This or That

[St. Louis]

I'm still working on the Walter Winchell vs. Ed Sullivan thing from a few pages back. I couldn't answer it so I left it alone, but it's been bugging me ever since. Walter Winchell would be a more fascinating dinner companion, but I'd be sick with fear for weeks going over the conversation & trying to remember what I had said that he could use against me. Sullivan would be sweeter but perhaps a bit tiresome after twenty minutes.

Schiaparelli or Vionnet? (One for the ladies.)

 

[jamespowers]

I'm still working on the Walter Winchell vs. Ed Sullivan thing from a few pages back. I couldn't answer it so I left it alone, but it's been bugging me ever since. Walter Winchell would be a more fascinating dinner companion, but I'd be sick with fear for weeks going over the conversation & trying to remember what I had said that he could use against me. Sullivan would be sweeter but perhaps a bit tiresome after twenty minutes.

Schiaparelli or Vionnet? (One for the ladies.)

Schiaparelli made men's ties too you know.

 

[Aristaeus]

Post-redemption. We need more nice guys...

Cadbury or Hershey's chocolate?

Hershey's

 

[this one guy]

Hershey's

Their Cookies 'n' Creme bar is excellent.

Schiaparelli made men's ties too you know.

Well that settles it then, right? :tape:

 

[LizzieMaine]

I'm still working on the Walter Winchell vs. Ed Sullivan thing from a few pages back. I couldn't answer it so I left it alone, but it's been bugging me ever since. Walter Winchell would be a more fascinating dinner companion, but I'd be sick with fear for weeks going over the conversation & trying to remember what I had said that he could use against me. Sullivan would be sweeter but perhaps a bit tiresome after twenty minutes.

I'm actually kind of a Winchell fan myself. He got frustrated and out-of-touch in the postwar era, and took some stupid stands as a result, but in his prime, the thirties and early forties, he was on the noble side of many issues -- and was one of the cleverest newspaper writers who ever lived besides. It's not for nothing that Philip Roth made him a heroic figure in "The Plot Against America." Sullivan, on the other hand, was a mook, and deep down even he knew it. He didn't even write well.

Schiaparelli or Vionnet? (One for the ladies.)

Vionnet, definitely. I get the same feeling from Schiaparelli that I do from Dali: they were putting everyone on, knowing that nobody wanted to be the one to stand up and say "OH COME OFF IT."

Sears and Roebuck or Monkey Ward's?

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Sears Roebuck

Huntley/Brinkley or Cronkite?

 

[this one guy]

Sears Roebuck

Huntley/Brinkley or Cronkite?

Cronkite. Everything seemed more true coming from him, "and that's the way it was".

Parker or Waterman fountain pens?

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Parker or Waterman fountain pens?

Parker

Hostess (the Late Lamented) or Little Debbie?

 

[LizzieMaine]

If I had to pick between the two, Hostess. But I have always preferred Drake's Cakes.

Fountain Coke or Bottled Coke?

 

[Touchofevil]

If I had to pick between the two, Hostess. But I have always preferred Drake's Cakes.

Fountain Coke or Bottled Coke?

Bottled Coke. Partly because It reminds me of roaming around the neighborhood with friends as a kid each with a soda in hand enjoying life.

Mel Torme or Frank Sinatra?

 

[Widebrim]

Sinatra. Hudson or Nash?

 

[jamespowers]

Sinatra. Hudson or Nash?

Metropolitan.

Trigger or White Flash (be careful my son has a preference )

 

[Widebrim]

^^I'm not touching that, since I'm a Tex Ritter fan, but Trigger is better known...

 

[jamespowers]

^^I'm not touching that, since I'm a Tex Ritter fan, but Trigger is better known...

My son is a BIG Tex Ritter fan. Every horse is White Flash to him.

Ok then,
Champion or Trigger?

 

[Widebrim]

^^I'll pass again...

 

[jamespowers]

^^I'll pass again...

Ok then, Gene or Roy?

 

[Widebrim]

Tex...

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Gene as he was also the owner of the then-California Angels.

I think I did this one before but...

Bob Wills or Spade Cooley?

 

[jamespowers]

Tex...

I like his two companions. Stubby and PeeWee. PeeWee is like the western Stan Laurel. lol lol

 

[scotrace]

Tinsel or no?