:date: 2019-01-14
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 Would You Rather...?
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:raw-html:`©` 1993-1999 Barry A. Warsaw


There are many more of these conundrums, but so far these are the only one's
I've typed in so far.  For reference, the very first *Would You RaYther...?*
was this tricky puzzle:

| *Would you rather*
| slide down a 50 foot razor blade into a vat of alcohol,
| *or*
| suck all the snot out of a dog's nose until its head caves in?

As if that wasn't a hard enough choice...

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| *Would you rather*
| survive a nuclear war only to become the podiatrist to a race of mutants,
| *or*
| smell the cheese?
|
| *Would you rather*
| be mechanically induced to scream at the top of your lungs for an hour,
| *or*
| have your eyes glued shut for a day?
|
| *Would you rather*
| be forced to preface everything you say with the phrase
| **"Tuck it in"** under threat of being slapped,
| *or*
| have a magnetic head?
|
| *Would you rather*
| be born with a refrigerator on your back,
| *or*
| have an elephant as a close, personal friend?
|
| *Would you rather*
| have 15 nails hammered into your tongue,
| *or*
| have your saliva permanently transmuted to urine?
|
| *Would you rather*
| have needles for leg hair,
| *or*
| have flares shoot out of your nose every time you say the word
| **"the"** (ouch).
|
| *Would you rather*
| have eyes that always smile,
| *or*
| or a voice that makes people calm?
|
| *Would you rather*
| be able to fly,
| *or*
| have the ability to read people's minds?
|
| *Would you rather*
| lose your keys three days in a row,
| *or*
| have your dog eat your birthday cake?
|
| *Would you rather*
| have the power of invisibility,
| *or*
| be able to produce sparks from your fingertips?
|
| *Would you rather*
| be able to fortell the future,
| *or*
| have all the money you will every need?
|
| *Would you rather*
| be able to stop time while you slept,
| *or*
| never need to do laundry?
|
| *Would you rather*
| be able to bring about a lasting world peace,
| *or*
| eliminate all hunger and disease?
|
| *Would you rather*
| be debt free,
| *or*
| eleven years ahead of schedule?
|
| *Would you rather*
| suck on a live cattle prod for five minutes,
| *or*
| be imprisoned?
|
| *Would you rather*
| have spaghetti sauce you can sink your teeth into,
| *or*
| spaghetti sauce?
|
| *Would you rather*
| have a foot long eyelash you can never pluck,
| *or*
| an earlobe the size of a basketball?
|
| *Would you rather*
| hit every red light for the rest of your life,
| *or*
| always be wrong?
|
| *Would you rather*
| catch a cold after freezing your face in bowl of liquid nitrogen,
| *or*
| be unable to sit?
|
| *Would you rather*
| Meet the Beatles,
| *or*
| eat beetle meat?
|
| *Would you rather*
| Bring home the bacon,
| *or*
| be water soluble?
|
| *Would you rather*
| Be a webmaster,
| *or*
| know only 7 words (is there a difference)?

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And why?