# You know you're in trouble when... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 13, 2002, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-in-trouble-when/136617 "2002-11-13T20:49:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2002, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-in-trouble-when/136617/121 "2002-11-23T09:07:39Z")
… you go swimming in the ocean and you hear an orchestra playing “bum-bum, bum-bum” at a quickening pace. ---
**Author:** ![TelcontarStorm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3ab097/32.png) [@TelcontarStorm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TelcontarStorm)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2002, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-in-trouble-when/136617/122 "2002-11-23T17:37:17Z")
You answer the door and the guy on the other side introduces himself as “Lenny Briscoe” ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2002, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-in-trouble-when/136617/123 "2002-11-23T18:10:02Z")
…you’re at a computer conference demonstrating how easy the new Windows 98 is with Plug and Play, by hot-plugging in a scanner while your boss Bill Gates watches from behind you on the stage, and you get the Blue Screen of Death[sup]TM[/sup]. ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2002, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-in-trouble-when/136617/124 "2002-11-23T18:23:25Z")
…Tippi Hedren develops a crush on you. …you’re in a Disney movie and you have a child. ---
**Author:** ![Hometownboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5e9695/32.png) [@Hometownboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hometownboy)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2002, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-in-trouble-when/136617/125 "2002-11-23T19:13:06Z")
You’re a hefty fellow from New Orleans named John and you’re holding up the timbers in the bottom of a mine while twenty men scramble past you to safety. ---
**Author:** ![Orual](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/779978/32.png) [@Orual](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orual)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2002, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-in-trouble-when/136617/126 "2002-11-23T19:18:55Z")
… you walk into a quaint British hotel and see John Cleese behind the reception counter… … you’ve decided to be nice and helpful to the Baudelaire orphans… … you’re victory over the meddlesome human children is assured, because you just killed the obnoxious talking lion last night… ---
**Author:** ![Hometownboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5e9695/32.png) [@Hometownboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hometownboy)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2002, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-in-trouble-when/136617/127 "2002-11-23T19:20:59Z")
…you have to tell Tom Hagen to pass the word to Michael that it was only business, not personal. ---
**Author:** ![Orual](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/779978/32.png) [@Orual](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orual)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2002, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-in-trouble-when/136617/128 "2002-11-23T19:23:52Z")
… you hit “submit” instead of preview, just this once… ::sigh:: ---
**Author:** ![fallapart](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fallapart/32/3018_2.png) [@fallapart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fallapart)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2002, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-in-trouble-when/136617/129 "2002-11-23T20:38:02Z")
…you’re cousin oliver shows up. ---
**Author:** ![TwungTister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbce88/32.png) [@TwungTister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwungTister)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2002, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-in-trouble-when/136617/130 "2002-11-23T21:38:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Odieman \* > \*\*…You find yourself saying “Well well Mr. Bond…prepare to die…” \*\* That little Spanish brat shows up with a sword saying, “My name is Inigo Montoya…” ---
**Author:** ![Lorenzo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4da419/32.png) [@Lorenzo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lorenzo)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2002, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-in-trouble-when/136617/131 "2002-11-23T21:41:23Z")
You think you have a nice long management career ahead of you and you get hired to manage the Chicago Cubs. (Every Cubs manager since Lee Elia, after leaving the Cubs, has never managed again) ---
**Author:** ![TwungTister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbce88/32.png) [@TwungTister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwungTister)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2002, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-in-trouble-when/136617/132 "2002-11-23T21:44:36Z")
…The man you tortured will not chop your ears off…so you can hear children screaming about your face. ---
**Author:** ![TwungTister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbce88/32.png) [@TwungTister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwungTister)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2002, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-in-trouble-when/136617/133 "2002-11-23T21:45:55Z")
…your alter ego has your own gun in your mouth. ---
**Author:** ![Gilligan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Gilligan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gilligan)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2002, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-in-trouble-when/136617/134 "2002-11-23T22:00:13Z")
…I help the Professor and Skipper with the rescue. ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2002, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-in-trouble-when/136617/135 "2002-11-23T22:35:10Z")
You see your friend you thought you’d had murdered. And isn’t that _your_ body lying in the pool of blood. ---
**Author:** ![Largo62](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/45deac/32.png) [@Largo62](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Largo62)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2002, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-in-trouble-when/136617/136 "2002-11-23T22:39:15Z")
> [@](#): > > **It was a big, huge, powerful win for the Republicans and now they’re saying that the Democrats could not articulate a message. You know you’re in trouble when you are out-articulated by President Bush. —David Letterman** Couldn’t help myself. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![lurkernomore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@lurkernomore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lurkernomore)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2002, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-in-trouble-when/136617/137 "2002-11-24T01:37:27Z")
You are undermedicated and are coming out from anesthesia on the operating table,andyou hear either: “OOPS!” or: “What do you mean this was the HERNIA, not the sex change patient?” ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2002, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-in-trouble-when/136617/138 "2002-11-24T20:17:01Z")
…Mike Hammer falls in love with you …any of the Cartwrights fall in love with you. …Captain Kirk falls in love with you. …basically when any star of almost any action film or TV series falls in love with you. ---
**Author:** ![dinahmoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8797f3/32.png) [@dinahmoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dinahmoe)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-in-trouble-when/136617/139 "2002-11-25T03:46:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ethilrist \* > \*\*… you’re a woman walking down the street, wearing a dress and carrying a shopping bag full of groceries, which includes a baguette and some celery. \*\* That is just a gorgeous, gorgeous post. Cheers!! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-in-trouble-when/136617/140 "2002-11-25T05:08:13Z")
…you suddenly realize you’re explaining your whole plan to the good guy. …everyone but you suddenly stops making fun of the principal at the exact same moment. …you’re the protagonist’s mentor and you realize the Act Two Reversal is due any minute. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-in-trouble-when/136617.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-in-trouble-when/136617.md?page=8)