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Right, another chance to alternately build our spirits up and then disappoint them. I can't be bothered to change the winning move so it's still Mornington Crescent.
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Bad News
You're a mute.
Good News
No need to learn French, then.
Bad News
You get extra garlic rations to make up for it.
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You're off to Transylvania next week, so the extra garlic will come in handy.
Bad News
Customs take it from you before entering the country.
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They don't let you enter the country at all.
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They deport you to Afghanistan.
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They let you go into Pakistan, where the locals are impressed by your cricketing expertise.
Bad News
You realise that cricket is the most tedious activity in the world, and face a hideous death from boredom.
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You turn to meditation to escape boredom and find God (underneath a small rock). God tells you to start a new religion.
Bad News
You're still in Pakistan, and the locals are unimpressed by your choice of religion.
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You soon talk them round to your way of thinking.
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Unfortunately, religion is not about thinking.
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But all the atheists are to busy not thinking to notice anyway.
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They're too busy talking on their mobiles while driving (or not) on the M25/Parkway East/[insert your local static motorway here].
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You call on God to smite all mobile phone users with ear-boils. He does! Your religion obtains 100 million new converts.
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They have all just been smitten ie they are dead.
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They're actually all smitten with you. You're popular again!
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It's one of those religions where as the leader, after a night of hedonist splendour, you are sacrificed to ensure well-being in the coming year.
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At least there will be well-being in the coming year.
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Not for you
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You persuade your most faithful acolyte to take your place disguised as you, and sneak off to live in quiet obscurity in another country.
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Who wants to be quiet and obscure?
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YOU DO ! And you achieve it, living in a beautiful house designed by Le Corbusier in the midst of the French Alps.
Bad News
There is an avelanche and your house is swept into oblivion together with your collection of Picasso and Salvador Dali paintings.
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Your surreal world is gone. You can return to sanity.
Bad News
There ain't no Sanity Clause* in your contract.
*credit Mr. Marx
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Your contract is as a strictly non-playing footballer. However you still full wages of £millions a week!
Bad News
Your club is going to have start laying you all off to avoid going into administration.
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You still make a personal fortune in advertising revenue.
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It's in Parmalat, and you're paid in stock options.
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A quick bit of thinking and fast-talking allows you to dump the stock and make a tidy profit.
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At least it would, but being a football player means you are incapable of thinking or talking at anything like a high speed.
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You employ people to do your quick thinking for you
Bad News
They think quickly enough to empty your bank account and disappear before you notice anything has happened.
Good News
You sell your story for a lot of money
Bad News
You are immediately sued for libel by almost everyone you mention.
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Being a thick sporty type, you got all their names slightly wrong, and they have no case.
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Just when you think you are not going to do time, your nicked for steroid abuse at a local beauty pagent.
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With one sweep of your steroid-enhanced shoulders you fell your captors and are free.
Bad News
Unbalanced on your stilleto heels, your boxer shorts are grabbed from behind.
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