Betenoir: just to be clear, are you selecting Jefferson and skipping the bonus?
I thought I was pretty clear. I’m embracing Jefferson and taking the 500,000 dollars. Which I will use to move back to mother England. Not Sure how TJ would feel about that but I’ll pack a copy of the Bill of Rights in my carry on.
1. Canon in D or Minuet in G
I’m not familiar enough with either of these pieces to make a call.
2. Free Bird or Stairway to Heaven
Stairway to Heaven. Free Bird is too repetitive at the end and I like the “mood” of Stairway to Heaven better.
3. Marilyn Monroe or Helen of Troy
No opinion.
4. Albert Einstein or Stephen Hawking
Stephen Hawking, probably just because his research and knowledge is more up to date.
5. 1964 or 1968
1968, the year 2001 was released.
6. Tokyo or Bejing
Tokyo. I am thinking there is probably more to see and do there.
7. Cairo or Addis Ababa
Cairo, same reason as above.
8. Mensa or Masons
Mensa.
9. Standard time or daylight savings time
Standard time. Quite frankly I don’t need an extra hour of daylight in the evening in the summer.
10. Pipes or cigars
As a nonsmoker, if I had to choose one, a pipe; they smell better when smoked.
11. Rum or Bourbon
Non-drinker, nothing here.
12. Southern fried chicken or Yankee pot roast
The chicken sounds really good right now.
13. Gone with the Wind or Wizard of Oz
Wizard of Oz, since I am more familiar with it.
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)
Kennedy’s quote.
15. Discover a new comet or win the lottery
Lottery.
Bonus question: $500,000 now or $5,000,000 ten years from now.
I’d rather take the $500,000 right now. Who knows what might happen between now and 2017. $500K would settle my debts and still leave plenty more for the things I really want.
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Canon in D or Minuet in G
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Free Bird or Stairway to Heaven
3.** Marilyn Monroe** or Helen of Troy
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Albert Einstein or Stephen Hawking
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1964 or 1968 (RFK and MLK killed, Tet Offensive, Chicago Democratic Convention - 1968 sucked!)
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Tokyo or Bejing
7.** Cairo** or Addis Ababa
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Mensa or Masons
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Standard time or daylight savings time
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Pipes or cigars
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Rum or Bourbon
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Southern fried chicken or Yankee pot roast
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Gone with the Wind or Wizard of Oz
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“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)**
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Discover a new comet or win the lottery
Bonus question: $500,000 now or $5,000,000 ten years from now.
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Canon in D or Minuet in G - the saddest of all keys
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Free Bird or Stairway to Heaven - marginal - dislike both
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Marilyn Monroe or Helen of Troy - hot chick, apparently
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Albert Einstein or Stephen Hawking - much more significant
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1964 or 1968 - born that year
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Tokyo or Bejing - no preference
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Cairo or Addis Ababa - no preference
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Mensa or Masons - I know a Mason or two and they’re much nicer than the couple of Mensans I know.
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Standard time or daylight savings time - no preference
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Pipes or cigars - pipes get all gooey inside
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Rum or Bourbon - rum is nasty
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Southern fried chicken or Yankee pot roast - no idea
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Gone with the Wind or Wizard of Oz - better songs
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“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 had the right idea here, but I’m not keen to follow through to it’s ultimate conclusion
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Discover a new comet or win the lottery - the discovery of a new comet is cool and all, but…
Bonus question: $500,000 now or $5,000,000 ten years from now.
Don’t be a jerk.
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Canon in D or Minuet in G
I’m not into artillery. Min was a hot babe, and when I et her, she woke up the neighbors. -
Free Bird or Stairway to Heaven
Both are prententious and overblown. Stairway by a nose. -
**Marilyn Monroe ** or Helen of Troy
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**Albert Einstein **or Stephen Hawking
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1964 or 1968
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Tokyo or Bejing
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Cairo or Addis Ababa
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Mensa or Masons
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Standard time or daylight savings time
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Pipes or cigars
*Pipes smell good.*Cigars, even very good ones, smell vile. -
Rum or Bourbon
Rum is mere booze; Bourbon is fine art. -
Southern fried chicken or Yankee pot roast
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Gone with the Wind or Wizard of Oz
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**“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 got my username from JFK. -
Discover a new comet or win the lottery
I’m not into obscure fame. How many of us can picture the discoverers of the Hawley-Smoot Comet?
Bonus question: $500,000 now or $5,000,000 ten years from now.
I can borrow on the promised $5M.
Hmm… this sure looks a lot like some of eHarmony’s profile questions… 
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Canon in D or Minuet in G
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Free Bird or Stairway to Heaven
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Marilyn Monroe or Helen of Troy
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Albert Einstein or Stephen Hawking
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1964 or 1968
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**Tokyo ** or Bejing
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Cairo or Addis Ababa
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Mensa or Masons
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Standard time or daylight savings time
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Pipes or cigars
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Rum or Bourbon
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**Southern fried chicken ** or Yankee pot roast
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Gone with the Wind or Wizard of Oz
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"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)
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**Discover a new comet ** or win the lottery
Bonus question: $500,000 now or $5,000,000 ten years from now.
