Tuesday, June 5, 2007

This or That?

Today at lunch, we started playing 'this or that.' I don't know the official name for it, so I'll just call it 'this or that.' I started by asking "Who'd win: McGyver or Jack Bauer?" "Jack Bauer is only good at using a cell phone," comes one arguement. "McGyver wins."
"I concede. McGyer or James Bond?" My prodding continues.
"James Bond just has a pretty face and cool gadgets. But McGyver can make his own cool gadgets, with which he makes a pretty face."
McGyver still wins again! Has McGyver held an iron grip on the amazing agents population for 2 decades?! Can no one dethrone him?
"McGyver or Ethan Hunt?" Hunt has looks, gadgets, and ingenuity. Ethan Hunt finally takes over the coveted throne. But McGyver had a good run.

We gradually moved into all areas of pop culture. We got pretty nostalgic at one point. When the comparison between BK9s or LA Gear came, my memories of second-grade footware squeezed a single tear drop from my eye. We came to the following conclusions, among the many that we covered in the course of 3 hours of playing This or That:
  • A bear beats McGyver, but only when McGyver is without a belt buckle, and the bear has a cub under 1 year old.
  • "Golden Eye" for N64 was more important in it's time that "Halo" is now.
  • The '85 Bears beats the '91-'92 Suns, however
  • The '91-'92 Suns beats the '06-'07 Suns.
  • Wayne Gretsky and Michael Jordan was a draw.

The only thing we found to be able to beat the '92 Barcelona USA DreamTeam was the Great Wall of China with the '85 Bears doing 2-min drills on the top. If you can think of something to beat the DreamTeam, please tell me so that I can tell the Pulitzer Prize people. They'll want to know, too.

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