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remmers
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Scruples, Enigma Style
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Sep 20 03:38 UTC 1994 |
You have been visiting a friend at her house fairly frequently.
Every time you are there, you hear faint moans and screams
coming from the basement. When you ask about them, your
friend explains that her hermit brother lives in the basement,
never leaves, is addicted to horror movies that he plays on
his VCR day and night, and that what you hear are the sound-
tracks of the movies.
You suggest to your friend that you might like to meet her
brother. She says that wouldn't be a good idea, that he is
traumatized by strangers. When you surreptitously try the
basement door when your friend is elsewhere in the house,
you find that it's locked. The sounds from the basement
seem "live", not recorded.
What do you do?
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kami
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response 1 of 45:
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Sep 20 05:53 UTC 1994 |
a.) leave it alone- remember "bluebeard"
b.) tell her you know what she's up to, and you want to play too
c.) call DSS
d.) move to another state, change your name, and do enough LSD to wipe out
all memory of that period
e.) all of the above
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gerund
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response 2 of 45:
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Sep 20 10:26 UTC 1994 |
a.) get a new friend.
b.) play a different game other than scrupples.
c.) call the police
d.) none of the above
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remmers
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response 3 of 45:
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Sep 20 19:41 UTC 1994 |
Such wishy-washiness! The question is not to suggestive alternatives,
but rather to DECIDE WHAT YOU WOULD DO.
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rcurl
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response 4 of 45:
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Sep 20 19:49 UTC 1994 |
I would get more insistent with my concern, to the friend, and suggest
that her brother might benefit from counseling or other help, until
some action results. If the action is that I am ordered to never come
again, I would inform the police. I would tell my friend that I think
I should do that.
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mneme
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response 5 of 45:
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Sep 20 22:44 UTC 1994 |
One night when she's going to be away, break into the house and investigate.
And remember to only bring one flashlight, and no changes of batteries.
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kami
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response 6 of 45:
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Sep 21 05:02 UTC 1994 |
also your boyish friend Jo and your chubby friend Bess. <g>
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anne
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response 7 of 45:
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Sep 21 14:41 UTC 1994 |
and make sure Bess is wearing heels, so if worse come sot worse she can't
run. And leave al the weapons at home, the flashlight is the only thing you
need.
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gerund
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response 8 of 45:
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Sep 21 18:01 UTC 1994 |
no flashlight... I have night vision.
Actually, I'd do nothing...
What occurs in one's basement is indeed a private thing.
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anne
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response 9 of 45:
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Sep 22 02:42 UTC 1994 |
but if it involves the torture of innocent others? Then is it alright to leave
it alone?
(you can't leave the flashligt, it's as mandatory as Bess's heels)
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brighn
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response 10 of 45:
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Sep 22 03:42 UTC 1994 |
Is Bess wearing black lingerie? She has to be, for when she trips and her
dress rips on the prickle bush.
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kami
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response 11 of 45:
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Sep 22 03:54 UTC 1994 |
really! this is wholesome and improving literature for girls; nothing but
white cotton will do.
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anne
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response 12 of 45:
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Sep 22 16:46 UTC 1994 |
I agree with kami, it must be white cotton, but her skirt has to rip also.
And if it's planned right- her heel should break, making her stop running.
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brighn
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response 13 of 45:
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Sep 22 17:05 UTC 1994 |
That white cotton stuff that goes all the way up past the belly button?
Eew.
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gerund
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response 14 of 45:
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Sep 22 19:39 UTC 1994 |
Bess wouldn't BE with me... and neither would the flashlight.
And who said that anyone in the basement was innocent, huh? huh? :)
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mneme
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response 15 of 45:
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Sep 22 23:41 UTC 1994 |
r
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mneme
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response 16 of 45:
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Sep 22 23:56 UTC 1994 |
No, not the stuff that goes up to the bellybutton; think "Janet." As far as
the innocence of those in the basement, if they're not, I'm sure whatever Bess
is wearing will do fine. And if things go true to form, that flashlight
should run out of batteries just as things get interesting...
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brighn
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response 17 of 45:
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Sep 23 04:41 UTC 1994 |
Where's Shaggy in all this?
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kami
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response 18 of 45:
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Sep 23 20:33 UTC 1994 |
looking for Scooby, of course. With Brad.
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robh
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response 19 of 45:
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Sep 24 02:38 UTC 1994 |
Wasn't his name Fred? And then there were Daphne and Velma...
"Zoikes! Someone's torturing people in the basement, Scoob!"
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vishnu
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response 20 of 45:
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Sep 25 03:06 UTC 1994 |
Oh, I'd ask for some fish.
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deadguy
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response 21 of 45:
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Sep 25 22:21 UTC 1994 |
I'd wait until the second coming of the great prophet Zaquon, and ask his
all-knowing majesty to total the entire erth. Cool.
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remmers
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response 22 of 45:
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Sep 26 00:15 UTC 1994 |
Wow. The quintessential cop-out.
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brighn
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response 23 of 45:
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Sep 26 05:17 UTC 1994 |
Wow! It really was Mr. Henderson, the kindly old gardener, who was making
those noises to create a dillema, so that we wouldn't visit our friend
anymore, so he could lock HER in the basement and make her do all those
things we were afraid she was doing to her brother, but us pecky
er, pesky kids had to come and spoil it all.
(Sorry, Rob, it was the first name that popped to mind.)
Scooby dooby doo, where are you?
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kami
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response 24 of 45:
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Sep 27 19:19 UTC 1994 |
In the conservatory with Colonel Peacock doing unspeakable things with an
umbrella.
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