Tick tick tick tick BOOM!

[Stumpy Pepys]

Same in Germany though. When a shopping centre was being built near my old office in Munich, they unearthed an old bomb and had to evacuate.

[Nocturnal Submission]

I thought I'd tried every excuse for late essays back in my student days, but even I never managed that one. Fair play to Miss de Galles.

Not essay-dodging, but when I was doing my Finals my landlord told me one morning that my department building had been hit by a rocket. Obviously I thought he was joking but when I went in for my exam I discovered that someone had indeed fired a fairly serious projectile at it during the night and damaged an office.