Pepsi. I can’t gulg Diet Coke the way I can Diet Pepsi.
Hillary barf, because hopefully she’s past the idealist-change-everything stage, and because for whatever unfathomable reason, she’s not considered much of a liberal by liberals.
Not enough info to make a judgment–been in NYC only once.
Haven’t been to either Rome or Paris, not gonna judge.
Marx or Freud–wow–not sure–both arguably don’t work in reality, but both turned upside-down their respective fields. I’ll abstain as well here.
As much as I hate to say it, I’ll have to go with Mac here. Every Mac-hater, myself included, secretly wishes he/she could afford the biggest and best one, and a 32" Cinema to go with it.
I don’t know of a Christian nation that makes me wear a turban–for now.
Hank Hill.
Hot pink and lemon yellow are good highlighter colors.
Heinz only, please, because it’s what I’m accustomed to.
Charlotte, because it’s where my family lives.
I hate parties, but birthday party at least can be not an excuse to gouge your friends and families.
Cat, because they’re easier to take care of.
Packages. Pecs = boobs. ugh.
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
I figure said given something has a relationship to that decision, possibly as a quantity or as a measurement.
The obvious hope, 1,000,000 dollars, is not going to be bloody likely, so I figure there’s less chance of paying taxes or actually having space for said item if I choose “1”. So, “1” it is.
Rome or Paris. However, I’ve never actually been to Rome.
Karl Marx or Sigmund Freud–Neither.
Arlene Francis or Kitty Carlisle. Only because I saw her at the museum where I used to work. She was pushing 90 at the time, and she was rocking 3.5 inch high heels. If I make it to that age, I want to be a geriatric glamour girl, too.
PC or Mac
Islam or Christianity–Neither
Homer Simpson or Hank Hill
Electric Blue and Black or Hot Pink and Lemon Yellow
11.** Elton John** or Billy Joel
Eric Clapton or Jimmy Hendrix
Heinz or Hunts
Silver Cloud or Bentley
Queen Elizabeth or King Gustaf
Charlotte or Atlanta–Never been to either.
Birthday Party or Baby Shower
Cat or Dog
Butts or Breasts (for straight men and lesbians)
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. One is the safe choice, but what the hell.
Coke or Pepsi: Coke. Stronger flavor, more of a jolt in the morning. (a replacement for coffee).
Hillary or Barack: Hillary, if you put a gun to my head. At least in hubby’s case, running the country through advisors, polls and focus groups works fairly well.
New York City or Los Angeles: New York City. A world class city, lots to do.
Rome or Paris: Rome. A more interesting history.
Karl Marx or Sigumnd Freud: Freud. Two largely discredited theories, but Freud has done less harm overall.
Arlene Francis or Kitty Carlisle. Kitty Carlisle. Seen her on the Game Show channel a few times. Seems nice.
PC or Mac. PC. Cheap upgrades, more software.
Islam or Christianity. Christianity
Homer Simpson or Hank Hill. Homer is more “extreme”. What little I’ve seen of Hank, he seems very melancholy.
Electric Blue and Black or Hot Pink and Lemon Yellow. Electric Blue and Black. The alternative hurts my eyes.
Elton John or Billy Joel. Elton John.
Eric Clapton or Jimmy Hendrix. Jimmy Hendrix. Eric’s music can at times be tedious and boring.
Heinz or Hunts. Heinz
Silver Cloud or Bentley. The Bentley just looks nicer to me.
Queen Elizabeth or King Gustaf King Gustaf, being Swedish myself.
Charlotte or Atlanta. Charlotte, based only on 3rd hand accounts.
Birthday Party or Baby Shower** Birthday Party**.
Cat or Dog Cat. I just think they’re funnier.
Butts or Breasts (for straight men and lesbians) Boobies
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 **1,000,000 ** just seems like the obvious answer.
New York, being a proud New Yorker and now a resident of Northern Cali.
Paris, never having been to Rome.
Sigmund. His followers killed fewer people.
Kitty. She always seemed a bit smarter.
PC. When I’ve tried Macs, they seemed unintuitive. Much prefer Unix.
Barf.
Homer.
Yellow. My favorite color.
Elton John.
Clapton. I’m a Cream fan from way back. When I listened to Are You Experienced for the first time in a while I was suprisingly unimpressed. It hadn’t aged well.
Nothing better than Heinz. The New Yorker had an article explaining why no one trying to unseat Heinz ketchup has or will succeed.
Silver Cloud.
Liz.
Charlotte. I was in Charlotte for a conference two years running. The only time I’ve been in Atlanta was at the airport, which is no great advertisement for it.
Birthday Party.
Dog. There are no guide cats.
Breasts.
1 out of caution. A million of something is a lot.
