Straw that broke the camel back game

The Turtle is slow. He takes his time. But he gets there. Want a ride? Ever had a Wurd Turtle Burger? Excerpts and links may be used, provided that complete and distinct credit is given to thewurdturtle Follow Following. The Wurd Turtle Join 27 other followers. Sign me up. Already have a WordPress. Log in now. Loading Comments Email Required Name Required Website. In Beetlejuice , Adam and Barbara are driving over a covered bridge and swerve to avoid a dog. They crash through the wall of the bridge and end up poised on the edge, teetering above a river.

They look back and see the dog standing on a broken plank, panting happily at them. The dog hops off the plank, and over they go. In Black Sheep , a huge boulder behind the cabin in which the two main characters are staying is loosened by, among other things, David Spade's character standing on it and a rodent digging under it.

Finally, a bird flying overhead poops on it, and Spy Hard : In a flashback, Steele makes a false presidential rescue thinking there's a threat. He ends up having his feet hanging over the ledge of a bridge along with the president's car. He stretched his arms out with his wallet to keep himself from falling.

In the film of Wizards of Waverly Place Justin has to make a bridge. He's very proud of it and taunts Alex until she wordlessly takes a pebble and tosses it on the bridge. The Genre Savvy can guess what happens. Road Trip : Seann Scott's character demonstrates he can spit across a ten-foot wide broken bridge.

He did, but causing the other end of the bridge to collapse from his spit. So one of the other dwarves decides to toss him a sausage, and the bench promptly collapses. At the beginning of Cas and Dylan , Dr. Cas Pepper is already a widower and facing a fatal, inoperable brain tumor.

When his beloved dog unexpectedly drops dead during an innocent game of fetch, Cas sets out on a cross-country trip to a give the dog a proper burial and b end his life on his own terms. In the Discworld book Interesting Times , Rincewind is dangling above a giant fall, barely supported by a few rotting logs. A quantum butterfly lands on his hat, and, wary of this exact trope , Rincewind tries to blow it off — so it starts making it rain just over his head, which is enough to drop him. It also stings him with a very small lightning bolt.

The children's book The Mitten is about a small boy's mitten that gets dropped in the woods. First a little mouse finds the mitten and finds it a cozy nest. Then along comes a small frog, and then a rabbit, and the mitten is pretty much big enough for them, and quite warm. Then things start to get out of hand when a fox, then a wolf, and then a bear arrive and clamber for space in the mitten.

Finally a doddering granny grasshopper comes along and blows off their cries of "No room! No room! In the Jan Brett version, the animals start with rabbit, and the mitten doesn't explode until a mouse snuggles herself on the bear's nose. Similarly, in the picture book "Who Sank the Boat", every time an animal gets in we're asked "Do you know who sank the boat? The Annie M. Schmidt poem De brug bij Breukelen The Bridge Near Breukelen has everyone and everything going over a bridge safely, until a mosquito lands on it In Horton Hears a Who!

The other animals get sick of Horton talking about the Whos and plan to boil the dust speck in oil, so the Whos all try to make as much noise as possible to prove their existence. Finally, the Mayor finds one Who who isn't contributing—a particularly small Who named JoJo his son in some adaptations —takes him to the highest point in town and has him make a loud "YOPP! Live-Action TV.

He drops the bowling ball so the trap door would go up. Nothing happens. He drops the teddy bear, and then the trap door goes up. In the iCarly episode "iDate a Bad Boy" Spencer buys a pressure sensitive alarm in front of the door to prevent Carly from sneaking out.

Carly jumps up and down on it, and it doesn't go off. Later, an obese postman comes to give a package to Spencer, telling him that it needed one more stamp. The postman steps on the sensor with the package. Spencer gives him the stamp to complete the postage, and then alarm goes off. Seinfeld : George's wallet. The "mint" is a phone tab from an ad a strip of paper just big enough to fit a phone number. House : Played with; the team has to diagnose a morbidly obese man in a coma.

They eventually get to the point that they need to get an MRI. Only problem? The weight limit for the MRI is The man in question weighs over Cameron: The weight limit's obviously just an estimation. It's not like it can hold pounds fine and then collapse under Chase: He's not 1 pound over, he's pounds over. In the Starbomb song "A Boy and His Boat", after Link tells the King of Red Lions he "absolutely cannot carry one more thing", his Sapient Ship reassures him "all that's left is a single piece of string", which breaks Link's back when it goes on top of his bag.

Pro Wrestling. According to World Wrestling Entertainment , the rings used for among other things the massive Royal Rumble Match held every January can bear the weight of approximately five non-metric tons, or 10, pounds - enough to bear the weight of about 40 standard-sized male wrestlers the average male WWE Superstar weighing about pounds.

But if even a cruiserweight wrestler weighing less than pounds jumped in after them, the whole thing would presumably collapse. Fortunately, 40 is the absolute maximum number of Superstars ever allowed in the Royal Rumble Match over its two-and-a-half decades of existence, and no more than 15 of those guys at the most are ever in the ring all at once the overwhelming majority of the contestants being unable to stay in the match for 60 minutes, which is the average length of a Royal Rumble , so the chances of such a thing happening are practically nonexistent.

When a superheavyweight pounds or more performs a top-rope maneuver on another superheavyweight, however This has currently happened four times. The fourth time saw Bray Wyatt superplex Strowman. Tabletop Games. There's a card game called Straw that literally deals with trying not to break a camel's back. If you play that when the camel is at exactly 50 pounds, you score your hand while no one else does, akin to shooting the moon in trick-taking games.

Why this method of back-breaking is desirable isn't really explained. Video Games. In NetHack , once you've eaten enough to become satiated, eating anything more may choke you to death. This includes the corpses left by wraiths, which have interesting magical properties but no nutritional value and therefore don't trigger the usual "are you sure you want to eat more?

You don't get a warning. Despite the wafer-thinness of the mint, you explode in a shower of gore. All but lampshaded in Devil May Cry 4 , when Dante explodes a huge towering Boss with one hit point left with a single pistol bullet.

Try finishing it off with a salad, though In The Elder Scrolls , you can run at full speed while being 0. While not quite the same thing, in Breath of Fire IV the God-Emperor Fou-Lu has spent the entire game with a target on his head by the very empire that resurrected him. Near the end of the game, they decide to go all out and drop a Fantastic Nuke on him.

He survives this, only to notice the hair accessory of his love interest near him. They'd used her for ammo. The Glory have three games in Sydney against Sydney FC, Macarthur and the Wanderers scheduled for the first week of January, but there is now a question mark over those fixtures considering the players will have been denied access to a training ground for two weeks. We thought there would be an easier solution. Perth have consulted external assistance to support the players throughout this period, citing concerns for the mental health of many in their squad.

Glory chief executive Tony Pignata is working with Queensland and WA state governments in hope of an early release of the squad if there are no other positive cases that emerge.

Club sources at the Bulls said most of the tests have already come back and there have been no further positive cases.