# 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:** 7
**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 23, 2002, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-how-many-would-be-scary-game/118756/121 "2002-07-23T21:55:20Z")
Ugh. One of those reptiles would be more than enough to send me running for the door. Walking catfish. ---
**Author:** ![gex\_gex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/94ad74/32.png) [@gex\_gex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gex_gex)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2002, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-how-many-would-be-scary-game/118756/122 "2002-08-16T16:57:26Z")
I’m not a fish expert, so i’m picturing a little catfish with cartoon style, thin, foot long legs. this is somewhat amusing, and kind of harmless. did i mention that the legs had little cute shoes? and the catfish kind of stroll about? i’ll say… 70. all lined up in a row. silent. watching me. this is enough to make me think they were plotting. next: **jesuses**. ---
**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:** [August 16, 2002, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-how-many-would-be-scary-game/118756/123 "2002-08-16T18:35:16Z")
\*\* Jesuses \*\* - pre or post mortem? Living jesuses, I could deal with probably 5 in a jail cell. More than that, and it owuld get noisy (they’re pretty rowdy). Dead, you can stack 'em. Say 10. Until they start to decompose… I wonder if a jesus WOULD decompose? Next: Lice ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2002, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-how-many-would-be-scary-game/118756/124 "2002-08-16T19:41:01Z")
DECOMPOSE??? Wouldn’t they just resurrect? ---
**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:** [August 16, 2002, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-how-many-would-be-scary-game/118756/125 "2002-08-16T19:47:57Z")
Lice. Well, one louse I could just crush. But two…they could breed and I could be infested. So one lousy louse. Next: **Talking Little Prince esque roses with superiority complexes** ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2002, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-how-many-would-be-scary-game/118756/126 "2002-08-16T20:47:27Z")
I hate snotty plants. Two roses. Okay, people, we’re missing some of the classics here. How about **spiders**? ---
**Author:** ![bmhyer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecd19e/32.png) [@bmhyer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bmhyer)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2002, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-how-many-would-be-scary-game/118756/127 "2002-08-16T21:06:57Z")
Spiders? I’d much rather have them around than what they eat… \ A hundred or so venomous ones would get me interested in leaving though. Quickly. I’m surprised nobody has mentioned… Maggots. ---
**Author:** ![flapcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7993a0/32.png) [@flapcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flapcats)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2002, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-how-many-would-be-scary-game/118756/128 "2002-08-16T22:07:07Z")
What’s distemper? Is it bad hips? Chipmunks, 1 if called Alvin. Otherwise, I don’t know. 10 maybe. NEXT!!!: Russian/Czech au-pairs ---
**Author:** ![flapcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7993a0/32.png) [@flapcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flapcats)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2002, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-how-many-would-be-scary-game/118756/129 "2002-08-16T22:09:26Z")
Maggots: Are they in buckets. I saw a bin full of them once in a fishing shop. Ugh. So I suppose about a 10’000 or so. On the floor? About 500 would do me. Still up for: Russian/Czech au-pairs… ---
**Author:** ![Shifty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@Shifty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shifty)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2002, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-how-many-would-be-scary-game/118756/130 "2002-08-17T13:09:27Z")
If the Russian/Czech au pairs speak English I could handle 2. If they don’t speak English, 9. Did we do bats? ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2002, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-how-many-would-be-scary-game/118756/131 "2002-08-17T15:23:01Z")
Bats – daytime or nighttime? If they’re asleep, no problem. Awake – I had one get in my apartment next, it was flapping all around and I couldn’t figure out how to get it out – ai! This is 15 years ago and I still get the shivers. So, 1. Freudian analysts (with or without cliched Autrian accent) ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2002, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-how-many-would-be-scary-game/118756/132 "2002-08-17T15:25:46Z")
sorry – wouldn’t let me edit Line 2, “next” s/b once last line, second to last word s/b Austrian ---
**Author:** ![Waenara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@Waenara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waenara)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2002, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-how-many-would-be-scary-game/118756/133 "2002-08-17T22:09:30Z")
**Freudian analysts** : Well, I generally just find them amusing. Two would be even funnier because they’d start to analyze each other… so I guess three, because then they’d want to analyze me. Next: **Tent caterpillars** ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2002, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-how-many-would-be-scary-game/118756/134 "2002-08-17T23:15:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by flapcats \* > \*\*What’s distemper? Is it bad hips? > > Chipmunks, 1 if called Alvin. Otherwise, I don’t know. 10 maybe. > > NEXT!!!: Russian/Czech au-pairs \*\* Main Entry: [2]distemper Function: noun Date: circa 1555 1 : bad humor or temper 2 : a disordered or abnormal bodily state especially of quadruped mammals: as a : a highly contagious virus disease especially of dogs that is caused by a paramyxovirus (genus Morbillivirus) and is marked by fever, leukopenia, and respiratory, gastrointestinal, and neurological symptoms b : STRANGLES c : PANLEUKOPENIA 3 : AILMENT, DISORDER \ \ - dis·tem·per·ate /-p(&-)r&t/ adjective ---
**Author:** ![Hootnholla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e480ec/32.png) [@Hootnholla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hootnholla)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2002, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-how-many-would-be-scary-game/118756/135 "2002-08-18T02:46:53Z")
Tent Catapillers? Enough to crawl all over you body without being able to squish them, so 20 or so. ok how about the little green men from X-Files? ---
**Author:** ![Marine\_One](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/marine_one/32/3461_2.png) [@Marine\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marine_One)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2002, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-how-many-would-be-scary-game/118756/136 "2002-08-18T04:00:32Z")
They’re sort of cute, so I’d say 5. As long as they don’t start yapping together. Next up: Praying Mantis ---
**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:** [August 18, 2002, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-how-many-would-be-scary-game/118756/137 "2002-08-18T07:37:32Z")
Well, one of my brother’s nicknames is Mantis, and he’s pretty sweet except when he’s making bad jokes, at which point he’s pretty scary…one is OK but more than one would be SCARY. So I’ll say **2**. Hmmm…how about **fanfic writers**? ---
**Author:** ![Oly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oly/32/8255_2.png) [@Oly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oly)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2002, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-how-many-would-be-scary-game/118756/138 "2002-08-18T07:41:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Marine\_One \* > \*\*They’re sort of cute, so I’d say 5. As long as they don’t start yapping together. > > Next up: Praying Mantis \*\* Creeeeeeeeepy, bony, exoskeletal religious fanatics (AKA: Mormons): I can take about **two** , but only if one is doubting. Next: **Psychotic kangaroos** ---
**Author:** ![Cougarfang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c67d28/32.png) [@Cougarfang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cougarfang)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2002, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-how-many-would-be-scary-game/118756/139 "2002-08-18T09:41:08Z")
One! Psychotic _anythings_ are bad enough, but kangaroos… Next up: Catnip-high cats. ---
**Author:** ![flapcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7993a0/32.png) [@flapcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flapcats)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2002, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-how-many-would-be-scary-game/118756/140 "2002-08-18T23:03:43Z")
Can I post again? If so: Catnip-high cats. 1, called ‘Blue’ - a siamese that talks all the time and has kidney failure ☹ but is holistic and will live forever 🙂 NEXT!!!: People ‘testing’ their mobile phone ringtones… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-how-many-would-be-scary-game/118756.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-how-many-would-be-scary-game/118756.md?page=8)