Okay, I've done the google thing but didn't really find what I was looking for. A character of mine is going to die. I need a really top notch embarrassing way for it to happen.
Kind of like an abandoned space station burns up in the atmosphere, but not all of it. A fully intact toilet seat defeats reentry heat and lands on her head in the middle of a crowded plaza.
What are the odds?
That example was stolen from the defunct Showtime series 'Dead Like Me'. So I can't use that. The character is male, so that should narrow the way to die somewhat.
Any help would be... erm, helpful.
Lili
Ninja Edit: For a plot synopsis follow the link below to the blog post in question. I've prepared it for all the questions that I have received.
http://lilithlangtree.tglibrary.com/2009/06/22/the-embarrass...
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Just one question
How can you be embarrassed after you die? ;-)
They know they can survive
The post-death blues
Easy. In the afterlife. Come on, it's fiction! LOL.
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cause of death
Does it need to be sudden?
In a word...
Yes,
the more sudden and embarrassing the better.
If "Dead Like Me" didn't have the toilet seat scene I'd steal it in a heartbeat. That's exactly the kind of death I'm looking for. A one in a million shot where he can be teased about it in the afterlife. They called the lead character (George) "Toilet seat girl" best running gag I've seen that never failed to make me laugh.
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Trampled by a horde of
Trampled by a horde of female shoppers surging through the door at a "grand opening sale" of a new Victoria Secrets store???
Some days you're the pigeon, some days you're the statue
That happened in RL...
In a Walmart Store on Long Island... The employee opening the door - the morning of a big sale was trampled/killed by the mob of shoppers... The story can be found here.
Does This Have Anything To Do.....
Does this have anything to do with Do It Right.. or any of your other in process stories?
Yes, Casidhe will die.
Yes, it's "Do it Right" which I was working on this morning BTW. It's Casidhe. She's the one that's gonna die.
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I wouldn't do that to you. I think I'd get stoned alive if I killed Casidhe.
No this is for something else.
Current Stories: Do it Right, Transpires, Ares Bane. Nothing else is open at the moment. LOL. Everyone thinks I have like 20 stories going at once. I do have several stories in the works. I have to jot down notes and half-a**ed outlines or I lose brilliant ideas. This is one of those. I have it planned post FQ3 which is also in the works. For more info you can visit my blog.
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Well I Was Hoping
It's been like 2 months since the last posting of Do It Right. I don't want you to do in Casidhe either.
Ways to die...
It would be nice to have the immediate moments before feature the character acting badly, as it's easier to laugh at people we don't like.
One might, for ensample, push one's way through to the head of a line, ignore the "Please Wait for Door to Open" sign, and step out into thin air just before the aerial tram car arrives, plunging head first down toward the open manhole cover in the street below, intercepted at the last moment by the intervention of a sailboat being towed up the street, sliding down the sail at such speed that one was hurled sideways and through the open entrance to a circus tent, landing in the Human Cannonball cannon just before it fired, causing it to angle upward, whereupon it shoots one up and over into the lion's cage, but the lion doesn't eat you, but is rather so startled that he leaps upon the liontamer, who pulls out his gun to save himself, but by this time the lion has the liontamer's head in his mouth, so liontamer's aim is off a bit, so the bullet hits the trapeze artist, who falls onto one end of the teeter-totter one has managed to struggle toward to catch one's breath, hurling one into the air again and into the centre of the main ring, where one arrives just in time to have the elephant sit on one's head during the blowoff.
The elephant farts.
The ringmaster takes a bow.
The crowd goes wild.
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Puddin'
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I'll bet you loved . . .
I'd be willing to bet you were a big fan of Rube Goldberg. Don't see much of that kind of stuff anymore. :-(
They know they can survive
What?
Happened to my Uncle Fred, except he didn't quite die.
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Too Funny
Or should I say droll, very droll.
- Terry
W.E. Coyote Super genius
Sounds like an episode of Road Runner.
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Well....
Fred was a janitor for Warner Bros, and liked to tell the story over a beer or two, but he never once got writing credit. He fell off a cliff one time, but that's another story, and he looked nothing like a coyote. It's not his fault he had large ears.
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Final Destination much?
