# A new pointless game- Which would be scarier?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-pointless-game-which-would-be-scarier/93619
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [November 15, 2001, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-pointless-game-which-would-be-scarier/93619 "2001-11-15T22:23:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@saepiroth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saepiroth)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2001, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-pointless-game-which-would-be-scarier/93619/41 "2001-11-17T02:00:38Z")
the used condom.
stepping in something sticky and squelchy and then never knowing what it was, or stepping on something dry and crunchy and finding out that it was something horrible?
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### Author:  [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2001, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-pointless-game-which-would-be-scarier/93619/42 "2001-11-17T05:13:42Z")
The dry, crunchy something horrible.
Finding out your lover is an unknown/long-lost close relative or finding out a boyband member is am unknown/long-lost close relative.
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### Author:  [@Cougarfang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cougarfang)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2001, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-pointless-game-which-would-be-scarier/93619/43 "2001-11-17T07:29:00Z")
boyband member _shudder_
ghosts or bats?
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### Author:  [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2001, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-pointless-game-which-would-be-scarier/93619/44 "2001-11-17T07:35:09Z")
Walking in on your parents having sex
or
walking in on your grandparents having sex
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### Author:  [@zoogirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoogirl)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2001, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-pointless-game-which-would-be-scarier/93619/45 "2001-11-17T07:44:28Z")
Grandparents!
Walking in the house to find your parents and boyfriend sitting in stony silence or walking in to find them sitting together looking at the pictures in your baby book. :eek"
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### Author:  [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2001, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-pointless-game-which-would-be-scarier/93619/46 "2001-11-18T02:02:16Z")
Stoney silence. I’d worry about what mom said _this_ time.
The package delieved to you ticks, or the package growls?
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### Author:  [@zoogirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoogirl)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2001, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-pointless-game-which-would-be-scarier/93619/47 "2001-11-18T03:23:01Z")
Ha! Like growling would worry ME! Definately ticking.
You’re almost home and a cop pulls you over, lights flashing
Or
The cop is ahead of you and pulls into YOUR driveway!
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### Author:  [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2001, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-pointless-game-which-would-be-scarier/93619/48 "2001-11-18T03:33:18Z")
Cop in my driveway-I’d assume something happened to my family…
ooookay…
Giving Strom Thurmond head, or cunnilingus with the Queen Mother?
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### Author:  [@Nefarious\_Chipmunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nefarious_Chipmunk)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2001, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-pointless-game-which-would-be-scarier/93619/49 "2001-11-18T06:20:02Z")
Cunnilingus with the Queen Mother. Ack!
Seeing an avalanche rushing towards you, or Backstreet Boys do Christmas: The Album
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### Author:  [@Cougarfang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cougarfang)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2001, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-pointless-game-which-would-be-scarier/93619/50 "2001-11-18T06:23:16Z")
avalanche (well, i can plug my ears…)
a near miss (by a weapon of your choice) or a friend veryveryvery nearby getting hit (again, with a weapon of your choice)?
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### Author:  [@DougC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DougC)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2001, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-pointless-game-which-would-be-scarier/93619/51 "2001-11-18T19:28:06Z")
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- Friend gets it. Sorry bud, I’ve got a tanning club membership, you know.
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(-for the guys-) -Getting beat up by a guy you find out later is really a girl, or paying for a lap dance from a girl you find out later is really a guy?
[we do this stupid question sheet at work, but it’s all guys,]
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### Author:  [@TN\_hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TN_hippie)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2001, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-pointless-game-which-would-be-scarier/93619/52 "2001-11-18T20:48:44Z")
Getting beat up. Of course, I’ve had sex with a drag queen, so my answer is probably disqualified.
Jumping off a high cliff into water…
blindfolded?
_or_
hands tied behind back?
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### Author:  [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2001, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-pointless-game-which-would-be-scarier/93619/53 "2001-11-18T21:01:58Z")
With hands behind back. I hate losing that control.
Which would be scarier-
Finding a dead body (average amount of gore) or speaking publicly?
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### Author:  [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2001, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-pointless-game-which-would-be-scarier/93619/54 "2001-11-19T01:29:13Z")
Finding a dead body-I don’t mind speaking in public.
How about:
Finding HALF of a maggot in your candybar after you bit into it, or seeing your grandmother naked?
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### Author:  [@zoogirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoogirl)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2001, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-pointless-game-which-would-be-scarier/93619/55 "2001-11-19T07:58:54Z")
Gotta be the Maggot!
Walking in your sleep-out the front door and falling down the stairs, or making it down the stairs ok, and down the street, naked!
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### Author:  [@phailure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phailure)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2001, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-pointless-game-which-would-be-scarier/93619/56 "2001-11-19T10:18:27Z")
Being naked, of course!
Blowing the very first question on “Who wants to be a millionaire” or finding your wife / girlfriend in bed with Regis?
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### Author:  [@zoogirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoogirl)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2001, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-pointless-game-which-would-be-scarier/93619/57 "2001-11-20T07:33:06Z")
I’m a girl, so I’d have to say finding my HUSBAND in bed with Regis! EWWWW!!!
Waking up with a huge spider on your pillow, looking at you (Happened to me)
or
Waking up with a mouse on your pillow (happened to my mom)
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### Author:  [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2001, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-pointless-game-which-would-be-scarier/93619/58 "2001-11-21T02:08:44Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Cougarfang \*
> avalanche (well, i can plug my ears…)
>
> a near miss (by a weapon of your choice) or a friend veryveryvery nearby getting hit (again, with a weapon of your choice)? \*\*
near miss
Whenever you speak to the opposite sex, David Arquetes voice and mannerisms comes out OR whenever you appear in public, all the Baldwin brothers are required to be with you.
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### Author:  [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2001, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-pointless-game-which-would-be-scarier/93619/59 "2001-12-01T04:07:58Z")
the flock of Balwins.
Which would be scarier, if snow never melted, or if sunlight did?
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### Author:  [@zoogirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoogirl)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2001, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-pointless-game-which-would-be-scarier/93619/60 "2001-12-01T19:06:43Z")
The Sunlight. I think we’re all pretty used to the idea of there being permamnant snow on the poles, but the sunlight thing would freak me right out!
Waking up in the middle of the night and hearing furtive sounds, or waking up and hearing no sound at all-no fridge hum, no traffic etc.
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