# "I rather \_\_\_\_ than be \_\_\_\_ " game! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 9, 2003, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-rather-____-than-be-____-game/147400 "2003-01-09T00:22:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2003, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-rather-____-than-be-____-game/147400/121 "2003-01-16T16:00:44Z")
I’d rather **eat a box full of syringes** than **Use a hedgehog instead of a hamster, a la Richard Gere**. ---
**Author:** ![Ryan\_Liam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ryan_liam/32/3965_2.png) [@Ryan\_Liam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ryan_Liam)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2003, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-rather-____-than-be-____-game/147400/122 "2003-01-16T20:14:34Z")
I’d rather be **English** than **American**. (I’m am not a US Hating Bigot, don’t take it personally) ---
**Author:** ![CuriousCanuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@CuriousCanuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CuriousCanuck)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2003, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-rather-____-than-be-____-game/147400/123 "2003-01-16T20:15:55Z")
umm… by your response Ryan, am I to assume that being English is akin to using a hedgehog instead of a hamster, a la Richard Gere? Interesting… ---
**Author:** ![MysteryFellow63427](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@MysteryFellow63427](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysteryFellow63427)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2003, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-rather-____-than-be-____-game/147400/124 "2003-01-16T20:32:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by NightRabbit \* > \*\*I’d rather be **dead** than **undead**. \*\* Oh, NightRabbit, you missed a golden opportunity! I’d rather be **dead** than **Red**! First thing I thought of when I saw the OP. 😃 I’d rather **use a hedgehog instead of a hamster** than be **totally rodentless**. ---
**Author:** ![Ryan\_Liam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ryan_liam/32/3965_2.png) [@Ryan\_Liam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ryan_Liam)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2003, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-rather-____-than-be-____-game/147400/125 "2003-01-16T20:41:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by CuriousCanuck \* > \*\*umm… by your response Ryan, am I to assume that being English is akin to using a hedgehog instead of a hamster, a la Richard Gere? Interesting… \*\* Are you referring to what hamsters are, on these boards, I’m confused by you’re statement. No It’s not that americans are ‘this and that’ but rather the fact I can get away with being posh in America simply because I’m English. I’ve done it before and It \*has \* worked. Yes I hate Richard Gere also. ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2003, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-rather-____-than-be-____-game/147400/126 "2003-01-16T20:43:54Z")
I’d rather be **be totally rodentless** than **to show my cluelessness of the rules of the game**. ---
**Author:** ![CuriousCanuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@CuriousCanuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CuriousCanuck)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2003, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-rather-____-than-be-____-game/147400/127 "2003-01-16T20:44:37Z")
[sub] I said that because according to the way the game has been played thus far your “English” equated to “hamsters”. you were supposed to take the last part of the last post as the first part of your own…[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Ryan\_Liam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ryan_liam/32/3965_2.png) [@Ryan\_Liam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ryan_Liam)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2003, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-rather-____-than-be-____-game/147400/128 "2003-01-16T21:06:58Z")
I’d rather show **my cluelessness to the rules of the game** than **be offered a Cigar from Bill Clinton** I get it now.:smack: ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2003, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-rather-____-than-be-____-game/147400/129 "2003-01-16T21:12:17Z")
I’d rather **be offered a Cigar from Bill Clinton** than **be offered a tongue kiss by Janet Reno**. ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2003, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-rather-____-than-be-____-game/147400/130 "2003-01-16T22:19:55Z")
I’d rather **be offered a tongue kiss by Janet Reno** than **be offered and hand job from Freddie Kruger**. ---
**Author:** ![CuriousCanuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@CuriousCanuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CuriousCanuck)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2003, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-rather-____-than-be-____-game/147400/131 "2003-01-17T14:06:18Z")
I’d rather **be offered and hand job from Freddie Kruger** than \*\* be a bacteria trying to live on the tip of Michael Jackson’s “nose”\*\*. ---
**Author:** ![Kn\_ckers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/96bed5/32.png) [@Kn\_ckers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kn_ckers)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2003, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-rather-____-than-be-____-game/147400/132 "2003-01-17T15:15:46Z")
I’d rather **be bacteria trying to live on the tip of Michael Jackson’s “nose”** than **have to hold a teabag in my mouth for twenty-four hours straight**. ---
**Author:** ![Quonk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/ed655f/32.png) [@Quonk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quonk)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2003, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-rather-____-than-be-____-game/147400/133 "2003-01-17T21:10:15Z")
I’d rather **have to hold a teabag in my mouth for twenty-four hours straight** than **sit in a wading pool filled with worms**. ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2003, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-rather-____-than-be-____-game/147400/134 "2003-01-17T22:47:21Z")
I’d rather **sit in a wading pool filled with worms** than **sit naked in a vat filled with porcupines**. ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2003, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-rather-____-than-be-____-game/147400/135 "2003-01-17T23:33:54Z")
I’d rather **sit naked in a vat filled with porcupines** than **drink Edwina Currie’s bath water**. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2003, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-rather-____-than-be-____-game/147400/136 "2003-01-17T23:51:52Z")
(uh, is it profoundly ignorant of me not to know who Edwina Currie is? I’ll tell you one thing, it makes it relatively unhorrifying to have to drink her bathwater.) I’d rather **drink Edwina Currie’s bathwater** than **be in the same room when Liza Minnelli is kissing her scary, scary husband.** ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2003, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-rather-____-than-be-____-game/147400/137 "2003-01-18T00:21:53Z")
(Edwina Currie is an ex British politician who has the sex appeal of an Athletes Foot Fungus.) I’d rather \*\* be in the same room when Liza Minnelli is kissing her scary, scary husband\*\* than **suck the puss out of a festering boil on Meatloaf’s left testicle**. But I’ll admit it’s a close call. ---
**Author:** ![Firebat023](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a4c791/32.png) [@Firebat023](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Firebat023)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2003, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-rather-____-than-be-____-game/147400/138 "2003-01-18T05:59:46Z")
I’d rather suck the puss out of a festering boil on Meatloaf’s left testicle than be poked in the groin with a sharp stick and have slat rubbed in the wound. Actually, I’d still probably pick the latter. But I’d have to think about it. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2003, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-rather-____-than-be-____-game/147400/139 "2003-01-19T23:28:12Z")
I’d rather be \*\* poked in the groin with a sharp stick and have slat rubbed in the wound\*\* than \*\* have to read poems by Walt Whitman every day for a month\*\*. [sub] unfortunately, my professors never gave us the option to pick something less painful :D[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2003, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-rather-____-than-be-____-game/147400/140 "2003-01-20T00:51:01Z")
I’d rather **have to read poems by Walt Whitman every day for a month** than **have to read poems by Rod McKuen every day for a month.** [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-rather-____-than-be-____-game/147400.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-rather-____-than-be-____-game/147400.md?page=8)