# 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:** 11\ **Page:** 9
**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:** [October 28, 2002, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-how-many-would-be-scary-game/118756/161 "2002-10-28T18:44:04Z")
Jack Chick - had to look him up, but based on my google search, I think one is pretty darn scary… Two would be enough to send me running from the room to hide under the bed. Next: chickens ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2002, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-how-many-would-be-scary-game/118756/162 "2002-10-28T21:43:14Z")
I like chickens… I’d say about 47 would scare me, if it was an enclosed space. Next: **home economics teachers** ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2002, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-how-many-would-be-scary-game/118756/163 "2002-10-29T05:25:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by OpalCat \* > \*\*I like chickens… I’d say about 47 would scare me, if it was an enclosed space. > > Next: **home economics teachers** \*\* One is mom, two is mom and aunt, eight is a quilting bee…they need real political power to be a threat. I’d say a minimum of 20 rabid plus a charismatic leader. The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. **Amoebas. Big ones. Like, a foot in diameter.** ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2002, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-how-many-would-be-scary-game/118756/164 "2002-10-29T05:43:10Z")
Chipmunks with distemper? I’m very focused so I could handle only one. Geraldo Riveras? ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2002, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-how-many-would-be-scary-game/118756/165 "2002-10-29T05:44:20Z")
Too many cross posts! I can only handle two crossposts!!! Let me out of here!!! ---
**Author:** ![Somnambulist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Somnambulist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Somnambulist)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2002, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-how-many-would-be-scary-game/118756/166 "2002-10-29T07:02:44Z")
Large Amoebas: 3 or 4 could pass off as trendy and relatively inobscure soft furnishings…and maybe a couple more on the walls posing as 1970s lighting effects. But bearing in mind their propensity to divide and multiply, 7 would probably have me backing into a well-lit corner. Next up: (Given that it is nearly beer o’clock in Tokyo…) Foreign Exchange Brokers ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2002, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-how-many-would-be-scary-game/118756/167 "2002-10-29T07:18:42Z")
Puh-leeze! Those guys are putty in the face of actual physical intimidation. It’d take about ten of them before I’d start to feel nervous. Next up (Hope this hasn’t already been done and I missed it): **Those big Japanese carp (and you’re swimming with them)** ---
**Author:** ![TeaElle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@TeaElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaElle)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2002, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-how-many-would-be-scary-game/118756/168 "2002-10-29T07:55:16Z")
Backing up, I could only handle one Geraldo Rivera. However, that one is fairly well intimidated by strong women and anyone who calls him on his crap, (especially his uber-ethnicity) so I’d just get in his face and say, “Hey, listen _Jerry_, amigo, you’re meshugge if you think you can intimidate me, got it?” So one, because it’d be hard to talk down two of them just thanks to sheer volume. I’ll leave the big Japanese carp issue out there for the next comer. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2002, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-how-many-would-be-scary-game/118756/169 "2002-10-29T12:32:30Z")
**Big Japanese carp** – I think they’re cool. I mean, we’re talking big – a foot – not giant mutant carp, right? and it’s not like they’re piranhas. Part of it would depend on how big the pond was, too. Still, not that scary – I’ll say 100. not from anything going on in my life right now, but… **bad blind dates** ---
**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:** [October 29, 2002, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-how-many-would-be-scary-game/118756/170 "2002-10-29T14:02:26Z")
Well, assuming the blind dates were just awkward and not really dangerous, I could take on about ten, I think, before things go too creepy and I started considering convent life. Next: \*\* ladybugs \*\* ---
**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2002, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-how-many-would-be-scary-game/118756/171 "2002-10-29T21:45:10Z")
Ladybugs? My house gets full of them when it gets cold out! They don’t cause too much trouble, so it would have to be like 7500 in a small room, or only one if it were “that time.” Pretend I didn’t say that. Next: White suburban kids with baggy pants who are saying things like “yo, what up G?” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-how-many-would-be-scary-game/118756.md?page=8)