean-trouble/591399/86 "2011-08-06T03:48:44Z")
He decides she will be thrilled to see a photo of it. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2011, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-things-that-always-mean-trouble/591399/87 "2011-08-06T04:30:40Z")
You make Dr. David Banner angry. You won’t like him when he’s angry. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2011, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-things-that-always-mean-trouble/591399/88 "2011-08-07T19:40:26Z")
Angela Landsbury shows up. Wherever she goes, somebody gets murdered. ---
**Author:** ![Bri2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/48db29/32.png) [@Bri2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bri2k)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2011, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-things-that-always-mean-trouble/591399/89 "2011-08-07T20:11:44Z")
Hudson University. That place is a hotbed of crime. Bri2k ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2011, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-things-that-always-mean-trouble/591399/90 "2011-08-07T20:32:02Z")
When they mention you on the news, they always use your first, middle, and last name. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2011, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-things-that-always-mean-trouble/591399/91 "2011-08-07T20:36:44Z")
“There’s a perfectly logical explanation” “It’s probably nothing” “It’s gotta be a prank” “Him and his wild-eyed theories” “Do you want to start a panic?” “Hah! That’ll take care of it!” ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2011, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-things-that-always-mean-trouble/591399/92 "2011-08-07T21:46:05Z")
You drive Dad’s car without his permission. Doesn’t matter if it’s a Plymouth (_Leave It to Beaver_) or a Porsche (_Risky Business_.) Anytime you turn on the TV or radio, and they interrupt for a special bulletin. There’s a banquet hall with a table of pies. Where the pellet with the poison’s in the vessel with the pestle, but the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2011, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-things-that-always-mean-trouble/591399/93 "2011-08-07T23:18:12Z")
People wearing dark sunglasses indoors and at night. “They said I was mad!” Anyone who speaks of themselves in the third person. Your mother or wife starts addressing you by your full name. ---
**Author:** ![rock\_party](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19b73/32.png) [@rock\_party](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rock_party)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2011, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-things-that-always-mean-trouble/591399/94 "2011-08-07T23:38:08Z")
You wake up with a headache and no memory of the night before, and when you roll over there’s a naked body next to you. You wake up face down in a field with a sore butt. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2011, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-things-that-always-mean-trouble/591399/95 "2011-08-07T23:42:10Z")
> [@rock\_party](#): > > You wake up with a headache and no memory of the night before, and when you roll over there’s a naked body next to you. You’ll fare better in that one than waking up with a DEAD body next to you. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2011, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-things-that-always-mean-trouble/591399/96 "2011-08-07T23:57:49Z")
If you and your friends break down in the middle of nowhere, wait at the car for the tow-truck. You know what happens to people who get out of their cars and go wandering down that lonely dirt road for help? They find a house, owned by murderers. or cannibals. or murderous cannibals. Stay in the goddamn car. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2011, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-things-that-always-mean-trouble/591399/97 "2011-08-08T00:01:12Z")
Any unusual or protracted gurgling sounds in the stomach or lower intestines. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Civil\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d78d45/32.png) [@Civil\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Civil_Guy)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2011, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-things-that-always-mean-trouble/591399/98 "2011-08-08T01:44:06Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > […]Anyone who speaks of themselves in the third person.[…] …Which would include at least Gollum and Elmo. Point well made. ---
**Author:** ![punch\_line\_loser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8e7dd6/32.png) [@punch\_line\_loser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/punch_line_loser)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2011, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-things-that-always-mean-trouble/591399/99 "2011-08-08T01:44:53Z")
Often something like, “Don’t worry, it’ll be like I’m not even here!” ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2011, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-things-that-always-mean-trouble/591399/100 "2011-08-08T06:28:27Z")
> [@Civil\_Guy](#): > > …Which would include at least Gollum and Elmo. > > Point well made. It also includes young Japanese girls. … I’m not sure whether this supports the point or not. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-things-that-always-mean-trouble/591399.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-things-that-always-mean-trouble/591399.md?page=6)