This, or That?

[bobsvinyl]

No if you believe the theory, yes if you don't. I'll go with yes.

Area 51 or Bigfoot?

 

[Hyperion]

Area 51.

Yeti or Loch Ness Monster?

 

[mech986]

Loch Ness Monster

Transistor = alien technology or true human invention?

 

[tybrad]

Human invention.

SR-71 Blackbird or alien UFO?

 

[Hyperion]

SR-71 Blackbird.

Burke's Law (TV) or Moore's Law (integrated circuits)?

 

[harman/kardon]

Burke's Law

11000 posts or 12000 posts?

 

[tybrad]

Neither- not close yet.

Chevron or checkerboard pattern?

 

[bobsvinyl]

I'm game. Checkerboard.

Games: Monopoly or Risk?

 

[Hyperion]

Monopoly.

More games: Cluedo or Snakes and Ladders?

 

[screenersam]

hate snakes in real life but S&L okay.

DNU(not to be confused with...well, you know)DNU

witty and erudite reference few will understand, or laugh-out-loud slaptstick moment?

 

[mech986]

Witty, but a sucker for good true slapstick.

laptop or iPad?

 

[tybrad]

Laptop.

Smartphone or not-so-smart phone

 

[bobsvinyl]

I own a very stupid phone.

Loud, shrill phone ring or soft and soothing ring?

 

[tybrad]

Softer ring.

Delisle or Réaumur scale?

 

[old_tv_nut]

Reaumur.
(By the way, I dislike having to look up something I very likely will never use - so tell me if there is any contemporary use of this scale.)

Color temperature in K or mireds?

 

[Hyperion]

Color temperature in K.

Steam Iron or Standard dry?

(I occasionally put in an 'arcane' one here and there, sorry OTVN).

 

[old_tv_nut]

Steam Iron

(Just joking about the arcane items, but I don't think that one could even be worked into a bar bet.)

Plain mustard or with horseradish?

 

[Hyperion]

Plain Mustard. (so many different types - it's nice to try as many as possible, oddly perhaps, I don't like 'English' mustard ).

Tabasco or Worcester Sauce?

 

[screenersam]

Worcester. Supposedly based on an old Roman formula ('liquamen').

up in the sky; a bird or a plane?

 

[jbrainey]

A bird. (They can't find the plane)

Particle or wave?