I really don’t care for many of the choices listed. Very odd topics.
These are all that seem worth voting for by me:
8. Mensa
10. Pipes
15. win the lottery
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Canon in D or Minuet in G
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Free Bird or Stairway to Heaven
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Marilyn Monroe or Helen of Troy
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Albert Einstein or Stephen Hawking
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1964 or 1968
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Tokyo or Bejing
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Cairo or Addis Ababa
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Mensa or Masons
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Standard time or daylight savings time
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Pipes or cigars
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Rum or Bourbon
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Southern fried chicken or Yankee pot roast
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Gone with the Wind or Wizard of Oz
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“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)
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Discover a new comet or win the lottery
Bonus question: $500,000 now or $5,000,000 ten years from now.
- Canon in D or Minuet in G
Minuet in G
- Free Bird or Stairway to Heaven
Free Bird
- Marilyn Monroe or Helen of Troy
Helen of Troy
- Albert Einstein or Stephen Hawking
Albert Einstein
- 1964 or 1968
Neither
- Tokyo or Bejing
Tokyo
- Cairo or Addis Ababa
Cairo
- Mensa or Masons
Masons
- Standard time or daylight savings time
ST
- Pipes or cigars
Neither
- Rum or Bourbon
Neither
- Southern fried chicken or Yankee pot roast
Neither - I’m a fake vegetarian.
- Gone with the Wind or Wizard of Oz
Wizard of Oz
- “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
- Discover a new comet or win the lottery
comet
Bonus question: $500,000 now or $5,000,000 ten years from now.
$500,000 now - play your cards right and you could have more than $5,000,000 10 years from now.
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Canon in D or Minuet in G
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Free Bird or Stairway to Heaven
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Marilyn Monroe or** Helen of Troy
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Albert Einstein or Stephen Hawking
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1964 or 1968
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Tokyo or Bejing
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**Cairo **or Addis Ababa
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Mensa or Masons
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Standard time or **daylight savings time
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Pipes or cigars
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Rum or Bourbon
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Southern fried chicken or Yankee pot roast
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Gone with the Wind or Wizard of Oz
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“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)
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Discover a new comet or win the lottery
Bonus question: $500,000 now or $5,000,000 ten years from now.
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Canon in D
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Free Bird or Stairway to Heaven - Neither. Yuk. No response. Avoidance!
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Helen of Troy
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Albert Einstein
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1964
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Tokyo
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Cairo
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Mensa
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daylight savings time
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Pipes
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Rum
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Southern fried chicken
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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:$5,000,000 ten years from now.
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Stairway to Heaven
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Albert Einstein
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Tokyo
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Cairo
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Mensa
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Yankee pot roast
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Wizard of Oz
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“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)
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win the lottery
Bonus question: $5,000,000 ten years from now.
- Canon in D or Minuet in G
Canon. Minuet is overplayed at piano and violin recitals.
- Free Bird or Stairway to Heaven
Stairway. It’s objectively cooler.
- Marilyn Monroe or Helen of Troy
Helen of Troy. I like Greek mythology.
- Albert Einstein or Stephen Hawking
Gotta go with AE, if only because of the hair.
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1964 or 1968
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It’s more historical.
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Tokyo or Bejing
Beijing. I like Chinese food better than Japanese.
- Cairo or Addis Ababa
Addis Ababa. I just like saying it.
- Mensa or Masons
Neither. Both are weird.
- Standard time or daylight savings time
Daylight. I like brightness at 8:00 PM.
- Pipes or cigars
Pipes. They are more debauner.
- Rum or Bourbon
Rum. Bourbon is too boozy.
- Southern fried chicken or Yankee pot roast
Fried chicken all the way. Did you really have to ask?
- Gone with the Wind or Wizard of Oz
Wizard of Oz. Scarlett O’Hara can choke on a potato.
- “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)
Kennedy’s quote. Its message can be applied to any institution and espouses service and generosity. As far as I know, it was not spoken by a hypocrite. Whereas we know Jefferson’s was…which makes all his talk about “natural rights” meaningless. I can see the greatness in both quotes and both men, but Kennedy’s quote is purer and speaks more to what I think society should be about.
- Discover a new comet or win the lottery
Win the lottery. With my winnings, I can buy a comet.
Bonus question: $500,000 now or $5,000,000 ten years from now.
This is tricky. I can certainly wait ten years for five mil, but I’ve got bills that need paying now. Also, I could turn $500K into much more than five mil with smart investments. I might die in ten years and never enjoy the money. Inflation may make five million a paltry sum ten years from now.
I say gimme the money now, buster.
