About five. An even number is good because hopefully they’ll start drowning each other out, but with five, they might start do out do each other, you know…make a contest.
Next: Powerpuff Girls
The little puffs that go with make-up powder can be SO annoying sometimes. It’s so difficult to get them to spread that make-up evenly. It caked! So that’s when I discoved Powerpuff Girls, the revolutionary new product! Powerpuff girls evenly distributes the powder all over my face, and the easy color selector helped me choose a color that was perfect for me. It NEVER cakes, and I feel so much more confident in myself now that my skin is absolutely flawless. I have even noticed guys checking me out!
Hey, I could write comercials!
Oh, and next up: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
sorry, wrong thread
i thought this was the essay one…
Too many Buffies are never enough!!! Hell, the defense department is considering anti-terror prorocol based on the show. 
Next: Garden Flamingoes.
Are we talking about the mild-mannered pink flamingo lawn ornaments or the ones that go rabid and feral if uncared for for too long? If the latter, I could probably fend of 3. The former I could deal with a 100 or so.
Next up: Psycho killers from slasher flicks, i.e. J. Voorhees, F. Krueger, M. Myers…
Well if they were only going to be on the TV then…probably all of them, no wait, that would be kinda creepy all those TV’s with gore all at once. So maybe 6? But if they were in real life…I don’t want any around me. One would be plenty to scare me really good. I would be so scared that I think I would just go ahead and surrender. I would take their sickle/chainsaw/icepick/hatchet or whatever their weapon of choice was and just do myself in for them. That is how scary it would be for me to be in a room with one of those slasher flick guys!
What about ummm…plumbers, complete with tool belts, stained t-shirts and butt-cracks exposed??–No offense to any plumbers out there–I am sure you don’t go around with stained shirts and butt cracks showing
A “dentist wearing bowling shoes” would be scary indeed. He should put some pants on, at least.
Plumbers? Are they union or non-union? If they’re non-union, that means they’re actually doing stuff, which gets kinda noisy and smelly. I’d say five. If they’re union, then they’re just standing around having coffee, so I’d say about 25.
Which leads us to:
Used car salesmen in matching white shoes and belts, plaid Haggar Sansabelt slacks and clip-on ties.
That sounds surreal. And I’ve been picturing this room as very…starving artist living in a garret-esque. So I’m guessing that if I had…say, I don’t know, seven, I could win an award for conceptual art.
More than that, and it isn’t worth it. Eight.
Next: Kids learning to do the moon-walk
I’d be afraid they kids would step on my toes. I think I could deal with eight if they’re under 12 years old. Over 12, and I’d have to cut it down to 5.
Next: ** baby koala bears* **
*I know they’re not REALLY bears, but it sounds cuter this way.
Koala bears eat eucalyptus leaves, which keep them stoned. Without the leaves, one would probably be scarey and ready to attack. (In my next life, I want to be a koala bear. Spend my whole life stoned.).
Next: ** Fake Messiahs **
Lessee, how many do we have so far? 20, 25? I could probably handle two as they would cancel each other out. 3 is my limit.
Next up: Country music singers
I would consider country music singers unpleasant, but not scary… I think I could deal with 7, before the whining really started driving me nuts.
Next: ** tapeworms **
Inside or out? None, if internal. Externally, ummm. I think I could stomp on 30 before one managed to find it’s way inside…
Next: Dopers who hang out in MPSIMS
Dopers who hang out in MPSIMS? Lessee… <click, click, click> I can handle 24,736 at the moment and I’m not even feeling queasy. I’ll WAG and put my max at 1,000,000 Dopers.
Next: Computers
Computers are not alive (or are they?), but managing two is my limit. It’s the people who work the computers that make me nuts.
Next: ** Ossama bin Lauden look-alikes **
Ossama bin Lauden look-alikes can be delt with quite easily due to their fear of poorly aimed bombing runs. 83 would be a bit much though.
And now: Hairy Chested Car Salesmen
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Well, you know it’s gonna be an even number – because each hairy-chested car salesman (salesperson? no – I don’t wanna think about hairy-chested car saleswomen) has a manager who he’s gonna check with to ask “whadda we gotta do to make a deal right now?”
(Can you tell I just bought a new car a couple of months ago? Ended up doing it all over the phone with a guy I found on the internet, but that’s another story.)
I have proven (to my own satisfaction, at least) my ability to remain utterly stony-faced in response to their blandishments – so I’ll say an even dozen – plus managers – call it 24.
Next: Needle-wielding nurses
Hmm… Considering that my extensive knowledge of chipmunks comes from Rescue Rangers (cartoon in the mid to early 90’s… cute mice n chipmunks saving the world…) i’d have to say that a single chipmunk would scare me… I’d have no clue what it was and likely would jump up in a chair until someone reassured me that it wasnt going to try to kill me. 1 Chipmunk.
Next: Things (the adam’s family pet/helper)
Quite a bump there, Eeper…
Uh, Thing’s the hand, right? I’d say two, because more than one hand running all over the place is rather odd.
Next:
Jack Chicks when you are an atheist or homosexual.