This is the final poll in a three part series. Feel free to participate even if you did not participate in either of the previous two. You may elect to make as many or as few selections as you like. Expounding on your selections would be greatly appreciated, but is not required.
After this poll has closed, I’ll evaluate the responses and post a new thread explaining what the poll was about and announcing the results. It’ll likely take a long time to tabulate everything, and I won’t want to do it in one sitting I’m sure. So it may be a couple weeks or more before I can finish.
(Note to the posters who posted after Poll II closed: I have included your responses.)
Thanks for participating.
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“Klaatu barada nikto” or “May the Force be with you”
Slim Elvis or Fat Elvis
A Whiter Shade of Pale or The Dark Side of the Moon
Don’t Tread On Me or One Nation Under God
“Waiter, there’s a fly in my soup!” or “Do you have Prince Albert in a can?”
Rule Britannia or Pomp and Circumstance
Bill Clinton or Jimmy Carter
Oxford or Cambridge
The Iliad or The Odyssey
“A thing must have an identity before it can exist” or “A thing must exist before it can have an identity”
Edgar Alan Poe or Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Even the inner and sensible intuition of our mind (as object of consciousness) which is represented as being determined by the succession of different states in time, is not the self proper, as it exists in itself — that is, is not the transcendental subject — but only an appearance that has been given to the sensibility of this, to us unknown, being.” (Kant)
or
“Something unknown is doing we don’t know what.” (Eddington)
Twenty minutes of bagpipes or Two minutes of stomach cramps
Judo or Karate
Bing Crosby or Patsy Cline
Mr. Burns or Mr. Spacely
Mahatma Gandhi or Nelson Mandela
Rice or Pasta
Lettuce tomato and mayonnaise or Chili mustard and slaw
Bonus Question: Which is more important — how or why?
“Klaatu barada nikto” or “May the Force be with you”
May the force be with you. Star Wars was so much more entertaining.
Slim Elvis or Fat Elvis
Slim Elvis. Better music.
A Whiter Shade of Pale or The Dark Side of the Moon
Whiter Shade of Pale… but I like both.
Don’t Tread On Me or One Nation Under God
Don’t Tread on Me
“Waiter, there’s a fly in my soup!” or “Do you have Prince Albert in a can?”
Fly in my soup
Hail Britannia or Pomp and Circumstance
Pomp and Circumstance
Bill Clinton or Jimmy Carter
Bill Clinton. He’s smarter.
Oxford or Cambridge
Oxford of course.
The Iliad or The Odyssey
Odyssey. Monsters are fun.
“A thing must have an identity before it can exist” or “A thing must exist before it can have an identity”
The second one. Vague memories of getting angry during semiotics class.
Edgar Alan Poe or Ralph Waldo Emerson
Edgar Alan Poe. So cute.
“Even the inner and sensible intuition of our mind (as object of consciousness) which is represented as being determined by the succession of different states in time, is not the self proper, as it exists in itself — that is, is not the transcendental subject — but only an appearance that has been given to the sensibility of this, to us unknown, being.” (Kant)
or
“Something unknown is doing we don’t know what.” (Eddington)
Second one. So much less pretentious.
Twenty minutes of bagpipes or Two minutes of stomach cramps
Bagpipes. I like bagpipes.
Judo or Karate
Karate, though I don’t really care.
Bing Crosby or Patsy Cline
Bing. Fewer Christian songs.
Mr. Burns or Mr. Spacely
Mr. Burns
Mahatma Gandhi or Nelson Mandela
Mandela… probably responsible for fewer deaths.
Rice or Pasta
Pasta.
Lettuce tomato and mayonnaise or Chili mustard and slaw
Lettuce tomato and mayonnaise.
Bonus Question: Which is more important — how or why?
How. Why makes my head hurt.
. “Klaatu barada nikto” or “May the Force be with you” - aaah childhood
Slim Elvis or Fat Elvis
A Whiter Shade of Pale or The Dark Side of the Moon
Don’t Tread On Me or One Nation Under God
"Waiter, there’s a fly in my soup!" or “Do you have Prince Albert in a can?”
Hail Britannia or Pomp and Circumstance - Did you mean Rule Brittania?
