bad hostage negotiator
Things Not To Do At A Hostage Negotiation
As Hostage Taker:
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As Hostage Taker:
- Demand to speak only with FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully.
- Have one of the hostages hold your gun while you make a quick trip to the bathroom.
- Let one hostage go to the bathroom. When he doesn't return, send the others to see what's taking him so long.
- Agree to let the hostages go, after doing so, make you demands.
- Rig the building to explode if someone tries to go through the door, then remember that you forgot to lock your car and leave the room.
- Confuse the detonator for your explosive booby-traps with your garage door opener.
- Tell the negotiator that you'd rather choke on tear gas than let the hostages go.
- Allow one of the hostages to win possession of your gun because of a paper-rock scissors tournament.
- Forget your gun at home.
- Run away bawling like a baby when one of your hostages calls you a "meanie".
- Ask the negotiator to tell your fiancee that this is all a joke and would she marry you.
- Ask the hostage taker if he/she would like to go to dinner after the stand-off.
- When hearing the demands suddenly yell into the phone, "It all you you you! What about my needs?!"
- When you call the hostage taker, tell him you'd like a large thick crust pepperoni and snicker loudly.
- Show up stoned and do anything at all.
- When the hostage taker lists his demands yell into the phone "La la la la! I can't hear you!"
- Mention how much income tax the hostage taker will have to pay if he/she gets the F-15 he/she wants.
- Tell the hostage take that you think Rosanne Barr should play him in the TV movie of the stand-off.
- Tell the hostage taker you think it'd be really cool if a hostage came flying out of a 52nd story window.
- Tell the hostage taker that he must convert to hindu if he wants you to deal with him.
- When the hostage taker agrees to let the hostages go tell him, "You're never gonna be on COPS with a wimp attitude like that."
you're a bad customer
You Might Be A Bad Customer If:
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- You escort people out of line for having 11 items in the "10 items or less" lane.
- You walk into a store at 10 minutes to close not knowing what you want and don't decide for another 30 minutes.
- You yell out what a GREAT TIPPER you are.
- You return the coffee because it's too hot.
- You order water with extra lemon (as if it was supposed to come with lemon).
- You ask for a discount. No reason specified, just that you should get one.
- You get annoyed if a hardware store, etc., does not have the most obscure component in stock, despite the fact that they haven't sold one in over 20 years.
- If you buy 10 cent candy to break a 20
- You think the Pre-pay sign on the gas pump is for everyone but you.
- You buy an expensive dress and return it after the party.
- You can't read the signs or coupons correctly, insisting you're right and all the employees are wrong.
- While standing in front of the huge line up of TVs, you ask a salesman, "Is this all the TVs you have?"
- You dare ask for a discount at a resturaunt because your kids didn't like thier food after they showed their dislike by throwing said food on the walls and the floor.
- You chew out the manager of the local McDonald's for not cleaning up the place, while meanwhile, your kids proceed to launch ketchup packets at each other.
- You pay anything / everything in small change (especially pennies)
adults learn from kids
Things Adults Learn From Kids:
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- There is no such thing as child-proofing your house.
- If you spray hair spray on dust bunnies and run over them with roller blades, they can ignite.
- A 4 years-old's voice is louder than 200 adults in a crowded restaurant.
- 4 If you hook a dog leash over a ceiling fan the motor is not strong enough to rotate a 42 pound boy wearing pound puppy underwear and a superman cape.
- It is strong enough however to spread paint on all four walls of a 20 by 20 foot room.
- Baseballs make marks on ceilings.
- You should not throw baseballs up when the ceiling fan is on.
- When using the ceiling fan as a bat you have to throw the ball up a few times before you get a hit.
- A ceiling fan can hit a baseball a long way.
- The glass in windows (even double pane) doesn't stop a baseball hit by a ceiling fan.
- When you hear the toilet flush and the words "Uh-oh;" it's already too late.
- Brake fluid mixed with Clorox makes smoke, and lots of it.
- A six year old can start a fire with a flint rock even though a 36 year old man says they can only do it in the movies.
- A magnifying glass can start a fire even on an overcast day.
- If you use a waterbed as home plate while wearing baseball shoes it does not leak - it explodes.
- A king size waterbed holds enough water to fill a 2000 sq foot house 4 inches deep.
- Legos will pass through the digestive tract of a four year old.
- Duplos will not.
- Play Dough and Microwave should never be used in the same sentence.
- Super glue is forever.
- McGyver can teach us many things we don't want to know.
- Ditto Tarzan.
- No matter how much Jello you put in a swimming pool you still can't walk on water.
- Pool filters do not like Jello.
- VCR's do not eject PB&J sandwiches even though TV commercials show they do.
- Garbage bags do not make good parachutes.
- Marbles in gas tanks make lots of noise when driving.
- You probably do not want to know what that odor is.
- Always look in the oven before you turn it on.
- Plastic toys do not like ovens.
- The fire department in San Diego has at least a 5 minute response time.
- The spin cycle on the washing machine does not make earth worms dizzy.
- It will however make cats dizzy.
- Cats throw up twice their body weight when dizzy.
- Quiet does not necessarily mean don't worry.
- A good sense of humor will get you through most problems in life (unfortunately, mostly in retrospect).
to do in space station
The Top 10 Things To Do While Confined In A Space Station
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- Roll down the window and throw beer cans at passing satellites.
- Play some rather boring games of Solitaire.
- Try to bust that myth of Lays Potato Chips: Betcha Can't Eat Just One!
- Come up with as many wacky Top 10 List Topics as possible so Top 10 Boy will have work to do into the New Year.
- When the NASA camera is off, dance around to "Blue Jean" by David Bowie while wearing just your space helmet.
- Do what everyone else does, write out all of your postcards..mail them when you get home.
- Don't move, don't touch anything and if you break something, know that you will be blamed mercilessly for it and shunned by society to a Gulag in a remote part of Northern Siberia (Russian Space Station only).
- Access www.spacebabes.com on NASA's computer instead of doing those meaningless space experiments.
- Call Martian Escort Service..hope like hell they take American Express.
- Watch All of Pauly Shore's movies...try to find examples of humor, plot and a reason for making it.
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