Electric Blue and Black or Hot Pink and Lemon Yellow Electric Blue and Black
Elton John or Billy Joel ** Billy Joel**
Eric Clapton or Jimmy Hendrix Clapton
Heinz or Hunts Heinz
Silver Cloud or Bentley ** Bentley** (with chauffeur, please)
Queen Elizabeth or King Gustaf Queen Elizabeth
Charlotte or Atlanta NYC eh, Atlanta
Birthday Party or Baby Shower Birthday Party
Cat or Dog Cat
Butts or Breasts (for straight men and lesbians) see below
Packages or Pecs (for straight women and gay men) Pecs
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. If it’s something good, it’s one more of it than I had before. If it’s something unpleasant, then I only have 1 of it to deal with.
Coke or Pepsi Coke. Pepsi has an exclusive deal on campus, and I have a mandatory meal plan. Result: I’ve confirmed that I hate Pepsi. Also, PepsiCo. fired my uncle for no good reason when he was about 40.
Hillary or Barack Barack, and it’s not even close. He’ll soon be the first politician I’ve ever given money to.
New York City or Los Angeles L.A., I guess. I’ve never been to LA, and I’ve only been to NYC for about 6 hours to visit Columbia. I hated Columbia, so L.A. by default.
Rome or Paris Paris, although I’ve never been to Europe.
Karl Marx or Sigumnd Freud Freud. Marx founded Communism. Communism is bad. Marx is bad.
Arlene Francis or Kitty Carlisle
I don’t know who these people are.
PC or Mac PC. Macs are fine machines, but they’re dying.
Islam or Christianity
I am a Christian.
Homer Simpson or Hank Hill Hank Hill. I love the clean taste of a steak grilled over clean-burning propane.
Electric Blue and Black or Hot Pink and Lemon Yellow
I don’t know what these are.
Elton John or Billy Joel Elton. I really like “Candle in the Wind.” But don’t tell anyone I said that.
Eric Clapton or Jimmy Hendrix Jimi. And I shouldn’t have to explain why.
Heinz or Hunts Heinz, but I normally buy Hunt’s as it is cheaper.
Silver Cloud or Bentley Bentley. But my real choice is the Aston Martin DB5.
Queen Elizabeth or King Gustaf Elizabeth. You Brits got a queen who knows how to queen.
Charlotte or Atlanta Atlanta. The greatest city in the United States.
Birthday Party or Baby Shower Birthday Party. Baby Showers are the devil’s work.
Butts or Breasts (for straight men and lesbians) Breasts. I’m a guy, btw.
Packages or Pecs (for straight women and gay men)
I’m not gay.
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
Gimme a million. If it’s something that sucks, I can get rid of them. If it’s something awesome, I now have a million awesome things.
No problem. I’m just counting them as unanswered, but I wanted to let people know that. Same same if they say something like “Hinduism” for “Islam or Christianity”. That’s counted as no answer. There’s a reason things are paired the way they are, and that’ll become more clear in the second poll.
Edited to add…
Also, a heads up about this kind of reasoning: “if I take a million, I can just dump what I don’t want”. It could be a million lashes with a lead-weighted bullwhip. You might not be able to discard anything.
Coke or Pepsi. Coke because I take it for the kick and Coke kicks harder (promise); but I’ll take whatever’s on tap.
Hillary or Barack. Uh? Oh, politics. Hillary for gender reasons, I don’t think she’ll win but I like seeing people in jobs where their gender is uncommon (I love that my GP has a male nurse).
New York City or Los Angeles. LA just cos I visited it only once and didn’t get to see much. It’s not like you’re ever going to run out of NYC, but I knid of keep hoping that LA can offer something better than what I saw.
Rome or Paris. Rome. Better climate and I speak Italian better than French. If I cuss at a French in foreign, they just make “I don’t understand you” faces; if I cuss at an Italian in Spanish they cuss right back and we can get into a great yellfest It’s a cultural thing, don’t let it worry you.
Karl Marx or Sigmund Freud. Freud because AFAIK nobody has used his work as an excuse for murder.
Arlene Francis or Kitty Carlisle. Sorry, no idea who these are. I/O error. If this was one of those psychotests for jobs: the coin picked Arlene Francis.
PC or Mac. PC because of the price of both hard and software. I change laptops every two years, I’d rather not feel more guilty about that kind of expense than I already do.
Islam or Christianity. Christianity, cos it’s “us”.
Homer Simpson or Hank Hill. Homer cos I’ve never watched King of the Hill, I’m just guessing Hank must be from that series.
Electric Blue and Black or Hot Pink and Lemon Yellow. Sparkblue and Black, although depending on the ratios it could be as painful as the other.
Elton John or Billy Joel. BJ, not because of his initials but because I happen to like his music. I only like one EJ song.
Eric Clapton or Jimmy Hendrix. Not familiar enough with either to decide, roll die. Since the previous 2-sided-die rolled an A, here a B: Hendrix.
