# Poll **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 21, 2007, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll/388853 "2007-01-21T17:39:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Improv\_Geek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b3f665/32.png) [@Improv\_Geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Improv_Geek)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2007, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll/388853/121 "2007-01-24T17:25:49Z")
1. Coke or **Pepsi** 2. Hillary or **Barack** 3. **New York City** or Los Angeles 4. Rome or **Paris** 5. Karl Marx or **Sigumnd Freud** 6. Arlene Francis or **Kitty Carlisle** 7. **PC** or Mac 8. Islam or **Christianity** 9. **Homer Simpson** or Hank Hill 10. **Electric Blue and Black** or Hot Pink and Lemon Yellow 11. Elton John or **Billy Joel** 12. Eric Clapton or **Jimmy Hendrix** 13. **Heinz** or Hunts 14. Silver Cloud or **Bentley** 15. **Queen Elizabeth** or King Gustaf 16. Charlotte or **Atlanta** 17. **Birthday Party** or Baby Shower 18. Cat or **Dog** 19. **Butts** or Breasts (for straight men and lesbians) 20. Packages or Pecs (for straight women and gay men) Bonus: You’re to be given something and you don’t know what it will be until after you’ve made your decision — \*\*1 \*\* or 1,000,000 ---
**Author:** ![Severiane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e480ec/32.png) [@Severiane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Severiane)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2007, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll/388853/122 "2007-01-24T18:12:15Z")
[QUOTE=Liberal] Please select one from each pair. It’s for general prefences. I realize that sometimes you might prefer lemonade and other times iced tea or whatever, but consider the choices to be along the lines of you can have one but not both in any given circumstance. It would be great if you would explain why. Answer as many or as few as you like. Thanks for participating. 1. **Coke** or Pepsi (coz I like Blak Coke) 2. **New York City** or Los Angeles (I’ve been in each city and really really prefered NY City.. Los Angeles was too flat and lots of highways and cars..) 3. **Rome** or Paris (some years ago it would have been Paris, but now I live in Paris - been here since year 2000 - and I’m getting used to it, and I’ve been to Rome recently, just one time, so I’m not yet bored about it) 4. Karl Marx or **Sigumnd Freud** 5. **PC** or Mac (coz that’s what I have) 6. Islam or **Christianity** (my culture, even if I don’t believe in God) 7. \*\*Electric Blue and Black \*\* or Hot Pink and Lemon Yellow 8. \*\*Eric Clapton \*\* or Jimmy Hendrix (I like both of them, but I don’t know all of their songs, so, with the ones I know I would say Eric Clapton - Cocaine, Layla..) 9. \*\*Birthday Party \*\* or Baby Shower (don’t know the second one but I don’t have any baby and I like to celebrate my birthday with a nice lunch at the restaurant ; and I like Nick Cave, too !) 10. **Cat** or Dog (hard to chose, I like both, but.. maybe a little preference) 11. Butts or **Breasts** (for straight men and lesbians) I consider myself as bisexual, and for women I prefer breasts.. I don’t like big breasts, but pretty breasts, yes, I look at them.. 12. Packages or Pecs (for straight women and gay men) : for this question you will have to help me, I don’t know what’s Packages, I suppose it’s the same than Butts for women ? Bonus: You’re to be given something and you don’t know what it will be until after you’ve made your decision — 1 [/QUOTE] (I have to enter at least 2 more characters !) ---
