Would you rather?

[Jubal]

Normal pen, I am not actually very glittery.

Tablet computer or wax tablet and stylus?

[The Seamstress]

I think I'd rather stay in the 21st century and take the tablet computer.

Be a DJ in a club or a pianist in a café?

[Jubal]

Pianist. I can vaguely play a tiny bit of piano, I did some grades in it way back when. And better atmosphere.


Tortoise shell (complete with tortoise) or tortoiseshell (cat variety)?

[The Seamstress]

I think I prefer the floof, so tortoiseshell (cat variety).

Visit Wonderland or Neverland?

[Jubal]

Wonderland, I think.

Visit PIGEON HEAVEN or BEE HEAVEN

[The Seamstress]

OH NOOO that's impossible to decide! But if I have to... BEE HEAVEN. They might have honey for me.

Be trapped in a stuck elevator for HOURS with all four teletubbies or with a quartet of very annoying Elvis impersonators?

[Jubal]

I'll take the Elvis ones, thankyouverymuch

Dress in Elvis' stage outfits for a week or dress in Lady Gaga's stage outfits for a week?

[The Seamstress]

I'd probably look terrible in them, but I guess the Elvis outfits are the more practical choice for everyday wear.

St. Patrick's Day is coming up! Dye your beard or your hair green? (Or both?)

[Jubal]

If I'm doing one I may as well do both.

Potato or tomato?

[The Seamstress]

POTATO

Radish or carrot?

[Jubal]

Carrot.

If forced to make the pronunciation uniform, would you rather make potato pot-ah-to or tomato to-may-to?

[The Seamstress]

Wait... Isn't tomato and potato both pronounced with an "ay" sound in the middle anyway? That's what I do at least... Enlighten the non native speaker please 

I guess that also answers the question because potato without the "ay" just sounds... wrong.


Have yourself and everything you own spray-painted in blue or in violet?

[Jubal]

In British English, tomato is tom-are/ah-toe rather than having the "ay" in the middle.

In blue I think. But please don't.


You're in prison and have to join a gang! But it's a prison of tiny woodland miscreants. Would you rather join the Skunk Punks or the Shrew Crew?

[The Seamstress]

In British English, tomato is tom-are/ah-toe rather than having the "ay" in the middle.

I see. Thank you for explaining! My English is probably a very wild mixture of all kinds of stuff I picked up along the way from US as well as UK media/people and also non native speakers like me, sprinkled with grammar errors, lol. But as long as communication works, I'll be fine I guess!


I think I'd join the Shrew Crew. I feel like I relate to the shy mole-hedgehog-mousy club more than to stinky rebels.

Be invisible for one day per week, or have all the other people around you be invisible for one day per week?

[Jubal]

Hum, I'm not sure I think of shrews as shy - skittish to a degree as all small mammals are, but they're viciously feisty compared to, say, voles or mice, and rather more carnivorous given they largely eat insects.

I'll be invisible a day a week, I think. I often have days of not seeing anyone anyway so it shouldn't make much difference, and it would be SUPER useful for wildlife photography.

You've been told to write a sequel to a Shakespeare play. Do you write The Even Merrier Wives of Windsor, or Yet Further Ado About Nothing?