**Bill Clinton **or Jimmy Carter
Oxford or Cambridge
The Iliad or The Odyssey
“A thing must have an identity before it can exist” or "A thing must exist before it can have an identity"
Edgar Alan Poe or Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Even the inner and sensible intuition of our mind (as object of consciousness) which is represented as being determined by the succession of different states in time, is not the self proper, as it exists in itself — that is, is not the transcendental subject — but only an appearance that has been given to the sensibility of this, to us unknown, being.” (Kant)
or
"Something unknown is doing we don’t know what." (Eddington)
Twenty minutes of bagpipes or Two minutes of stomach cramps - bagpipes can be good
Judo or Karate
Bing Crosby or Patsy Cline
Mr. Burns or Mr. Spacely
Mahatma Gandhi or Nelson Mandela
Rice or Pasta
Lettuce tomato and mayonnaise or Chili mustard and slaw
Bonus Question: Which is more important — how or why?
Reply With Quote
"Klaatu barada nikto" or “May the Force be with you”
Piss on Lucas.
Slim Elvis or Fat Elvis
Gotta have the hips.
A Whiter Shade of Pale or The Dark Side of the Moon
I’ve worn out a dozen copies of this LP.
Don’t Tread On Me or One Nation Under God
Don’t tell me what to believe.
"Waiter, there’s a fly in my soup!" or “Do you have Prince Albert in a can?”
I respect Albert too much to make jokes about him.
Hail Britannia or Pomp and Circumstance
HB is majestic. P&C is boring.
Bill Clinton or Jimmy Carter
Blowjobs beats lust in the heart every time.
Oxford or Cambridge
Just because.
The Iliad or The Odyssey
More scenery.
"A thing must have an identity before it can exist" or “A thing must exist before it can have an identity”
Because.
Edgar Alan Poe or Ralph Waldo Emerson
If only for what he did that got him thrown out of West Point.
“Even the inner and sensible intuition of our mind (as object of consciousness) which is represented as being determined by the succession of different states in time, is not the self proper, as it exists in itself — that is, is not the transcendental subject — but only an appearance that has been given to the sensibility of this, to us unknown, being.” (Kant)
or
"Something unknown is doing we don’t know what." (Eddington)
Kant was an idiot.
Twenty minutes of bagpipes or Two minutes of stomach cramps
2 hours of bagpipes! I love the sound.
Judo or Karate
Defensive is better.
Bing Crosby or Patsy Cline
Der Bingle was a hack.
Mr. Burns or Mr. Spacely
More evil.
Mahatma Gandhi or Nelson Mandela
Not a bank robber.
Rice or Pasta
Better with tomato sauce
Lettuce tomato and mayonnaise or Chili mustard and slaw
Spicier is better.
Bonus Question: Which is more important — how or why?
“Klaatu barada nikto” or **“May the Force be with you”
** - nothing excel the sound of a lazergun
Slim Elvis or Fat Elvis - kitsch is fascinting
A Whiter Shade of Pale or **The Dark Side of the Moon
** - I must go with the flow here
Don’t Tread On Me or One Nation Under God - politics and religion is a volatile combination
"Waiter, there’s a fly in my soup!" or “Do you have Prince Albert in a can?” - my kind of soup I guess
Hail Britannia or Pomp and Circumstance - whats the difference, and isn’t it Rule Britannia?
Bill Clinton or Jimmy Carter - I prefer a sigar
Oxford or Cambridge - just because I know people from there
The Iliad or The Odyssey - the Illiad is not a boring read, but I must give Odyssevs a well earned toast for his adventures
"A thing must have an identity before it can exist" or “A thing must exist before it can have an identity” - I guess there are just as many nondescript fantasies in our imagination without their existence here and now :dubious:
Edgar Alan Poe or Ralph Waldo Emerson - or as Dart Wader so delicately put it “Join the dark side, Luke”
“Even the inner and sensible intuition of our mind (as object of consciousness) which is represented as being determined by the succession of different states in time, is not the self proper, as it exists in itself — that is, is not the transcendental subject — but only an appearance that has been given to the sensibility of this, to us unknown, being.” (Kant)
or
"Something unknown is doing we don’t know what." (Eddington) - keep it simple
Twenty minutes of bagpipes or Two minutes of stomach cramps - imagine bagpipes with helium
Judo or Karate - Ralph Macchio…
Bing Crosby or Patsy Cline - badabing badabom
Mr. Burns or Mr. Spacely - I don’t know the other one
Mahatma Gandhi or Nelson Mandela - more ooomph and global awareness
Rice or Pasta - I like rice better but can cook more with pasta
Lettuce tomato and mayonnaise or Chili mustard and slaw - I hate mayo
Bonus Question: Which is more important — how or why? - what’s the point of why doing it when how doing it gets you there
"Klaatu barada nikto" or “May the Force be with you”
Slim Elvis or Fat Elvis
A Whiter Shade of Pale or The Dark Side of the Moon
Don’t Tread On Me or One Nation Under God - neither, most emphatically
“Waiter, there’s a fly in my soup!” or "Do you have Prince Albert in a can?"
