Aye or Nay?

Half Aye Half Nay,

I am a huge fan of the Walking Dead, but zombies are becoming over done, and they are done in a lot of really stupid ways, but I am still up for a good looking zombie movie.

B rate horror movies

Nay. Horror movies have always bored the pants on me. Even when I'm in drag.

Off-color jokes that aren't too terrible in their inappropriateness and are genuinely funny.

I lean towards aye, but perhaps with the caveat of only within select company. im not against being offensive when called for, but I suspect for the most part, humor doesn't fit that bill. I think the question for me is what effect does the telling and hearing have on the minds, lives and souls of everyone involved.

Robert downey jr as Sherlock holmes?

nay

basketball?

Nay. Like all spectator sports, I'd sooner watch pond water evaporate.

Cell phone games?

Nay. I can barely use my cell phone to send and receive calls

Garish phone wallpaper?

Nay. I tried some funky wallpapers when they first came out. Made me nauseous. Now I use pictures of my baby nieces.

Delicious, healthy vegetables like broccoli which nonetheless give you gas like the Hindenburg?

thankfully, that im aware of, no delicious veggies really do that to me...broccoli included, which by the way, goes surprisingly well on pizza. so in truth I cant answer but putting myself into the situation hypothetically, id say aye, and then just be careful where/when I ate them.

climbing trees?

Climbing trees: Aye, I have fond memories of such from childhood.

Burning bugs on the sidewalk with a magnifying glass?

Unfortunately, aye, I recall this from childhood. And my mother's stories from her childhood!

Using a stick as a sword?

Aye. That is to say, for the purposes of tilting at windmills or destroying the brains of zombies, a stick makes a quite suitable sword.

The current male fashion of beards and "man buns."

Don't know about the buns, (What?!) but aye, I often wear a beard, though just a mustache at present.

Yelling "Fore!" while driving slowly past the golf course?

Aye. ;-) I wholeheartedly approve of that, though I never thought of that before. Then there's yelling "Watch out!" in an operating theater just as the surgeon has his scalpel poised above the patient's aorta. Good fun.

Mead, that being fermented honey.

im a teetotaler so, nay for me, but id say aye in principal for the folks who are responsible. if I did drink, I think itd be fun to go a ren-fair and have some.

as for beards and man buns---major nay on the latter. i think they look ridiculous and if a guys going to keep his hair long, id rather see it loose, or in a pony tail. heck I don't even like saying that!

high school/college plays where the actors, in a quest for some geographical/character authenticity, speak in accents not their own?

Oh...god...NAY! It's moderately amusing when they're small children, but when they perform Taming of the Shrew like they're extras on Downton Abbey, I want BLOOD, I tell yoU!

<cough> Sorry. Now then...

Holding off on watching your favorite TV dramas until the entire season has aired so you can marathon view it.

I think in theory that has an appeal to it but from a practical perspective it would be really tough for me to work that out, so id say nay.

watching the movie and then reading the book?

Aye and nay. Depends.

Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries?

I confess I don't know lord peter, but aye to mysteries in general and especially ones with recurring characters.

a married Sherlock holmes?

I'll forego the customary 'nay' here so I can say "Intercourse that sh*t." Sherlock Holmes isn't made for marriage any more than Benedict Cumberbatch is made to play Khan Noonien Singh--in one of the worst cinematic foul-ups since someone cast Ben Affleck as Batman.

Middle-aged actors playing legendary superheroes in screen.

If they can pull it off, sure. Let's just forget George Clooney's Batman fiasco...

More superhero TV shows?

That is a tough one I like the idea of them but the ones that are out there I think are bad and the ones I try to watch I end up losing interest in. I would say Aye if they did make a really good one.

Tv shows based on movies

Aye, but it depends on the movie. I don't think we are ready for some of the movies to become TV shows.

Movies based on TV shows?

Why couldn't I have gotten the previous question? Mind you, I intend to answer it anyway. OK, well at the moment the only example that comes to mind is Firefly, a series that held no interest for me, but whose eventual film adaptation was a right romp.
As for movies made into TV shows, heck, yeah, man! Most of my favorite series started out as movies: Highlander, La Femme Nikita, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, to name a few.

Should restaurants that serve nachos made with that plastic, phony cheese from a bottle instead of real cheese be fined and, possibly, shut down by the Ministry for Public Morals?

No, sections of the country you speak of may or may not starve - certainly there would be societal disruption

The Life of Brian (movie)?

Aye, seen it. Like it? Not Really.

A Beautiful Mind?

I thought life of brian was hysterical.

ive got the book but haven't read it yet, haven't seen the movie either, (in general though, I like Russell crowe, and biographical type stories) so lemme pass it along to the next person...

Aye. I have seen the movie and I liked it very much.

Staying up in the evening because you feel like you should do something worthy at least once a day, but all you get is the lack of sleep and incompetency next day?

If I said nay to that one, Troyja, I'd be a hippo-critter, since I stay up late or all night on a regular basis, sleep in odd patterns, and am, as a rule, incompetent.

Subway sandwiches, even though they make you fat and are probably not very healthy, despite what their adverts claim?

Aye. Hot pastrami toasted on wheat roll w/ mayo/light lettuce/mustard/olives/oil&vinegar/avocado... a rare pleasure.

Tiny house movement ?... I'm watching TH Nation (DTV channel 266) as I type, and get an email w/ many examples daily.

despite my wearing patchouli, I say aye---I like it. it appeals to me on a variety of levels. I watch the shows every once in awhile and ive been trying to talk a good friend into our building one next summer. doubt its going to happen, but I like the thought of it.

books written "based on the screenplay" of movies?

Depends. The novelization of Star Trek: The Motion Picture explained several strange scenes in the movie where obvious cuts were made that did not help the story. Others...not so much, usually just a rehash of the movie with enough "original material" to qualify as something the author can get paid for writing.

TV Show episodes that exist only in books, like the new Sleepy Hollow novels?

Oops. Double post!

Nay.

Kurt Vonnegut's writing?

Aye

Breakfast at dinner time

Aye

Woodstove ?

totally aye! I live amongst hundreds of acres of woods, am an amateur lumberjack and have a really good chainsaw! smiles...the savings on propane is tremendous, and the crackling fire is aesthetically appealing. although, last winter I had a chimney fire and boy did that scare the bejeebers out of me! I go about things very different now...

the rebooting/remaking of the spiderman and fantastic four movies?

Nay. There are Black comic heroes out there that need their own movies, not change a known character into someone else. Black Panther is supposed to get his own movies, which I am awaiting anxiously. But there's Luke Cage, (who does show up on Nexflix's Jessica Jones), Black Lightning, Static, Blue Marvel, Cyborg, Misty Knight, Storm, Blade (his movies were great!), Jon Stewart, Green Lantern, Bill Foster Goliath, Steel (that one stunk!), Black Dynamite, Shaft, Superfly and so on...

More Netflix comic series, and who?

Jon Stewart? If that was satire it was genius. ;-) I actually chortled aloud. I'm in the midst of Jessica Jones now--the series, not the girl--and digging it. I couldn't volunteer a suggestion for further series, as I don't follow the comic book/graphic novel world, but in general more such Netflix series? Hell, yes!

Well, Ty, i do have a measured IQ of 141 and have been known to be called a genius, usually by people who don't know me very well!

Preferring paper books over e-books?

Tough one. I'll have to go with nay at this time.

Snow ?.. we're supposedly getting a dusting Tuesday in my locale.