**Author:** ![divemaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/divemaster/32/78_2.png) [@divemaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/divemaster)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2007, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll/388853/123 "2007-01-24T18:19:28Z")
1. Coke or Pepsi: **Coke** (Well, Diet Coke actually) 90% of my coke drinking is from fountain taps, where I much prefer Diet Coke. When bringing stuff home from the store, I buy whatever is on sale. I do try to track down Tab, though. Am I the only person who still loves this '70s holdover? 2. Hillary or Barack: I can’t envision myself ever voting for a Democrat, but given these, I’d have to go with **Barack**. I heard him give a speech which prominently featured many references to Jesus Christ and his faith. I respect that. 3. New York City or Los Angeles: **LA** , I guess, though I’m partial to the suburban lifestyle. 4. Rome or Paris: Again; two bad choices. \*\*Rome \*\* wins b/c it’s not full of French people. 5. Karl Marx or Sigumnd Freud: Marxism is responsible for untold human misery; so go with **Freud**. 6. Arlene Francis or Kitty Carlisle. I have no idea who these people are. 7. PC or Mac. **PC** 8. Islam or Christianity. **Christianity** 9. Homer Simpson or Hank Hill. **Hank Hill** 10. Electric Blue and Black or Hot Pink and Lemon Yellow. This is just a color preference, and not some weird band scene? If so, go with **blue and black**. 11. Elton John or Billy Joel. \*\*Joel \*\* by a nose. I like both 12. Eric Clapton or Jimmy Hendrix. **Clapton**. 13. Heinz or Hunts. No preference. Ketchup is ketchup 14. Silver Cloud or Bentley. No preference. Not into the high end car scene. 15. Queen Elizabeth or King Gustaf. No preference. No interest in European royalty 16. Charlotte or Atlanta. **Charlotte**. 17. Birthday Party or Baby Shower. **Birthday party**. 18. Cat or Dog. **CAT**. Probably the strongest preference on this list. I love cats and \*really \* do not like dogs. 19. Butts or Breasts (for straight men and lesbians). **Breasts** , (but it’s all good!). Not the typical “bigger is better” though. smallish and natural \> fake 20. Packages or Pecs (for straight women and gay men). N/A Bonus: You’re to be given something and you don’t know what it will be until after you’ve made your decision — **1** or 1,000,000. Who needs 1,000,000 of anything? ---
**Author:** ![StuffLikeThatThere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc8723/32.png) [@StuffLikeThatThere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StuffLikeThatThere)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2007, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll/388853/124 "2007-01-24T20:21:35Z")
[QUOTE=divemaster] I do try to track down Tab, though. Am I the only person who still loves this '70s holdover? [/QUOTE] Nope. The first time Mr. Stuff saw this stuff in the grocery store, I thought he was going to wet himself with excitement. We don’t drink much soda, but I bring that home for him as a special treat sometimes. Frankly, it tastes pretty nasty to me, but whatever blows your skirt up … ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2007, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll/388853/125 "2007-01-24T20:39:48Z")
1. Coke or **Pepsi** 2. **Hillary** or Barack 3. **New York City** or Los Angeles 4. Rome or **Paris** 5. **Karl Marx** or Sigumnd Freud 6. Arlene Francis or Kitty Carlisle (who? and who?) 7. PC or **Mac** 8. Islam or Christianity [theology: _Islam_; practice: _Christianity_] 9. Homer Simpson or **Hank Hill** 10. **Electric Blue and Black** or Hot Pink and Lemon Yellow 11. **Elton John** or Billy Joel 12. Eric Clapton or **Jimmy Hendrix** 13. Heinz or Hunts (?? catsup ?? I don’t do catsup) 14. Silver Cloud or **Bentley** 15. **Queen Elizabeth** or King Gustaf 16. Charlotte or **Atlanta** 17. **Birthday Party** or Baby Shower 18. **Cat** or Dog 19. **Butts** or Breasts (for straight men and lesbians) (with some major bodily features ranked higher than either, btw) 20. Packages or Pecs (for straight women and gay men) Bonus: You’re to be given something and you don’t know what it will be until after you’ve made your decision — **1** or 1,000,000 ---
