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Question for December 31, 2000 -

Which would you rather be trapped in a jail cell with...

A guy who can't whistle

OR

A guy who raises his voice at the end of every sentence, like it's a question?

 

Details:

  • It's not just a guy who can't whistle, but a guy who is constantly trying to whistle. But instead he just gets this airy-yet-wet-with-spit sound.
  • The other guy is always trying to talk to you, but he raises his voice at the end of every sentence, whether it's a question or not.
  • The fun part about this question is that I'm sure both of these are real people.
  • The jail cell part is largely inconsequential, neither is a child molester ok??
  • RESULTS?

    Like it's a question?: 7
    Can't whistle: 4


    Name: Rolyat Trebor Nhoj
    Choice: Can't whistle
    Comments: I think that it would be pretty easy to sleep over the sound fo a guy who can't whistle trying. After I got done catching up on sleep lost in college, I would teach him how to whistle and I would then sing the blues over his whistling. We'd tour the country when we got out of jail as The Whistling Blues Combo and make lots and lots of euros!!! But then again, I don't plan on going to jail anytime soon, so I don't think I will have to worry about it anyway.


    Name: spautz
    Choice: Like it's a question?
    Comments: Class has given me countless hours of practice towards completely ignoring human speech, so it won't take long before question guy's voice gives up and dies a quiet and lonely death. Weird airy-yet-wet-with-spit sounds would take some time to get used to, and even after you get used to it there's still the chance he'll spray some saliva on you - yuck!


    Name: The Duce
    Who: old friend of jeff and T.L., for shamecock, now a tiger
    Choice: Like it's a question?
    Comments: The guy who seems like he's asking questions so I can make up weird answers to them anyway. Or perhaps my favorite smiling and nodding, even when he does ask a question. Basically, much fun would be had by all.


    Name: Heather
    Choice: Can't whistle
    Ip Address of Poster: clemson.edu


    Name: McDave
    Choice: Like it's a question?
    Comments: Could the choice BE any more OBVIOUS?


    Name: Heather Koestline
    Choice: Like it's a question?
    Comments: (well first off...kevin thank you for the email asking if I had already voted, no that was not me) but now you have my vote! The guy with the whistle would be too much. At least I could carry on a conversation with the other guy. I bet I would start doing the voice thing too after a while...so it wouldn't bother me.


    Name: Chip
    Choice: Like it's a question?
    Comments: cuz a guy who can't whistle can help it, he can just not whistle, or I'll smack him up, a guy who raises his voice at the end can't usually help it, so I'd feel pity.....I think this logic works....


    Name: Allison
    Choice: Can't whistle
    Comments: I can convince onlookers that the guy is actually trying to kiss me, but because of my purity and restraint, I won't allow him to. That's not so easy to do with Question Guy. Besides, inappropriate vocal inflections are annoying.


    Name: Kyle B
    Choice: Like it's a question?
    Comments: hey, you can always act like you're trying to sleep, so then he may not talk as much.


    Name: Clark
    Who: your good buddy from CW
    Choice: Can't whistle
    Comments: is there any reason to explain???? it is not even close! the raising voice guy would drive me absolutely insane, b/c to be honest it would remind me of these dreams of hell i used to have. It would remind me of the sounds the tormented would make. pretty weird, i know, but i have had a neato life. i could at least stick something in his or her mouth to stop or at least stifle the attempting whistle


    Name: Wendy
    Who: Your sister
    Choice: Like it's a question?
    Comments: Last summer I visited Ontario, Canada. We spent most of the time in Niagara Falls and Toronto. This IS relevant to the question. The reason this is relevant is that everyone in Canada?? raised their voice? not only at the end of sentences? but at every pause within the sentence? They use question marks like we use commas. The first time we encountered this was at the Hershey store in Niagara Falls. We got a piece of fudge and paid with American money. She took the money and said something to us that had to do with money but there were SO MANY people in there I couldn't hear, but it sure did sound like she was asking a question, and I thought she was asking if we wanted Canadian or American money, so I told my friend what I thought she asked, and he told her he wanted American money and she said NO I was TELLING you I could only give you Canadian change and this time she didn't sound like she was asking a question, she sounded like a huge B**** and we both got mad and didn't enjoy the fudge quite as much as we should have. And can I also add that you could not control the amount of fudge you received, it was just all sliced how they wanted it. But anyway by the time we were in Toronto we were used to the speech impediment. So maybe the guy in the prison cell is just some guy from Toronto. And if I can adjust to an entire nation (well at least a province) speaking like that, one guy would be ok. I would have to beat the whistling guy, I can't even stand normal whistling. Was that too much information?


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