# The "How many would be scary" Game **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 13, 2002, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-how-many-would-be-scary-game/118756 "2002-07-13T06:10:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2002, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-how-many-would-be-scary-game/118756/101 "2002-07-20T00:30:23Z")
I love dogs…but ten is kind of getting on in years, so I’ll play it safe. Six. Next: **Snotty college aged aspiring writers** ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2002, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-how-many-would-be-scary-game/118756/102 "2002-07-20T19:19:55Z")
Oh god. Don’t tell me I killed it. Er…bump? ---
**Author:** ![Tir\_Tinuviel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@Tir\_Tinuviel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tir_Tinuviel)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2002, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-how-many-would-be-scary-game/118756/103 "2002-07-20T20:22:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Heloise \* > **Vampires? Well, if they were newly dead, just raised and hungry, one would frighten the heck out of me. If they were experience, well-fed vampires, I could probably be comfortable for a little while. Maybe 12 would start to creep me out.** Show [me](http://members.lycos.co.uk/kat22uk/harem/red/images/me_01.jpg) the room… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Roadwalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19b73/32.png) [@Roadwalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roadwalker)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2002, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-how-many-would-be-scary-game/118756/104 "2002-07-20T22:09:55Z")
Snotty college aged aspiring writers… two would be funny because they would piss each other off. Three, two would gang up on the other and devour him/her. Four… eek that’s scary already. ---
**Author:** ![Minor\_Irritant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Minor\_Irritant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Minor_Irritant)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2002, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-how-many-would-be-scary-game/118756/105 "2002-07-21T01:22:32Z")
**Roadwalker** seems not to have left a new lifeform for us to fear, so I’ll contribute one here: Cassowaries ---
**Author:** ![Crepitus\_Fremitus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19adc/32.png) [@Crepitus\_Fremitus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crepitus_Fremitus)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2002, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-how-many-would-be-scary-game/118756/106 "2002-07-21T02:54:56Z")
I don’t trust birds that can’t fly–it’s like people who ride busses–what’s wrong with you that you couldn’t get a drivers’ licence ;)? 1 is interesting but 2…I’d wonder what they’re cooking up in their bony head gear. Next: Drunken dickheads, who gave everyone a hard time in three different bars, two of which they were 86’ed from, all night long, then you find one of them in the shitter of the last bar you go to lying in a fetid puddle of piss and whatall with his arms wrapped around the toilet and face in the bowl and when you walk in he looks up at you with a sneer on his vomit-soaked face. ---
**Author:** ![boogers\_mcgee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@boogers\_mcgee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boogers_mcgee)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2002, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-how-many-would-be-scary-game/118756/107 "2002-07-21T14:08:20Z")
Drunks: Normal drunks - 9 Canadian drunks - 5 Welsh drunks - 4 Welsh drunk with a Womble fixation - 3 Ok… how about Owls ---
**Author:** ![Horseflesh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horseflesh/32/7502_2.png) [@Horseflesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horseflesh)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2002, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-how-many-would-be-scary-game/118756/108 "2002-07-21T18:39:28Z")
I like owls. Owls are wise. It was an owl that finally answered the age-old question of “How many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop?” For that reason I’d take, ummmmm, 50 owls. Any more and I’d feel like I was at a Who concert. _crickets chirp, leaves rustle_ Ahem, yes, well I suppose it’s up to me to provide the next fauna. Um, I’ll take **camels** for $500 Alex. ---
**Author:** ![Gartog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/22d042/32.png) [@Gartog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gartog)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2002, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-how-many-would-be-scary-game/118756/109 "2002-07-21T20:23:02Z")
One camel would be fine I think (The animal not the cigar right?) Two would be _interesting._ and finally **three** would be scary 🙂 Next up Siamese Cats ---
**Author:** ![monica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a183cd/32.png) [@monica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monica)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2002, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-how-many-would-be-scary-game/118756/110 "2002-07-21T20:28:31Z")
1. I love animals, but all of them rubbing themselves on my legs and covering me in cat fur would get just a little annoying. Next: PE teachers ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2002, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-how-many-would-be-scary-game/118756/111 "2002-07-21T22:20:14Z")
Ugh. That is one creature I can get enough of. I’ll say two because I think one would be on me to score a goal or do a few more push ups. Two, hopefully of different genders, just might start to argue, and then maybe breed (a la “Love Story”) if I’m lucky. Next: **Poisonous Tree Frogs** (We haven’t done frogs yet, at least not the tree frog variety…) ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2002, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-how-many-would-be-scary-game/118756/112 "2002-07-21T22:20:31Z")
Ugh. That is one creature I can get enough of. I’ll say two because I think one would be on me to score a goal or do a few more push ups. Two, hopefully of different genders, just might start to argue, and then maybe breed (a la “Love Story”) if I’m lucky. Next: **Poisonous Tree Frogs** (We haven’t done frogs yet, at least not the tree frog variety…) ---
**Author:** ![Roadwalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19b73/32.png) [@Roadwalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roadwalker)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2002, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-how-many-would-be-scary-game/118756/113 "2002-07-21T22:29:24Z")
three, more than two and you would run out of gloved hands to hold them. (I’m still scarred of the college are writers) next up… (I thought who concert was funny) okay next up: those little bugs that bang into your ceiling at night when you’re trying to sleep. ---
**Author:** ![Wolfian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2002, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-how-many-would-be-scary-game/118756/114 "2002-07-21T22:41:12Z")
I have no experience with bumping bugs so I’ll say 100 as long as I get to bring 25 spiders (Could get kinda scary once the spiders run out of food though…) Next: **Doobie Brothers** (with instruments) ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-how-many-would-be-scary-game/118756/115 "2002-07-23T01:09:36Z")
Um…well, it’s a small room, so I’ll go with ten. Any more and it _might_ start to get loud. Oh and I hate those bugs. Next… **Little ankle biting Yorkie terriers** ---
**Author:** ![Nenya\_Elizabeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ea5d25/32.png) [@Nenya\_Elizabeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nenya_Elizabeth)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-how-many-would-be-scary-game/118756/116 "2002-07-23T10:13:24Z")
One’d be enough for me, what with the ankle-biting and all. Lessee…pompous middle-aged wizards? ---
**Author:** ![monica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a183cd/32.png) [@monica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monica)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-how-many-would-be-scary-game/118756/117 "2002-07-23T11:43:09Z")
Hmmmm…might be able to convince them to do my will…use enough flattery and you can get practically anyone to do practically anything. I’ll take at least 100, to help me take over the world. And the next one is: giant man-eating venus fly traps ---
**Author:** ![Neidhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Neidhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neidhart)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-how-many-would-be-scary-game/118756/118 "2002-07-23T14:03:56Z")
Two Venus Flytraps. If there was only one I could just keep tossing it ground beef contaminated with E Coli. Next: Xtian fundamentalists. ---
**Author:** ![Squish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@Squish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squish)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-how-many-would-be-scary-game/118756/119 "2002-07-23T17:00:29Z")
Well my b/f’s family are Pentecostals… so I think I could handle eight or ten as long as they didn’t start proselytizing. Cats in heat. ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-how-many-would-be-scary-game/118756/120 "2002-07-23T20:58:51Z")
I could only handle one fundie, they scare me on street corners enough that I’ll cross the street. Next, the people the fundies vote into congress [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-how-many-would-be-scary-game/118756.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-how-many-would-be-scary-game/118756.md?page=7)