Literature

Time to get a little bit more intellectual...but not too much.

Who is the most overrated writer in the history of written language? No one is off limits.

Yesterday's winner:
There are no winners when it comes to Mets No-Hitters. My favorite is Adam's because it captures this fact effectively. But there are no winners.

Adam: Sure they will...unfortunately, it will come in a loss during a losing streak when their offense is failing them, and most people won't even realize it happened. Oliver Perez will do it in June 2008. The opponent's leadoff hitter will reach on an error on the first pitch of the game, then steal second and reach third on a wild pitch. He'll score on a sac fly later in the first inning. The Mets will have their chances by logging 7 hits themselves, but will go 0 for the game with runners in scoring position. It'll be like a few years ago when Tanyon Sturtze had more complete games than wins when he was with the Devil Rays.

In the sports category again

I rolled the dice and landed on Orange again.

Will the Mets ever have a no-hitter? They're only one of four teams who have never had one. The other three are the Padres, the Devil Rays, and the Rockies. Will the Mets ever get one, and if so, when?

Yesterday's winner: Matty Bain

Doomsday. He killed SUPERMAN and he's invincible. If that doesn't make him an amazing super villain, I don't know what does. Special nod goes to Apocalypse, who could morph his arms in weapons and offed the X-Men.

An early post for a sleepy Ray

No longer sleep deprived

Who is the all-time best super villain in the history of super villainy? The only answers that are off limits are real people. No Polpot, Hitler, Mussolini or Bush responses please.

Official winners for yesterday: Jason and Becca

Jason: C'mon Ray, everyone knows that the singular eye is a dominant trait, especially when passed on from a female.

Becca: Two, but it would poke one out with a fork.

On a lighter note

In the TV category, for those of us who respect Matt Groening's other vastly under-appreciated show:

If Frye and Leela ever did get down, and happened to conceive a child, how many eyes would said child have?

Things to consider: I've decided to forgo things to consider so I won't step on anybody's toes in their answers.

Yesterday: Saving Private Ryan has to take it, no question. Hail the victorious dead.

Adam: Hands down: Saving Private Ryan. Every time I see that opening scene, I find myself saying "holy sh*t" at the fact that real men ran up the shores of Normandy in those conditions and paid the ultimate sacrifice.

jaybruzz: In the so bad it's good category, i have to go with The Thin Red Line. Somehow that movie made war on the pacific islands both boring and overly introspective.

I'd go with Saving Private Ryan. The battle scenes are second to none, it's not all preachy like Full Metal Jacket and Platoon, and it earns its introspective moments.

Memorial Day Spectacular

What is the all-time best war movie ever produced?

Things to consider: I'm not even going to touch this one, just go at it.

Yesterday's: It is by far the worst movie I've ever seen. I laughed, I cried, I wasted three hours of my life and tried to stab myself with a pen 15 minutes into the movie. I've gotta give it to Matty.

I'm gonna go out on a limb here. My vote for unintentionally hilarious goes to Alexander. Yes it was crappy. But think about it, how many times have we laughed about how overdone everything was and how ridiculous it was top to bottom. It was 3 hours of life I want back, but it was hilarious in its awfulness (awfulocity?)

A little late

Ok, go simpler today. No top five.

What is the most unintentionally funny movie in the history of Cinema?

Things to consider: You won't score any points with me by saying Snakes on a Plane as that is one of my favorite movies. Freddy vs. Jason and Killer Klowns from Outer Space would also not be advisable choices. Ready, set, keeping my fingers crossed for more posts than yesterday.

Yesterday's winner: It may have been the only post, but that doesn't change the fact that it probably still would have won (and not just because I just got 5 stars on Guitar Hero II on his number one song). Thank you JayBruzz. The rest of you, ball droppers, all of you.

Alright, top 5 summer driving songs
5. Folsom prison blues by Johnny Cash - ok so its about a train, it's still got a sweet rhythm
4. (Highway to the) Danger Zone by Kenneth Logins - how can you make a list about summer music without Kenny Logins. How, I ask you, HOW?!?!?
3. California Girls by the Beach Boys - you could argue that many Beach Boys songs could make this list, you could also argue that this song is better for cruising as opposed to actual driving, either way it serves its purpose
2. Summertime - Sublime - that's a no-brainer
1. Jessica - the Allman Brothers - these guys invented the driving song. it can't not be no.1 on a list like this

Mine, excluding Jason's at least two of which would have probably made my list, possibly as many as four or five

T5. Rescue - Eve 6
T5. Summer '79 - The Ataris
4. Seven days in the Sun - Feeder - Listen to it loud, and drive fast, it's no Jessica, but what is?
3. Shooting Star - Bad Company - Southern Rock = Good Driving music. I don't know how it works, but it does. That's why Jessica works so well.
2. Rip It Up - Jet - A song about absolutely nothing, but holy shit if it doesn't make you tap your feet, or at least one of them, once, really hard, on the accelerator. Also, it's by a band from what is now Jason's neck of the woods
1. Boys of Summer - Don Henly - Even the Ataris cover kicks ass, but no summer driving mix can be complete without this song

A top 5

It was going to happen eventually:

Desert island all-time top five Summer driving songs. Remember, this is not a matter of opinion, it's fact. The five songs that you pick (or however many you choose to post) are not your favorite summer driving tunes, they are the 5 BEST SUMMER DRIVING SONGS EVER.

Yesterday's campione: Nick with Matty as the De Facto runner up

Nick: Lindy Ruff would win. I'm pretty sure Vermeil's a Christian, so he may have God and Jesus on his side. But Ruff (for now) has Drury on his side, and if Drury proved anything playing against BC over his career at BU, it's that he can beat the shit out of soldiers of Jesus.

