# Poll II **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 10, 2007, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-ii/391625 "2007-02-10T16:52:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2007, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-ii/391625/1 "2007-02-10T16:52:54Z")
This is the second in a three-part series. You may participate even if you did not participate in the first one. Please choose one item from each pair. You do not have to select from every pair. “Both” or “Neither” answers, or answers that are vague or conditional, will count as no selection. You can make a choice for any reason. It doesn’t have to be meaningful to anyone else. In the first poll, someone chose Charlotte over Atlanta just because they liked the sound of the word better. And that’s fine. So thanks for participating! And again, I invite you to explain your responses as much as you like. 🙂 ================================= 1. Canon in D or Minuet in G 2. Free Bird or Stairway to Heaven 3. Marilyn Monroe or Helen of Troy 4. Albert Einstein or Stephen Hawking 5. 1964 or 1968 6. Tokyo or Bejing 7. Cairo or Addis Ababa 8. Mensa or Masons 9. Standard time or daylight savings time 10. Pipes or cigars 11. Rum or Bourbon 12. Southern fried chicken or Yankee pot roast 13. Gone with the Wind or Wizard of Oz 14. “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.” (Kennedy) or “No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.” (Jefferson) 15. Discover a new comet or win the lottery Bonus question: $500,000 now or $5,000,000 ten years from now. ---
**Author:** ![Renee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/renee/32/287_2.png) [@Renee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Renee)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2007, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-ii/391625/2 "2007-02-10T17:03:48Z")
1. Canon in D or Minuet in G **Hu?** 2. \*\*Free Bird \*\* or Stairway to Heaven 3. \*\*Marilyn Monroe \*\* or Helen of Troy 4. \*\*Albert Einstein \*\* or Stephen Hawking 5. 1964 or 1968 **no opinion** 6. **Tokyo** or Bejing 7. **Cairo** or Addis Ababa 8. **Mensa** or Masons 9. Standard time or **daylight savings time** 10. Pipes or **cigars** 11. **Rum** or Bourbon 12. **Southern fried chic** ken or Yankee pot roast 13. Gone with the Wind or **Wizard of Oz** 14. “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.” (Kennedy) or \*\*“No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.” \*\* (Jefferson) 15. Discover a new comet or\*\* win the lottery\*\* obviously Bonus question: $500,000 now or **$5,000,000 ten years from now**. I’m young, and with the money we have saved we could retire right now and live on it for the next ten years. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2007, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-ii/391625/3 "2007-02-10T17:20:34Z")
1. Canon in D or **Minuet in G** 2. Free Bird or **Stairway to Heaven** 3. Marilyn Monroe or **Helen of Troy** 4. Albert Einstein or **Stephen Hawking** 5. 1964 or **1968** 6. **Tokyo** or Bejing 7. **Cairo** or Addis Ababa 8. **Mensa** or Masons 9. Standard time or **daylight savings time** 10. **Pipes** or cigars 11. Rum or **Bourbon** 12. **Southern fried** chicken or Yankee pot roast 13. Gone with the Wind or **Wizard of Oz** 14. “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.” (Kennedy) or **“No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.” (Jefferson)** 15. **Discover a new comet** or win the lottery Bonus question: **$500,000 now** or $5,000,000 ten years from now. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2007, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-ii/391625/4 "2007-02-10T17:23:21Z")