Hail Britannia or Pomp and Circumstance
Bill Clinton or Jimmy Carter
Oxford or Cambridge
The Iliad or The Odyssey
“A thing must have an identity before it can exist” or "A thing must exist before it can have an identity"
Edgar Alan Poe or Ralph Waldo Emerson
12.“Even the inner and sensible intuition of our mind (as object of consciousness) which is represented as being determined by the succession of different states in time, is not the self proper, as it exists in itself — that is, is not the transcendental subject — but only an appearance that has been given to the sensibility of this, to us unknown, being.” (Kant)
or
"Something unknown is doing we don’t know what." (Eddington)
Twenty minutes of bagpipes or Two minutes of stomach cramps - I like bagpipes, dammit.
Judo or Karate - neither
Bing Crosby or Patsy Cline
Mr. Burns or Mr. Spacely
Mahatma Gandhi or Nelson Mandela
Rice or Pasta
Lettuce tomato and mayonnaise or Chili mustard and slaw - never had chili mustard, but I’m sure I’d like it.
Bonus Question: Which is more important — how or why?
“Klaatu barada nikto” or “May the Force be with you”
Slim Elvis or Fat Elvis
A Whiter Shade of Pale or The Dark Side of the Moon
Lost my first out of family Trivial Pursuit game because of this song
Don’t Tread On Me or One Nation Under God
“Waiter, there’s a fly in my soup!” or “Do you have Prince Albert in a can?”
Rule Britannia or Pomp and Circumstance
Even though I played thousands of repetitions at graduations.
Bill Clinton or Jimmy Carter
Oxford or Cambridge
Meh. But I’ve never heard of Cambridge shoes
The Iliad or The Odyssey
“A thing must have an identity before it can exist” or “A thing must exist before it can have an identity”
Edgar Alan Poe or Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Even the inner and sensible intuition of our mind (as object of consciousness) which is represented as being determined by the succession of different states in time, is not the self proper, as it exists in itself — that is, is not the transcendental subject — but only an appearance that has been given to the sensibility of this, to us unknown, being.” (Kant)
or
“Something unknown is doing we don’t know what.” (Eddington)
Twenty minutes of bagpipes or Two minutes of stomach cramps
14.** Judo** or Karate
That Dunkin Donuts add made me hate the word “Karate hyyyyy-ah”
Bing Crosby or Patsy Cline
Mr. Burns or Mr. Spacely
**Mahatma Gandhi **or Nelson Mandela
Rice or Pasta
Lettuce tomato and mayonnaise or Chili mustard and slaw
Bonus Question: Which is more important — how or why?
"Klaatu barada nikto" or “May the Force be with you”
Slim Elvis or Fat Elvis
A Whiter Shade of Pale or The Dark Side of the Moon
Don’t Tread On Me or One Nation Under God (I’m an atheist.)
“Waiter, there’s a fly in my soup!” or “Do you have Prince Albert in a can?” (I have a can of Prince Albert at home.)
Rule Britannia or Pomp and Circumstance
Bill Clinton or Jimmy Carter
Oxford or Cambridge
The Iliad or The Odyssey (The themes are weightier in the Iliad, but the Odyssey is just plain fun.)
“A thing must have an identity before it can exist” or "A thing must exist before it can have an identity"
Edgar Alan Poe or Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Even the inner and sensible intuition of our mind (as object of consciousness) which is represented as being determined by the succession of different states in time, is not the self proper, as it exists in itself — that is, is not the transcendental subject — but only an appearance that has been given to the sensibility of this, to us unknown, being.” (Kant)
or
"Something unknown is doing we don’t know what." (Eddington)
Twenty minutes of bagpipes or Two minutes of stomach cramps (Bagpipes rock.)
