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Question for January 16 - 24, 1999:

Which would you rather be trapped in a sleeping bag with...

A Porcupine

OR

10 Leeches?

 

Details:

  • The sleeping bag is zipped up all the way with only your head sticking out (your arms are inside) - and it hugs your neck tightly so tightly that you can't just crawl out or anything. You are STUCK.
  • Speaking of being stuck, that porcupine would be pretty prickly (and fiesty, too) - BUT don't forget the leeches are out for blood!!!

RESULTS:

Leeches: 5
Porcupine: 3


Name: Allison
Choice: Leeches
Comments: Actually, I'd much rather be trapped with 10 slugs. Why the heck did you put our conversation on your web page? Did you IM me just for that purpose? You're crazy! I can't believe you did that. Now everyone is going to think I'm weird or something. I came to visit your website just to see exactly what the question was, and what do I see? A conversation I had with you not ten minutes before! What a violation of privacy! Geeez!


Name: Jessica
Choice: Porcupine
Comments: Acupuncture is very good for the body and I have always wanted to try it out.


Name: David M.
Choice: Porcupine
Comments: Ever since I saw that old, old movie The African Queen, I've been terrified of leeches because of this one scene where Humphrey Bogart comes out of the river covered in leeches. A porcupine in a sleeping bag could be very painful but would basically be trapped in one location. Leeches could crawl up your body and suck your blood in multiple locations.

Also, as I pointed out with the skunk question back in the day, the unpleasant part of a porcupine is just used in defense. Maybe you could sing her/him/it/all the above a lullaby, and she/he/it/all the above would go to sleep. A sleeping porcupine might not hurt you as badly.


Name: Joe "Hey, I resemble that Comment" Slack
Choice: Leeches
Comments: Duh! Think about it. Porcupines hurt, and can't be squahed. The mere size differential between me and the leechs is enough to make me pick that one. I can squish them one by one so I wouldn't have to worry about them. The porcupine is still dangerous after death, if I could even manage that bc he could still poke me. The only downside to the leeches getting mushed is that their guts and blood(and possibly mine too) would be all over the inside of the bag. Of course, I don't have to clean it, so oh well!!!


Name: ryan hardister
Choice: Leeches
Comments: hey, maybe i could crush the leeches with my hands, they couldn't seriously harm me anyway, as for the porcupine, i don't even wanna think about what type of damage it could be doing down there in that bag


Name: Cliver
Choice: Leeches
Comments: Well, in a perfect world, i would have picked sort of a hybrid of the two, a porcu-leech. It would stick you with its quills and then suck up the blood ( anticoagulant on its quills). anyway it is not a perfect world and so i will go with the leeches simply because they can suck the "bad blood" out.


Name: Kimberly (no scarey spice here)
Choice: Porcupine
Comments: Well I think I could deal with the porcupine sticking me, but I would freak out with the slimy leeches crawling all over me. I get the shivers thinking about those slimy little creatures, kinda like in that movie where the kids go into the river and come out covered in them. I dont remember the name, but it was really gross.


Name: Bonnie
Choice: Leeches
Comments: Although leeches are rather disgusting, I've heard that they
are not too painful, whereas if you were stuck with the
porcupine that could hurt alot if he got mad. Technically
the porcupine is not out for blood, however he probably wouldn't mind drawing some if he got angry. You could just
pull the leeches off after you got out of the bag. Also don't leeches need to be moist to survive? It probably wouldn't be too moist in the bag so maybe they would die quickly and leave you alone.


Name: Kevin
Comments: Personally I am not going to dignify such a horrible question with a response.

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