This or That

[beretta8]

sourdough

make your own bread or buy it

 

[karldergrosse]

wheat

Pasta or Cereal ?

 

[798686]

Pasta

Chicken or lamb?

 

[karldergrosse]

lamb

mountain oysters or sweetbreads ?

 

[798686]

Sweetbreads (not sure what mountain oysters are?)

Bubble and Squeak, or Corned Beef Hash?

 

[hockeyguy741]

CB Hash

panasonic or sony

 

[karldergrosse]

sony

classical or bluegrass ?

 

[karldergrosse]

Joll (Link 2526): Mountain oysters = lamb testicles (during spring castration period)...delicious breaded and fried. --Yep, I'm a farmboy from way back--and fortunately it is way back! (Though that's probably where I acquired my penchant for gardening.....)

 

[798686]

Yikes - erm..sounds interesting. Reminiscent of the 'yummy' new Lamb Thyroid Hotpot available at the Little Chef. :redface:

Classical AND Bluegrass, btw.

Star Wars or Lord of the Rings?

 

[karldergrosse]

No, not just interesting--good! ~ Who's the Little Chef? Don't know him or, fortunately, his (yukk!) LTH. Now THAT doesn't sound even interesting to me!
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Lord of the Rings

Arthurian Mythology or Norse Mythology ?

 

[798686]

Aren't they one and the same? Avalon is synonymous with Yddragsil and Helheim isn't it? Lots of mythologies are just updates of ancient legends aren't they? Like the Madonna and child is just Isis and Osiris, etc - which some think may even go back as far as Semiramis/Nimrod... (carried away, sorry!)

Anyway - Arthurian

GM or Ford?

 

[karldergrosse]

Yes, pretty well all related and intertwined, I think--Jungian archetypes and synchronicity at work, for sure. And too, we live in a very finite world--only so many twists and turns to be incorporated into myths and legends (and their incarnations in religions), and literature in general. But specifically, I would say that Arthurian and Norse are not the same...not in outward appearance, detail, and effect, anyway. I waded through the entire Malory as a graduate student, but it was tough keeping up my interest. On the other hand, I have always been all-consumingly fascinated by Wagner's version of Norse/Teutonic mythology in his Der Ring des Nibelungen. 'Course it didn't help that Malory is in an archaic English nor hurt that Wagner enhances the story with his ravishingly incomparable music! Call me a purist (or a clod), but I don't particularly cotton to what I consider Tolkien's mishmash of, apparently, all world mythologies. The Gol(l?)um's name, for instance, is certainly derived from the Jewish Golem, though I'm too little familiar with Tolkien's actual works themselves (Bad critic! Bad critic! For shame! For shame!) to know whether their actions and functions are similar. [I think Avalon is the never-never land to which Arthur's body sails, and Yggdrasil the Norsemen's World Ash Tree...? Must go back and look.....] --Wups! I really got carried away--apologies...!
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I don't know about Arthur, but I'm pretty sure that Cleopatra drove a Chevrolet--so I'll choose:

GM

World Titan or Bankrupt Octopus ?

 

[798686]

I spelt Yggdrasil wrong, sorry! You're right about it being a tree - I think the serpent Jormangandr is underneath it? Maybe Helheim is the Norse version of Avalon then?...hmm or is it Valhalla? ugh, whatever haha.

Bankrupt Octopus I'm afraid *weeps*

Toyota or VW?

 

[karldergrosse]

Hey! Wait just a dogboned minute, here! Where did everyone else go on this thread...??? Surely we're not

THAT

Pushy or Intimidating ?

 

[karldergrosse]

VW

Germany or USA ?

 

[D_Frederick Fuzzynuts]

intimidating

mataphor or similie

 

[karldergrosse]

simile

like or dislike ?

 

[798686]

like

be liked or admired?

 

[karldergrosse]

Joll, we've got to quit meeting like this--people will begin to talk! (Heehee...)
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Bee-like

Hornet or wasp ?

 

[798686]

KdG - :biggrin1:

Wolseley Hornet

Elf or pixie?