Tangled Up And Blue

[SCENE OPENS -- Our hero is talking on the phone with the captain of the bomb squad. The readout on the timer is at 60 seconds, 59... 58...]

Okay, just take a deep breath... you're doing great, kid. Just follow my instructions to the letter and we can defuse this bomb and get you and the other hostages out of there.

First, cut the blue wire...




A selection of cabling nightmares






This is... unsettling. Take uncooked pasta, skewer it through hot dogs and boil. Pasta dogs! A couple of LiveJournal posts on the subject here and here. It's mostly in Russian, but hey, creepy food knows no linguistic borders.

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