Mission Impossible

[Westmarcher]

I just had a thought. What if the agent chose not to accept the mission? 

Mission 1.  Agent listens to the tape. Voice says, "Should you choose to accept .." Big mistake. Just given the agent an escape route. Agent legs it to the Bookies (Betting Shop for our foreign friends).
Mission 2. Rather plump agent listens to the tape. Voice says, "Should you choose to accept .." Big mistake. Just given the agent another excuse. Agent legs it to the Pub (and then goes for a kebab).
Mission 3. Slightly obese agent listens to the tape. Voice says, "Should you choose, etc....." Agent shuffles off to the pie shop. "WAIT! WAIT!" shouts the voice (as smoke starts rising from the tape ... too late .... tape self destructs).....

If it was the TV programme, what would you do for the next hour?  If it was the film, you night is ruined. 

Just wondered.

[Leman]

Is it though? Honestly?

[Ithoriel]

I just had a thought. What if the agent chose not to accept the mission? 

Then the next hour is the agent being hunted down and "terminated with extreme prejudice"

[Heedless Horseman]

What they never show are the times when the agent:
Says "OW! That bl**dy thing burn't my fingers again!"
Is arrested for attempted arson and wilful damage to a phone box.
Couldn't find the phone box 'cos it ain't there anymore.
Is too engrossed in the little cards advertising for 'Lady Services', that the tape burns out.
Stands in sick/poo.

[Hertsblue]

I've always thought of the films as "Mission Improbable". Seriously, would anyone ever contemplate flying a helicopter down a railway tunnel? When you know exactly where the train's going to come out and that you can get there first. Mindless! 

[Westmarcher]

(pssst! Wasn't that the problem though?  It was attached to the train.)

[Westmarcher]

(Is this is a pioneering crossover episode post for this forum?)

A former work colleague suggested we use the theme for Mission Impossible for our phones when we placed a customer on 'hold.' What a great idea! Picture the scene.

[phone rings]
"Hello, Acme Insurance."
Memee memee meemee meminimmee?
"Yes"
Meemee yaka yaka meemeenay moo
"A cow, you say."
yay
"Mmmm"
Moomoo uppa yaka yaka patonhed
"In a tree."
Yakayakayakawheraryoomoomoo
"Moo .. erm, I mean, mmmm"
meemee minimee yikes moooooo thud?
"You want insurance in case it falls out of the tree .."
"Mmmm"
"Tricky."
"Could you hold whilst I speak to one of our underwriters?"
yay
"Thank you."

Da..da ... daarra .... da..da .. darra .. da..da ... darra .. da..da ... da ra ..

[sometime later] "Hello. Yes, we can do it! Name? Daisy...."

Another happy customer.
[Da..da ... daarra .... da..da .. darra .. da..da ... darra .. da..da ... da ..]

I thank you.  

[Westmarcher]

OK
crowd are slow tonight
Have you ever tried gift wrapping an air guitar?

[fsn]

That's easy. Use invisible paper and clear tape!

I do it all the time.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

You would...

IanS

[Hertsblue]

(pssst! Wasn't that the problem though?  It was attached to the train.)

Not that I recall.

[FierceKitty]

I didn't know you could take out Acne insurance. Could appeal to the teenage market, I'm sure.

[Raider4]

Not that I recall.

Then you recall wrongly.

The whole things was stupidly ludicrous, and the point at which my suspension of disbelief collapsed, but the chopper was attached to the train, which is why it had to follow it into the tunnel.

Cheers, Martyn

[Westmarcher]

I didn't know you could take out Acne insurance. Could appeal to the teenage market, I'm sure.

Well spot ted, FK (so glad you didn't mention Freederm ....  )

[Westmarcher]

the chopper was attached to the train, which is why it had to follow it into the tunnel.

Well, that's a relief, eh, Hertsblue? I thought we would both have to watch the whole film ... again ....  .

Thank you, Raider - you've just saved two grown men from wasting 110 minutes of their lives they would never have got back again!