Belated Friday Open Thread: Northwestern Is Not Good Enough For Me Edition

1. Audi R8

2. Tulowitzki, and the two best young starting Pitchers… I have no idea who would be there, Beachy and Hellickson maybe?

3. Red Pill – Majority of people don’t know whats good for them, not that I know any better, but having spent too much time in SE Kansas I don’t want majority to rule.

4. II didn’t hate Definitely Maybe… Does Brides Maids count?

5. Charlize Theron or Kate Beckinsale… Madonna wouldn’t make my top 50

6. They aren’t playing each other?

1. I already own a Prius, so does that mean I’m rich?

We already have the two cars we want, but if I had to buy something totally frivolous and a waste of money, probably a Porsche Boxster. My wife likes Mini Coopers too, so maybe one for her.

2. Tim Lincecum. Don’t really know who’d be available at #60 and #61. Maybe Willie Bloomquist and Ryan Freel.

3. Red. “When will people learn, democracy just doesn’t work!” – Homer Simpson

4. Probably any Audrey Hepburn movie (longtime crush). But if you mean a more modern rom-com I enjoyed “Love, Actually” and “Bridget Jones Diary.” Does “High Fidelity” count? Or “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”?

5. Aniston is very bland IMO. Always though Welch and Spears were overrated. No average men think Madonna is sexy. Agree on Stanton. Margaret Thatcher was overlooked too. What, you don’t think power is sexy?

6. Clubhouse confusion.

1. Can’t get my permit until February but I would get a Ford Expedition
2. Kershaw 1st and I think Gordo would be available at 60 and I’d take Cahill at 61
3. Red
4. I have a crush on Reese Witherspoon, so any of her movies
5. No Madonna or Spears, add Brooklyn Decker
6. They weren’t playing each other

1. If money was no object, what car would you purchase? Doesn’t have to be a new car. I’m expecting a lot of Prius answers, but I’m open to ideas.

I drive an ‘85 Grand Wagoneer, but it’s got rust along the base. I actually really love this automobile and would just have a nicer one. Well either that or a ~1970 Chevelle SS.

2. If MLB were to reset the rosters, and the Royals ended up with the #1 pick in a snake draft, who would you target for the #1, #60 and #61 pick? All contracts would be voided, and the Royals would control players for six seasons. #1. Justin Upton #60. concur with the Gordo pick #61. Greinke (I wouldn’t be surprised if he were still there then)

3. The ghost of Plato offers you one of two pills. If you take the blue pill, from now on your government will precisely represent the will of its people. If you take the red pill, your country will be seized by an intelligent dictator whose political views are identical to yours. Which will it be?

Dictator.

4. If you were forced to spend an evening watching a double feature of romantic comedies, what two movies would you actually enjoy?

I could stand to watch Crazy, Stupid, Love again despite the awful title. If Love and Other Drugs counts, I’d go with that because of the massive amounts of Anne Hathaway nudity. I’d second High Fidelity or Eternal Sunshine or Say Anything… and would prefer them over either of the two aforementioned movies. I doubt any of those really would count, so I guess I’d opt for Definitely, Maybe. Not to pick on Retro, but I really hated Love, Actually.

5. Menshealth.com recently announced the poll results for a “Hottest Women of All Time” survey. The top five were Jennifer Aniston, Raquel Welch, Marilyn Monroe, Britney Spears, and Madonna. How people failed to arrive in mass to vote for Elizabeth Cady Stanton is beyond me, but the results are the results. Thoughts on the Top 5? Who was overlooked?

No on all of them. Raquel Welch is the most defensible. Top 5 ever: Grace Kelly, Monica Bellucci, Elizabeth Taylor ca. 1955 or so, Kelly LeBroc ca. 1985, and Jennifer Connelly ca. 2002

6. Two men play checkers. They play five games and each man wins five games. There were no ties. How is this possible?

They’re not playing each other.

1. I’d like that supercharged Caddy with all the horsepower.
2. Kershaw at 1, I like Gordon at 60, and another startiing pitcher at 61.
3. Red pill- sweet. I have some crazy ass ideas about running the world.
4. I don’t mind Tom Hanks- You’ve Got Mail etc…
5. Brtiney and Madonna are awful picks. I would put Salma and Halle up there.
6. previous posters beat me to it.

