Discussion thread for the "Polls only" thread (Part 2)

There should be a choice somewhere between “I’d still marry” and “No way in hell.”

I love my wife and we’ve had a good life together. But going back in time would afford me the chance to try out a different life, for better or worse. I think maybe I’d stay single and live a little more adventurously.

I’d go back to my first high school time, yes - around the years 2002-2005.

The technology wasn’t as good as today, but it was a happier and simpler era.

Yeah, I don’t know if I’d marry my husband again. I am still married and still in love and have gotten so much out of the relationship, but I also think I needed more therapy before choosing a partner.

My conundrum is, if I hadn’t married my first wife, my wonderful son wouldn’t have been born. But other than that, no way in hell I’d marry that nightmare again.

You said it better than I could. Same here. 25 years down the tubes on that person. So much needless unhappiness all around. I wish I had those years back but could keep my son who is a real joy.

I wouldn’t take the genie up on the high school offer, as my life choices - god and ill - have led me to the point where I am relatively well off, in a happy marriage, and have three wonderful boys. The only thing I’d do differently is get my depression treated earlier.

BUT if the genie could make it so the three miserable years with the first Mrs Magill never happened, I’d be on that like green on peas.

I didn’t know the specific twist in the sixth sense, but I knew there was a twist and when I noticed he didn’t interact with anyone but the boy, I figured out what it was.

Answers to my poll on cartoon/comic book character minced oaths:

  • Blistering blue barnacles! – Captain Haddock from The Adventures of Tintin
  • Good grief! – Charlie Brown from Peanuts
  • Great Caesar’s ghost! – Perry White from Superman
  • Sacré bleu! – Painter Smurf from The Smurfs
  • Raskolnikov! – Boris Badenov from Rocky and Bullwinkle
  • Suffering psyche! – Newton from The Mighty Hercules
  • Suffering succotash! – Sylvester from Looney Tunes

Prediction: Almost everyone will know “Good grief!” and almost nobody will know “Suffering psyche!”

I was certain that one would be Pepé le Pew. I guess I have to go undo my vote now.

I knew there was a twist in The Sixth Sense. I went into it convinced I would figure it out. The movie drew me in so well that I completely forgot there was going to be twist so it took me by surprise. If I had watched it on tv instead of in the theater I probably would have had a different experience

I think he may have uttered the phrase on rare occasions, but I don’t think it was really a catchphrase the way it was for Painter Smurf.

The problem with going to high school now is that I would be clueless. I would be the weird kid that doesn’t get any references, doesn’t understand the slang, and listens to different music than everybody else.

Sounds like me in high school as I actually went there.

A president I like? Or one that I despise?

Of course, that’s from the English translation. In the original books by Hergé, it was “Tonnerre de Brest!” or “Mille sabords!”

I attributed “Sacré Bleu!” to Savoir-Faire, the antagonist mouse in the Klondike Kat cartoons.

I can’t remember whether I’ve ever eaten snails.

I think the only time I had snails was part of a high school French class. They were “fine.” But that was 45 years ago, and I haven’t since, and I don’t see a need to ever eat them again.

I can’t imagine dining on a creature made entirely of snot.

Daffy Duck, not Sylvester. And correct me if I’m wrong, but Perry White only said “Great Caesar’s ghost” in the fifties TV version of Superman, not in comics.