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1. It is January 15, 1919, and I live in Boston, Massachusetts. Some weird noises have been coming from up at the Purity Distilling Company today, lots of banging and tapping of metal on metal. Hang on, there's a guy running down the street, looking back over his shoulder like something's chasing him. "The tank's burst!" I hear him yell, as I open the door and go into the street. Ick, what's this sticky stuff I've just stepped in?
2. I am walking with my mother on a grassland near her home - it is winter, raining a little, and very windy. I am some way ahead, and don't hear clearly when my mother shouts out something to me. I look back and ask her to say again, and she replies 'be careful, the ground is really uneven around here", as I dutifully step into a hole. I feel my foot twist inwards, and a kind of 'ping' on the outside of my ankle. As I sit on the frozen ground I think "this is really bad, it must be a full-on sprain, breaks aren't meant to hurt this much. I mean, it's not like there are nerves in bone, are there?"
3. I am Kenneth Branagh, but I'm in a movie, playing Andrew Benson. I've made it big in the US with a sitcom I write with my American wife, but I've come back to England for Christmas to see some old friends. I'm looking over the play I was writing with one of them before I moved away - he's played by Stephen Fry - and I say "That's still a good joke [...] I've never fallen in love. I've stepped in it a few times." What movie am I in?
4. I am an adolescent boy, I live in Athens, in a time I have a strange premonition will someday be referred to as "Ancient Greece". I've been told by some of the guys hanging around the future ruins that if you want some, you know, company, you just have to look for the tracks left by the nails in the bottom of women's sandals. If the nails are patterned so they spell something, you know you're on the track of a courtesan...but I'm so nervous, I keep forgetting what to look for...what will the footsteps I should step in spell out?
5. I am a yak, and I've been stuck on this Ark with my good lady-yak wife for longer than my yakish brain can comprehend. It's not only us, there's a goat couple next to us, a pair of camels on their other side, and the sheep beyond them - and that's just the ones I know the names of. As you can imagine there's a fair mess down there - hair, wool, sweat, pee - I'd say the smell was bordering on diabolical if my yakish brain could rise to such lofty descriptive prose. And the worst of it is, we're walking around in it all! Still, Noah - the guy that's supposedly running this zoo - says that "once the waters have receded and we can once more walk upon dry land" - he talks like that - he'll go around and collect the fibrous, matted fabric we have produced, and he shall call it...oi, camel, what was he going to call it again?
6. I am an Australian Track Cyclist, and I am on the starting line for the 1000m time trial. It is the 1996 Olympics, and I am the favourite for the event, having won the silver in 1992. The clock is counting down, I've got my feet locked in toe-clips to the pedals, my entire being is concentrated on making a perfect start. The gun's gone, I'm off...but why's my foot flying away from my bike? Oh no, I can't believe it, I've pulled my shoe out of the toe-clip, I'm not even going to get through the first round, let alone win the gold...I'm so distraught right now I can't even remember my own name. Help me what is it?
7. I am Loretta Lynn, you might know me from such country music smash hits "One's on the Way", "Coalminer's Daughter" and "Don't Come Home A'Drinkin (With Lovin' on Your Mind)". You might not be so familiar with the song I released on my "Your Squaw is on the Warpath" album in 1968 called "You've Just Stepped In", but I'll bet you know where that low-down, no-good man of mine has just stepped in from, right? I"ll start it: "You've just stepped in from..." now you carry on...
8. My name is Edwin Clayhanger and I live in the English Midlands. It is July 1872, I am 16 years old; yesterday I went to school for the last time, and forever put away childish things. Tonight I am in an alien world - a tavern, full of men - and, oh, wonder of wonders, a woman is performing a dance! A "pretty, doll-like woman, if inclined to amplitude", she wears a short skirt, which she occasionally flicks up with her fingers as she dances, and she has - heavens! - bare arms. She is the most alluring creature I have ever seen, champion in her art, but the most amazing thing about her is her shoes. They are work-shoes, they are practical, not beautiful shoes, yet here before me this woman steps out. What can be the name of the art in which she shines so brightly?
9. I am an English fuller, and it is around 1580 (you know how bad we peasant-types are with dates). People say times are harsh, but at least I've got a steady job, even if it is incredibly hard work, and just a tiny bit disgusting. Most days I spend my time stomping about barefoot in a tub, sloshing pieces of raw wool through a liquid 'wash'. I could tell you what we call the wash, but I can never remember what the toffs call the stuff - you know how bad we peasant-types are with 'proper' language. Ooh, come on, what's it called?
10. My name is Harry; they tell me I'm a dog. I've been hunting a mouse through the kitchen, but now dad's put down one of those sticky cardboard glue traps. Gees, I know mice are pretty dumb, but are they really stupid enough to walk into one of...ugh, there's something on my foot! I know, if I look up at mum plaintively she'll know what to do...maybe I'll even whimper a little, yeah...ah, here she comes, but what's that she's going to use to get the stupid thing off me?
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