1. Prius answer

2. #1: T-Tu, #60: Jeff Francis, #61: Ryan Ludwick

3. Both

4. “Annie Hall” and “Children of Men”

5. Melissa Joan Hart and Grace Jones

6. They were playing different opponents

1. If money was no object, what car would you purchase? Ford GT40

2. If MLB were to reset the rosters: #1 Bryce Harper; #60 Josh Johnson; #61 Gordo

3. Red. Really a great topic for a term paper.

4. Double feature of romantic comedies Give me a Jack Lemmon double feature of The Apartment and Some Like it Hot

5. “Hottest Women of All Time”: I’m the guy who was always turned on more by Courtney Cox than Jennifer Anniston. Britney Spears is a dog. Madonna was extremely sexual during those awkward pre-teen years for me, but not deserving of a “hottest” list. I’d leave Marilyn on there and add Audrey Hepburn (total fool for petite brunettes, don’t tell my wife), Carmen Electra (complete slut but so hot). I’m horrible at these lists because I don’t keep track of these things in my head, though I probably should. I would like to do unimaginable things to Tina Fey and Megan Mullally. Halle Berry and Charlize Theron are the obvious omissions.

6. They were dressed “business casual.”

1. The fucking Madden tour bus…game over…I win.

2. Roy Halladay. Eric Hosmer. Alex Gordon.

3. Plato said in 400BC that a democracy would never work because the people would always select the wrong leader. I am going with the dictator with my political views. Everything would be reinforced by Kauffmanian thought such as “you don’t give a hungry man a fish you give him a fishing pole”

4. Knocked-up and the Break-up.

5. It’s all relative. Each man/woman has their own opinion of hotness. Hence all of the marriages that happen every year. It’s so subjective that I believe any arguments on the matter are moot.

6. He is playing himself.

1. Outside of the Prius, have to be either a BMW M7 or Audi A7

2. With #1 I’d go with Justin Upton. With #60 I’d hope for Elvls Andrus. At #61, look for Ricky Romero. If Romero was gone, I’d gladly grab Joe Saunders.

3. Lot of dictators around these parts. One person having all that power wouldn’t end well.

4. “Just Friends” is pretty funny. For a more traditional route, you can’t knock “Can’t Buy Me Love”. Surprised ‘Groundhog Day" hasn’t been brought up.

5. Pretty weak Top 5 in my opinion. Have to add Kate Beckinsale, Rachel Bilson, and Sarah Michelle Gellar myself.

6. I put up logic puzzles, and barely anyone tries. I throw up an easy brain teaser, and everybody chimes in. I see how it goes around here.

1. Not a car guy, but a ‘68 Dodge Charger would be cool….but I’d feel like an old man wearing a Hosmer jersey, so I’d prob go for your ridculously overpriced luxury Benz, BMW, Jaguar, whatever.

2. 6 years? I might still pluck Pujols. Strasburg around in the 6th? How about Ethier? Lo Mo?

3. Pass the dictator pills please

4. Annie Hall, Sid & Nancy

5. Raquel is the only one I’m feeling in that furious five…my own taste would skew classic, Sophia Loren, Audrey Hepburn, Debbie Harry, and Angie Dickinson. And just for fun, a Pia Zadora/Bernadette Peters sammich.

6. Gots to be different opponents?

1. Honda Fit. It’s the car I plan on purchasing this summer once my husband’s car is paid off, assuming my 1998 Chevy Cavalier can hold on until then. I hate shopping of all kinds, and since I’ve already decided on this one, regardless of money, I’d still get it just to not have to shop around again.

2. I suck at this kind of thing because I don’t pay enough attention to the other teams’ rosters. I do like the Tulowitzki kid though.

3. I have to go with blue. I don’t think a dictator can avoid becoming a tyrant because he (or she) would be forcing some unpopular opinions on people. And I don’t want a tyrant. Also, since one of my opinions is that voting should be, like taxes, mandatory, since I believe a certain amount of participation by the populous is required for a government such as ours to function properly, it would kind of undo the whole dictator thing. Also, I don’t think intelligence alone is adequate for a nation’s leader. Especially in a “dictator” I would want someone with respect for humanity as well as ideas, so them being intelligent alone isn’t a big sell for me.