Matty: Ruff would definitely win. I mean, did you see him go after the Senator's after Drury got hit? When have you ever seen Vermeil do anything like that? Ruff wins in a landslide KO in the 1st round because, as a former hockey player, he actually knows how to fight.

Orange - Sports Category

Trivial Pursuit, Orange, Sports Category

Who would win in a fight between Dick Vermeil and Lindy Ruff (The Dick Vermeil of the NHL)? And who would cry harder at the end? The winner? or the Loser?

Yesterday's Winners:

For the Girls: Nicole

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Think about it: they're on the run, so you know it's gonna be intense. They're hiding out, so there's a feeling of danger. And they're always competing with each other, so you know they're just gonna try to keep outdoing each other! Plus 70s era Robert Redford and Paul Newman are just sooo hot. Add in the whole outlaw cowboy thing and it makes it that much hotter.

For the Guys: I gotta go with a tie between the only two I got, Adam's because they're hot, and Nick's because he's a sick Fuck.

O-Train: Ray...this is perhaps the ultimate drunken barroom question, far better than "Who had the better baseball name: Candy Maldonado or Oddibe McDowell?"

My decision is as follows:
-- Lynn Sheridan (Katherine Heigl) in The Ringer . She's a nice girl who works with Special Olympians, seems to genuinely care about them, and is ridiculously hot.
-- Daisy Duke (Jessica Simpson) in Dukes of Hazzard. Wild country girl who wouldn't bat an eye at the thought.

Honorable Mention:
-- Danielle (Elisha Cuthbert) in The Girl Next Door. A porn star living next door to you who could show anybody a thing or two.
-- Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley) in Pirates of the Caribbean. Affluent girl from back in the day with a wild streak.
-- Jessica Rabbit (herself) in Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Why not?

Nick:I'm goin with a professional for one. I'm taking Rollergirl (Heather Graham) Heather Graham's got some nice, natural tig ol bitties and has played a sexy whorish character in enough movies that i can picture her being well worth it. Plus, who wouldn't wanna bang a hot porn star on roller skates?

Wait...everyone but me? Hmm..well fuck you all then.

And my second would be Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher). And fuck that side bun hairstyle, I'd be gettin freaky with her in the golden bikini and the long topknot hairstyle, starting things off with the lightsaber to get her all revved up.

These two woulf have me howling like a Wookie and singing "You Got The Touch" four hours...okay, minut...fine, fine, seconds of absolute heaven.

also, my runners up are Tutti Bomowski in Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot (Estelle Getty) and Mama Fratelli in The Goonies (Anne Ramsey) are a close second, because it's never bad to go with experience.

Although, cobwebs are kinda not the most fun.

Threes for day three

For day three, I was going to ask a question about trilogies, but I've decided to save that one and go for threesomes instead.

If you could have a Threesome with any two movie characters (not the actors or actresses who play them, but the characters themselves) who would they be? No Movie character is off limits.

Yesterday's:

Wow, only 4, but all gems. Eileen had them getting down and trading the syph, thus explaining their irrational behavior later in the play, Caitlin had Ophelia killing herself because she wasn't getting any, Martina said she killed herself because Hamlet was a real chick after and she just couldn't stand it anymore, but I've got to give it to Nick, who had R. Kelly playing the lead role in an all black production of Shakespeare's classic at the Apollo instead of the Globe.

"Okay, so Hamlet and Ophelia definitely got down. It was a lovely time, and Ophelia even got hers before they finished.

It all seemed so perfect until Hamlet started babbling some crazy sounding shit, saying, "To pee or not to pee" took his piece out and gave Ophie what is believed to be the first golden shower on record. Apparently, getting pissed upon didn't agree with the lass, she flipped her shit and the rest is history."

So in keeping with addressing the major questions in life that have never been answered before, or that have only been answered unsatisfactorily, I turn my view towards a literary question that has been bothering me for quite some time.

Did Hamlet and Ophelia have sex? And how did this affect Ophelia's madness and eventual suicide?

There's nothing to suggest that they did or didn't in the play itself, and scholars have been arguing over it for far too long. We need a definitive answer. So I put it to you, did they or didn't they ever get down before everyone dies at the end of the play? Hope I didn't just ruin the ending for any of you.

Yesterday's Victor: Tati


Ray, I’m so glad that the pursuit of you doctorate still allows you the time to ponder the real quandaries of life. The world would be quiet a predicament if these questions were not answered in a very well thought out 24hrs per question schedule.

And to that, I must say Chuck Norris and John McClane would win in a fight to the death. This is not to say Rambo and Jack Bauer wont bring it. However, both Chuck Norris and John McClane bring power, strength, and fighting ability to the table. Since Jack Bauer’s forte is more intelligence- kind of get in there minds and fuck with them than pure force, he wont be able to equally back Rambo up. Plus a roundhouse kick in the face followed by a "yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker," is a definite lethal combination.

Tati, I love you. You managed to work Yippee-ki-yay motherfucker into your answer, and that was really all it took. You had me at yippee-ki-yay motherfucker.

The Triumphant Return

Welcome back. It's the first question in a long time, so I have to go big, and it doesn't get much bigger than this. Who would win the following tag-team fight to the death:

Chuck Norris (Circa 1992's Sidekicks) and John McClane (Die Hard series)

Vs.

Jack Bauer and Rambo

Things to Consider: Roundhouse Kicks; Explosive arrow-heads; Bauer takes torture like a man; McClane once walked barefoot through a room full of broken glass and has a penchant for dropping terrorists out of windows and down elevator shafts. Also, there's no set venue, so feel free to propose one that will help support your answer.