This string of unfortunate events is soooo Final destination. FYI, it is a series of thriller movies when by a stroke of luck/precognitive flash/accident people who were supposed to die were spared their destiny. NOT! Even after their original death event went without them in the spotlight, Death began to hunt them down stringing a series of unfortunate events. For example, one guy who won a lottery in the meantime (or like that) bought a ring and dropped it into a sink, tried to take it out and stuck, the food in the microwave exploded in the vicinity, lighting the apartment on fire, and when he eventually excaped through fire exit he fell from the last step of a hanging sliding fire ladder... only to have his head impaled when the stuck ladder unstuck and slid down;)
And as for a suggestion - there is a chicken gun, that uses defrosted chicken to shoot objects like front windglass shield of a car/train/airplane to test it in case of a bird hits it during motion. Once, a shot from this gun shattered the windglass shield and stuck in the wall. Turned out that the chicken was not defrosted! Put a guy behind the shield at the moment of shot, and you have Instant Death by a Chicken Impact!
Faraway
Faraway
Big Closet Top Shelf
Where you can fool around like you want to and most you get is some bemused good ribbing!
Final Destination -- Never heard of it...
I'm woefully ignorant of popular culture. I really must buy one of those cultural literacy books one of these days.
There's an Arab saying, or at least it's said that there's an Arab saying, that God (OK, Allah, but that sounds a bit pretentious, don't you know? Allah is just "God" in Arabic, so insisting on it seems like saying that one is going to "Paree" when one means Paris.) has ordained the place in which we are meant to die, and will cause our footsteps to lead us in that direction. I suppose (as a non-believer) that the moral of this story might be seen as to "take time to smell the roses," as hurrying will only allow one to arrive at that place sooner, but I'm sure there are other lessons to be drawn.
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How about...
An airliner gets a leak in its sewage storage tank. The stream of um... water freezes on the way down and the person is pierced by a smelly icicle. (It must be true. I read it on the web.)
The person falls head-first into a porta-potty and drowns.
The person replaces a blown automobile fuse with a .22 cartridge and ends up getting shot when the massive current (that blew the fuse in the first place) heats and ignites the cartridge.
The person is talking on the cell phone and drives into an abutment.
The person is talking on the cell phone and falls into an open manhole.
Or, you can look up one of the many 'official' [snicker] Darwin Award sites.
Ray Drouillard
darwin
Suggest trawling the Darwin Awards website for inspiration. :-)
Website
I like these people:
www.DarwinAwards.com
They know they can survive
Rail-Roaded
A woman in California was walking her little dog and the dog pulled her in front of an oncoming train. Now there was a person who really got rail-roaded.
Hugs,
Jenna From FL
Hugs,
Jenna From FL
Moderator/Editor
TopShelf BigCloset
It is a long road ahead but I will finally become who I should be.
Lighting strike
Person uses portable toilet when it is struck by lightning.
Not only is person killed by lightning, but the toilet explodes covering everything in 'muck'.
Would you believe?
Dies while attired for kinky sex. I swear this one comes from my spouse! Obviously dying with anything linked to fecal matter is not a good thing. Toilets and frozen hmmm... waste falling from the sky is a bad thing. We seem to have two areas here. One is doing something really stupid and dying from it. The other is being caught at the end of a really bad joke. Like the toilet from skylab. It really depends what is best for your story. I'm guessing the blunt of a bad joke from your example.
Sorry I'm lost for this one.
hugs!
grover
Same here.
The example I used above, with the toilet seat is the way I want to go. Just minding your own business and bamm! Embarrassing death. But it's been used. So some other way. I was drawing a blank as well.
While a lot of the ones above are funny. A lot are cliche as well. And hopefully everyone knows how much I hate using cliched ideas. I want the reader to go... WTF???! You're kidding.
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Dung Is In
How about if the man is driving a convertible with the top up? He gets stuck in rush hour traffic on the freeway and finds himself behind a dump truck full of manure. Something goes haywire in the the dump truck and the bed is hydraulically lifted, dumping its load on the convertible. The man is taken completely by surprise and ends up suffocating under the smelly load.
How's that?
- Terry
Good!
I kind of like that one. But the behind the dump truck thing in traffic has been used a number of times. It needs a tweak.
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Yet Another
How about if he gets in an accident with a baby diaper service van? He's still in a onvertible and he isn't wearing a seatbelt. He hits the van and goes flying out of the car headfirst into the van, where he's smothered by a load of dirty diapers. Yuck! Poo!