Judo or Karate
Bing Crosby or Patsy Cline
Mr. Burns or Mr. Spacely
Mahatma Gandhi or Nelson Mandela
Rice or Pasta
Lettuce tomato and mayonnaise or Chili mustard and slaw
Bonus Question: Which is more important — how or why?
“Klaatu barada nikto” or "May the Force be with you"
Slim Elvis or Fat Elvis
A Whiter Shade of Pale or The Dark Side of the Moon
Don’t Tread On Me or One Nation Under God
"Waiter, there’s a fly in my soup!" or “Do you have Prince Albert in a can?”
Rule Britannia or Pomp and Circumstance
Bill Clinton or Jimmy Carter
**Oxford **or Cambridge
Oxford is where I am, and it is a fantastic place.
The Iliad or The Odyssey
I like the story and main character much more.
“A thing must have an identity before it can exist” or "A thing must exist before it can have an identity"
Edgar Alan Poe or Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inventor of the modern detective story
“Even the inner and sensible intuition of our mind (as object of consciousness) which is represented as being determined by the succession of different states in time, is not the self proper, as it exists in itself — that is, is not the transcendental subject — but only an appearance that has been given to the sensibility of this, to us unknown, being.” (Kant)
or
"Something unknown is doing we don’t know what." (Eddington)
Kant is, as usual, incomprehensible. I like the other quotation, it expresses our fundamental ignorance about much.
Twenty minutes of bagpipes or Two minutes of stomach cramps
Not an easy choice…
Judo or Karate
**Bing Crosby ** or Patsy Cline
Mr. Burns or Mr. Spacely
Mahatma Gandhi or Nelson Mandela
Rice or Pasta
Lettuce tomato and mayonnaise or Chili mustard and slaw
Bonus Question: Which is more important — how or why?
I investigate ‘why’.
"Klaatu barada nikto" or “May the Force be with you”
Slim Elvis or Fat Elvis
A Whiter Shade of Pale or The Dark Side of the Moon
Don’t Tread On Me or One Nation Under God
"Waiter, there’s a fly in my soup!" or “Do you have Prince Albert in a can?”
Rule Britannia or **Pomp and Circumstance
**
Bill Clinton or Jimmy Carter. Hard choice. Carter is the better man, Clinton the better President.
Oxford or Cambridge
The Iliad or The Odyssey
“A thing must have an identity before it can exist” or "A thing must exist before it can have an identity"
Edgar Alan Poe or Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Even the inner and sensible intuition of our mind (as object of consciousness) which is represented as being determined by the succession of different states in time, is not the self proper, as it exists in itself — that is, is not the transcendental subject — but only an appearance that has been given to the sensibility of this, to us unknown, being.” (Kant)
or
**
“Something unknown is doing we don’t know what.”** (Eddington)
**Twenty minutes of bagpipes **or Two minutes of stomach cramps. I actually like well-played bagpipes.
14.** Judo** or Karate
Bing Crosby or Patsy Cline
Mr. Burns or Mr. Spacely
Mahatma Gandhi or Nelson Mandela
Rice or Pasta
Lettuce tomato and mayonnaise or Chili mustard and slaw
**
Bonus Question: Which is more important — how** or why? IMO, motive matters far less often in real life than it does in murder mysteries.
“Klaatu barada nikto” or "May the Force be with you" Outside the context of the film, Kbn is meaningless.
**Slim Elvis ** or Fat Elvis
A Whiter Shade of Pale or The Dark Side of the Moon
**Don’t Tread On Me ** or One Nation Under God The Don’t Tread On Me flag is still a valid US flag, from before the “Betsy.” ONUG is mere chaff.
**“Waiter, there’s a fly in my soup!” ** or “Do you have Prince Albert in a can?”
**Rule Britannia ** or Pomp and Circumstance I never had to sit through a boring ceremony while Rule Britannia played.
**Bill Clinton ** or Jimmy Carter
Oxford or Cambridge A good solid shoe.
The Iliad or The Odyssey
“A thing must have an identity before it can exist” or "A thing must exist before it can have an identity"
**Edgar Alan Poe ** or Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Even …, being.” (Kant)
or
"Something unknown is doing we don’t know what." (Eddington) Kant never learned brevity.
