GOOD or BAD: Friday Fun

[coalescent]

Once more we set out to determine ultimate truth. Previous installments here. The gist: a list of things. Two options for each. No middle way. No snowflakes. No retreat. No surrender. EDIT: And no wussing out and only answering half the questions!

[Poll #679221]

You may attempt to justify obviously wrong opinions in the comments.

(There may even be actual book-related content over the weekend.)

Comments

[rparvaaz.livejournal.com]

So are you going to blame this on Martin?

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

Obviously.

[abigail-n.livejournal.com]

What could possibly be wrong with pencil cases?

Oh, and I can't answer the BSG question - the quality differential between the summer season (overall excellent with a few rough patches and some causes for concern) and the winter season (overall dreadful with one or two good episodes and not much hope for the future) is too great.

[danmilburn.livejournal.com]

I had similar trouble. I eventually opted for BAD! simply because it's so long since I've seen an episode I thought was genuinely good (unlike most people perhaps, I thought the Pegasus episodes and Scar were at best mediocre..).

[grahamsleight.livejournal.com]

What could possibly be wrong with pencil cases?

Well, when a pen or something leaks, you get ink over everything else in them. And you always stab your finger on the tip of the propelling pencil when you reach in.

Oh, and I can't answer the BSG question

You have to answer them all. Excuses - along the lines of Jif pancake batter not being available where you are - are entirely reasonable but beside the point. It's the savage Darwinian law of GOOD OR BAD.

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

the quality differential between the summer season (overall excellent with a few rough patches and some causes for concern) and the winter season (overall dreadful with one or two good episodes and not much hope for the future) is too great.

That's kinda the point of the exercise. Although I have to say I'm more concerned about your lack of appreciation for the charms of Quantum Leap.

[buymeaclue.livejournal.com]

Forget pencil cases! What's with the peanut butter heathens?

[greengolux.livejournal.com]

I clicked BAD for anything I didn't know about (I've not seen Quantum Leap, the second series of Battlestar Galactica or Life on Mars) on the grounds that me not knowing about stuff is clearly BAD.

[talvalin.livejournal.com]

The only BAD thing here is the fact that you've not seen any Quantum Leap and then made the WRONGHEADED decision to vote it as BAD.

[i-ate-my-crusts.livejournal.com]

Life on Mars is a TV show or something?

Damn. Here I was thinking about bacteria. Won't Someone Please Think of the Bacteria?

[storme]

You can assume any answers I give which seem immensely wrong-headed are due to be not actually knowing and merely picking a random answer. Except for answers where I'm clearly right.

[andrewducker]

I had to go and change my answer after I actually _read_ the essay and agreed with 95% of what he seemed to be saying.

[grahamsleight.livejournal.com]

That rather goes against the spirit of the exercise...

[despotliz.livejournal.com]

Shocking amounts of non-pie loving wrongheads here.

[grahamsleight.livejournal.com]

Indeed. I made enough for 4-5 people, according to Mr Slater, and two of us got through 75% of it. I *was* going to post my adaptation of the recipe, but if people aren't interested...

*walks off in a huff*

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

I believe I am better-qualified than most to judge goodness or badness re TV, on account on never having watched any of the alleged programmes.

[demona-hw.livejournal.com]

100% peanut butter in satay: GOOD! Peanut butter used for anything else: BAD!

[burger-eater.livejournal.com]

I'm tempted to make up a new username just so I can vote for GOOD smooth peanut butter again.

[secritcrush.livejournal.com]

Neill yells at you when you do that.

[wg.livejournal.com]

I asked for snow in there in order to quantify the number of wrongheads, and there are as many of you as I feared. I do see I have some classy company like G and Bethan, so all is well.

Snow = Rain, but colder. Thats not good, people.

[abigail-n.livejournal.com]

See, when you live in a country in which it doesn't snow, ever (OK, it snows in Jerusalem once every winter. Maybe two or three inches of it, for which the entire city shuts down, schools are closed, snow-plows are deployed, weather-men and -women report from the streets, and the rest of the country watches in rapt fascination. But I don't live in Jerusalem), it's pretty easy to develop a romanticized notion of it.

Plus, skying.

[brixtonbrood.livejournal.com]

Any answers that are clearly wrongheaded were done by Small helping.

[ninebelow.livejournal.com]

Previous installments here.

This raises an important question: what happened to the line of truth?

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

A fair question. I shall attempt to compile a mega-line containing all items so far rated in all polls on Sunday.

[ang-grrr.livejournal.com]

I wonder if you can make peanut butter pie?

[lamentables.livejournal.com]

Apparently so.

And I am now disturbed by the idea of Gene Autry's Peanut Butter Cream Pie. (As well as by the idea of Niell as Dan's devoted slave.)

[i-ate-my-crusts.livejournal.com]

I would like to point out that G and I differed on only two answers. Be Afraid, people.

(Life on Mars and Obsessive Polling)

[despotliz.livejournal.com]

This comment gave me an idea: the GOOD or BAD Compatibility Matrix.

ADJUST YOUR SET

[twic.myopenid.com (from livejournal.com)]

HI DERE WAHT IS IT MADE.

LULZ:

http://www.kropserkel.com/Images/kropcentonset.jpg

OH NOES:

http://www.maximonline.com/girls_of_maxim/girl_template.aspx?id=1178

-- tom

[pigeonhed.livejournal.com]

If you vote GODD or BAD as being BAD are you excused all the other questions?

Oh and 'Life On Mars' by Bowie GOOD,
'Life On Mars' TV series INDIFFERENT.