This or That (part 2)

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Vortexfugue

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May 28, 2012, 11:59:29 AM5/28/12
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This one or that one?

snezanabr

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this one

drinking tea in a submarine at depth of 8km or snowboarding down the Karakorum slopes?

Vortexfugue

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drinking tea in a submarine at depth of 8km

sand paper or orange peels?

shell42970

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orange peels

Listen to a 3 year old sing, "I Know a Song That Will Get On Your Nerves", or a frontal lobotomy?

twinpikes

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frontal lobotomy

Go to a friend's daughter's dance recital or have a root canal?

Vortexfugue

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root canal.. obviously.

being chased with a rolling pin or being chased with a bowling ball?

shell42970

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I'll take my chances with the bowling ball.

Dr. Pepper or strawberry flavored soda?

Vortexfugue

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Dr. Pepper

sunshine or moonshine?

shell42970

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sunshine

cold shower or electric jolt?

twinpikes

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Cold shower, definitely. I've been hit by high voltage quite enough.

Hearty breakfast or early lunch?

Vortexfugue

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early lunch

midnight snack or apple seeds?

shell42970

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midnight snack

popcorn or pretzels?

Vortexfugue

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popcorn

oats or boats?

shell42970

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oats 

animal crackers or oyster crackers? 

snezanabr

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animal crackers

frozen chocolate or melted ice cream? 

 

shell42970

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frozen chocolate

walk in the rain or sleep in the sun?

snezanabr

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walk in the rain

no comment or no reply?

shell42970

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No comment 

ride a horse or ride an elephant?

snezanabr

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ride a horse

physics or mathematics?

shell42970

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I suppose I'd choose math, only because physics relies on it and I like physics.

necklaces or bracelets?

Mwafrika Bernard

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Necklaces - to the ladies

Yoghurt
or cheese?

shell42970

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cheese

go for a walk or go for a swim?

snezanabr

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go for a walk

river bank or ocean shore?

shell42970

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ocean shore 

listen to the radio, or listen to an mp3 player?

twinpikes

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radio, since I don't have an MP3 player (my wife does)

god particle or god weapon?

Vortexfugue

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god weapon  (in spades! :)

boson or lepton?

twinpikes

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boson (which I read as bosun, lol)

counting up or counting down?

shell42970

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counting down

Board game or video game?

Vortexfugue

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board game

Bobby Fischer or trees?

shell42970

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Trees. Definitely trees.

Dr. Seuss or Beatrix Potter?


twinpikes

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The Potter chick.

Carol Brink or Robert Lawson?


shell42970

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Carol Brink (my daughter LOVED Caddie Woodlawn when she was a girl).

Fiction or non-fiction?

Vortexfugue

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pantries or pastries?

Vortexfugue

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(grrr.. oops)

non-fiction

pantries or pastries?

twinpikes

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Pastries are in the pantry, so...

justice or mercy?

shell42970

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justice 

spontaneity or planned in advance?

Vortexfugue

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planned in advance

"Monday, Monday" or "Manic Monday"?

shell42970

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Manic Monday

master craftsman, or jack of all trades? 

Vortexfugue

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master craftsman

"Lady Lazarus" or "Daddy"?

Lady Lazarus

I have done it again.
  One year in every ten
  I manage it——
 
  A sort of walking miracle, my skin
  Bright as a Nazi lampshade,
  My right foot
 
  A paperweight,
  My face a featureless, fine
  Jew linen.
 
  Peel off the napkin
  0 my enemy.
  Do I terrify?——
 
  The nose, the eye pits, the full set of teeth?
  The sour breath
  Will vanish in a day.
 
  Soon, soon the flesh
  The grave cave ate will be
  At home on me
 
  And I a smiling woman.
  I am only thirty.
  And like the cat I have nine times to die.
 
  This is Number Three.
  What a trash
  To annihilate each decade.
 
  What a million filaments.
  The peanut-crunching crowd
  Shoves in to see
 
  Them unwrap me hand and foot
  The big strip tease.
  Gentlemen, ladies
 
  These are my hands
  My knees.
  I may be skin and bone,
 
  Nevertheless, I am the same, identical woman.
  The first time it happened I was ten.
  It was an accident.
 