4. What do you mean “forced”? This sounds like a great way to spend the evening as long as Katherine Heigl isn’t in any of them. For my double feature, I’d have to go with some old Cary Grant and/or Frank Capra movies, though. I’ll say “His Girl Friday” since it’s my all-time favorite Cary Grant movie and “You Can’t Take It With You” for the Frank Capra/James Stewart awesomeness.

5. Really? Britney Spears? I can’t think off the top of my head, but that list is pretty weak. I like Nighthawk’s answer until he got to Pia Zadora.

6. They’re not playing each other.

1.

2. #1: Clayton Kershaw. #60: Ugh Josh Hamilton #61: Eric Hosmer.

3. Blue.

4. A Guy Thing and The Family Man.

5. Jennifer Connelly, Jessica Alba, Jessica Biel, Harumi Nemoto, Betty Page

6. They aren’t playing each other.

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1. I was going to buy a Subaru Forester, but I impulsively went with a 1997 GMC Jimmy SLE. If the AM radio were grounded properly (I had a CD/radio installed), it would be perfect. I still have to have a full size 4WD for emergencies, but this vehicle handles 99%+ of the driving I need to do perfectly. The 4.3L Vortec V-6 is a great engine.

2. I would be horrible at this.

3. Definitely blue. I think both ends of the spectrum are wildly over-represented, and the “radical middle” is where a vast majority of people are.

4. I’ve seen very few of these. My wife was a cowboys and Indians person, particularly Indians. A Map Of The Human Heart is one of my favorites, and I liked The Wedding Singer, probably empathetically.

5.

Pia did have a nice ass.

6. Asked and answered.

1. Range rover with a driver.
2. King Felix, Hoz, Jamele Weeks
3. Red pill – Bread and circuses are not for me.
4. Proposal and How to Lose a Guy in 10 days. I have no problem watching a rom-com with a girl- they may not be fulfilling, but i find them entertaining and kinda catharthic, and i get in good with the girl who associates me with all those warm feelings.
5. I’d like a bit of French flavor on the list: Mata Hari, Brigitte Bardot, Audrey Tautou,
6. Because of society.

1. If money was no object, I doubt I’d be able to choose just one. I’d have to move to an area where I could have a 15-20 car garage. I imagine the occupants would include a Mercedes SLS, Bugatti Veyron Super Sport, Ferrari 458, 1957 Ferrari 250 GT California Spider, etc., etc. For family road trips I suppose I’d need something more practical…like a Mercedes/Brabus SV12 R Biturbo 800 (at 788 horsepower allegedly the world’s fastest 4-door car). Or maybe just a BMW/Alpina B7 would do. And if you want to be environmentally-friendly with money as no object, then screw a Prius: Try the Fisker Karma or Tesla Model S.

2. Stanton, then best two pitchers still available at 60 and 61.

3. Red pill. The “will of the people” is not really a consensus anymore—it’s the “will of what will probably be best for my present and future personal financial interests.” I think it would be interesting to see what kind of political enema an intelligent, benevolent dictator might bring. Ideally, this dictator (and subsequent dictators) would encourage bloodless coups every 10 years or so, just to freshen things up.

4. OMD’s suggestions were great. I’d probably go High Fidelity, Crazy, Stupid, Love, and Love and Other Drugs in that order.

5. That’s just an awful Top 5. I don’t care if they were just considering each woman at her all-time peak. The problem with modern society and the internet is that it makes much harder to create a list these days. When the only women you saw were certain movie stars 2-3 times a year in your local theater, it necessarily limited your pool to a much more manageable number. I’ll just throw out my Top 5 of the moment (subject to change 3 minutes from now): Charlize, Halle, Mila, Olivia Wilde and Olga Kurylenko.

6. I assume you’re using a little trickeration with the wording of the question, and that the two men weren’t necessarily playing each other. Either that, or I don’t understand the rules of checkers very well. Which is entirely possible—it’s been a while.