1. **Canon in D** or Minuet in G _D is my key_ 2. **Free Bird** or Stairway to Heaven _Stairway is the better song, but Free Bird has the better air guitar_ 3. **Marilyn Monroe** or Helen of Troy _Pratchett ruined Helen for me._😃 4. Albert Einstein or **Stephen Hawking** _Black holes have no hair._ 5. 1964 or **1968** _Better music_ 6. **Tokyo** or Bejing _Chinese food is better, but China is an enemy._ 7. **Cairo** or Addis Ababa _Better ruins_ 8. \*\*Mensa \*\* or Masons _I qualify for both, but Masons have Shriners._ 9. Standard time or **daylight savings time** _Summertime…and the living is easy._ 10. **Pipes** or cigars _Cigars are sloppy._ 11. Rum or **Bourbon** _Bourbon is my booze of choice._ 12. Southern fried chicken or **Yankee pot roast** _Selling out my Southern roots here._ 13. Gone with the Wind or **Wizard of Oz** _GWtW is the most over-rated film in American history._ 14. “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.” (Kennedy) or **“No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.” (Jefferson)** _My country does best when it leaves me the hell alone._ 15. Discover a new comet or **win the lottery** _Unless you’re Halley, who remembers comet-finders?_ Bonus question: **$500,000 now** or $5,000,000 ten years from now _Give me the $500K and I’ll turn it into $5M in 10 years._ ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2007, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-ii/391625/5 "2007-02-10T17:38:02Z")
1.\*\* Canon in D \*\* or Minuet in G 1. Free Bird or Stairway to Heaven – neither 2. Marilyn Monroe or **Helen of Troy** 3. \*\*Albert Einstein \*\* or Stephen Hawking 4. 1964 or **1968** 5. **Tokyo** or Bejing 6. **Cairo** or Addis Ababa 7. Mensa or Masons – neither 8. Standard time or **daylight savings time** 9. Pipes or cigars – neither 10. Rum or Bourbon – neither 11. Southern fried chicken or **Yankee pot roast** 12. Gone with the Wind or **Wizard of Oz** 13. **"Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." (Kennedy)** or “No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.” (Jefferson) 14. Discover a new comet or **win the lottery** Bonus question: \*\*$500,000 now \*\* or $5,000,000 ten years from now. [/QUOTE] ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2007, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-ii/391625/6 "2007-02-10T18:12:36Z")
================================= 1. 2. Stairway to Heaven 3. Marilyn Monroe 4. Albert Einstein 5. 1968 Birth year 6. Tokyo 7. Addis Ababa Though I usually wear Nikes 8. Mensa 9. Standard time 10. Pipes Can’t say I’m crazy about pipes but cigar smoke makes me vomit,and I smoke cigarettes. 11. Bourbon 12. Yankee pot roast 13. Wizard of Oz 14. “No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.” (Jefferson) 15. win the lottery Bonus question: $500,000 ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2007, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-ii/391625/7 "2007-02-10T18:17:53Z")
1. Free Bird or **Stairway to Heaven** 2. Marilyn Monroe or **Helen of Troy** 3. **Albert Einstein** or Stephen Hawking 4. 1964 or **1968** 5. **Tokyo** or Bejing 6. Cairo or **Addis Ababa** 7. **Mensa** or Masons 8. Standard time or **daylight savings time** 9. Pipes or **cigars** 10. Rum or **Bourbon** 11. **Southern fried chicken** or Yankee pot roast 12. Discover a new comet or **win the lottery** Bonus question: $500,000 now or **$5,000,000 ten years from now.** ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2007, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-ii/391625/8 "2007-02-10T18:25:28Z")
1. Canon in D or Minuet in G–don’t care 2. Free Bird or Stairway to Heaven–Free Bird (big surprise there, huh) 3. Marilyn Monroe or Helen of Troy–Marilyn 4. Albert Einstein or Stephen Hawking–Big Al 5. 1964 or 1968—'68 6. Tokyo or Bejing–don’t care 7. Cairo or Addis Ababa–don’t care 8. Mensa or Masons–don’t care 9. Standard time or daylight savings time–standard time 10. Pipes or cigars–pipes 11. Rum or Bourbon–Bourbon 12. Southern fried chicken or Yankee pot roast–Yard bird 4 teh win. 13. Gone with the Wind or Wizard of Oz–I do give a damn, and GwtW wins. 14. “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.” (Kennedy) or “No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.” (Jefferson) TJ all the way. 1. Discover a new comet or win the lottery–win the lottery. Bonus question: $500,000 now or $5,000,000 ten years from now.–cash now. ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2007, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-ii/391625/9 "2007-02-10T18:29:31Z")