13. **Twenty minutes of bagpipes ** or Two minutes of stomach cramps
Judo or Karate
Bing Crosby or Patsy Cline
**Mr. Burns ** or Mr. Spacely Spacely was a grouch. Mr. Burns is eeevil, and he likes it.
**Mahatma Gandhi ** or Nelson Mandela
Rice or Pasta Hard to choose.
**Lettuce tomato and mayonnaise ** or Chili mustard and slaw
Bonus Question: Which is more important — how or why?
The why often steers the how.
“Klaatu barada nikto” or “May the Force be with you” - You just can’t mess with the Force in all of it’s anecdotes and uses…
Slim Elvis or Fat Elvis - because he was in his purest form.
A Whiter Shade of Pale or The Dark Side of the Moon - the song and the literal translate so perfectly into an illusion of the unkown and those things that have yet to be discovered.
Don’t Tread On Me or One Nation Under God - I’m a pragmatist.
"Waiter, there’s a fly in my soup!" or “Do you have Prince Albert in a can?” - the latter is just plain wrong.
Rule Britannia or Pomp and Circumstance - I like Othello.
Bill Clinton or Jimmy Carter - don’t hang me.
Oxford or Cambridge - Repetitio est mater studiorum
The Iliad or The Odyssey - I like goats.
“A thing must have an identity before it can exist” or “A thing must exist before it can have an identity” - conjecture.
Edgar Alan Poe or Ralph Waldo Emerson - I don’t like the dark.
“Even the inner and sensible intuition of our mind (as object of consciousness) which is represented as being determined by the succession of different states in time, is not the self proper, as it exists in itself — that is, is not the transcendental subject — but only an appearance that has been given to the sensibility of this, to us unknown, being.” (Kant)
or
"Something unknown is doing we don’t know what." (Eddington) - my love.
Twenty minutes of bagpipes or Two minutes of stomach cramps - I’m a gaelic viking.
Judo or Karate - I like Pat Morita
Bing Crosby or Patsy Cline - dunno, gut feeling.
Mr. Burns or Mr. Spacely - never liked jetsons.
Mahatma Gandhi or Nelson Mandela - by long shot.
Rice or Pasta -again go with gut…
Lettuce tomato and mayonnaise or Chili mustard and slaw - I’ll have the slaw on the side.
Bonus Question: Which is more important — how or why? - always the why.
“Klaatu barada nikto” or “May the Force be with you” Klaata barada nikto.
Slim Elvis or Fat Elvis. Slim Elvis
A Whiter Shade of Pale or The Dark Side of the Moon. Dark Side of the Moon. But on;y because Syd Barrett used to be in the band.
Don’t Tread On Me or One Nation Under God. Don’t tread on me
“Waiter, there’s a fly in my soup!” or "Do you have Prince Albert in a can?"PA’s can.
Rule Britannia or Pomp and Circumstance. Definitly Rule Britannia.
Bill Clinton or Jimmy Carter. Jimmy Carter. Cliton was the better politician but Carter was the better man.
Oxford or Cambridge. Oxford. Oxford! I’d row for Oxford.
The Iliad or The Odyssey. The Odyssey
“A thing must have an identity before it can exist” or “A thing must exist before it can have an identity” I’m an existentialist. Existentence is what it’s all about. Even art that is concieved before it exists dosen’t have and identity till it exists.
Edgar Alan Poe or Ralph Waldo Emerson. Emerson
“Even the inner and sensible intuition of our mind (as object of consciousness) which is represented as being determined by the succession of different states in time, is not the self proper, as it exists in itself — that is, is not the transcendental subject — but only an appearance that has been given to the sensibility of this, to us unknown, being.” (Kant)
or
“Something unknown is doing we don’t know what.” (Eddington)
Eddington.
Twenty minutes of bagpipes or Two minutes of stomach cramps.
I have cramps at the moment. I’ll take the bagpipers.
Judo or Karate. Judo
Bing Crosby or Patsy Cline. Patsy Cline by a mile walked afer midnight.
Mr. Burns or Mr. Spacely. Mr Burnes.
Mahatma Gandhi or Nelson Mandela. Gandhi
Rice or Pasta. Errr…rice
Lettuce tomato and mayonnaise or Chili mustard and slaw. Mustard and slaw.
Bonus Question: Which is more important — how or why?
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