# Who scares you? I mean \*really\* scares you? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 1, 2003, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-scares-you-i-mean-really-scares-you/185515 "2003-07-01T05:34:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2003, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-scares-you-i-mean-really-scares-you/185515/41 "2003-07-02T04:05:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Boyo Jim \* > **The Hit and Run Bishop** Hit and run **ex** -bishop, thank you very much. The Pope accepted his resignation this time around. The church has brought in an arch-bishop from New Mexico to run things while they find a permanent replacement. Yesterday, he chiseled the name of a priest who had molested altar boys off of one of the churches here (The guy died in 1998 so he can’t be charged any more). Two of the victims watched while he did it. Things are looking up. DD ---
**Author:** ![Helena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c68b51/32.png) [@Helena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2003, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-scares-you-i-mean-really-scares-you/185515/42 "2003-07-02T05:15:01Z")
I’ve always found Tim Curry rather creepy. ---
**Author:** ![Eternal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecb155/32.png) [@Eternal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eternal)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2003, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-scares-you-i-mean-really-scares-you/185515/43 "2003-07-02T05:27:31Z")
The thing that will be right outside my window or behind me if I looked in the mirror. ---
**Author:** ![Cruktar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d9b06d/32.png) [@Cruktar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cruktar)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2003, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-scares-you-i-mean-really-scares-you/185515/44 "2003-07-02T05:29:37Z")
Ditto to Ashcroft. Groups of teenage males scare the shit out of me. I’m not being overdramatic, they just really, really terrify me. If I go to a gas station with a group of men inside, I’ll just drive on instead of going in. I’ve had some experiences with verbal abuse, but the proximity at which physical violence can be is really what bothers me. ---
**Author:** ![Eolbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d07c76/32.png) [@Eolbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eolbo)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2003, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-scares-you-i-mean-really-scares-you/185515/45 "2003-07-02T06:16:32Z")
George Bush, Rumsfeld and rabid christian fundamentalists ---
**Author:** ![Adelita](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dfb087/32.png) [@Adelita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Adelita)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2003, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-scares-you-i-mean-really-scares-you/185515/46 "2003-07-02T06:30:09Z")
Good ole W. George Hamilton, too…that tan skin creeps me out! ---
**Author:** ![Shana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3bc359/32.png) [@Shana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shana)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2003, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-scares-you-i-mean-really-scares-you/185515/47 "2003-07-02T06:51:31Z")
George Bush Definitely Christopher Walken. I can’t even look at him!! Carrot Top. Those eye brows. Eeek. _shudder_ Robert DeNiro really freaked me out in “Taxi Driver”… And there’s something about him that makes me think he really would subject his daughter’s boyfriend to a lie detector test a la “The Parents”. He’s a scary, scary man. ---
**Author:** ![TJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc348/32.png) [@TJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TJay)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2003, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-scares-you-i-mean-really-scares-you/185515/48 "2003-07-02T09:54:51Z")
Marc Almond (of Soft Cell) - he looks like he just crawled out from underneath a stone, but I have kind of a horrified fascination for him. Eddie (I think that was his name?) - not strictly a person, but that scary demon/robot that Iron Maiden featured on their album covers - he used to feature in my childhood nightmares on a regular basis. ---
**Author:** ![Tansu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@Tansu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tansu)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2003, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-scares-you-i-mean-really-scares-you/185515/49 "2003-07-02T11:05:27Z")
Aw. Marc Almond is _cute_! I used to be a little bit scared of groups of tough looking urban teenage girls. I think I was reading the paper too much. I’m scared of hyperconfident übercapable young women. I feel threatened by them, which is really quite pathetic and shameful, and I absolutely must get a grip at the earliest opportunity. ---
**Author:** ![Qazzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/aeb1de/32.png) [@Qazzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qazzz)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2003, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-scares-you-i-mean-really-scares-you/185515/50 "2003-07-02T13:53:22Z")
[The Scariest Mug Shot Ever Guy](http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/dmilam1.html) Marilyn Manson ---
**Author:** ![Roberta\_Plant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c89c15/32.png) [@Roberta\_Plant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roberta_Plant)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2003, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-scares-you-i-mean-really-scares-you/185515/51 "2003-07-02T15:27:30Z")
People who drink and get behind the wheel of a car. ---
**Author:** ![Isabelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b5a626/32.png) [@Isabelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isabelle)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2003, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-scares-you-i-mean-really-scares-you/185515/52 "2003-07-02T15:45:24Z")
This guy in my office scares me. He has been stalking me. I am afraid of him for 2 reasons. 1)what happens if he catches me alone at home? 2)He knows that I surf the internet all day at work , if I continue to turn him down he might get really pissy and report me and I would lose my job! ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2003, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-scares-you-i-mean-really-scares-you/185515/53 "2003-07-02T17:22:43Z")
Since people do seem to be putting in “whats” as well as “whos”, I have one of each. Heights. Not of flying in planes, or anything like that, but anything involving unsure footing and long drops. I could probably do the Grand Canyon mule trip because I’d know I could rely on the mule, but you’ll never see me rock climbing. Religious fundamentalists in general. Their thought processes are so alien to my own. Right now the worst, in this sense, are Muslim fanatics but that’s only because they’re the ones who have actually managed to take over whole countries and slaughter thousands of people. I’m not being anti-Muslim, it’s just that the Muslim subset of fanatics has done far more scary stuff lately. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2003, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-scares-you-i-mean-really-scares-you/185515/54 "2003-07-02T18:15:41Z")
Ralph Nader. The Earth Liberation Front. Fundamentalists. ---
**Author:** ![Godfrey\_Daniels](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Godfrey\_Daniels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Godfrey_Daniels)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2003, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-scares-you-i-mean-really-scares-you/185515/55 "2003-07-02T20:34:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by cuauhtemoc \* > \*\*. > > **Revtim** ’s friend who was [voluntarily cannibalized and killed.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=174724&highlight=cannibalized) . > > \*\* Somehow I had managed to forget about this. Now, it’ll haunt me for days (&nights) once again. Not much creeps me out, but this has to be one of the most frightening episodes of human behavior that I’ve ever heard of. Gotta think about something else…pretty flowers…pretty flowers… ---
**Author:** ![jennalynn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a698b9/32.png) [@jennalynn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jennalynn)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2003, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-scares-you-i-mean-really-scares-you/185515/56 "2003-07-02T20:48:09Z")
Crazy people. I mean people who are really insane, real looneytunes, not regular crazy people like Martha Stewart and biblethumpers. ---
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2003, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-scares-you-i-mean-really-scares-you/185515/57 "2003-07-02T20:50:48Z")
How can anyone be afraid of Marilyn Manson? ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2003, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-scares-you-i-mean-really-scares-you/185515/58 "2003-07-02T21:43:08Z")
Oh, and I forgot to add Orrin Hatch. ---
**Author:** ![moonstarssun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9bd4f/32.png) [@moonstarssun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moonstarssun)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2003, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-scares-you-i-mean-really-scares-you/185515/59 "2003-07-02T23:03:30Z")
My former stepdad. He was truly a king among sick twisted fucks. ---
**Author:** ![KSO](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f07891/32.png) [@KSO](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KSO)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2003, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-scares-you-i-mean-really-scares-you/185515/60 "2003-07-03T01:04:38Z")
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