# How many would be scary? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [December 10, 2008, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-would-be-scary/476550 "2008-12-10T13:52:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![AllWalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@AllWalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AllWalker)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-would-be-scary/476550/21 "2008-12-11T10:52:49Z")
How many, indeed? For every ninja you count, you know there will be others… hidden, ready to strike at any m- ARGH! How many actors? ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-would-be-scary/476550/22 "2008-12-11T13:12:33Z")
> [@Hockey\_Monkey](#): > > clocks > [@twickster](#): > > (The OP says “living things”) You’ve never smashed a clock? > [@AllWalker](#): > > How many actors? Enough to spontaneously start re-enacting _Battlefield Earth_ in complete earnestness. Coconut crabs. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-would-be-scary/476550/23 "2008-12-11T13:24:09Z")
Three. Enough so that I think I’d have a proper count/location on all of them, but also enough to hint that I might be missing one of them… Live squid. (The invertebrates, not the Navy type) ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-would-be-scary/476550/24 "2008-12-11T13:25:37Z")
Small ones, or giant ones? A swarm of small ones, I guess, but one giant one would freak me out! Cockroaches. ---
**Author:** ![Walkabout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/46a35a/32.png) [@Walkabout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walkabout)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-would-be-scary/476550/25 "2008-12-11T14:04:17Z")
Two, because then they might reproduce, and then they’d be everywhere! Cats. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-would-be-scary/476550/26 "2008-12-11T16:40:58Z")
Do the cats already know each other or not? If they do, and are reasonably friendly, I could take a dozen or more – but if I were locked in a room with two hostile cats – **shudder** Koala bears ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-would-be-scary/476550/27 "2008-12-11T16:45:44Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > Do the cats already know each other or not? If they do, and are reasonably friendly, I could take a dozen or more – but if I were locked in a room with two hostile cats – **shudder** > > Koala bears 12, they’re cute, but fragile little buggers. Those [Giant Australian Earthworms](http://museumvictoria.com.au/DiscoveryCentre/Infosheets/Giant-Gippsland-Earthworm/) ---
**Author:** ![Hi\_Neighbor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hi_neighbor/32/494_2.png) [@Hi\_Neighbor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hi_Neighbor)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-would-be-scary/476550/28 "2008-12-11T16:49:47Z")
Giant earthworms, eh? If I’m off for a weekend fishing excursion, then I’ll need two or three. Any more would be a little frightening. Ok, hmm… how many SDMB moderators? ---
**Author:** ![WormTheRed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbe5ce/32.png) [@WormTheRed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WormTheRed)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-would-be-scary/476550/29 "2008-12-11T16:51:57Z")
No limit. They’re all extremely nice and lovely persons who I’d love to hang out with. (is my tongue brown enough?) How many hamsters? ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-would-be-scary/476550/30 "2008-12-11T17:27:53Z")
I’d be willing to put up with a billion if the Boards would run faster. Misfit toys. ---
**Author:** ![AllWalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@AllWalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AllWalker)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-would-be-scary/476550/31 "2008-12-11T22:44:20Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > 12, they’re cute, but fragile little buggers. Koalas? _Fragile?_ I have seen two koalas fight and let me tell you, they are far from fragile. They may look sleepy a lot of the time but they can really move when they have to. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-would-be-scary/476550/32 "2008-12-11T23:19:06Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > I’d be willing to put up with a billion if the Boards would run faster. > > Misfit toys. Twenty would be scary. Fewer would be odd, but twenty and they’re surrounding you and in your peripheral vision _and_ getting behind you…(shudder) Spider monkeys. ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-would-be-scary/476550/33 "2008-12-12T06:39:25Z")
Spider monkeys - if they’re repeating everything I say, then just one is annoying, but three is spooky. How many America’s Next Top Models? ---
**Author:** ![Amber\_in\_Treasury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc79bd/32.png) [@Amber\_in\_Treasury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amber_in_Treasury)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-would-be-scary/476550/34 "2008-12-12T07:31:09Z")
> [@Isamu](#): > > Spider monkeys - if they’re repeating everything I say, then just one is annoying, but three is spooky. > How many America’s Next Top Models? Two. Doesn’t have to be the American version tho, they can be from any country. How many lantern collectors? ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-would-be-scary/476550/35 "2008-12-12T10:29:39Z")
> [@Amber\_in\_Treasury](#): > > How many lantern collectors? One. The freaks. 😛 How many professional _you_ look-alikes. ---
**Author:** ![Cuckoorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-would-be-scary/476550/36 "2008-12-12T10:42:17Z")
Don’t take this the wrong way, **twickster** , but when I started reading your post and saw that you were looking for your first post, I thought that you were going to ask, “How many posts do you come up with when you search for your own posts, and how scary is that?” I mean, I registered before you and you have some 21,000 plus more posts than me. That’s a lotta postin’! But on the topic: My initial thought is “one clown is one clown too many.” But I knew someone would say something like that, so my second choice is, “anything more than three cats that are all in the same room, looking at you and slowly creeping towards you silently.” ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-would-be-scary/476550/37 "2008-12-12T14:03:55Z")
I’m just going to ignore **Cuckoorex** , who obviously has a life. > [@Isamu](#): > > How many professional _you_ look-alikes. I think one would do it – esp. if she’d mastered my annoying mannerisms. If there were any, I mean. **hears a bark from next door** Corgis ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-would-be-scary/476550/38 "2008-12-12T14:07:16Z")
π corgis. Heck, one is bad enough. An irrational number of small yippy things would drive me to gibbering fits. Goldfish ---
**Author:** ![WormTheRed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbe5ce/32.png) [@WormTheRed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WormTheRed)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-would-be-scary/476550/39 "2008-12-12T14:09:47Z")
Lying dying on the floor? Then two would be enough to make me sad ☹ Investment Bankers? ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2008, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-would-be-scary/476550/40 "2008-12-13T02:11:33Z")
> [@WormTheRed](#): > > Lying dying on the floor? Then two would be enough to make me sad ☹ > > Investment Bankers? I dated one for a while – must say, I don’t have a problem with the idea of him lying dying on the floor. Self-centered jerk **grumble grumble grumble** One. Praying mantises [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-would-be-scary/476550.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-would-be-scary/476550.md?page=3)