**Author:** ![mrklutz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ebca7d/32.png) [@mrklutz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrklutz)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2007, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll/388853/126 "2007-01-24T22:15:16Z")
1. **Coke** or Pepsi 2. Hillary or **Barack** 3. **New York City** or Los Angeles 4. **Rome** or Paris 5. Karl Marx or **Sigumnd Freud** 6. Arlene Francis or **Kitty Carlisle** 7. **PC** or Mac 8. Islam or Christianity **neither** , thanks 9. Homer Simpson or **Hank Hill** 10. **Electric Blue and Black** or Hot Pink and Lemon Yellow 11. Elton John or **Billy Joel** 12. Eric Clapton or **Jimi Hendrix** 13. **Heinz** or Hunts 14. **Silver Cloud** or Bentley 15. Queen Elizabeth or **King Gustaf** 16. **Charlotte** or Atlanta 17. **Birthday Party** or Baby Shower 18. Cat or **Dog** 19. **Butts** or Breasts (for straight men and lesbians) 20. Packages or Pecs (for straight women and gay men) Bonus: You’re to be given something and you don’t know what it will be until after you’ve made your decision — 1 or **1,000,000** ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2007, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll/388853/127 "2007-01-24T22:19:56Z")
[QUOTE=Severiane] 20. Packages or Pecs (for straight women and gay men) : for this question you will have to help me, I don’t know what’s Packages, I suppose it’s the same than Butts for women ? [/QUOTE] My understanding is that a man’s package is the bulge in his crotch. I sure hope I’m right. It’s not something I care to google. In any case, that’s how I’m using the term. If anyone wishes to change their choice accordingly, please feel free. ---
**Author:** ![Severiane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e480ec/32.png) [@Severiane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Severiane)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2007, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll/388853/128 "2007-01-25T07:56:25Z")
[QUOTE=Liberal] My understanding is that a man’s package is the bulge in his crotch. I sure hope I’m right. It’s not something I care to google. In any case, that’s how I’m using the term. If anyone wishes to change their choice accordingly, please feel free. [/QUOTE] Well, I’m sure u know what u’re talking about and that it’s a common word, I’m not American or English, so there are some slang words I don’t understand.. ☹ So I’ll choose **Pecs** , even if I’m not very impressed by them.. I first look at men’s hair. I’m a fetishist of some kind.. ---
**Author:** ![Coil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Coil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coil)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2007, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll/388853/129 "2007-01-25T09:07:53Z")
1. Coke 2. Hillary 3. New York City 4. Paris 5. Neither 6. Who are they? 7. PC 8. Neither 9. Homer Simpson 10. Electric Blue and Black 11. Billy Joel 12. Jimmy Hendrix 13. Heinz 14. Silver Cloud 15. King Gustaf (Do you mean King Carl Gustav of Sweden?) 16. Atlanta 17. Birthday Party 18. Cat 19. Breasts Bonus: 1,000,000 ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2007, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll/388853/130 "2007-01-25T10:48:44Z")
[QUOTE=Coil] (Do you mean King Carl Gustav of Sweden?) [/QUOTE] Yes. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2007, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll/388853/131 "2007-01-25T12:25:58Z")
Bolded my choices 1. **Coke** or Pepsi 2. **Hillary** or Barack 3. **New York City** or Los Angeles 4. Rome or **Paris** 5. **Karl Marx** or Sigumnd Freud 6. Arlene Francis or Kitty Carlisle 7. **PC** or Mac 8. Islam or Christianity 9. **Homer Simpson** or Hank Hill 10. **Electric Blue and Black** or Hot Pink and Lemon Yellow 11. Elton John or **Billy Joel** 12. Eric Clapton or **Jimmy Hendrix** 13. **Heinz** or Hunts 14. **Silver Cloud** or Bentley 15. **Queen Elizabeth** or King Gustaf 16. Charlotte or Atlanta 17. **Birthday Party** or Baby Shower 18. **Cat** or Dog 19. **Butts** or Breasts (for straight men and lesbians) 20. **Packages** or Pecs (for straight women and gay men) Bonus: You’re to be given something and you don’t know what it will be until after you’ve made your decision — 1 or **1,000,000** ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2007, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll/388853/132 "2007-01-25T13:01:42Z")
