You've just won the Ultimate Game Show and are presented with two prize options. Prizes can be fantasy (i.e., not bound by the laws of nature & reality), and you are magically guaranteed personal safety in anything you choose. Select which one you'd take, and then come up with two more for the next person.

PRIZE OPTIONS:

1. Go for a ride in an F-14 (carrier launch & land included)
2. Drive a race car (NASCAR, Indy, whatever) at the track of your choice

I'd take #1 for sure. Lifelong dream, but I would hope the landing would be at night!
Next two prizes....

1. Spend an evening with Beyonce Knowles.
2. Spend an afternoon playing flag football with your choice of NFL players.

OH, god, #2. #1 is not remotely appealing.

1) Hang with LeBron as they are filming "Cribs" You get to drive the hummer.

2) You can have any human you wish evaporate, along with all evidence they existed.

2. Carrot Top.
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1. You can catch the winning touchdown in the Super Bowl for your favorite team, but get no money for it from endorsements or anything else.
2. You can get $100,000 tax free.

I'll take (2).

Prize choices:

1) A sniper rifle and clear line of sight of Usama bin Laden's noggin

2) A sniper rifle and clear line of sight of Jacque Chirac's noggin

I'd take #1, of course.
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1. Knowing what Jim's next project is.

2. Knowing what year your favorite team would win it's next championship.

I'll take #1 just because what fun is it knowing your team is going to win or that it could be a very long way away?

1. Playing a round of golf with Tiger.

2. PLaying one on one with MJ.

Interesting choice, but I'd go with #1 - Playing a round of golf with Tiger.

How about:
1) Creating the next great sports-sim in the sport of your choice

or

2) Creating the next big console sports game

2...more money in it right now

1) Guaranteeing your school a slot in next year's Sugar Bowl

2) Guaranteeing your school a slot in next year's NCAA basketball championship

1. college football is the best game around.

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1. Starting high school or college over with what you know now.

2. Retiring comfortably today.

Oh, #2 - no question!

a. Have a son or daughter who becomes President of the U.S.
b. Have a son or daughter who becomes a moderately successful pro athlete

B, no politicians in the family please.

#1 - take a one-week trip to the moon
#2 - spend a week as any celebrity you choose

2 - what the hell would you do on the moon? Suffocate?

1. Ask God one question.
2. Give yourself one piece of advice as a 16 year old.

2, probably. As a Christian, I'm already asking God questions. It's up to him if he wants to answer. :)

Something basic:

1) Tickets to Army-Navy game

2) Tickets to Michigan-Ohio State game

I would have to say Tickets to the Army-Navy Game

1. Sex with Fritz
2. Sex with Marmel

Edit - Egads, I'm not touching that question.

Originally posted by Airhog
I would have to say Tickets to the Army-Navy Game

1. Sex with Fritz
2. Sex with Marmel

And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why Airhog is the Thread Killer Extraordinaire.

Do I have to choose?

Originally posted by Airhog
1. Sex with Fritz
2. Sex with Marmel

2. I have a marsupial fetish.

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1. Have a role in your favorite movie of all time
2. Have a role in your favorite TV show of all time.

Edit: fixed typo

#2, though I'm not exactly sure what show I'd pick.

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1. Gain the ability to alter your physical form at will.
2. Gain immortality.

1 - I'd make myself into the world's first three-sport athlete.

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1. Marry a really hot chick that is lousy in bed.
2. Marry a homely chick that is awesome in the sack.

1, mischief abounds with that pick. Would not really want to have to watch everything, and I mean, EVERYTHING die, people, cities, planet, solar system, universe.... (shoot, this was meant for Coffee's post...) As for franklin's...it depends on degree of skill...I can put up with a lot if I know I'll enjoy waking up in the morning to a pretty face....

1) Convince a favorite female celeb to pose nude AND be the photographer (it's up to you whether they get published or not)

2) Having the power of invisibility (in which case, photos really won't be necessary if you're perverse enough)

2. Invisibility would rock...

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1. Become the star player on your favorite pro sports team.

