This or That, Day 3
9Well, once again the Mehtizens did not disappoint in their opinionings. Some stayed focused on their preferences for the two renderings of the same character; others couldn’t seem to separate actor from part. Some gave reasoned arguments; others not so much, or none at all. We even had a technical foul cross-thread throwing John Krasinski into the mix (though I did like the poster), and an attempted 11 ½ hour failed hi-jack attempt to move the debate to two other actors. Nice try, @mike808, but your goat is feet-up! And then there were those who, predictably, were more enamored of their relative hotness than any acting ability or specific character performance, though I have to say I did expect that.
So, to throw the pendulum in the other direction, as long as we’re considering with whom we would prefer to be stranded on a desert island…
(or, I’m sure you’ll come up with some other metric)
today’s choice is:
Ginger
or Mary Ann
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Mary Ann. Ginger would be a huge pain in the ass
/giphy high maintenance
Mary Ann. It wouldn’t be long with Ginger before I’m alone again.
Mary Ann, I love pie and she was always baking pies.
@mollama now there’s a sensible reasoning!
Yeah, Mary Ann, she knows how to roll in the jungle hay.
Mary Ann! One would assume that a farm girl from Kansas would be more of an equal work wise than a manipulative movie star from Hollywood.
Mary Ann was so cute!
Mary Ann - smart, cute, honest, nice, no games. Ginger was a fluffed up fake.
Always go for the underdog tomboy. Besides, she and the professor were referred to as “the rest” in the theme song.
Oh yeah, and Betty over Veronica, cuz I know it’ll come up.
Hmmm. WWBD?
Mary Ann.
Wilson.
/giphy Mary Ann
I can’t afford Ginger.
I’m a throuple kind of guy. They can be sister-wives.
@mike808 there’s one in every crowd…
@mike808 @ybmuG
If Mary Ann and Ginger got together as part of the same household that way, perhaps they would like each other well enough that someone additional, such as @mike808, would be useless, except as a possible houseboy.
At first I was going to say Mary Ann. But then I thought “I can do high maintenance!”
Plus, from a practical point of view -
Say, things got really bad and it was a long, long time until you got rescued.
When your rescuers ask “How did you survive?” You could always say “I ate ginger” and you wouldn’t get in trouble.
@mehcuda67 well, that was disturbing, but honest.
@ybmuG I retro-blame @aetris for the influence
“Tales Of The Dark Goat O’ Penns Woods” had on me.
@ybmuG thinks pumpkin pie is better than pecan pie.
@mehcuda67 -
/youtube Rescue From Gilligan’s Island
@f00l Holy cow, they ate Ginger!
@f00l that was faux Ginger.
@f00l @RedOak And worse than the original
Whichever one is smarter.
@RiotDemon Rather non-committal, but I suppose that all depends on how you measure smartness. They each had their own domains of expertise.
@ybmuG I never saw the show, so I don’t know.
@RiotDemon @ybmuG
You don’t know what you are missing then.
One of the very silliest and most delightful common cultural touchstones in boomer childhoods.
If you binge on these, don’t actually focus on them, except for, possibly, the first few. They are great as background tho.
I would sleep with the coconuts.
/image coconuts
@UncleVinny I think they were all coconuts, but that’s another story.