A or B?

Submitted by Imposter on Mon, 09/27/2004 - 03:44
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  • Movies

  • Chaplin or Keaton - Keaton
  • Truffaut or Godard - Truffaut
  • Bogart or Stewart - Bogie
  • Affleck or Damon - Damon, if I had a gun to my head
  • Kurosawa or Ozu - Kurosawa, though the gap isn't as significant as it used to be
  • Kevin Smith or Quentin Tarantino - QT, in a walk
  • Woody Allen or Albert Brooks - Brooks, but not by much
  • Audrey or Katharine - Kate all the way
  • Bette Davis or Joan Crawford - Bette
  • Neo-realism or Film noir - Noir
  • Spielberg or Lucas - Spielberg
  • Kelly or Astaire - Kelly
  • Billy Wilder or Howard Hawks - Wilder, but not by much
  • Kubrick or Scorsese - Kubrick
  • Ford's westerns or Leone's westerns - as much as it pains me, I gotta go with Leone
  • Spinal Tap or The Rutles (the movies) - Spinal Tap
  • Bowling For Columbine or Fahrenheit 9/11 - Columbine
  • Maggie Cheung or Michelle Yeoh - Maggie, in a photo finish
  • Timothy Dalton or Pierce Brosnan - Dalton, the more ruthless Bond
  • Pulp Fiction or Reservoir Dogs - Pulp Fiction

  • Music

  • Beatles or Stones - Beatles
  • Hank Williams or Jimmie Rodgers - Hank
  • Who or Kinks - Kinks, though a few years ago it would have been different
  • Presley or Sinatra - Elvis, with no dis of Frankie intended
  • Spinal Tap or The Rutles (the bands) - The Rutles
  • Nirvana or Pearl Jam - Nirvana
  • Al Green or Marvin Gaye - The Rev. Al (I shook his hand once at his church)
  • Temptations or Four Tops - gotta go with the Tops
  • Elvis Costello or Joe Jackson - Elvis is king
  • Sex Pistols or The Clash - The Clash
  • T. Rex or Mott The Hoople - Mott
  • 50s rock or 60s rock - the 50s
  • 70s punk or 90s punk - the 70s
  • Public Enemy or N.W.A. - P.E.
  • Oasis or Blur - Blur
  • Elton John or Billy Joel - Elton
  • The Mats or Husker Du - Mats
  • Gerswhin or Porter - Gershwin, for the music
  • Brian Wilson or Mike Love - Brian all the way
  • Parliament or Funkadelic - the United Funk of Funkadelic-a

  • Television

  • Bugs or Daffy - Bugs was the better character, but I understood Daffy more
  • Sesame Street or Electric Company - EC (but I always preferred Zoom for the cool shirts)
  • Spanky or Alfalfa - Alfalfa
  • The Bob Newhart Show or Newhart - 70s Newhart
  • Samantha Stevens or Jeannie - Samantha
  • Ginger or Mary Ann - Mary Ann
  • The Daily Show or Tough Crowd - TDS
  • Frank Burns or Charles Emerson Winchester - Burns, always better to make fun of
  • Trapper John or B.J. Honeycutt - Trapper John (Beej always seemed too clean cut, even after he grew the 'stache)
  • Saturday Night Live or SCTV - SCTV
  • Letterman or Leno - Dave, in a landslide
  • Conan or Kilborn - Conan, as above
  • Eva or Zsa Zsa - Eva, she always seemed like the nice one (which I guess was pretty easy in comparison)
  • Happy Days or Laverne And Shirley - Happy Days
  • Freaks And Geeks or The Wonder Years - F&G, for putting my childhood on the tube
  • Beavis or Butthead - Beavis
  • Flintstones or Jetsons - Flintstones
  • Futurama or King Of The Hill - Futurama
  • Star Trek: TOS or Star Trek: TNG - TOS
  • American Bandstand or Soul Train - Soul Train (the scramble board whips up on the AB rate-a-record scale)

  • Misc

  • Dogs or Cats - dogs
  • Burger King or McDonald's - BK
  • WWI or WWII - WWII
  • Coke or Pepsi - Coke
  • Football or Baseball - Football
  • Magic Johnson or Michael Jordan - Magic, the better team player
  • Amazon.com or CD Universe - CD Universe (Amazon's search engine sucks and they charge me state sales tax)
  • Republican or Democrat - Dem
  • Calculus or Trigonometry - Calc
  • MS Outlook or anything else - anything else
  • Ali or Tyson - Ali
  • Greek gods or Roman gods - the Greeks
  • SACD or DVD-Audio - SACD
  • Ketchup or Mustard - ketchup
  • Summer or Winter - summer
  • Blondes or Brunettes - brunettes
  • E-mail lists or Usenet - e-mail
  • Ford or Chevrolet - Chevy
  • Post or Kellogg's cereals - Kellogg's all the way
  • Christmas or Independence Day - Independence Day (I like the summer)
  • online shopping or brick and mortar - stick me inside a record shop or bookstore anyday
  • Your money or your life - I'll take your money
  • Hell or High water - this time I'm taking high water
  • Give It Up or Turnit A Loose - Turnit a loose
  • 25 or 6 to 4 - 25 all the way
  • Baseball bat or A board with a nail in it - I'll go with the board
lukeprog09/27/2004

Fantastic. Hope you won't mind if I clone (this is such an easily clonable list).

Imposter09/27/2004

Thanks. Feel free to clone it, and add in your own choices if you wish. There's certainly room for more than what I did.

lukeprog09/27/2004

You've also helped me resolve the frustrating title difficulty I've had with this list (it used to be called, rather clumsily, "If I Was a... Then I'd Be a Cross Between...").

jim09/27/2004

Wow, this is great! Did you make up all the questions, or are these just your answers to somebody else's survey?

Imposter09/27/2004

Thanks! I'd been working on the list of things since Thursday or Friday, but it's the kind of "either/or" exercise I've seen on other lists in the past. I just worked it to coincide somewhat with the listology categories (oh, to be more of a bookworm).

stumpy09/27/2004

Withdrawn idea. Nevermind.

AJDaGreat09/27/2004

Why? I thought it was a pretty good idea.

stumpy09/27/2004

I just thought it might get out of hand with multiples of overly long lists, but if it sounds good to you - re-introduce it. Imposter already had a similar idea at 4:29. I just added to it.

For those of you have no idea what this discussion is about, I had a brain fart on a way to work around speedy POLLS, which AJ caught before I withdrew it.

lukeprog09/27/2004

BTW, I haven't seen any Ozu films yet. Which would you most recommend?

Imposter09/27/2004

My own favorites are Good Morning, Tokyo Story, Early Summer, Late Spring, and the great comedic silent I Was Born, But... But warning! Ozu's films are considered by some to be slower than molasses in January, though I like to think of them as sensitive and atmospheric. Have some caffeine at hand.

lukeprog09/27/2004

Okay, I do have a few of those on my 'to see' list. Thanks.

lukeprog09/27/2004

On my list, I picked Audrey Hepburn because, while Katherine has more A+ performances, I enjoy watching Audrey a lot more. She's so cute. :-) Katherine is just so... cold and hard in so many of her roles.

stooky09/28/2004

This idea is amazing...all hail Imposter, keeper of the sacred brain. :?)

T'ho

:?)

lukeprog09/28/2004

Yes, evidenced by the number of clones that have popped up in... what? Ten hours?

Imposter09/28/2004

And I always just assumed nobody read my lists!