The context sets you up to expect that he'll check his friend's pulse, so the — admittedly dark — humor arrives when he takes the more unlikely path. (discovermagazine.com)
But just like water that follows multiple unlikely paths in order to reach the earth, the more advanced you become, the more oblique your approach needs to be as well. (t-nation.com)
It's that sense of worlds colliding, of unlikely paths crossing; your work life, home life, past life and present all mashing together, commented upon and decorated with photos from here and from there, from then and in the now. (religion.blogs.cnn.com)