Heinz or Hunts. Heinz, because I’ve never had Hunts.
Silver Cloud or Bentley. Silver Cloud, just 'cos.
Queen Elizabeth or King Gustaf. Gustaf of where? Sorry, not very familiar with royals. Gustaf, just so you have to tell me of where!
Charlotte or Atlanta. Atlanta cos I know we have some Dopers in that area that I’d like to 'fest with.
Birthday Party or Baby Shower. Bday party cos the baby already arrived.
Cat or Dog. Cat, they’re less likely to slobber on me or throw me to the floor and stand on me (like this St Bernard used to do, his owner walked him in my college’s grounds).
Butts or Breasts (for straight men and lesbians)
Packages or Pecs (for straight women and gay men). Honey, sorry but I’m Basque: shoulders in general but nothing, nothing, nothing, beats a great pair of thighs, they just happen to be rarer than the shoulders. Since you’re limiting my options, pecs.
Coke or Pepsi It was the pop that my mother kept around our house, and it still tastes best to me.
Hillary or Barack I had my fill of Hillary a long time ago.
**New York City ** or Los Angeles I’m sorry to say I’ve never been to LA. I love New York.
Rome or Paris I’ve been to both; Rome by a mile for the food, the ruins, the countryside.
Karl Marx or Sigumnd Freud Both wrong, Freud was less harmful.
Arlene Francis or Kitty Carlisle
PC or Mac It’s what I’m used to.
Islam or Christianity I’m a believer.
**Homer Simpson ** or Hank Hill Mmmmm, doughnuts.
**Electric Blue and Black ** or Hot Pink and Lemon Yellow
**Elton John ** or Billy Joel The first few albums are still among my favorites.
Eric Clapton or Jimmy Hendrix The toughest choice. EC remains a guitar hero of mine, but All Along The Watchtower still gives me chills every time.
Heinz or Hunts
**Silver Cloud ** or Bentley I flipped a coin.
**Queen Elizabeth ** or King Gustaf I know who she is.
Charlotte or Atlanta My is headquartered there.
**Birthday Party ** or Baby Shower Baby shower? (shudder)
Cat or Dog I have both, it’s the cat by a whisker.
Butts or Breasts (for straight men and lesbians)
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 Perhaps I could sell some of them.
Coke. Partially because my great aunt used to work for them, and I felt a sense of loyalty. I just grew used to the taste since then. And yes, I took the Pepsi Challenge. I picked Coke.
Barack. Don’t know why.
Los Angeles, because it’s freakin’ freezin’ in the East right now. Ask me again in the summer.
Paris. Food, music, art.
Freud
Arlene Francis. Prettier smile.
PC.
Atheism. OK, Christianity, I suppose.
Homer Simpson. More of a heart, on occasion.
Electric Blue and Black.
Elton John.
Tough call! I’ll go with Eric. I’ve been a Cream fan lately.
Heinz, guess. More of a Don’t Care.
Bentley
Queen Elizabeth.
Atlanta. But the airport sucks.
Birthday Party. Chicks and booze. Maybe.
Cat. Low maintenance.
Tough call again, and depends on size/shape. In the event of a tie, I’m a boob, man.
n/a
Bonus: 1. I’d rather have 1 dollar than a million punches to the groin.
Coke or Pepsi - when I was a kid, I preferred Pepsi. Now I find I favor the more acidic flavored Coke.
Hillary or Barack - Probably Hillary, because (I think) Obama is younger and will have a later chance.
New York City or Los Angeles - NYC has more interesting things within a smaller area.
Rome or Paris - Never been to Rome, but I liked Paris. I’ve heard bad things about Rome (expensive, dirty, high crime).
Karl Marx or Sigumnd Freud - Marx, since afaik Freud has been completely discredite, whilst some of Marx’s concepts are still conceivable.
Arlene Francis or Kitty Carlisle - pass
PC or Mac - Mac.
Islam or Christianity - pass
Homer Simpson or Hank Hill - Homer
Electric Blue and Black or Hot Pink and Lemon Yellow - EB and Black.
Elton John or Billy Joel - Elton John has done more that I admired in the past, although both are clearly past their expiry date. (Or as one snarky comic once put it: Elton John & Billy Joel - the Ferrante and Teicher of our generation)
Eric Clapton or Jimi Hendrix - Hendrix
Heinz or Hunts - Heinz
Silver Cloud or Bentley - new, sleek Bentley.
Queen Elizabeth or King Gustaf - King Gustaf ( I have Scandinavian background, but minimal if any English)
Charlotte or Atlanta - Atlanta, more fun, less conservative (may be untrue, but that’s my bias).
Birthday Party or Baby Shower - Birthday
Cat or Dog - Dog (friendlier)
Butts or Breasts (for straight men and lesbians) - Butts.
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
eh, Atlanta
It’s a cultural thing, don’t let it worry you.