Game: This or That

$ 40 million USD............. a hundred years of anything would get old fast.

Tablet or smart phone ?

Smart phone. For a start, some models of smart phone are now damn near as big as tablets. Second, tablets, I think, are on their way out, judging by the fact that most of the new ones offer keyboards to complement them and are increasingly laptop-like. Especially since Windows 10 has touch capability, you might as well get a new laptop with touch screen features, and get a smart phone for phone sex. I mean for calling Mom. Or, possibly, phone sex with someone you call Mom.

Self-warming KY or Original Formula.

im partial to raspberry preserves or orange marmalade...

onions or peppers on a pizza?

Onions, as I love the stinky little buggers. Mind you, if I can have my druthers, it's pineapple all the way, baby.

Toaster oven or traditional pop-up toaster?

one of the best pizzas I ever had was topped with pineapple, spinach and feta.

hated onions when I was a kid, now I love them.

I think onions and pineapple go surprisingly well together.

tryion---ever have a pineapple and cheese sandwich? I remember being in England and having them in the pubs there.

toast (and tea) is one of the favorite things and I think other than that, a microwave suffices for everything else, so I say traditional toaster.

benny hill or monty python?

Oh, for the love of pineapple, Monty Python. I loved watching Benny Hill on PBS as a kid, but there simply is no comparison. Most of my mental processes and verbal gyrations can be attributed to the early Python influence. That, and women's brassiere ads.

Jergens Skin Care or Aveeno Daily Moisturizing Lotion?

I liked the comic absurdity of both but I particularly enjoyed monty python's social commentary.

im a guy so not being acquainted, im going to say six of one, half dozen of the other...

a crisp autumn day and walk in the woods, or a hot summer day with a lake?

double post, but while im here, I think my favorite python scene is from holy grail when Arthur is interacting with the peasants in the slop and dennis goes off on a rant about power being granted by a mandate from the masses, not some farcical aquatic ceremony.

a crisp autumn day and walk in the woods

Fall or Spring ?

fall is by far my favorite time of the year, and im fortunate to live in the middle of hundreds into the thousands of acres of hilly forests.

going to a restaurant---a brand new (to you) ethnic type food place, or an old standby that you know you love.

New Restaurant

When reading a book do you prefer

A lot of really short chapters or a few really long chapters

i think I prefer them on the short-ish side. they make for great natural pausing points if you want to put the book down for a bit. yet at the same time, some of the contemporary best seller types I read seem to have willy nilly chapter breaks, for instance right in the middle of a conversation for goodness sake. its almost as if the writing is more consistent with a tv show's commercial break at a dramatic high point rather than any objective change in the topic.

salty and crunchy or sweet and chewy?

salty and crunchy

scrambled or over easy?

Scrambled

A book that is very well written but you find to have a boring story and/or uninteresting characters or a book with mediocre prose but has a compelling story line?

muse, that's a variation on a question I used to pose to my students. winning beautifully is best, losing ugly is worst, which is the next best---winning ugly or losing beautifully? gender differences in the answers were usually evident.

id pick mediocre prose and compelling story line.

and heck, for my question, given some recent activity, papayahed might already have the answer---do you ever go back and look at old threads, or the very beginnings of current threads, and wonder about the people who used to post, but who are no longer active?