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Canon in D or Minuet in G
Canon in D -
Free Bird or Stairway to Heaven
Free Bird. StH annoys the shit out of me. -
Marilyn Monroe or Helen of Troy
Helen -
Albert Einstein or Stephen Hawking
Einstein. -
1964 or 1968
1964 Before the acid ate them up. -
Tokyo or Bejing
Tokyo -
Cairo or Addis Ababa
Cairo You ain’t lived until you’ve bribed a guard to let you climb to the top of the great pyramid. -
Mensa or Masons
Mensa I rejected the Masons when the ‘Worshipful Master’ told me that the women cooked and came in to clean up after meetings. -
Standard time or daylight savings time
Standard -
Pipes or cigars
Pipes if forced to choose. The tobacco smells better. -
Rum or Bourbon
Rum. Smoother and mixes better, in my experience. -
Southern fried chicken or Yankee pot roast
Southern friend chicken -
Gone with the Wind or Wizard of Oz
Wizard of Oz -
“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 My country has to prove to me each day that it deserves my affection. Too often it fails. -
Discover a new comet or win the lottery
Comet
Bonus question: $500,000 now or $5,000,000 ten years from now.
Cash now. I’ve got a business to run, here.
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Canon in D or Minuet in G…** Canon in D**, but I not not a big fan of either.
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Free Bird or Stairway to Heaven…I love both, but **Stairway ** by far.
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Marilyn Monroe or Helen of Troy…Helen of Troy, Monroe is not really my type and Helen may or may not be.
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Albert Einstein or Stephen Hawking…Uncle Alby. The dude was so cool. No really, I greatly respect both, but Einstein has always been one of my heroes from a young age. This is not necessarily a rational choice for me.
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1964 or 1968…**1964 ** was before I was born, but it was when the Beatles arrived.
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Tokyo or Bejing…Tokyo.
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Cairo or Addis Ababa…Cairo, I would want to visit the pyramids someday so this is the better jumping off point.
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Mensa or Masons…Stonecutters!, I mean Masons, actually neither.
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Standard time or daylight savings time…**DST ** = more light after work hours.
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Pipes or cigars…Neither
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Rum or Bourbon…Rum, I use to drink a lot of 151.
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Southern fried chicken or Yankee pot roast…Yankee pot roast is a food I really enjoy.
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Gone with the Wind or Wizard of Oz…Wizard of Oz is a movie I still enjoy and enjoy watching with my kids.
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“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)…**Kennedy’s ** as Jefferson’s was nothing he lived up to. Just ask his slaves.
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Discover a new comet or win the lottery…Win the Lottery.
Bonus question: $500,000 now or 5,000,000 ten years from now....5,000,000 in ten year, should = early retirement. I do not believe I could turn $500,000 into $5,000,000 in only ten years.
Jim
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.
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Canon in D or Minuet in G - Minuet in G. I know that one!
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Free Bird or Stairway to Heaven - Stairway to Heaven. I know that one too!
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Marilyn Monroe or Helen of Troy - Helen of Troy. I’m fascinated by that historical period.
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Albert Einstein or Stephen Hawking - Albert Einstein. I almost understand his theories.
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1964 or 1968 - 1968. I can remember it.
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Tokyo or Bejing - Tokyo. Japan is a much freer country.
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Cairo or Addis Ababa - So tough. I’ve always wanted to see the pyramids, but I do love saying Addis Ababa. I’ll go with Addis Ababa.
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Mensa or Masons - Mensa. The Masons have too many secrets.
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Standard time or daylight savings time - Daylight savings time. Because it’s summer.
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Pipes or cigars - Pipes. They smell better.
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Rum or Bourbon - Rum. I like rumballs.
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Southern fried chicken or Yankee pot roast - Yankee pot roast. It’s not as greasy.
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Gone with the Wind or Wizard of Oz - Wizard of Oz. For the music.
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“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) - “Ask not…” It’s a more compassionate quote.
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Discover a new comet or win the lottery - Lottery. Money over fame.
Bonus question: $500,000 now or $5,000,000 ten years from now - $5,000,000. I’m a very patient woman.
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Canon in D or Minuet in G - hey, it’s better than “here comes the bride”
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Free Bird or Stairway to Heaven - the ending of dances everywhere in the late 70’s/early 80s
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Marilyn Monroe or Helen of Troy - I like mythology.
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**Albert Einstein ** or Stephen Hawking
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1964 or 1968
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Tokyo or Beijing
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**Cairo ** or Addis Ababa
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Mensa or Masons - at least the puzzles/word games are amusing
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Standard time ** or daylight savings time - isn’t it daylight savinpg** time?
10.** Pipes ** or cigars - if it has to be one or the other for being forced into breathing second hand smoke, pipes usually smell better
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Rum or Bourbon- meh, neither really.
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Southern fried chicken or Yankee pot roast - n/a. I’m a vegetarian.
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Gone with the Wind or Wizard of Oz -
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"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 do, after all, come from the country of “peace, order and good government”
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Discover a new comet or** win the lottery ** -
Bonus question: $500,000 now or** $5,000,000 ten years from now.** - I can wait.