1.Minuet in G 2.Stairway to Heaven 3.Helen of Troy 4.Stephen Hawking 5.1968 6.Bejing 7.Addis Ababa 1. Mensa 2. Standard time 10.cigars 11.Bourbon 1. Southern fried chicken 2. Gone with the Wind 14.“No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.” (Jefferson) 15.win the lottery Bonus question: $500,000 now ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2007, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-ii/391625/10 "2007-02-10T18:36:38Z")
1. Canon in D or **Minuet in G** 2. Free Bird or **Stairway to Heaven** 3. Marilyn Monroe or **Helen of Troy** 4. **Albert Einstein** or Stephen Hawking 5. 1964 or **1968** 6. Tokyo or **Bejing** 7. **Cairo** or Addis Ababa 8. Mensa or **Masons** 9. Standard time or daylight savings time \*\*no opinion \*\* 10. Pipes or **cigars** 11. Rum or **Bourbon** 12. Southern fried chicken or Yankee pot roast **Can’t pick just one!** 13. **Gone with the Wind** or Wizard of Oz 14. “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.” (Kennedy) or **“No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.” (Jefferson)** 15. Discover a new comet or **win the lottery** Bonus question: **$500,000 now** or $5,000,000 ten years from now. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2007, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-ii/391625/11 "2007-02-10T19:12:07Z")
1. **Canon in D** or Minuet in G 2. Free Bird or **Stairway to Heaven** 3. **Marilyn Monroe** or Helen of Troy 4. Albert Einstein or **Stephen Hawking** 5. **1964** or 1968 6. Tokyo or **Bejing** 7. Cairo or Addis Ababa 8. Mensa or **Masons** 9. Standard time or **daylight savings time** 10. **Pipes** or cigars 11. **Rum** or Bourbon 12. Southern fried chicken or **Yankee pot roast** 13. Gone with the Wind or **Wizard of Oz** 14. **"Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." (Kennedy)** or “No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.” (Jefferson) 15. Discover a new comet or **win the lottery** Bonus question: **$500,000 now** or $5,000,000 ten years from now ---
**Author:** ![DaphneBlack](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daphneblack/32/5389_2.png) [@DaphneBlack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaphneBlack)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2007, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-ii/391625/12 "2007-02-10T19:30:50Z")
1. Canon in D or **Minuet in G** 2. Free Bird or **Stairway to Heaven** 3. Marilyn Monroe or **Helen of Troy** 4. **Albert Einstein** or Stephen Hawking 5. 1964 or **1968** 6. **Tokyo** or Bejing 7. **Cairo** or Addis Ababa 8. **Mensa** or Masons 9. Standard time or **daylight savings time** 10. Pipes or **cigars** 11. Rum or **Bourbon** 12. Southern fried chicken or **Yankee pot roast** 13. Gone with the Wind or **Wizard of Oz** 14. “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.” (Kennedy) or “No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.” (Jefferson) They are both worthy sentiments… on balance, **Kennedy**. 1. Discover a new comet or **win the lottery** Bonus question: $500,000 now or **$5,000,000 ten years from now**. ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2007, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-ii/391625/13 "2007-02-10T19:31:39Z")
1. **Canon in D** or Minuet in G 2. Free Bird or **Stairway to Heaven** 3. Marilyn Monroe or **Helen of Troy** 4. **Albert Einstein** or Stephen Hawking 5. 1964 or **1968** 6. **Tokyo** or Bejing 7. **Cairo** or Addis Ababa 8. **Mensa** or Masons - if only for the episode of the Bob Newhart Show where Emily got in and Bob didn’t. 9. Standard time or **daylight savings time** 10. **Pipes** or cigars - Sherlock Holmes 11. **Rum** or Bourbon - I don’t drink, so I don’t know, but since no one says _yo ho ho and a bottle of burbon_, I had to go with the rum. 12. **Southern fried chicken** or Yankee pot roast 13. Gone with the Wind or **Wizard of Oz** 14. “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.” (Kennedy) or **“No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.” (Jefferson)** 15. Discover a new comet or **win the lottery** Bonus question: \*\*$500,000 now \*\*or $5,000,000 ten years from now. - in 10 years I’ll be over 60. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2007, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-ii/391625/14 "2007-02-10T19:40:08Z")