2. Become CEO of a multi-million dollar business.

2. I would then buy my favorite sports team, the Pirates, and treat them like I was Mark Cuban.

1. Be trapped in a 5 x 5 room with bbor and a pot of chili.
2. Be married to Joumanna Kidd.

2, that is Jason Kidd's wife I hope.


1 - Having a beer with George Washington and listening to his stories of history.
2 - Having a beer with Ty Cobb and hearing his stories.

Originally posted by Franklinnoble
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why Airhog is the Thread Killer Extraordinaire.

obviously not quite good enough :D

Originally posted by EagleFan
1 - Having a beer with George Washington and listening to his stories of history.
2 - Having a beer with Ty Cobb and hearing his stories.

GREAT options! As a historian I'd have to go with #1, but tough choice.

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1. Go back in time 100, 500, & 1000 years and live a day anywhere of your choosing.

2. Go ahead in time 100, 500, & 1000 years and live a day anywhere of your choosing.

#2 - Because I'm convinced all the cool shit is going to happen about 5 minutes after I die, and I wanna see.

(ironically enough, my next 1/2 was gonna be regarding time travel, but....)
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1) Return to infancy and grow back up, keeping all the knowledge/awareness you've already gained through the years.

2) Find out for yourself what is really there once you die, and come back to life after you get a good look around.

Excellent set. I would choose #2, more because #1 does not seem too appealing to me.

1. Own your favorite NFL franchise.
2. Own your favorite MLB franchise.

1) NFL...at some point, I should have a chance to win a title...doesn't happen much in baseball anymore unless you are one of the "haves".

Choices:

1) To know all there is to know and recall with perfect clarity and speed when asked a question on any subject. (to be omniscient)

2) To be impervious all manner of pain, suffering, illness, and injury, though not immortal, and we'll throw in some kind of Herculean strength on the side as a bonus.

Definitely #1. And then I'd call in to every radio talk show I could find and make the hosts feel like idiots.

1) Bring back Jim Morrison from the dead and spend a day with him.

2) Bring back Marilyn Monroe from the dead and spend the day with her.

2 - Marilyn... no contest there.

1.) Live in renaissance europe or colonial America, knowing what you know about the future.

2.) Live today but have the knowledge of someone who's lived in the year 2500.

Earl Boykins


Wait, not that kind of a Meaningless Friday Fun Thread? Very well then, my apologies, carry on then.

2). I'd rather not be burned at the stake for heretical knowledge.

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1) Fall from an airplane at 10,000 feet without a parachute

2) Trapped on a slowly sinking boat in the middle of the Atlantic with no way to summon help

Originally posted by SackAttack
2). I'd rather not be burned at the stake for heretical knowledge.

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1) Fall from an airplane at 10,000 feet without a parachute

2) Trapped on a slowly sinking boat in the middle of the Atlantic with no way to summon help

And this was supposed to be a "fun" thread... :rolleyes:

1) Cause you could do cool flips on the way down. Yes you'll die when you hit the ground but maybe, just maybe some people will see you and say "damn, that d00d is plummeting to his horrible demise, but look at dem coo' flips!" If I'm going out, I want to entertain as I do it.

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1) be blind

2) be deaf

Originally posted by Franklinnoble
And this was supposed to be a "fun" thread... :rolleyes:

And it IS...for everybody who's not plummeting or drowning.

2) Couldnt stand not seeing where I was going.

1) Have a million bucks in hattrick
2) Win the double in hattrick.

;)

What's "win the double" mean?

A million bucks could get blown pretty quick in Hattrick.

Win the ML and the Cup in the same season.

Originally posted by illinifan999
Win the ML and the Cup in the same season.

That'd be worth a lot more than a million Hattrick dollars, I'd think...

Originally posted by mrsimperless
1) Cause you could do cool flips on the way down. Yes you'll die when you hit the ground but maybe, just maybe some people will see you and say "damn, that d00d is plummeting to his horrible demise, but look at dem coo' flips!" If I'm going out, I want to entertain as I do it.


