h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

[Examples don't have to be realistic.They can be from movies, books, dreams, etc.]

When your favorite house plant starts demanding blood.

When you inherit an opera house and your insurer won't cover the chandelier that has fallen on your audience. Plus, there's maniacal laughter coming from the basement...

When you're feet start getting wet?

When you star't using apostrophe's incorre'ctly

When your mentor is suddenly killed by someone you aren't terribly fond of.


Geggs

Nah, you've got that wrong Geggs. It's a that point that your victory becomes assured.

If, on the other hand, you've got your enemy entirely in your power, strapped to a chair, and all you need to do is put a gun to their head and pull the trigger, but instead you strap them into an improbably complex trap that will kill them slowly and painfully after you've left, assuming they don't first escape from it with a single bound - THEN you know, beyond any shadow of a doubt, that you're doomed.

Wh n th l tt r ' ' on your k yboard r fus s to pr ss down prop rly !!!

When you are the one laughing in a maniacal fashion.

Ah, you are right Hoo, of course. So it must be when you feel the need to explain your plans in great detail to someone who is trying to stop you, especially if they are presently at your mercy.


Geggs

When you realise your 'cunning plan' belongs to Baldrick.

When you sink the Lusitania.

When you ride a jet-ski over a shark.

When
a) your personal sound track turns to dramatic music or
b) it's the fat lady singing.

When you stand on the rim of a volcano, and you've just bit the ring finger off that ing hobbit, and you're losing your balance.

Surely the critical moment comes some time before then? Possibly when people start referring to you by the sound of your cough?


Geggs

When you decide you don't need a Plan B, because plan A is so clearly wonderful.

TRiG.

"Surely the critical moment comes some time before then? Possibly when people start referring to you by the sound of your cough?" [Geggs]

You're probably right. Still, being in thrall does things to your brain so that you remain clueless until the last possible moment.

When you've just revealed that you're married and pulled out photographs of your children, just before tackling that dangerous-looking task.

When you finally appear in your first Star Trek episode and you get handed a red jersey before you step in the transporter.

When the NCO asks for volunteers to take one step forwards and everyone else in your squad immediately takes one step back.