Example (and not a great one, as it isn’t particularly subtle):
-A box of jam doughnuts
-A jar of raspberry jam
-A baker’s piping bag
“Will that be all, sir?”
No, Actually, do you sell rat poison?
The object of this thread/game is to come up with a list of three items you might buy in any store of your choice. The three items themselves should be as innocent-seeming as possible, both individually and collectively.
The cashier then asks you “Will that be all, sir?”, and you respond with a request for one more item (or you request something non-physical, such as advice, directions, local information, etc) - this additional request should also be innocent and as subtle as possible, but should cast the purpose of your three initial items in a completely different, and deeply sinister light.
He’s planning to blow up the gas station, using the alligator clips to attach the flashbulb to the cellphone’s ringer, then drop the whole lot into the gas storage tank. When he or someone else calls the cell phone later, the flashbulb will go off, with explosive results.
I don’t think that it is conceivable that someone would ever have to apologize for anything to Nicholas Cage. By all means, Zeldar, apologize to the Coen brothers, and apologize to us, for bringing up Cage’s name on this fine board. But no apologies to him.