by Khavi » Sun Jul 11, 2004 7:57 pm
Figs and mice! It's horribly simple!
It all started at the 4th of July party I went to at my friends house last weekend, and four of us were hanging around on his blacony, talking about the stupid shit that gamers do. Somehow it got onto topics of torture (probably from another Spycraft missions... we're warped, you know), and one of the guys goes 'Hold on, let me go get my figs and mice!' and all of a sudden Matt and Kim start just cracking up. I, being totally lost, can only think of really really horrible things about figs and mice, and then I find out that that is precisely the root of the joke.
If you ever need to extract information from someone, and you can't get it out of them by clever coersion, you just say 'Well, fine, you sit here and think about it and I'll go get my figs and mice.' Before you even get to the door, they'll have thought of sixty horrible things and they'll break down and tell you whatever you need to know. When you're done, and they ask what you were going to do with the figs and mice, you tell them, "Whatever it was your were thinking about." The purpose is to just scare them into thinking of the worst possible torture involving figs and mice. It's all a clever scare tactic.
I was so mad, I could have chewed up nails and spit out paper clips.