$500 today. ---
**Author:** ![Adoptamom\_II](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Adoptamom\_II](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Adoptamom_II)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2007, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-ii/391625/15 "2007-02-10T19:45:32Z")
1. Canon in D or **Minuet in G** 2. **Free Bird** or Stairway to Heaven 3. Marilyn Monroe or **Helen of Troy** 4. **Albert Einstein** or Stephen Hawking 5. 1964 or **1968** 6. Tokyo or **Bejing** 7. \*\*Cairo \*\*or Addis Ababa 8. **Mensa** or Masons 9. **Standard time** or daylight savings time 10. \*\*Pipes \*\*or cigars 11. **Rum** or Bourbon 12. **Southern fried chicken** or Yankee pot roast 13. Gone with the Wind or **Wizard of Oz** 14. “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.” (Kennedy) or \*\*“No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.” \*\*(Jefferson) 15. Discover a new comet or **win the lottery** Bonus question: $500,000 now or **$5,000,000** ten years from now. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2007, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-ii/391625/16 "2007-02-10T20:22:17Z")
Can’t wait to see what this is all about. ================================= 1. **Canon in D** or Minuet in G 2. **Free Bird** or Stairway to Heaven 3. **Marilyn Monroe** or Helen of Troy 4. **Albert Einstein** or Stephen Hawking 5. **1964** or 1968 6. **Tokyo** or Bejing 7. **Cairo** or Addis Ababa 8. **Mensa** or Masons 9. **Standard time** or daylight savings time 10. Pipes or **cigars** 11. Rum or **Bourbon** 12. **Southern fried chicken** or Yankee pot roast 13. **Gone with the Wind** or Wizard of Oz 14. “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.” (Kennedy) or **“No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.” (Jefferson)** 15. Discover a new comet or **win the lottery** Bonus question: $500,000 now or **$5,000,000 ten years from now.** Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2007, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-ii/391625/17 "2007-02-10T20:34:09Z")
[ ================================= 1. Canon in D or Minuet in G: My wedding march 2. Free Bird or Stairway to Heaven: used to scare me when I was kid! 3. Marilyn Monroe or Helen of Troy 4. Albert Einstein or Stephen Hawking 5. 1964 or 1968 6. Tokyo or Bejing 7. Cairo or Addis Ababa: I wanted to be an Egyptologist as a kid 8. Mensa or Masons 9. Standard time or daylight savings time 10. Pipes or cigars 11. Rum or Bourbon: Rum makes me sick 12. Southern fried chicken or Yankee pot roast: Funny this is the same example I use to describe my SO. His parents are dyed in the wool MA folks who relocalted to SC, where hubby grew up. I describe him as a Yankee pot roast , rather than a fried chicken,southerner. 13. Gone with the Wind or Wizard of Oz 14. “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.” (Kennedy) or “No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.” (Jefferson) 15. Discover a new comet or win the lottery Bonus question: $500,000 now or $5,000,000 ten years from now. ---
**Author:** ![Silence\_of\_the\_clams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Silence\_of\_the\_clams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silence_of_the_clams)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2007, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-ii/391625/18 "2007-02-10T20:53:05Z")
1. **Canon in D** or Minuet in G: canons make things go boom 2. **Free Bird** or Stairway to Heaven: the latter a tad bit more “you know who” 3. Marilyn Monroe or **Helen of Troy** : /homer/ Helen of Troy, mmmh 4. **Albert Einstein** or Stephen Hawking: just look at that hair! 5. **1964** or 1968: /Cartman/ damn hippies! 6.\*\* Tokyo\*\* or Bejing: more gizmos 1. **Cairo** or Addis Ababa: pyramids man 2. Mensa or **Masons** : actually neither, but whats so mysterious about mensa? 