# Would you rather? **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [May 23, 2016, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444 "2016-05-23T07:06:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 32
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2017, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/621 "2017-01-10T14:17:05Z")
King Arthur. Find out the truth behind the legends. Star on Broadway in Camelot or Spamalot? ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2017, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/622 "2017-01-10T14:50:33Z")
I’ll take a good comedy any day. Have impeccably good tastes in wines or clothing? ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2017, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/623 "2017-01-10T15:02:06Z")
I don’t drink, and someone once described me as “looking like an unmade bed.” So maybe clothing. Live all alone, or live with a pet of your choosing. ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2017, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/624 "2017-01-10T15:03:53Z")
If I’m going the hermit route, then I’m gonna do it right. No companionship of any sort, says I. Mountain Dew or Orange Crush? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2017, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/625 "2017-01-10T19:59:01Z")
Orange Crush. A welcome treat when I was a little kid. Rephrased: Hang out with the King Arthur of _Camelot_ or the one from _Monty Python and the Holy Grail_? ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2017, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/626 "2017-01-10T20:26:54Z")
Camelot may be a silly place, but I’d prefer the company of the MP variety of King Arthur Live in a city where [Art Nouveau](https://www.google.com/search?q=art+nouveau+architecture&biw=1184&bih=605&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjY89jPtLjRAhUs0oMKHYAmCvUQ_AUIBigB) was the dominant architectural style or a town where [Googie architecture](https://www.google.com/search?q=art+nouveau+architecture&biw=1184&bih=605&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjY89jPtLjRAhUs0oMKHYAmCvUQ_AUIBigB#tbm=isch&q=googie+architecture) is everywhere? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2017, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/627 "2017-01-10T21:09:18Z")
I really like both, each charming in its own way, but I’d guess I’d give the edge to Art Nouveau. Live in a city where Belle Epoque was the dominant architectural style, or a town where Beaux Arts architecture is everywhere? [https://www.google.com/search?q=hotel+at+oberlin&rlz=1C1KMZB\_enUS584US587&espv=2&biw=1280&bih=918&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjPpfXgpbjRAhUK2IMKHbiPDEcQ\_AUICCgD#tbm=isch&q=belle+epoque+architecture](https://www.google.com/search?q=hotel+at+oberlin&rlz=1C1KMZB_enUS584US587&espv=2&biw=1280&bih=918&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjPpfXgpbjRAhUK2IMKHbiPDEcQ_AUICCgD#tbm=isch&q=belle+epoque+architecture) [https://www.google.com/search?q=hotel+at+oberlin&rlz=1C1KMZB\_enUS584US587&espv=2&biw=1280&bih=918&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjPpfXgpbjRAhUK2IMKHbiPDEcQ\_AUICCgD#tbm=isch&q=beaux+arts+architecture](https://www.google.com/search?q=hotel+at+oberlin&rlz=1C1KMZB_enUS584US587&espv=2&biw=1280&bih=918&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjPpfXgpbjRAhUK2IMKHbiPDEcQ_AUICCgD#tbm=isch&q=beaux+arts+architecture) ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2017, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/628 "2017-01-11T14:48:50Z")
Belle Epoque. To correct my previous, badly worded entry: Be a surrogate mother for a standard gay male couple or be a surrogate mother for a really fundamentalist whack job Christian straight married couple. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2017, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/629 "2017-01-11T17:59:11Z")
Were I a woman, I’d do so for the “standard gay male couple,” if there is such a thing, because I think the kid is more likely to have a good childhood than if raised by “really fundamentalist whack job Christian straight married couple.” Town or country? ---
**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:** [January 12, 2017, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/630 "2017-01-12T16:12:30Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Were I a woman, I’d do so for the “standard gay male couple,” if there is such a thing, because I think the kid is more likely to have a good childhood than if raised by “really fundamentalist whack job Christian straight married couple.” > > Town or country? Difficult! I know the Snooty Silent Upper Crust say I’m too ‘country’ for ‘town’ and the God Fearing Hicks in Tractorville say I’m too ‘town’ for ‘country’. Still, pizza… and good take-out w/i 20 minutes drive not withstanding… I’ll take Country. Fallon or Colbert\*? (If you laugh at the other ones jokes/humor Even Once, all of your living family will be roasted alive on bonfires in front of you) ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2017, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/631 "2017-01-12T16:15:45Z")
Colbert. Which would you rather wake up in bed next to after a night of partying-Fallon or Colbert? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2017, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/632 "2017-01-12T18:03:31Z")
Colbert. He’s funnier. Johnny or Ed? ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2017, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/633 "2017-01-12T23:55:30Z")
Johnny. Who would you rather wake up in bed next to after a night of partying… Roseanne Barr or John Goodman? ---
**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:** [January 13, 2017, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/634 "2017-01-13T00:13:58Z")
Pull pins out of 3 grenades and grind everything in the room to Cheap Chili sight unseen. Go back in time to 1980 and kiss Karen Grassle as she was (Ma on Little House). Kiss Melissa Gilbert right now (she has a Great Right Cross and WILL break your jaw). ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2017, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/635 "2017-01-13T02:35:25Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > Who would you rather wake up in bed next to after a night of partying… Roseanne Barr or John Goodman? John Goodman. He seems like a nice guy and has lost a lot of weight to get healthy. Have constant dry itchy eyes or a constant runny nose? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2017, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/636 "2017-01-13T04:48:16Z")
Neither, please, but if I HAD to choose, I guess the nose. Donder or Blitzen? ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2017, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/637 "2017-01-13T06:53:08Z")
Blitzen. Cooler name… and reminds me of blintzes. Climb Rapunzel’s hair or the magic beanstalk? ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2017, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/638 "2017-01-13T14:03:25Z")
Rapunzel might be willing to, um, \*demonstrate her gratitude \*for freeing her but that would get old after a while… the golden goose, on the other hand, is a gift that keeps on giving. Live in an alternate universe where everything is the same except your name happens to be the same name as the most popular wine in the world, or live in an alternate universe where everything is the same except the earth received a radio transmission from a star 150,000 light years away with the message:\* “[insert your name] remember to get bread while at the store on March 4, 2018”\*? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2017, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/639 "2017-01-13T16:42:45Z")
The second, because that means that either there’s another intelligent species out there, or humanity will someday develop time travel and/or FTL drive. Earn a degree at Oxford or Cambridge? ---
**Author:** ![Karen\_Lingel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karen_lingel/32/18649_2.png) [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2017, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/640 "2017-01-13T20:29:04Z")
Cambridge. Earn a physics degree from Clemson, or be quarterback on the Cal (UC Berkeley) football team? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444.md?page=31) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444.md?page=33)