Is America prepared for the worst case scenario? Are you? Is your family? Is your girlfriend? And how about her family? Have you even met her family? What if the worst case scenario were to occur, without warning, say, tomorrow afternoon? Would you even know what to do?

Do you even have any idea what the worst case scenario is?

Neither did we. For the straight answer, we turned to where we turn for straight answers: the blogosphere! And as usual, the blogosphere did not disappoint.

Cleo Twyford paints a bleak picture:

A chambray blue shirt with cream/beige pants, oft teamed with a yellow tie (the tie is the worst case scenario). Ugh.

And Raghuram Rajan puts it bluntly:

In this worst case scenario, we get a contraction of global demand, with only moderate correction of current account imbalances.

Not so, says Sparkle:

The worst-case scenario? A majority government by the retrogressive Conservative party, which is peopled by such backward-lookers and dim bulb intellects as Stockwell Day, Rondo Thomas, and Rob Anders.

Sexy Semantic is relatively optimistic:

worst case scenario, my car will stop. At least it won’t a’splode or anything, and I know that now.

Knitter Emily also sounds a slightly hopeful note:

Worst case scenario, I would have to frog it back to the lifeline. It would be painful to lose two days of knitting, but I wouldn’t die.

Felicity, however, is less sanguine about her mortality:

[I]n the worst case scenario, of course, you realize that you are going to have to, at some point, pony up almost $20 to replace the Riddle Master Trilogy which you cannot live without.

Jer has an angle I bet you haven’t thought of:

Worst case scenario is that exactly the same thing happens [refilling the ketchup bottle], only Heinz ketchup is taken out of the loop entirely. The only thing worse than slightly fermented Heinz ketchup is slightly fermented inferior ketchup in a Heinz bottle.

But what if you don’t like Heinz ketchup? You can puke it out, says Brownsville Girl:

The worst case scenario I can think of for trying something new is that you don’t like it (barring the scenarios where people discover unknown allergies). And there’s a simple method called “regurgitation” that can help you solve even the worst tasting food.

But, according to Alex Carnevale:

Worst case scenario, they realize Nomar can’t play first and start a plot to trade him.

Sean Keeler didn’t even want to think about it. Not during the game, at any rate.

On [the] football field, you have to think of yourself as invincible. You never, ever, ever fathom the worst-case scenario. Unfortunately, real life is not a football game. Stuff happens.

Stuff indeed. Happens indeed. But at least we can be prepared, now that we’ve got the answer from the blogosphere.