Plus drowning would suck, at least you're likely to get a quick death on impact.

Originally posted by mckerney
Plus drowning would suck, at least you're likely to get a quick death on impact.

I dunno... I consider myself a pretty good swimmer, and my, um, added girth probably makes me extra-bouyant.

and you are magically guaranteed personal safety in anything you choose.

So I'd choose falling, just to be able to hit the ground (*splat*), stand up, brush myself off, and walk away.

[I think this came from a Dilbert cartoon]
1. Have a job in which you do incredibly meaningful and useful work, but get paid pennies for it; or
2. Have a job in which all the work you do is torn up at the end of the day, but get paid handsomely.

2)

1) Be able to beta test NCAA Football 2004
2) Be able to beta test Madden 2004

2, since I don't know much about college football. :(
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1. Being drafted by the Cinncinati Bengals with the 1st overall pick.

2. Being drafted by the LA Clippers with the 1st overall pick.

2, since there is still hope for you elsewhere.

1- Being a superstar athlete for one season, before a career ending injury.
2- Being an average athlete for a long career.

1- Being a superstar athlete for one season, before a career ending injury.
2- Being an average athlete for a long career.

Have to go with #2. It's no fun dreaming about what might have been, ie. Bo Jackson

New questions:

1. Winning the Tour de France
2. Winning the FIFA World Cup

2 - I don't know why, but that would be really cool.

New Question:

1. Have sex with your mom
2. Have sex with a 300 lb. guy named Bubba

:D

Now there's a tough one

What if your mom is now a 300 lb. guy named Bubba?

And right now we need a Fritz, Marmel answer if this wants to go on. ;)

Okay, I guess that question was a little bit wrong, so here's a new one.

1. Have sex with Cathrine Zeta Jones
2. Have sex with Jennifer Lopez


That should be a little less painful:D

J-Lo..I'm all about her Ass:)

1.Corndog in the peehole
2.Baggy full of fart

I've seen this question somewhere before...i just can't remember where????:D

Originally posted by Swaggs
1. Be trapped in a 5 x 5 room with bbor and a pot of chili.


My wife would'nt pick this option either:)

Swaggs....i nearly died laughing when i read this :D

Originally posted by bbor
J-Lo..I'm all about her Ass:)

1.Corndog in the peehole
2.Baggy full of fart

I've seen this question somewhere before...i just can't remember where????:D

I almost put this for my last one, but I didn't think enough people would get it. :)

What the fuck are you talking about bbor?

Originally posted by tucker342
What the fuck are you talking about bbor?

Check the QOTM .....it's done by Tobias...god of the inane

Sometimes at night, the ice weasles come

1. Kirby Puckett
2. Turducken

Originally posted by bbor
1.Corndog in the peehole
2.Baggy full of fart


1. I love corn-holes.

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1. Live in the 1500's as a prosperous, dashing, and famous pirate.

2. Live in the 1500's as an honorable, wealthy, and feared samurai.

2--I'm a good guy for the most part...besides, pirates (see Edward Teach) typically meet an untimely end.

Choices:

1) Appearing on the sixth floor of the Texas Schoolbook Depository in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963 to stop (or witness, depending on how macabre you are) Oswald's assasination of Kennedy

2) Appearing near the Presidential Booth at Ford's Theater on April 14, 1865 to stop (or witness) Booth's assasination of Lincoln

2) Appearing near the Presidential Booth at Ford's Theater on April 14, 1865 to stop Booth's assasination of Lincoln

The implications of this one are staggering. It would be fascinating to see how our country emerged from Reconstruction under Lincoln's guidance.

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1. Have an encounter involving communication with a ghost/spirit.
2. Have an encounter involving communication with an extraterrestrial.

#2. I want to know, dammit. I look up there all the time.

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1) Be abducted by aliens and taught advance technological/evolutionary tricks far beyond current Earth technology/biology, and then be returned to Earth to do as you will.

