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Question for December 3 - 9, 1998:

Which would you rather be trapped in...

A Knife-Launching Room

OR

A Labyrinth?

 

Details:

  • This is the first option: You are trapped in a medium-sized room (15 x 15 x 10), no way out. The walls are made up of a bunch of small tubes, and so is the ceiling. And, once every 15 seconds, a knife shoots out of a random tube, flying through the air at a very high velocity. Sharp knives, about the size of a steak knife or so.

  • This is the second option: You are trapped in an enormous maze, so hopelessly large that you will not find the way out. It is dark (with random flickering lights) and there is a haze, like when you go to play laser tag. It is hot. And through the walls of the maze, you can hear the chortling sounds of a hideous beast. That's right, just a big, scary beast. With lots of fur, and red eyes, and fangs, and claws. And he can run fast (but is just wandering around until he sees you.) And he is out for blood.

Thanks to Joe and Bonnie for their help this week (in the wee A.M. hours!)

RESULTS:

Labyrinth: 8
Knife-Launching Room: 6


Name: Cliver
Choice: Knife Room
Comments: That Labyrinth sounds scarry...
I think that if i was in the Knife-Launching Room, I could avoid the knives. Im a pretty skinny guy plus i think that i could catch the knives when they went by.


Name: Jess
Choice: Knife Room
Comments: One of the coolest things I ever saw was in the Addams Family movie and Raul Julia caught that knife with his teeth, so, seeing that this is something I would love to be able to do, I would choose the room because is will give me ample opportunity to practice.


Name: Dayna
Choice: Labyrinth
Comments: I dont like the idea of the beast but at least there is no guarentee that I would meet up with him . I have a chance of just wandering around in the maze. I like mazes -- even though I am not sure I would like the fact that it is hot. But over all I dont think I could stand having knives shoot out at me every so often that would shake my nerves.


Name: Rachel Robinson
Choice: Labyrinth
Comments: That monster may be scary, but with the knife room--you could poke an eye out!


Name: Scott Hardister
Choice: Labyrinth
Comments: I hated knives ever since i cut my finger with one and had to get stiches. But really, i like mazes. I think they are fun. I'm not real sure about that monster thing though. I'd like to keep my blood just for a little bit longer.


Name: the bumpersticker says: "SLACKER" or Joe
Choice: Labyrinth
Comments: Well, considering I had some input on this one, I know the secrets. Kinda like the backdoors in a video game. However, that extra knowledge gave me absolutely NO edge in either case. Hence, I guess that whole statement was usless and pointless and dumb.....oh well, on to the important stuff.....I picked the maze for a simple reason. I am insain. I think since it is weird lighting and stuff like that, I could do the same thing to the beast as he was doing to me....scare the crap out of him by making growling and gurgling and huffing noises while he couldn't see me. He would think I was a bigger beast then he was so he would be scared. It is kinda like humans being scared of snakes, they really can't hurt us(there are of course a couple of exceptions) but we are still scared. I can't hurt him, but he will still be scared....sit down in the corner and cower, until I found the way out or died of starvation. I stand no chance of scaring the knives.


Name: dev
Choice: Knife Room
Comments: wow, this was the toughest one in weeks! well i picked the knife room because one knife isnt going to kill you and your chances are pretty good, you can put your hand over just one tube and take your chances. The labarynth would be both scary and have a predator.


Name: Noremac
Choice: Knife Room
Comments: I could just stand in the middle of the room and wait till one of the knives finished me off. It would be a lot quicker than wandering around lost waiting for the beast to find me.


Name: ryan h
Choice: Labyrinth


Name: Bonnie
Choice: Labyrinth
Comments: The kniferoom would be way too stressful. No where to run, no where to hide. Although the labyrinth wouldn't be too fun either. I would pretend it was the Hazy Maze Cave on Mario 64 and I can beat that level.


Name: NateDawg
Choice: Labyrinth
Comments: Labyrinth cause I already know what its like to have Joe hunt me from behind!


Name: Scott "The Untouchable" Galbraith
Choice: Knife Room
Comments: I would hate being trapped in a Labyrinth, especially if it was like the movie of the same name that had David Bowie in it. If David Bowie happened to show up I'd be freaked out, so I'll take my chances (and my catlike reflexes) into the knife room.


Name: Dana
Choice: Knife Room
Comments: Beast is worse than a knife


Name: Kevin
Choice: Labyrinth
Comments: Not too many things in this world are guaranteed. However, if you stay in the knife room long enough it is guaranteed that a knife will hit you eventually. Therefore I would choose the labyrinth, in which you can use your cunning to elude the beast (and the laws of chance) indefinitely. And yes, I get to use italics in my response, if you want to italicize a word in yours next time just let me know, ok?

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