# What can the SDMB agree on? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [December 4, 2015, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-the-sdmb-agree-on/739459 "2015-12-04T23:06:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2015, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-the-sdmb-agree-on/739459/21 "2015-12-05T00:24:05Z")
> [@andros](#): > > I’d go with Betty. But I’d be thinking about Wilma. Veronica for moi’. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2015, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-the-sdmb-agree-on/739459/22 "2015-12-05T00:28:07Z")
General knowledge is good. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2015, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-the-sdmb-agree-on/739459/23 "2015-12-05T01:00:55Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > I once started a thread asking people who was better; Bugs Bunny or Mickey Mouse? And everyone who responded voted for Bugs Bunny. How is that even a question? Comparing Bugs Bunny to Mickey Mouse is like comparing the works of Shakespeare to a comic book. Bugs Bunny, Yosemite Sam, Foghorn Leghorn, and even the lesser Pepe Le Pew are some of finest characters ever created in all of literature. Even the secondary storylines like Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner are rich in symbolism. Coyote and Road Runner inhabit a dystopian world that is all the darker because of the superficial cheerfulness in which the futility of their existence plays out. The Road Runner’s life seems secure and serene, free of any real threat, yet is ultimately without meaning, his plaintive “meep meep!” a cry of existentialist despair. The Coyote, meanwhile, exemplifies the futility of life, his relentless determination and misplaced optimism all the more tragic in the context of his hopeless existence. The Acme Corporation in which Coyote places all his trust is, of course, a cautionary tale for those who look to technology for transcendent salvation, the constant failures of its products an object lesson in the hubris of capitalist enterprise. I think we can all agree on this. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2015, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-the-sdmb-agree-on/739459/24 "2015-12-05T01:09:32Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > How is that even a question? Comparing Bugs Bunny to Mickey Mouse is like comparing the works of Shakespeare to a comic book. Each is the flagship character in their animated pantheon. So there’s valid grounds for comparing them. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2015, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-the-sdmb-agree-on/739459/25 "2015-12-05T01:13:03Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > How is that even a question? Comparing Bugs Bunny to Mickey Mouse is like comparing the works of Shakespeare to a comic book. . . . On the other hand, if that comic book is a Carl Barks or Don Rosa “Uncle Scrooge” title, I’d hold it to be better than anything with Bugs Bunny in it at all, ever. (Okay, “The Rabbit of Seville” comes close…) (I actually know of a friendship that disintegrated, ostensibly over Carl Barks vs. Don Rosa.) ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2015, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-the-sdmb-agree-on/739459/26 "2015-12-05T01:21:53Z")
[Group Think = BAD](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupthink) (Shhhh…! Don’t Tell Stoneburg…!) 😉 ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2015, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-the-sdmb-agree-on/739459/27 "2015-12-05T01:49:10Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > On the other hand, if that comic book is a Carl Barks or Don Rosa “Uncle Scrooge” title, I’d hold it to be better than anything with Bugs Bunny in it at all, ever. Ah, but could you construct a college-level course on any of those works like you can with Bugs Bunny … 😉 For instance I’d have no trouble putting together course material for topics like: An Interpretive Study of the Art and Symbolism in Bugs Bunny Bugs Bunny: Rethinking the American Cinematic Masterpiece Bugs Bunny and the Transformation of 20th Century America Kierkegaardian Existentialism in Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner Indeed just the theme song from the latter is so profoundly moving that it can drive one to tears: Road Runner, the coyote’s after you. Road Runner, if he catches you you’re through. That coyote is really a crazy clown, When will he learn that he never can mow him down? Poor little Road Runner never bothers anyone, Just runnin’ down the road’s his idea of having fun. ---
**Author:** ![Shoujin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoujin/32/3884_2.png) [@Shoujin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoujin)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2015, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-the-sdmb-agree-on/739459/28 "2015-12-05T02:12:53Z")
Can we agree that Ridley Scott’s “Prometheus” was a letdown? I’m still trying to get over it. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2015, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-the-sdmb-agree-on/739459/29 "2015-12-05T02:16:34Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > Ah, but could you construct a college-level course on any of those works like you can with Bugs Bunny … 😉 Given a really good selection of Carl Barks and Don Rosa comics…yeah! Most of what I’d use them to teach would be drawing and scripting, but there’s some philosophical meat on those bones… I know a guy who teaches a “Popular Culture” class, which sounds so damn easy (I know it isn’t, but it sure sounds like pure graft!) I’ll ask him! ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2015, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-the-sdmb-agree-on/739459/30 "2015-12-05T02:56:32Z")
Bacon? ---
**Author:** ![Klaatu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Klaatu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Klaatu)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2015, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-the-sdmb-agree-on/739459/31 "2015-12-05T03:04:07Z")
foreskins? ---
**Author:** ![HelenGawn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@HelenGawn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelenGawn)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2015, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-the-sdmb-agree-on/739459/32 "2015-12-05T06:15:35Z")
Bacon foreskins? ---
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2015, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-the-sdmb-agree-on/739459/33 "2015-12-05T06:27:09Z")
That [Integral theory](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral_theory_(Ken_Wilber)) is bullshit. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2015, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-the-sdmb-agree-on/739459/34 "2015-12-05T06:52:40Z")
Donald Trump is a buffoon who should not be allowed within a mile of the big red button. ---
**Author:** ![coremelt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@coremelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coremelt)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2015, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-the-sdmb-agree-on/739459/35 "2015-12-05T07:34:45Z")
I haven’t seen a single poster here try to defend ISIS or claim their actions are justifiable. We all seem to agree ISIS is bad, we just violently disagree on the method of dealing with them. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ruken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f475e1/32.png) [@Ruken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruken)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2015, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-the-sdmb-agree-on/739459/36 "2015-12-05T13:13:28Z")
Our milkshake brings all the boys to the yard. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2015, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-the-sdmb-agree-on/739459/37 "2015-12-05T13:25:35Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > Mary Ann is hotter than Ginger > [@John\_DiFool](#): > > Veronica for moi’. Bailey! ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2015, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-the-sdmb-agree-on/739459/38 "2015-12-05T13:36:11Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > It’s taking longer than we thought. Aye ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2015, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-the-sdmb-agree-on/739459/39 "2015-12-05T14:21:55Z")
**What can the SDMB agree on?** I believe we can all agree that throwing puppies into a quarry would be mean. I’ve no doubt there are dopers who would do this, but they would be the mean dopers. > [@Trinopus](#): > > \ > Sorry, but I’ll spoil the unanimity here. Ginger spikes my punch; Mary Ann just kinda bores me. Sorry, but I disagree. Both Ginger and Mary Ann bore me. It’s Eunice “Lovey” Wentworth Howell who puts the smack in my Brompton Cocktail. ---
**Author:** ![Banquet\_Bear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banquet_bear/32/373_2.png) [@Banquet\_Bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banquet_Bear)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2015, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-the-sdmb-agree-on/739459/40 "2015-12-05T14:44:45Z")
…who was responsible for 9/11. Now I know that there are a couple of truthers here on the boards. But when they occasionally delurk or register to post they are quickly overwhelmed by practically everyone on the boards from both the “left” and the “right.” No-one has any tolerance for the truthers: I think that this is as close to a consensus that you will get. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-the-sdmb-agree-on/739459.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-the-sdmb-agree-on/739459.md?page=3)