1. Coke or Pepsi Pepsi, definitely. Coke is too… I dunno. Unsophisticated, or something. 2. Hillary or Barack I know relatively little of US politics, but tentatively Barack. 3. New York City or Los Angeles LA. Climate, baby! 4. Rome or Paris Paris. I have never been to Rome, but would still like to go. 5. Karl Marx or Sigumnd Freud Marx. Freud was embarassingly-obsessed with sex. 6. Arlene Francis or Kitty Carlisle No idea who these are. No choice. 7. PC or Mac Mac. Yes, I use a PC at home, but I like good design, and if I was buying a new machine, I’d get a Mac. 8. Islam or Christianity As a Pagan, I’m not terribly enthusiastic about either of them. For me, it’s a choice of which religion do I dislike the least, so… Christianity. Even though I am aware of the beauties that many flavours of Islam have. But they’re very close, and it’s essentially a toss-up. If the question has dealt with specific flavours of Islam and Christianity, that would be different: I loathe the authoritarian sects and can get along with the liberal sects of both religions. 9. Homer Simpson or Hank Hill Homer Simpson 10. Electric Blue and Black or Hot Pink and Lemon Yellow I like both of these. But if I had to choose… blue and black. 11. Elton John or Billy Joel Elton John. No contest, even though Elton did that crappy “Nikita” song, his 1970’s work such as “Funeral for a Friend” puts him into the lead. 12. Eric Clapton or Jimmy Hendrix Jimmy Hendrix. Again, no contest; Clapton’s song “Cocaine” puts him out of the running. 13. Heinz or Hunts Heinz. No strong preference. 14. Silver Cloud or Bentley Bentley, definitely. I may be rich, but I still want to drive myself. 15. Queen Elizabeth or King Gustaf King Gustaf. You mean Queen Elizabeth the First and King Gustaf Adolphus of around the same time period, of course. 16. Charlotte or Atlanta Charlotte, simply because I get the impression that Atlanta has too much unintelligent sprawl. 17. Birthday Party or Baby Shower Birthday party. 18. Cat or Dog Cat, definitely. Dogs are too servile. 19. Butts or Breasts (for straight men and lesbians) Breasts, oh yes definitely. 🙂 Bonus: You’re to be given something and you don’t know what it will be until after you’ve made your decision — 1 or 1,000,000 One. But it better be a damn good one. ---
**Author:** ![Walkabout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/46a35a/32.png) [@Walkabout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walkabout)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2007, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll/388853/133 "2007-01-25T14:15:30Z")
1. **Coke** or Pepsi - I drink diet Coke. 2. Hillary or **Barack** - I don’t trust Hillary. 3. **New York City** or Los Angeles - I’ve been to LA and I don’t want to go back 4. **Rome** or Paris - Rome is full of all that cool old stuff. 5. Karl Marx or Sigumnd Freud - no opinion 6. Arlene Francis or **Kitty Carlisle** - only because her name is “Kitty” 7. **PC** or Mac - PC’s seem more useful 8. **Islam** or Christianity - I’m neither, but Islam makes more sense to me that the whole Trinity, died for your sins thing. 9. Homer Simpson or **Hank Hill** - I don’t watch either of them, but I know I don’t like Homer. 10. **Electric Blue and Black** or Hot Pink and Lemon Yellow - Blue is better than pink 11. Elton John or **Billy Joel** - definitely love the Stranger 12. **Eric Clapton** or Jimmy Hendrix - I like Unplugged 13. **Heinz** or Hunts - it’s a 'Burgh thing 14. Silver Cloud or **Bentley** - Bentley just sounds classier 15. **Queen Elizabeth** or King Gustaf - I don’t know Gustaf 16. **Charlotte** or Atlanta 17. **Birthday Party** or Baby Shower - The only babies I liked were my own, and I’m done with that phase. 18. **Cat** or Dog - I have cats and I’m a little scared of dogs. And dogs are too smelly and messy. 19. Butts or Breasts (for straight men and lesbians) 20. Packages or **Pecs** (for straight women and gay men) Bonus: You’re to be given something and you don’t know what it will be until after you’ve made your decision — \*\*1 \*\* or 1,000,000 - A million could be too many, but you’re still ahead with one. ---
