Week 14 Results

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In the first situation, you are trapped in a room and (as I already said,) there is a person in it using various cliches about how the new millenium is approaching and the 21st century and the beginning or end of an era and preparedness and change and building a bridge and the wave of the future blah blah blah ad nasuem. There are bars separating you from him (or her, it really doesn't matter).
In the second option your are trapped in another room and (as I already said,) there are 999 people using the New Year's noisemakers like it's 1999. The whirry kind, the blowing kind, bells, whatever. Sometimes they take a breath to yell "Happy New Year!"
To discourage sleep in either situation there are nails protruding from the floor, except within a small 2' x 2' square in which you are standing. and it is 5 feet from the bars in case you were wondering.
This question was really, really, really thrown together at the last minute so if you don't like it, it's understandable.
As I final comment, I don't know if noisemakers is one word or two

Name: Kim (aka bonnies missing roommate)
Choice: 999 people
Comments: I had to work New Years Eve at a party for four hundred people; so if I can survive 400 people, what is another 599. Also cliches about the millenium are just plain annoying now.

Name: steven
Choice: 1 person
Comments: YA see when i was a young boy we didn't have noismakers, but we did have cliches and thats all we had so i would go with the cliches because it would remind me of "the good old days" if ya know what i mean. So i would pick him much for the same reason we listen to "old skool" rap it has a way of reiminding us of our youth.

Name: Jessica
Choice: 1 person
Comments: I can tune out the Clemson crew and all of their annoying cliches, so this one person should not be a problem.

Name: Scott ":)" Galbraith
Choice: 1 person
Comments: Do you really want to know why?

Name: Bonnie
Choice: 1 person
Comments: 999 noisemakers would be too loud and get annoying very quickly. Maybe the cliche person would stop talking about the millenium if I explained to him that 2000 isn't really the first year of the next millenium.

Name: David M.
Choice: 1 person
Comments: Just think about it. The media and stupid people(stupid, as in, will go out and use credit cards to buy boxer shorts and countdown clocks looking forward to Jan. 1, 2000 the predicted time of computer failures that could result in that same person being charged 100 years worth of daily compounded interest for their plunge into the dark side of capitalism)...anyway these folks and the media are already running the millenium cliches into the ground. We're somehow managing to put up with it. On the other hand, I think just one New Year's noisemaker is unnerving enough to make me go insane (or become more insane--it's all about perspective). 999 of those awful things would certainly cause uncomfort on my part--not to mention the physical hearing loss! So let's just have fun and party "Like it's 1999!"

Name: John Cliver
Choice: 1 person
Comments: this was a hard choice for me because i think im generally the one who, in real life, would be using the cliches. But, after long internal debate, i chose the one person. The deciding factor was the realization that one can lay on a bed of nails and not get hurt. It would be easier to sleep through cliches than all the new years noises. I would like to take this time to encourage everyone who is reading this to go visit my webpage (http://people.clemson.edu/~jcliver ) it has been very lonely lately and it has an (almost) empty guest book. Happy New Year
by the way, i wonder what will happen if i submit something without checking my choice? Oh well, i don't want to waste my vote if it locks me out of the voting as punishment. Ill just follow the rules like a good little sheep. (lamb?) no.. . sheep is right.

Name: Amy Bromberg
Choice: 999 people
Comments: Because if you were trapped with 999 people using noisemakers, you could join in on the fun.

Name: Kevin
Choice: 1 person
Comments: This guy is only human, so he's got to have a weakness. Well I will just say a few choice words of my own until I really strike a nerve, making him break down and cry. This won't free me from being trapped but at least it will give me a feeling of accomplishment.