OK:
1. Coke or Pepsi
Regular Coke over regular Pepsi, but Diet Pepsi over Diet Coke. (I no longer drink non-diet soda.)
3. New York City or Los Angeles
NYC. I’ve lived here most of my life, it’s in my blood.
4. Rome or Paris
Paris. I spent two weeks in Paris and loved it, but have never been to Rome. It doesn’t hurt that I took three years of French.
5. Karl Marx or Sigumnd Freud
In what regard? I have studied the work of both, and consider both of their systems to be flawed. I’ll say that at least Marx’s rhetoric is better; Freud has never sounded convincing to me, while at my most idealistic I “caught the vibe” of Marxism (though even then, the rational and cynical part of me always knew things could never really work this way).
7. PC or Mac
I’m using a PC now, and have put them together from scratch, and have never used a Mac, so PC I guess.
8. Islam or Christianity
I am an atheist, but one with a lot of interest in human religion, and frankly I find Islam a heck of a lot more logically consistent. The hand-waving about the Trinity within a monotheistic framework, how Jesus could be born of Mary but still be eternal, the cannibalistic overtones of “eat, for this is my body; drink, for this is my blood” is just weird. Plus the canonical Scriptures were all written decades after Christ died and which to choose as canon was only decided (and even then not universally agreed upon) after hundreds of years.
On the other hand, the profession of faith for Islam (There is no God but the One God, and Muhammed is his Prophet) sets the framework up for the entire religion. And the Koran has no issues of translation or argument over canon – Muhammed wrote it down, in Arabic, exactly as it was dictated to him divinely in Arabic, and that’s that.
9. Homer Simpson or Hank Hill
Homer. I quote Homer Simpson all the time. Although I do like the show King of the Hill, I cannot ever recall quoting Hank Hill.
10. Electric Blue and Black or Hot Pink and Lemon Yellow
Blue and black are way cool together. Pink and yellow are… poofy? (Can I say that on the SDMB?)
11. Elton John or Billy Joel
I’ll take good ol’ BJ any day.
12. Eric Clapton or Jimmy Hendrix
Assuming you mean “Jimi”, it’s Jimi. Clapton is fine but IMHO, nothing he’s done can touch the sublime end-to-end perfection of Electric Ladyland.
13. Heinz or Hunts
Heinz, mostly out of brand loyalty as I never see Hunts in use anywhere.
18. Cat or Dog
I’m definitely a cat person. I like dogs too but in terms of owning/keeping one, cats are far lower maintenance and that’s the way I likes it.
19. Butts or Breasts (for straight men and lesbians)
Breasts. To paraphrase Seinfeld, I have a butt myself, you know…
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
Meaning, it might be 1 vs. 1MM lbs. of goat dung instead of dollars? Logic dictates taking 1MM of whatever it is… I can always jettison 999,999 of whatever I don’t want (or the whole 1MM), but not so easy to leverage up 1 to 1MM if it’s something I do want, right?
Seriously, I’d acquired a dislike of Macs back when they first came out, and since then, haven’t seen any real reason to change.