Fun Survey! (in Off-topic)


Smartmuck October 17 2007 9:33 PM EDT

It was a survey done in during the Depression, and I would like to see how it changes.

Simply tell me how much money (USD) you'd have to be paid to do each of these things.

1. Have a little toe cut off.
2. Eat a 6 inch, live worm.
3. Live the rest of your life on a farm in Kansas.
4. Have one of your front upper teeth pulled out (no drugs to make it feel better!)
5. Strangle a stray cat to death with your bare hands.


Please, be honest! No goofy answers for the questions you find most amusing.

This should be fun though. :)

48Zach October 17 2007 9:38 PM EDT

1. Have a little toe cut off.
Well, you don't need it to walk.. and it doesn't really serve a purpose.. But you would look like an idiot at the beach.. Let's say.. $15,000
2. Eat a 6 inch, live worm.
Worms!? Bah! They taste like water.. You dont even have to taste it, as they just slide right down.. Give me $20 and i'll do it.
3. Live the rest of your life on a farm in Kansas.
Kansas.. Southern accents.. FARM!!! $1,000,000 so I could afford my necessities like a computer to live through the life on the horrible farm.
4. Have one of your front upper teeth pulled out (no drugs to make it feel better!)
Aslong as I can have a denture or fake tooth put in afterwards, or if it was a baby-tooth.. $500 with insurance, $10,000 without, just incase it costs a lot to get the denture =)
5. Strangle a stray cat to death with your bare hands.
Well, cats are cool.. but stay cats hurt me.. Let's go with $5,000.. But isn't it against the law? If it is, $5,000 PLUS enough money for bail.

Slashundhack [We Forge Our Own Stuff] October 17 2007 11:55 PM EDT

1)$10,000
2)$500
3)At par to living costs
4)$5,000
5)$1,000 if I don't have to let it scratch me $5,000 if I do.

QBsutekh137 October 18 2007 12:05 AM EDT

1) $100,000.
2) If I am allowed to clean it, as low as $100 (providing "eat" means "OK to close eyes, plug nose, and swallow).
3) Immensely stupid question (doesn't fit with the rest). If it is somehow saying that I am provided for, just under house arrest or something, pay me nothing, I'll take it. But if I have to work the farm, and if I don't, I die -- not enough money to make it happen.
4) $100,000, assuming it is OK for me to get a prosthetic after.
5) $500,000.

Iluvatar[NK] October 18 2007 12:18 AM EDT

1. Have a little toe cut off.
'bout 200k will do it. Enough to get a replacement and make some profit as well. [they make prosthetic toes, don't they?]

2. Eat a 6 inch, live worm.
How thick? Iono, probably 1,000$ but the concept of live.. eugh. Cooked is easy. I'd also have to be assured that it's healthy.

3. Live the rest of your life on a farm in Kansas.
Well, if it's just to claim residence there, then maybe $1,000,000 will do it. But permanently? Never leaving, even for vacation? No sum of money. I mean, you wouldn't be able to spend it anywhere, so there'd be no point.

4. Have one of your front upper teeth pulled out (no drugs to make it feel better!)
$10,000. A good replacement with the associated surgical costs would run maybe $2,000 ish? so yeah. Just a bit of profit.

5. Strangle a stray cat to death with your bare hands.
$1,000,000. It'd be a memory that stayed with me for the rest of my life. And it'd be a bad one. So a good hefty chunk of money.

[P]Mitt October 18 2007 2:06 AM EDT

1. Have a little toe cut off.
No amount of money would compel me to mutilate myself when I can avoid it

2. Eat a 6 inch, live worm.
If the worm is healthy for me, I'd say about 10k. I don't like the concept of eating live things

3. Live the rest of your life on a farm in Kansas.
No amount of money will compel me to throw my life away.

4. Have one of your front upper teeth pulled out (no drugs to make it feel better!)
See #1

5. Strangle a stray cat to death with your bare hands.
$500,000 would be enough if I could be assured that there would be no repercussions. Repercussions as in lawyers coming after me, people hating me, the cat not attacking me back. Oh and mental trauma would have to not occur.
Otherwise, no amount of money.

Smartmuck October 18 2007 9:42 AM EDT

hmm..ok maybe I should clarify just a bit :P

Pretend for one, no extra repercussions would occur...so if you strangled the cat, nobody'd care. :P Also, please always assign a dollar value to your answers. How else could I give you averages and stuff? :P

sooka October 18 2007 11:45 AM EDT

Michael Vick CM'd saying he's made amends with canines but would like to explore interest in #5.

th00p October 18 2007 3:26 PM EDT

1. I wouldn't
2. $500
3. I wouldn't
4. I wouldn't
5. I wouldn't

Life is about more than money, it's about quality of life... only eating the worm is worth the consequence.
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