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Question for December 5, 1999 - January 22, 2000:

Which would you rather be trapped with when Y2K strikes...

Those 70's claymation elves/reindeer/abominable snowman/annoying kids/rudolph, in an airplane

OR

A bunch of Christmas robots in a submarine

 

Details:

  • "What are Christmas robots," you will ask? They are those things from the mall - bears, santas, elves, angels - that sing, blink, move around with jerky motions, and strike fear into the hearts of children and adults alike. Imagine that all of these things are connected to a central computer and are running the submarine, deep under the sea. Naturally, when Y2K hits, everything will go haywire. Sparks fly and heads will roll.
  • If that doesn't sound like your cup of holiday tea, then you can be stuck high in the air, in an airplane - and on it is "Those 70's claymation elves/reindeer/abominable snowman/annoying kids/rudolph" (as Jean Kyzer so aptly put it.) And piloting the plane is that elf that wants to be a dentist (YOU KNOW THE ONE.) They all panic and go crazy when Y2K strikes. They break windows and push buttons.

RESULTS:

Claymation Airplane: 5
Robot Submarine: 1


Name: holly walden
Choice: airplane
Comments: um... um... ... I don't know!


Name: Clophus T. Jenkins (Taylor)
Choice: airplane
Comments: Well I work in a mall. If you've ever worked in a mall at Christmas you KNOW why I chose those claymation thingies. Anyway I think it would be fun to mess with the claymation thingies' minds. I'd have them pitted against each other. I'd probably tell everyone that the elves were planning a takeover since they were the majority and that they were going to force everyone else into slave labor, subject them to hundreds of years of not being able to go to school or further themselves in any way all the while taking advantage of... uhh yeah, anyway. Oh yeah and a couple hundred years of oppression until finally the other claymation thingies' culture took over the elves culture thus becoming the "Pop Culture". Then again I fear pop culture is the only kind of culture we're ever gonna have. Oh yeah, and I HATE singing bears so that is another reason why I would choose the claymation thingies.


Name: jena the scared bean
Choice: airplane
Comments: wow...this was a hard one. I think i chose the 70's claymation gang because i've never gotten to see all of those specials on tv around Christmas time. It would be such a great cultural experience to watch these guys figure out how to save the plane... i bet the elf who wants to be a dentist will save the day and then the head elf who made fun of him will feel bad and owe his life to him and then the dentist elf will rule the world and be a dentist and then i'll laugh...


Name: Allison
Choice: airplane
Comments: I love claymation! Watching those movies always give me warm fuzzies! (Besides, if they really do start tearing the plane apart, you could just squish them together and use the clay to plug up holes and hold parts together.)


Name: Josh
Choice: airplane
Comments: I'm a clamation elf at heart (and I have a toothache)


Name: Bethany
Choice: submarine
Comments: I couldn't stand to be with those annoying claymations for an extended length of time. I am afraid they'd try to help me find he moral of the story. With the Christmas robots, at least, I could tear a couple of them apart and create something useful.

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