3. Standard time or **daylight savings time** : nothing better than sleeping in 4. Pipes or **cigars** : you can’t roll a pipe between virgin thighs 5. **Rum** or Bourbon: but thats the pirate in me 6. **Southern fried chicken** or Yankee pot roast: I have tried neither, but I imagine southern cuisine is more spiced 7. Gone with the Wind or **Wizard of Oz** : follow the yellow brick road! 8. “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.” (Kennedy) or **“No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.” (Jefferson)**: and remember not to envy your neighbours donkey 9. **Discover a new comet** or win the lottery: and forever be rememberred in the stars Bonus question: **$500,000 now** or $5,000,000 ten years from now: I don’t have patience to wait 10 years ---
**Author:** ![Monstera\_deliciosa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monstera_deliciosa/32/109_2.png) [@Monstera\_deliciosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstera_deliciosa)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2007, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-ii/391625/19 "2007-02-10T21:24:38Z")
1.\*\* Canon in D\*\* or Minuet in G 1. Free Bird or \*\*Stairway to Heaven \*\* 2. **Marilyn Monroe** or Helen of Troy (Reality beats a myth.) 3. **Albert Einstein** or Stephen Hawking 4. **1964** or 1968. (Too many assassinations in '68) 5. Tokyo or \*\*Bejing \*\* 6. **Cairo** or Addis Ababa 7. **Mensa** or Masons 8. Standard time or\*\* daylight savings time \*\* 9. \*\*Pipes \*\*or cigars 10. **Rum** or Bourbon 11. **Southern fried chicken** or Yankee pot roast 12. Gone with the Wind or \*\*Wizard of Oz \*\* 13. “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.” (Kennedy) or " **No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him."** (Jefferson) I disagree with both sentiments, as I expect something from my country, and I think laws should do more than that. I’m just choosing substance over style. 14. Discover a new comet or \*\*win the lottery \*\* Bonus question: **$500,000 now** or $5,000,000 ten years from now ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2007, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-ii/391625/20 "2007-02-10T22:00:23Z")
1. Canon in D or Minuet in G- Canon. I wouldn’t minuet if you paid me. 2. Free Bird or Stairway to Heaven- Stairway to Heaven. But only because it’'s better than one more song about how it’s so cool for a guy to fuck a girl and never see here again. That’s why she wanted the staircase, see was fed up. 3. Marilyn Monroe or Helen of Troy- Helen. Always seemed like something of a cypher but maybe she could introduce me to a few gods (much cooler that just getting to meet the Kennedys) 4. Albert Einstein or Stephen Hawking - Einstein. Seems like he be fun at parties. Plus he lived down the street from me. And I hear he was a good dancer, soming I’m fairly sure you can’t say about Stephen. 5. 1964 or 1968- 1968, the greatest year ever, the year of my birth. There will be parades on 2068. 6. Tokyo or Bejing- Bejing 7. Cairo or Addis Ababa- Cairo 8. Mensa or Masons- Mensa. Can be annoying but don’t to the best of my knowledge have secret handshakes. 9. Standard time or daylight savings time- Standard. I have all the damn daylight I need. 10. Pipes or cigars- Cigars I guess, as that’s what my SO smokes occasionly 11. Rum or Bourbon- Burbon. Rum and your at risk of a little umbrella. 12. Southern fried chicken or Yankee pot roast- At the moment I’ve been craving chicken. 13. Gone with the Wind or Wizard of Oz-This one I can’t say. To different in their own megamovie kind of way. 14. “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.” (Kennedy) or “No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.” (Jefferson)- Jefferson. Kennedy makes a good point but it sounds to much like a sound bite. 15. Discover a new comet or win the lottery- Win the lottery.The universe, in all it’s majisty, will go on fine without me. My bill collectors will come and break my kneecaps. Bonus question: $500,000 now or $5,000,000 ten years from now. - See above about kneecaps. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-ii/391625.md?page=2)