2) Same as above, but instead of being returned to Earth, be given a starship/crew and travel the universe.

1...it'd be hard never to return home (unless 2 does allow for return visits from time to time...)

1) To bring a Founding Father forward to the 21st Century for a brief amount of time to show him what the United States has become and find out his reaction to it (once he goes back, he forgets all he sees, so no use asking him if it's what he meant to have happen and have him change it)

2) To go back to the time of the nation's founding and talk to same Founding Father to see what he really meant by certain things that we are only interpreting today (you do get to retain this knowledge when you return, but don't be surprised if others don't believe you)

Great set...I'd go with 2.

1) Your Football team gets a 21 year old Joe Montana as their new QB.

2) Your Football team gets a 21 year old Dan Marino as their new QB.

I'll take Montana...he knows how to win.

1.) Attend any Superbowl in NFL history.
2.) Attend any World Series in MLB history.

(which one?)

1 - The Super Bowl is much more interesting than the World Series


1. Have had Homer Simpson be your father growing up.
2. Have had Archie Bunker be your father growing up.

Gotta be (1). (Then again, I grew up after Archie was big on TV, so I may be age-biased)

1) Go back to 1974 and witness NC State and Maryland in the ACC championship game ("Greatest Game Ever Played" I)

2) Go back to 1992 and witness Duke and Kentucky in the East Regional final ("Greatest Game Ever Played" II)

I'll go with #1, since I did get to see the latter on TV.

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1. Live out your days on a tropical island with one person of your choice and no further contact with civilization, but with all your basic needs met (food, water, shelter)

2. Continue your life as you have it now.

It would have to be 2. It would be easy to get tired of that other person, no matter who it is, and at that point what are you stuck with.

1 - Be a fly on the wall a few years ago to see what really happened with OJ's ex wife.

2 - Be a fly on the wall to see what really happened with Amelia Airhart (sp?).

(2)...unless you still believe OJ is looking for the killer during his occassional rounds of golf

1) Spend a game playing major league ball at Wrigley

2) Spend a game playing major league ball at Fenway

I'd pick Fenway...they are both good choices, but I think that greater players have played with the Sox over history and that would be my deciding factor.

1.) $500,000
2.) Dinner and evening with any one loved one that has passed away.

1, but we're going through financial trouble so that's a tainted response.

1 - Getting selected to be on Survivor.

2 - Getting selected for the Amazing Race.

1. $500,000
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1. Discover the cure for cancer

2. Discover the means to extend life spans to 300+ years.

I'd pick #1 - the cure for cancer is my ultimate "what I would wish for" thing.

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1. The ability to select your dreams (i.e., determine what you will dream about in advance), but not control your actions once they start.

2. The ability to act fully in your dreams, but not select what they are about.

2, easy. I'm gonna have dirty dreams about Britney Spears and Christian Aguilara anyways, so I would love to be able to control what I do to them... :D


1. Be the most handsome man alive.
2. Be the wealthiest man alive.

1, cause if you have good looks, you could be a model or something, and make lots of money that way

1. You have the ability to slow down time
2. you have the ability to fly

I'll pick (2), if only because it's hard to know what the ground rules are for (1), i.e. does this mean that anything you have contact with slows to your frame of reference, or is it just you and the clothes you wear? Admittedly (1) has always been a curious fantasy of mine anyway.

Choices (let's get all Star Trek with this one):

(1) You have your very own "holodeck"

(2) You have your very own transporter

1) HOLODECK! - The greatest, and last, invention of humanity.

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To continue the supernatural...

1) To be able to control animals (ie make any animal do what you want by will alone)

2) To be able to control the weather. (straightforward)

1. Call me Dr. WSUCougardoolittle

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1. Have a one-night affair with the person of your choice, but your spouse or significant other gets one too (full disclosure)

2. Have a 100% secret, one-night affair with the person of your choice, of which your spouse or significant other is completely unaware forever (you just have to live with it).