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Old 09-20-2005, 05:44 PM
Gangster Octopus Gangster Octopus is offline
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Dogs With Bees vs. Sharks with Lasers

OK, what would worry you more if you were confronted with them:

Dogs with bees in their mouths and when they barked they shot bees at you

OR

Sharks with friggn' laser beams attached to their heads?

Suprisingly I gotta go with the dogs with bees in their mouths, I just don't see how the sharks would be able to operate the laser beams.
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Old 09-20-2005, 05:48 PM
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I'd fear the dogs more, too, since I'm on land 100% of the time.
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Old 09-20-2005, 06:39 PM
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I just want to say:

Best. OP. Ever. (or today, whichever).

And I'd be more afraid of the Gangster Octopi.
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Old 09-20-2005, 06:57 PM
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I think the dogs would be much scarier. If they really wanted to get you, they could send a puppy to come up and try to lick your face and then BZZZZZZZZTTTT!.... death.

Sharks with laser beams on their head just isn't that great of an idea. Lasers don't work so well underwater so they would have to jump out of the water to shoot. How are they going to know what to shoot if they were underwater the whole time?

What I would really fear however are seagulls with small rattlesnakes for claws.
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Old 09-20-2005, 07:16 PM
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I depends if we're talking about sentient dogs and sharks or not. If they are smart enough to plot strategy, I'm going with the sharks as being scarier. Lasers would be easy to aim and lethal. Bees, while persistant, would be easier to foil.

Plus, I think that once the shark maimed you, he'd be quick to finish you off with those jaws.
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Old 09-20-2005, 07:50 PM
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I depends if we're talking about sentient dogs and sharks or not.
All dogs and sharks are sentient, unless they're dead or really, really drunk.

Sapient dogs and sharks are a whole 'nuther deal.
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Old 09-20-2005, 08:18 PM
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Well crap.

You knew what I meant.

*walks off muttering to himself*
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Old 09-20-2005, 08:40 PM
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I'd fear the dogs more, too, since I'm on land 100% of the time.
I call foul, the question was which is more worrisome if you happened to confront one or the other.
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Old 09-20-2005, 09:29 PM
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Alright, so assuming that the animals are fully capable of using and aiming their respective weapons, right?

I guess I'd be more afraid of the dogs. I don't know why.
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Old 09-20-2005, 09:47 PM
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I think I'd be too busy laughing at the sheer ridiculousness to be afraid.
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Old 09-20-2005, 09:57 PM
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Both pale to the robotic Richard Simmons.
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Old 09-20-2005, 09:59 PM
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Yes, but what about bears with lazer beams that come out their eyes?

That would be frickin awesome!
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Old 09-20-2005, 11:20 PM
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I would have to fear them both. They're in kahootz! (however you spell that).

See, the dogs catch you on land and start barking up a swarm of bees. Those bees will chase you to the ends of the earth! You'll have to jump into a lake, river, stream, sea, ocean, or Minnesotan pothole puddle to escape! And just when you think you're safe... *ZAP* go the sharks with frikkin' laser beams.

No one is safe.
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Old 09-20-2005, 11:23 PM
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I think that unless you were allergic to bees, the lasers would be more devastating. This poses additional questions, however. Do the dogs control the bees? Or do the bees just kind of fly out and go "Freedom!" and buzz away on their merry ways? If you were in the water, would the sharks really need laser beams? Are they deadly lasers or just the annoying ones that people bring to movie theatres and circle things with?

Because if that's the case, those lasers are definitely more annoying than a bunch of bees would be.

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Old 09-21-2005, 06:24 AM
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Given my location, I'm picking the dogs.
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Old 09-21-2005, 06:29 AM
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If it was wasps instead of bees, it might have been a closer call, but sharks with lasers wins it; meerkats or kittens with lasers would be worse than sharks though, I think.
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Old 09-21-2005, 06:51 AM
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If I am in water, will the dog with bees be able to swim up to me still?

Cause that alone is going to give me nightmares for weeks. After I sink below the water to protect myself, I get shot in the ass by a firggin' laser beam and then eaten by Jaws.


















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Old 09-21-2005, 09:32 AM
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Do the dogs control the bees? Or do the bees just kind of fly out and go "Freedom!" and buzz away on their merry ways?
I think it's pretty clear from the OP that the dogs are spitting bees at you. There seems to be at least a rudimentary guidance system.

Of course I must admit the very thought of a million tiny bees crying out Braveheart style in tiny, buzzy little voices is making me silly with the giggles.
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Old 09-21-2005, 12:41 PM
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Bees kill more people in America than any other animal.

Plus with a shark, I could deflect the laser with my light saber.
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Old 09-21-2005, 12:58 PM
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Both will be crushed by the aerial might of a Tyrannosaurus Rex in a F15.
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Old 09-21-2005, 01:23 PM
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Are they deadly lasers or just the annoying ones that people bring to movie theatres and circle things with?
They're friggn' laser beams. They frig you.
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Old 09-21-2005, 01:44 PM
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And I'd be more afraid of the Gangster Octopi.
Gangster octopi tremble before the pinchy might of Mobster Lobsters.
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Old 09-21-2005, 04:18 PM
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Won't someone, please, think of the sea bass?!?

Enjoy,
Steven
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Old 09-21-2005, 05:27 PM
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Right now, in my garage, I have twenty pigs.

These are big pigs. Hogs, really. Five hundred to a thousand pounds apiece.

With tusks.

These pigs are angry. I have trained them to be angry. I don't feed them properly. The garage is not air conditioned. Sanitation facilities are inadequate.

There are no female pigs.

Every night before I go to bed I open the door to the garage and throw tennis balls at them to whip them into a frenzy. Then I fall asleep to the sound of them fighting each other.

Each one of these pigs is a TIMEBOMB.

In my attic I have twenty flamethrowers.

When the dogs and the sharks come for me, I will strap the flamethrowers to the pigs. And I will open the garage door.

It will be ... sublime.
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Old 09-21-2005, 05:33 PM
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Plus with a shark, I could deflect the laser with my light saber.
Do light sabers work underwater?
I'd have to say the dogs with bees are scarier, I mean any way you strap on the laser to the shark it would look dorky. Maybe it would be a self concious shark.
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Old 09-22-2005, 10:44 AM
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Hamsters with knives.
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Old 09-22-2005, 11:11 AM
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Hmmm ... well, sharks are inherently scarier than dogs, in my opinion. Thus, there is something so much more sinister about puppy dogs with bees ... especially if they're killer bees.

I think I over-thought that.

Rabbits with sharp, pointy teeth, on the other hand...
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Old 09-22-2005, 11:15 AM
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flamingbananas, lightsabers do indeed work underwater.
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Old 09-22-2005, 12:49 PM
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I'd say the dogs, because you can't reason with a dog.
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Old 09-22-2005, 09:21 PM
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Quote:
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I'd fear the dogs more, too, since I'm on land 100% of the time.
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I call foul, the question was which is more worrisome if you happened to confront one or the other.
Well then it is an easy question. Since I also am on land 100% of the time, when I confronted the shark I would just laugh at and taunt it as it flopped around dying on the street!

Plus, lasers are not scary because they are silent. Bees make that scary buzzing noise. You hear "Bark Bark BUZZ!!!" and you know someone's gonna be in a world of hurt.
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