The "How many would be scary" Game

Ugh. One of those reptiles would be more than enough to send me running for the door.

Walking catfish.

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.

** 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

DECOMPOSE???

Wouldn’t they just resurrect?

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

I hate snotty plants. Two roses.

Okay, people, we’re missing some of the classics here.

How about spiders?

Spiders? I’d much rather have them around than what they eat… <shudder> A hundred or so venomous ones would get me interested in leaving though. Quickly.

I’m surprised nobody has mentioned…

Maggots.

What’s distemper? Is it bad hips?

Chipmunks, 1 if called Alvin. Otherwise, I don’t know. 10 maybe.

NEXT!!!: Russian/Czech au-pairs

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…

If the Russian/Czech au pairs speak English I could handle 2. If they don’t speak English, 9.

Did we do bats?

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)

sorry – wouldn’t let me edit

Line 2, “next” s/b once

last line, second to last word s/b Austrian

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

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 <political distemper> <intellectual distempers>

  • dis·tem·per·ate /-p(&-)r&t/ adjective

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?

They’re sort of cute, so I’d say 5. As long as they don’t start yapping together.

Next up: Praying Mantis

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?

Creeeeeeeeepy, bony, exoskeletal religious fanatics (AKA: Mormons): I can take about two, but only if one is doubting.

Next: Psychotic kangaroos

One! Psychotic anythings are bad enough, but kangaroos…

Next up: Catnip-high cats.

Can I post again?

If so: Catnip-high cats.
1, called ‘Blue’ - a siamese that talks all the time and has kidney failure :frowning: but is holistic and will live forever :slight_smile:

NEXT!!!:

People ‘testing’ their mobile phone ringtones…