# Would you hit a pinata likeness of yourself? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 7, 2005, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-hit-a-pinata-likeness-of-yourself/307257 "2005-06-07T04:05:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Black\_Train\_Song](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4da419/32.png) [@Black\_Train\_Song](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Black_Train_Song)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2005, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-hit-a-pinata-likeness-of-yourself/307257/21 "2005-06-07T16:02:33Z")
I can see what you mean. It would only be a matter of time before someone uses that as a defense for an office maiming. “I thought he was a piñata”. ---
**Author:** ![Black\_Train\_Song](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4da419/32.png) [@Black\_Train\_Song](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Black_Train_Song)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2005, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-hit-a-pinata-likeness-of-yourself/307257/22 "2005-06-07T16:03:35Z")
Oh, That was a response to this: > [@](#): > > I wouldn’t have a problem with it if it was presented in a kind of funny, jokey way and, since your co-worker said he thought it would be funny, it probably wouldn’t be a problem in this instance (unless some higher-up was concerned it might cause a liability problem down the line). ---
**Author:** ![vibrotronica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@vibrotronica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vibrotronica)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2005, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-hit-a-pinata-likeness-of-yourself/307257/23 "2005-06-07T16:13:08Z")
Yes I would! I’d smack me right in the nuts! Take that, me! - **vibrotronica** , who has a lot of issues. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2005, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-hit-a-pinata-likeness-of-yourself/307257/24 "2005-06-07T16:16:00Z")
Oh. yeah. I’d pulverize my ass. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2005, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-hit-a-pinata-likeness-of-yourself/307257/25 "2005-06-07T16:21:12Z")
I’m pretty sure that Life already has a great big piñata in my likeness, and that it’s getting smacked around with great abandon. ---
**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2005, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-hit-a-pinata-likeness-of-yourself/307257/26 "2005-06-07T16:33:13Z")
Yep, and probably dislocate my shoulder doing it. ---
**Author:** ![Promethea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Promethea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Promethea)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2005, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-hit-a-pinata-likeness-of-yourself/307257/27 "2005-06-07T16:39:08Z")
Well, _I’d_ be happy to take pot shots at my own likeness but I don’t think that is really the only question. The other question is, as others have pointed out what I would think to see other people hitting a representation of me with relish. I think I’d find it a bit hurtful in all honesty. ---
**Author:** ![raz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@raz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raz)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2005, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-hit-a-pinata-likeness-of-yourself/307257/28 "2005-06-07T16:45:41Z")
Hell yeah I would. There better be some kick-ass candy inside though. ---
**Author:** ![Tranquilis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tranquilis/32/3639_2.png) [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2005, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-hit-a-pinata-likeness-of-yourself/307257/29 "2005-06-07T16:50:16Z")
> [@Promethea](#): > > The other question is, as others have pointed out what I would think to see other people hitting a representation of me with relish. I think I’d find it a bit hurtful in all honesty. I’m a guy. Guys tear each other down all the time - it’s no big thing; it’s how we bond. The pinata is just more of the same. I’d be a bit concerned if one of my office mates went seriously berserk while having a go, but otherwise, I’d stand there and make wisecracks about their style and aim whilst they had at it. ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2005, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-hit-a-pinata-likeness-of-yourself/307257/30 "2005-06-07T16:59:06Z")
But first, I’d stop and tell the little fella just how DAMN good looking he is… Then I’d smack his ass into Thursday. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2005, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-hit-a-pinata-likeness-of-yourself/307257/31 "2005-06-07T19:31:57Z")
Is there candy inside? Better that I smack it than watch others enjoying the smacking. It would be great at the party if after some people wacked it around a bit you took out a huge butcher knife and hacked it up while screaming unintelligible obscenities untill there was nothing left but tiny shards. Then you stop and sit there panting with a slightly embarrassed look on your face. ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2005, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-hit-a-pinata-likeness-of-yourself/307257/32 "2005-06-07T21:05:03Z")
I wouldn’t mind. At my office’s Cinco de Mayo party we had a piñata, and on its head we put a blown-up headshot of one of the senior managers. It’s kind of a running joke around here, actually, that this guy’s face winds up on all sorts of things (we also put his face on the pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey donkey). Anyway, he was the first to take a whack at it, and then three other people wailed on it before it finally broke. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2005, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-hit-a-pinata-likeness-of-yourself/307257/33 "2005-06-07T21:07:19Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > Please, no severed head or fake blood. I was just gonna say, it’d be extra cool if my piñata skull was full of _braaaaaaaaaains._ ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2005, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-hit-a-pinata-likeness-of-yourself/307257/34 "2005-06-07T21:08:01Z")
To destroy it, yes!! ☹ ---
**Author:** ![EarthStone777](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ab992/32.png) [@EarthStone777](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EarthStone777)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2005, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-hit-a-pinata-likeness-of-yourself/307257/35 "2005-06-07T21:21:07Z")
Not only would I hit it but (depending on who was present - some of my friends have as sick a sense of humor as me, while some of my (former) co-workers were pretty uptight) I’d have taken the time to empty out the candy and refilled it with red jello and water balloons filled with cherry koolaid. … What? Some of my friends would think it funny. … I would at least. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2005, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-hit-a-pinata-likeness-of-yourself/307257/36 "2005-06-08T00:13:36Z")
What a bizarre thing to be bothered by. Why wouldn’t you want a pinata that looks like you? What are you, the Corsican Pinata Twin? ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2005, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-hit-a-pinata-likeness-of-yourself/307257/37 "2005-06-08T01:19:27Z")
I think I’d find it strangely cathartic. I’d like it to be filled however with plastic travel bottles of liquor, lotto tickets, and Godiva chocolate. ---
**Author:** ![Strinka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/strinka/32/512_2.png) [@Strinka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strinka)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2005, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-hit-a-pinata-likeness-of-yourself/307257/38 "2005-06-08T04:50:04Z")
Yeah, that would be pretty cool. I’d have to think of some ironic way to hit it. And I can’t think of anything. Oh well… ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2005, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-hit-a-pinata-likeness-of-yourself/307257/39 "2005-06-08T04:53:12Z")
Repeatedly and enthusiastically. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2005, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-hit-a-pinata-likeness-of-yourself/307257/40 "2005-06-08T12:34:58Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > I was just gonna say, it’d be extra cool if my piñata skull was full of _braaaaaaaaaains._ Eeew. Zombie. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-hit-a-pinata-likeness-of-yourself/307257.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-hit-a-pinata-likeness-of-yourself/307257.md?page=3)