- Terry
The lightning strike while taking a wizz genera has merit
Was at summer scout camp in Northern WI, the Neidhoffer side of Lefeber/Neidhoffer Came near Wabeno/Laona for you Milwaukee County Council fans, when a T-storm blew through and lightning struck the pit toilet/sink/water station building in the next over campsite.
Hit the cast iron vent stack but instead of following it around the ridge beam it blasted straght thru the 6x8 beam and down the vent stack to ground. All that was left was splinters. The toilets, multi-tap sink and urinal were all stainless steel.
If anybody had been releaving them selves or, um, pleasuring themselves ... but the site was empty at the time. Scary as the flash and boom were simultanious , VERY loud and we could feel the pressure/shock wave.
The kinky sex death is too David Caradine.
There was the skydiver/photographer who got so excited they forgot their chute, jumped and photographed their own death plunge, grusome.
How about the oldie of someone setting a trap to kill, hurt someone else but they F*** it up and off themselves? Complete with video, they were intending to intimidate witnesses.
Fishing, snag underwater cable-- ZAPPP! Or snag another boat and somehow pulled to their death?
Shot by jealous man who has the wrong house?
Death by school lunch? Have you ever seen what they serve in the caffeteria?
John in Wauwatosa
John in Wauwatosa
Cute
The school lunch thing has merit. What would be so horrible that it would only kill one person though?
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The tater tots?
If they are realy overcooked and dried out you could choke on one if you inhaled at the wrong time.
They had some weird film on TV with Ruth McGowan from Charmed as some cool but amoral chick who accidentally or is is deliberately suffocates a friend durning a kidnapping prank by duct-taping her and shoving a huge jawbreaked candy in her mother then putting her in the trunk of a car, she chokes to death.
John in Wauwatosa
P.S. if it has any ties to Halloween, drownding while bobbing for apples?
John in Wauwatosa
John, I watched this almost happen…
…while waiting on the platform of a tube station in London. It was at the time when hoards of my fellow Scots invaded London for the annual England-Scotland football match at Wembley; A large number of these hoards were kilted and most of them more than somewhat inebriated. One of these fans needed a leak, and one of his mates bet him he could not pee as far as the live rail (carrying 750 volts DC) on the far side of the track. He almost achieved it—the "boiler" pressure must have been close to "blowing off" point—but luckily someone pulled him away or he would have been electrocuted through a very sensitive part of his anatomy.
Maybe it's a good thing the England-Scotland soccer match has not been played for a number of years.
Gabi
Gabi.
smaller scale
You can still use excrement, but in a smaller quantity:
Guy is walking down a city sidewalk, maybe daydreaming a little, not looking exactly where he's going. Steps on a fresh pile of dog poo, slips, falls down, cracks his head on the concrete. Simple, yet embarrassing.
Death by Lingerie
A man is in traffic in a convertible. On an overpass above the roadway, a big truck gets into an accident and loses one of those huge wheels which falls down and bounces through traffic, eventually smashing into a Playtex truck. The air is full of flying lingerie, a bra goes around the guys face, size 56L (they make them). Before he can react to pull it off, the hook end gets caught on the wing mirror of a passing milk truck and the guy is garroted by the bra strap.
"There's irony for you." -- Lewis Carroll
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
Devilishly clever
I like. He's held in place by his seatbelt and choke choke snap. And what are the odds... very nice. Okay, we have a front runner here!
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Rats!
I was gonna use that one! ::grin::
How's this one? The guy works in an office or something. Lady who works there finds a mouse in her desk drawer, starts screaming. All the guys laugh.
Woman picks the mouse by its tail, flings it like a slingshot and it goes down his throat! Choking, he has a heart attack and dies but coughs up the mouse that scurries away with a heck of a story for the old mouse pub on the corner.
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-- Donna Lamb, ex-Flack
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Killier undies!
This just popped into my head this morning for some reason:
After he gets killed, she has an irrational fear of lingerie, a lingerie phobia. So she can barely wear a bra without freaking out and side steps Victoria's Secret in the mall. All those dainty pieces of death tossed pell mell in bins waiting for a chance to jump out and strangle people.
Insanity people!
I looked for it. The closest I could find was Vestiphobia - a fear of clothing. Not close enough. Curses!
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so lil make a word up for
so lil make a word up for it!Il back you up all the way to Websters!
