I got up this morning, turned on my PC, petted my cats and gave them their food, sat down in front of my PC and browsed Facebook like usual. There was a news article about Doom, some guys got to play a hefty piece of the single player and got to talk about. I didn't read it all to avoid spoilers but the bottom line sounded good.

However, as I scrolled down there was a knock on my door. I looked into the peephole and what do you know.
A freaking bible salesman right outside my door, as I was reading about a game taking place in Hell.

So you unloaded both barrels through the door, then switched to chainsaw to make sure no?

Never tell me the odds!

I think I'd need more information to have a chance at working out the odds...

How often do bible salesmen come to your door?
How often do you read about Doom (or any game set in hell I suppose)?

If the first is once a day and the second is all the time then the odds are quite high...




:P

The odds are approximately 3,720 to 1 Dammit, ninj'd

The odds are probably higher than they should be. Consider you could have been reading plenty of things, about Doom, Quake, Unreal, Black Sabbath or other heavy metal bands, etc.

As for the door-to-door salesman/door-to-door preaching, say once a month. So the odds of that happening are probably 1:60 (x2 for morning vs evening).

The door-to-door missionaries don't visit me anymore and make a circle around me on the streets, maybe I was a bit too harsh on them.
I once made a mormon street-missionary cry by the sheer power of discussion although he intended to teach me and I had a similar experience with a fanatical but well meaning jewish fellow student when studying philosophy.
I guess I just don't get along too well with missionaries of all kinds, unfortunately those that don't know me already sometimes think I'm kind of like them due to my clothes. A scientology missionary once literally ran away from me... I seem to be the most annoying person imaginable for specific groups.

5, definitely!

Million-to-one odds crop out 9 out of 10 times. You can ask Terry Pratchett if you don't believe me, he still lives in the clacks ;)

But only if it is exactly a million to one.

Man, it's friday and the weekend's coming up. Too lazy to clean up brains and burning bible pieces from the stairs.

"I won't buy your Bible, but how about we trade your book for my book, 'The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster'? It's my mission to spread the touch of his Noodly Appendage."

The odds were 50/50, you could have got a paranoid schizophrenic. :P

[edit] why are you using the peephole? someone after you..

Someone needs to invent a peehole switch for such occasions.