The ear would probably be right above one of your existing ones (or perhaps just fore/aft of it). Your hearing might improve some, but not to superhuman levels or to any degree of annoyance or anything. Mostly it would be a "dude, that dude/chick has three ears!" kind of thing.
You could sell the extraneous body part, but it would presumably put you in contact with some seedy characters, a la selling an organ or something on the black market. Much like organs, it would never pass muster with the Ebay people or anything like that.
As for how it does any good while detached, just don't worry about that. "Would you rather?" is a game that requires a very willing suspension of disbelief and/or a willingness to flout logic sometimes. Just roll with it.
Is a duck considered an organ? How many ears does the duck have? Can the tail double as an ear? So many questions . . .
Placing the third ear next to one of the other two seems somewhat inefficient. Maybe you can draw up a large "map" of the body, like a big chalk outline, and let the duck walk around until he/she does poopies. Then the poop marks the spot of the third ear. Q.E.D.
For what it's worth, I've heard of a third wheel, but I've never heard of a third ear.
Man, I didn't realize that so few people were well-versed in "Would you rather?". There is way too much deconstruction going on right now.
sheesh, take a few hours off to work and fall way behind Fish80 on the leader board
A fish won't do anything but swim in a brook
he can't write his name or read a book
to fool the people is his only thought
and though he's slippery he still gets caught
but if then that sort of life is what you wish
you may grow up to be a fish
(music)
a new kind of jumped up slippery fish
Last edited by devildeac; 07-21-2008 at 11:09 PM. Reason: answers the Fish80 question in #2667
I feel like EarlJam now (now THAT is a REAL scary thought) with a long string of consecutive posts. However, most are not answering myself but replies to other posters and questions. With a serious dollop of PW'ing also, of course/.
narrowing the gap dramatically in just a few short minutes...
Hey, Fish80, do you hear footsteps?
OK, enough of this, back to the "ymm, beer" thread...
no, wait a minute, that ties up the #8 spot here, I think
There are currently 28 folks that have posted in this thread exactly once. How is that possible? I mean really, can you quit this thread?
LTE, I don't know how to quit you.
Which begs the question, Ledger (were he still alive) or Gyllenhaal?