Thursday, March 3, 2011

Short Takes

Some scenes that I find amusing:

•Someone talking really fast, right before they fall down

•A man is playing with some magnets, delighting in the resistance he feels as he pushes the like poles toward each other. But then, in a momentary lapse of vigilance, he allows one of the magnets to flip around, and the powerful bond latches the two pieces down painfully on either side of his hand, WHAP. Him: "AHH! Fucking god damn magnets!" (To onlookers): Help me get them off!" (He tries, but can't pry them away.) "AAGH, GET THEM OFF GET THEM OFF GET THEM OFF GET THEM OFF!"

•When someone reacts to something you say by making a sort of face with just their mouth, without altering any other facial feature. (Especially if they seem unaware that they're doing it.)

•When one person is really reluctant to fight someone, but they sort end up getting into it anyway. They easily overpower their belligerent challenger, pretty much effortlessly. Like, with a single punch. The other guy is just hunched over, immobilized by the pain of a swiftly delivered blow to the stomach, and he's just sort of emitting a strained, high pitched groan. So, the first guy tries once again to call the thing off. "Hey man," he says. "This has gone far enough." Then the other guy looks up at him, red faced, and barely manages to eek out a strained, "You're a son of a bitch!"

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