>>>>>I'm a new soul.I came to this strange world.Hoping I could learn a bit bout how to give and take.<<<<<
>>>>>I'm a new soul.I came to this strange world.Hoping I could learn a bit bout how to give and take.<<<<<
Break it down... Everybody Dance Now!
Lingerie Etymology:
French, from Middle French, from linge
So I can only conclude that it should be "Lingaphobia." That almost sounds like it should be the fear of languages, but there you go.
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Stethodesmophobia
The extreme or unreasoning fear of things that are worn on the chest, or the belief that your bra is trying to kill you. Useful word. :)
Phobia is Greek, so you ought to match the root.
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
Great word!
Anybody who wears one everyday knows exactly what it means. ::hah::
I may steal it for a story. It would even make a good title. ::lol::
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fear of lingerie
esorouchagynaikeiaphobia
It's a little awkward. The Greek word for generic underwear is esoroucha.
To make it ladies undies, one has esoroucha gynaikeia as two words.
One could make it fear of knickers: kylottaphobia, essentially "culottes."
Or fear of panties: brakaphobia.
A brassiere is soutien, but like knickers, it's "borrowed" from the French: soutienophobia
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Puddin'
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Classical vs. modern
Those are from modern Greek. I went with classical roots. Stethos, chest. Desmos, something that is worn on or adheres to something, it's a root used in botany sometimes. Stethodesmos, στηθόδεσμος, a cloth covering the chest, actual Greek word. Voilà or eureka, if you prefer. :)
And I just like the sound of stethodesmophobia, it sounds like a scientific term. :)
Also see: http://www.websters-dictionary-online.org/translation/Greek/...
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
Or in zoology...
Stethodesma (sp) is a type of flower beetle, a sub-set of the scarabs.
I think "desma" is a binding, as kartera desma, strong bonds.
There is an ancient Greek woman's name Desma as well, meaning an oath, same difference.
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Puddin'
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David Carradine
I would think that David in his afterlife is pretty embarrassed right now.
What a jerk. I'm not sure if a pun was intended or not. Everyone knows that the way for a guy to have much better sex is to go on HRT for a year or so, then get a vaginoplasty. Works all ways: straight, lesbian, bi, or do-it-your-self. 8)
Hugs and Bright Blessings,
Renee
Hugs and Bright Blessings,
Renee
Man comming out of building
Man comming out of building sees a woman suicide bomber. He tries to grab her from behind just as the bomb goes off. No one sees him and he is later misidentified as the transvestite bomber.
Chelle_MM
I saw it in a cartoon (I think)
A hero sneaks behind enemy lines; crawls though bushes to spot where enemy generals are meeting; takes cigar out of pocket, lights it, tosses it into the middle of the evil command post; pulls stick of dynamite out of other pocket, lights it, sticks it into his mouth.
I don't think I could live that down even after I was dead.
I See We Both Like" Dead Like Me"
I see we both like "Dead Like Me" I have both complete seasons on DVD and I just watched the movie last week when it came from Netflix. It was really strange without one of the main characters and replacing one of the actors with another one. Anyway, I have seen a show called 1000 stupid ways to die. It had some some rather unique true stories of freak accidents that killed people.
True story
On New Year's Eve 1999, the city of Las Vegas, Nevada opted not to have a mega fireworks display as the first New Year's Day of the new millennium was, in actuality, still a year away. One of the revelers decided he was going to cross Las Vegas Blvd. (which was, as always, shut down to traffic so the casino partiers could wander in the street safely). Rather than walking across the street, he decided to climb one of the light poles and use the power lines to cross. Naturally, the moment he made contact with the power line, he provided the fireworks as he was electrocuted. The ultimate irony of the whole thing is the young man was a college student--AT CAL TECH!!!
Jenny
Jenny
May have been safer than crossing the street...
On Saturday, 16 August 2003, a 39-year-old woman, the mother of four children, died in mid-stride while crossing Las Vegas Boulevard. She was electrocuted when she stepped on a cast iron plate on a traffic island.
Officials said that frayed wiring, dampness from the sudden storm, and the open-toed shoes worn by the victim probably contributed to the fatal accident. The box hadn't been inspected since it was installed in late 1995 or early 1996.
The woman was making her first trip to Las Vegas with her fiancé who was playing in a billiards tournament. Just before she died, she'd been talking to her brother on her cell phone.
Not so funny, though.
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Puddin'
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Shot by a jealous wife
while crossdressed and caught giving oral sex to her her husband?
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