  The second time I meant
  To last it out and not come back at all.
  I rocked shut
 
  As a seashell.
  They had to call and call
  And pick the worms off me like sticky pearls.
 
  Dying
  Is an art, like everything else,
  I do it exceptionally well.
 
  I do it so it feels like hell.
  I do it so it feels real.
  I guess you could say I've a call.
 
  It's easy enough to do it in a cell.
  It's easy enough to do it and stay put.
  It's the theatrical
 
  Comeback in broad day
  To the same place, the same face, the same brute
  Amused shout:
 
  'A miracle!'
  That knocks me out.
  There is a charge
 
  For the eyeing of my scars, there is a charge
  For the hearing of my heart——
  It really goes.
 
  And there is a charge, a very large charge
  For a word or a touch
  Or a bit of blood
 
  Or a piece of my hair or my clothes.
  So, so, Herr Doktor.
  So, Herr Enemy.
 
  I am your opus,
  I am your valuable,
  The pure gold baby
 
  That melts to a shriek.
  I turn and burn.
  Do not think I underestimate your great concern.
 
  Ash, ash —-
  You poke and stir.
  Flesh, bone, there is nothing there——
 
  A cake of soap,
  A wedding ring,
  A gold filling.
 
  Herr God, Herr Lucifer
  Beware
  Beware.
 
  Out of the ash
  I rise with my red hair
  And I eat men like air.

Daddy

You do not do, you do not do
Any more, black shoe
In which I have lived like a foot
For thirty years, poor and white,
Barely daring to breathe or Achoo.

Daddy, I have had to kill you.
You died before I had time—-
Marble-heavy, a bag full of God,
Ghastly statue with one gray toe
Big as a Frisco seal

And a head in the freakish Atlantic
Where it pours bean green over blue
In the waters off the beautiful Nauset.
I used to pray to recover you.
Ach, du.

In the German tongue, in the Polish town
Scraped flat by the roller
Of wars, wars, wars.
But the name of the town is common.
My Polack friend

Says there are a dozen or two.
So I never could tell where you
Put your foot, your root,
I never could talk to you.
The tongue stuck in my jaw.

It stuck in a barb wire snare.
Ich, ich, ich, ich,
I could hardly speak.
I thought every German was you.
And the language obscene

An engine, an engine,
Chuffing me off like a Jew.
A Jew to Dachau, Auschwitz, Belsen.
I began to talk like a Jew.
I think I may well be a Jew.

The snows of the Tyrol, the clear beer of Vienna
Are not very pure or true.
With my gypsy ancestress and my weird luck
And my Taroc pack and my Taroc pack
I may be a bit of a Jew.

I have always been scared of you,
With your Luftwaffe, your gobbledygoo.
And your neat mustache
And your Aryan eye, bright blue.
Panzer-man, panzer-man, O You——

Not God but a swastika
So black no sky could squeak through.
Every woman adores a Fascist,
The boot in the face, the brute
Brute heart of a brute like you.

You stand at the blackboard, daddy,
In the picture I have of you,
A cleft in your chin instead of your foot
But no less a devil for that, no not
Any less the black man who

Bit my pretty red heart in two.
I was ten when they buried you.
At twenty I tried to die
And get back, back, back to you.
I thought even the bones would do.

But they pulled me out of the sack,
And they stuck me together with glue.
And then I knew what to do.
I made a model of you,
A man in black with a Meinkampf look

And a love of the rack and the screw.
And I said I do, I do.
So daddy, I'm finally through.
The black telephone's off at the root,
The voices just can't worm through.

If I've killed one man, I've killed two—-
The vampire who said he was you
And drank my blood for a year,
Seven years, if you want to know.
Daddy, you can lie back now.

There's a stake in your fat black heart
And the villagers never liked you.
They are dancing and stamping on you.
They always knew it was you.
Daddy, daddy, you bastard, I'm through.

Vortexfugue

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Lady Lazarus

Anne Sexton or Sylvia Plath?