**Author:** ![Pabitel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bbce88/32.png) [@Pabitel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pabitel)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2007, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll/388853/134 "2007-01-25T16:26:06Z")
1. Coke 2. Barack 3. ??? - I don’t even understand this question. - LA I guess just cause its alphbetical 4. Rome 5. Karl Marx 6. Arlene Francis 7. PC 8. Islam 9. Homer Simpson 10. Electric Blue and Black 11. Billy Joel 12. Eric Clapton 13. Heinz 14. Bentley 15. King Gustaf 16. Charlotte (the spider) 17. Baby Shower 18. Cat 19. Butts 20. N/A Bonus: 1 ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2007, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll/388853/135 "2007-01-25T16:42:57Z")
[QUOTE=Pábitel] 16. Charlotte (the spider) [/QUOTE] I don’t know you well enough to know whether that’s an answer with a humorous toss-off or just a plain no answer. 🙂 I’ll treat it as the latter unless you respond differently. Thanks for participating! ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2007, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll/388853/136 "2007-01-25T17:54:54Z")
1. Coke 2. Barack (only because I have an unreasonable hatred for Hillary) 3. New York City 4. Rome 5. Sigumnd Freud 6. Kitty Carlisle 7. PC 8. Christianity 9. Homer Simpson 10. Electric Blue and Black 11. Billy Joel 12. Eric Clapton 13. Heinz 14. Silver Cloud 15. Queen Elizabeth 16. Charlotte 17. Birthday Party 18. Dog 19. Butts Bonus: You’re to be given something and you don’t know what it will be until after you’ve made your decision — 1 or 1,000,000. 1,000,000. ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2007, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll/388853/137 "2007-01-25T19:12:10Z")
[QUOTE=Pábitel] 1 3. ??? - I don’t even understand this question. - LA I guess just cause its alphbetical 4. Rome [/QUOTE] How is 3 not understanable, but 4 is answerable ? I’m confuzzled. ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2007, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll/388853/138 "2007-01-25T19:19:49Z")
1. Pepsi - Best non-alcoholic drink ever invented 2. Barack - Hillary seems too fake 3. New York City 4. Paris 5. Karl Marx 6. Arlene Francis or Kitty Carlisle - no idea 7. Mac 8. Christianity - I like Christ’s messages, very Gandhi-like 9. Homer Simpson 10. Electric Blue and Black 11. Elton John 12. Eric Clapton 13. Heinz 14. Bentley 15. King Gustaf 16. Atlanta 17. Birthday Party 18. Dog 19. Butts 20. Packages or Pecs (for straight women and gay men) Bonus: You’re to be given something and you don’t know what it will be until after you’ve made your decision — 1 ---
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2007, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll/388853/139 "2007-01-25T20:53:32Z")
1. Coke 2. Hillary 3. New York City 4. Rome 5. Sigmund Freud 6. (I don’t know who either of these people are) 7. PC 8. Christianity 9. Hank Hill 10. Electric Blue and Black 11. Elton John 12. Eric Clapton 13. Heinz 14. (?) 15. Queen Elizabeth 16. Atlanta 17. Birthday Party 18. Cat 19. Butts 20. N/A (straight male) I’d rather take one of whatever it is, even if it’s good, than to risk getting a milion of something bad. ---
**Author:** ![Pabitel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bbce88/32.png) [@Pabitel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pabitel)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2007, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll/388853/140 "2007-01-25T21:20:40Z")
[QUOTE=Bippy the Beardless] How is 3 not understanable, but 4 is answerable ? I’m confuzzled. [/QUOTE] Paris and Rome are both ancient cities in different countries. Big difference. I see # 3 as having the same sort of choice as “Houston or Kansas City?” or “Scranton or Buffalo?” How would anyone who doesn’t live one place or the other have any idea? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll/388853.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll/388853.md?page=8)