Week 6 Results

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Okay this week it's more on the theme of annoyance. Here is option one: You are in a large, empty room, with no way out. You are totally unarmed. And in the room with you is the Clemson University Tiger Band, playing the Song that Shakes the Southland, Tiger Rag, in an endless loop. And yes, they are doing the horn motions, and wearing the bright orange uniforms. You are separated from them by bars - taunt them all you like but they will never, ever stop. For you non-Clemson students who don't know Tiger Rag, or for those of you who just need a reminder, click here. Don't just listen to it once, either, and especially focus on the part from seconds 19 to 32.

Here is the second option. You are again in a large, empty room except that the ceiling is open to the sky, and it is raining a frigid, unfriendly rain. And there are a bunch of trees overhanging the room so that you get the big, annoying drops that fall off of the trees, too. Assume that you are not a ninja and cannot climb walls, nor do you have any rope, nor will some helicopter come by to rescue you or anything clever like that. You cannot get out and the rain shall never cease. But there is a drain so that the room won't flood. BUT you can't get out through the drain.

Go ahead and cast your vote, but let me just say that former Tiger Band member Bonnie Apgar was the first to vote and in my opinion her response pretty much says it all.

Is it just me or does the first option always win? It was a close one though. Here are your comments, listed as always in the order they were received. Record turnout again! 15!

Name: Bonnie
Choice: Tiger Band
Comments: This was an easy one. I would definitely choose the band. I've been there and it's not so bad. I hate being cold so the rain would be terrible. Just imagine this, endless renditions of Tiger Rag in a perpetual cold rain... I think you know what I mean, Kevin.

Name: ryan
Choice: Tiger Band
Comments: the rain is just too bad, and until you have heard Garinger High Schools marching band trying to do the Olympic theme, you ain't heard nothing

Name: Scott Hardister
Choice: Tiger Band
Comments: i choose to vote for the Tiger Band because i like music. a little "ratta tat tat" isn't gonna hurt me (only drive me insane). if it did hurt me though, i would probably take out my headphones, attach it to my portable color t.v.(batteries included), and hurt it up as loud as i can. mabey i could even turn on 90210 and annoy the living daylights out of them. we'll see who has the last laugh!

Name: Noremac
Choice: Cold Rain
Comments: I'm so sorry to offend anyone. I really do love the tiger band. But even after hearing it more than once at a game I get sick of it and want to scream and murder everyone who has ever thought of playing or (in TigerRoar's case) singing that song over and over. Bring on the rain!!!!

Name: David
Choice: Tiger Band
Comments: I had to think long and hard on this one, but I'll have to go with the "Tiger Rag". You know, it does kind of grow on you after a while. Besides, I could start--"C-L-E-M-S-O-..................N!!!"--getting into it and imitate the motions the band makes. It would be just like attending a football game. The cold rain, on the other hand, is painful. Each drop sends a chill up and down your spine! Going deaf listening to the "Sound that Shakes the Southland" or perpetually freezing: hmm...tough choice, but I'll go with the "Tiger Rag." Go Tigers! Rah, rah, rah!

Name: devang
Choice: Tiger Band
Comments: hmmm, this was a tough one, i dont much like cold rain, so i chose the tiger band, i'm sure they can only take soo much booing, and me saying "yea you play your little song, but you still got your booty kicked by the HEELS!!" this would be followed by hysterical laughing, and after i got bored with that, i'd talk to kevin, so it couldnt be all that. And the rules didN't stipulate that i couldnt talk to any of the members...and kevin...you remember how our conversations always seem to attract people (i.e. kelli's house!!)

Name: Scott "Schwartzkoff" Galbraith
Choice: Tiger Band
Comments: After long deliberation over getting an answer, I decided that I would rather stick it out with the Tiger Band. First of all I can at least make fun of Kevin Eudy. Second of all I can wait until I lose my hearing or just bang my head between the bars until I knock myself unconscience (preferrably dead). Best case scenario, I can wait for an Iraqi scud (or Patriot fragments) to fall from the sky and knock a hole in the wall to let me out. On my way out I will warn Kevin Eudy to watch his back, or else...

Name: Dayna
Choice: Tiger Band
Comments: I picked the band because I have been deaf before and can still block out noise but a rain would never cease, always chill, and just be down right disheartening

Name: John Cliver
Choice: Cold Rain
Comments: I think that the rain would be pretty bad, but at least you could drink some water and maybe a leaf or two would occasionally fall (just to keep things interesting) and It would remind me of when i used to run around in the rain in my underwear (and i could do that too). "The song that shakes the southland" is too notorious for getting stuck in your head and when youd get out (if it were that you ever could get out) you would have to humm it and i hate that.

Name: Jessica
Choice: Tiger Band
Comments: Well Kevin, you never said that I could not have ear muffs. And that is what I will have, but not any ear muffs, but those big things that my grandpa wears that block out all sound. You know what I mean, I know you have them, but you are too insecure to wear them out in public, but then again, I would not wear them outside either.

Name: Darren
Choice: Cold Rain
Comments: I'm simply tired of it. [Tiger Rag]

Name: Nathan Q
Choice: Cold Rain
Comments: Because I think I could break through the walls

Name: Rishi Khan
Choice: Cold Rain
Comments: My experience of the TIGER BAND'S rendition of anything sends chills up my spine. And besides, I'm only happy when it rains.....

Name: Chris van Dijk
Choice: Cold Rain
Comments: With Tiger Rag, it wouldn't take even a day to drive me to kill myself to stop the torture.

Name: Kevin
Choice: Tiger Rag
Comments: Well I found myself switching back and forth between the two but my final decision was for Tiger Rag. I think that by now I am completely immune to it. I do not see how it could be driven any further into my being. I'm assuming that I'm not in the band in this scenario, but I suppose it wouldn't matter if I was since I'm also immune to playing it endlessly. And hey, I'd get to make up a new quint solo every time after the gliss. Through the band off tempo, maybe they would stop. Earlier this week though there was a cold rain during band practice ... I remembered Bonnie's vote and realized, hey, neither option is so bad since after you've been through both simultaneously.