Vortexfugue

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Sylvia Plath

poems or short stories?

shell42970

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short stories 

milkweed or puffballs?

Vortexfugue

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puffballs

cheese balls or cheese puffs?

shell42970

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cheese balls

hors d'ouvres or appetizers?

Vortexfugue

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hors d'ouvres

hoof prints or finger prints?

shell42970

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hoof prints 

tornado or hurricane?

twinpikes

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Tornado (heavier bomb load)

potato soup or corn chowder?

shell42970

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corn chowder 

biscuits or corn bread?

Vortexfugue

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biscuits

lavender or oleander?

shell42970

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lavender 

whipped cream or cream cheese? 

twinpikes

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either/both, if I could have them

souffle or mousse?
 

shell42970

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mousse 
 
waffle or pancake?

Vortexfugue

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waffle

ponies or scorpions?

shell42970

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ponies 

Daffy or Donald?

snezanabr

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Daffy

rafting or a ride in a cable car?

shell42970

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rafting 

museum or gallery? 

Vortexfugue

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museum

orange or purple?

twinpikes

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orange (never eaten a purple)

hammock or cot?

shell42970

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hammock 

over-ripe bananas or wrinkly apples?

Vortexfugue

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over-ripe bananas

Bananas (Woody Allen film) or Take the Money and Run?

snezanabr

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Bananas

chronic migraines or taking intercontinental flights twice a month?

shell42970

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I'll go with the flights twice a month.

poison ivy or brush against a cactus?

Vortexfugue

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brush against a cactus

a hover crane or a gold medal?

shell42970

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gold medal 

dye your hair or wear polyester pants for 12 weeks?

logicalOctopus

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dye my hair


drinking pina colada or getting caught in the rain?

shell42970

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Drinking pina colada 

House boat or tree house?

Vortexfugue

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tree house

Cape Fear or Body Heat?

shell42970

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Cape Fear (the original)

shoot dice or shoot pool?

twinpikes

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pool (don't know all the rules for craps)

enthusiasm or resignation?

shell42970

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enthusiasm 

Tom and Jerry, or Wile E. Coyote and Roadrunner?

Vortexfugue

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Wile E. Coyote

Pinky or The Brain?

logicalOctopus

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pinky 

S-words or swords? 

snezanabr

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S-words

words or images?

shell42970

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images 

sugar and spice and everything nice, or slugs and snails and puppy dog tails?

Vortexfugue

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slugs and snails and puppy dog tails

DeForest Kelley or the forest?

shell42970

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the forest 

DeLorean or Tucker?

Vortexfugue

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DeLorean

pork chops or chopped onions?

shell42970

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pork chops sound pretty good right now, I'm afraid.

basil or oregano? 

twinpikes

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oregano

Charles Addams or Gahan Wilson?
 

Vortexfugue

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Charles Addams

Samson or Delilah?

snezanabr

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Samson

walk on Preikestolen or an Inca rope bridge?

twinpikes

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Preikestolen

toast marshmallows or toast the new year?

Vortexfugue

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toast marshmallows

morning or evening?

snezanabr

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evening

headache or toothache?

twinpikes

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toothache

I cheat, when mine get to aching I put 'em in a jar ;-)

celebrated or lionized?

shell42970

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celebrated 

earthquake or hurricane? 

Vortexfugue

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hurricane  (more time to react)

stones or accordions?

shell42970

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accordions

Twinkie or Ding Dong?

Vortexfugue

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Twinkie

Wimbledon or US Open?

logicalOctopus

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Vortexfugue

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the latter

science or pseudoscience?

snezanabr

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science

travel by car or plane?

Vortexfugue

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car

trombone or corn husk?

shell42970

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corn husk

unicycle or skate board?

twinpikes

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I'd break my fool neck on either.

indigent or indulgent?

Vortexfugue

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indulgent

prescient or proficient?

shell42970

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proficient 

peanuts or popcorn? 

snezanabr

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peanuts

stray lamb or black sheep?

shell42970

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black sheep

sandwich or wrap?

twinpikes

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sandwich, there's no limit to the filling

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