Do not try this on the way home

[ramchop]

CHIBA -- A schoolboy died hours after something slammed into his head when he stuck it out of a train window on Saturday, police and railroad officials said.

Officials from East Japan Railway Co. said that all its signals and utility poles are at least one meter away from train carriage windows, making it almost impossible for the boy to hit them from a moving train.

[AssKissinger]

Shortly after he did so, the friends reported a loud thumping sound and Asuka slumped to the floor unconscious.

He was rushed to a nearby hospital where he died.

It's a good lesson for any other moronic teenager who thinks it's a good idea to be an idiot. At least his teachers are probably happy.

[kurohinge1]

Another candidate for The Darwin Awards

PS: Great photo from The Young Ones, Ramchop. I loved that episode - "Bambi". Anyway, there's a site with the complete scripts from which I found my favourite exchange from that episode (with Rick & Neil-the-hippie testing eachother on the train on the way to compete in University Challenge - a quiz show). Sorry if it's a bit long:
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RICK: Oh, come off it, Neil, you little swotty-pants. Just look at you, swotting away for teacher like a total spazmo. You're just an utter creep, really, aren't you? You've done loads and loads of work on it and I haven't done anything, nothing a t all. Go on, test me. Go on, test me!

NEIL: You just said you hadn't done anything.

RICK: Don't be clever, just take the book. [Rick throws his notebook at Neil]

NEIL: Alright, but verbatim regurgitation is against my principles.

RICK: I'm asking you to test me on it, not throw up on it! Right, do it properly and don't skip bits.

NEIL: [reading the title of the notebook] "O-Level History Notes"?

RICK: Yes, bit of pretty bloody billiant luck, eh? We're doing exactly the same period as I did for O-Level!

NEIL: [Reading from the notebook] "Prick is a wonker. Signed, the rest of the class."

RICK: Ah, yes, now, that was a sort of "in joke" that we had in my form. Actually, I was incredibly popular and everyone thought I was great.

NEIL: "...I agree with the rest of the class. Signed, Teacher."

RICK: Just test me on the stuff, will you? [Indicating a different page] There!

NEIL: Alright, alright, don't get uncool and heavy. "Crop rotation in the 14th century..."

RICK: Right. [reciting] "Crop rotation in the 14th century was much more widespread..."

NEIL: "Considerably".

RICK: What?

NEIL: It's "considerably more widespread", not "much more".

RICK: Well?

NEIL: Well, you said, "do it properly."

RICK: Well, not that much, you stupid bloody hippie!

NEIL: You said, "do it properly and don't skip bits!" How was I to know that wasn't important?

RICK: Well it wasn't important, alright? Shall we just get on and stop wasting time like this? Right. "Crop rotation in the 14th century was _considerably_ more widespread...after..." God, I know this...don't tell me..."after 1172." [Neil is s ilent] Well, was I right?

NEIL: No, but I didn't think it was important.

RICK: Well, what was it, then?

NEIL: You just said not to tell you.

RICK: I bloody well did not!

NEIL: Yes you did! You said, "Don't tell me" just before you said, "1172."

RICK: But I only meant for a minute!

NEIL: What, a minute from now, or a minute from then?

RICK: Look, just shut up and tell me the answer!

NEIL: Shut up AND tell you the answer?

RICK: JUST TELL ME THE ANSWER!

NEIL: John.

RICK: Thank you..."John"?

NEIL: Yeah, "John" is the answer.

RICK: "Crop rotation in the 14th century was considerably more widespread after John?

NEIL: "...Lloyd invented the patent crop rotator."

RICK: Oh, yes, I knew it, I bloody knew it!

NEIL: You didn't, you didn't, you said "1172"! That's not a bit like "John".

... etc.

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Otherwise, sadly, I refer you to my current signature sentence for Asuka's lesson.

[kamome]

PS: Great photo from The Young Ones, Ramchop...Anyway, there's a site with the complete scripts from which I found my favourite exchange from that episode (with Rick & Neil-the-hippie testing eachother on the train on the way to compete in University Challenge - a quiz show). Sorry if it's a bit long:

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I don't know this show at all, but I bet jez has taken more than a few lessons from that character Neil.

[vince]

[ramchop]

I don't know this show at all, but I bet jez has taken more than a few lessons from that character Neil.

No, Rik was the political activist. Neil is just a dirty hippie.

My wife was in hysterics when she first saw the Young Ones, said I looked exactly like Rik.

Then we came to Tokyo where she spotted another double on the "Hey you! Watch that sloppy style" ad.