Saturday, March 5, 2011

Battle of the Decades – Second Round

This is how impressively ethical and impartial and unbiased and neutral (just found my thesaurus) and fair I am: In the previous battle, I really wanted the 1930s to win. But at the end, the 80s finished with 9 votes and the 30s with 8 votes. Now, I do often get drunk with power (it’s like 90 proof, I think) and officiating over these battles is an enormous amount of power. So when TS Hendrik emailed me a few days ago, to update me on how he’s feeling (he either pulled or tore something in his neck), he mentioned in passing that he’d vote for the 1930s. Wahoo! Right? That would tie it all up, and I’d be forced to break the tie—which is the only time I let myself vote. However, I specifically said that you had to vote by leaving a comment. Tsk, tsk. Look at TS being all sneaky. But like I said above in my string of synonyms, I’m impressively impartial. So, even with the hangover that power had left me with, I did the right thing and let the 80s win. So, there, you may now all praise me and use me as a social yardstick and a model for your children. No, really, you can. Go ahead.

Alright, enough of that. Let’s get to the new battle:


1910s
Your proudest achievements:
I found a couple things but I invented a buncha junk. I found the South Pole and stumbled on Machu Picchu, but I invented parachutes, Boy Scouts, the Panama Canal and even the first crossword puzzle. Yippee! But, really, you have to admit my masterpiece was creating Oreo cookies.
Things you don’t like to talk about:
I accidently sunk the Titanic, and World War I was my bad, but what you guys really get upset at me for is creating the Personal Income Tax. Dude, I’m really sorry, but I also made the first traffic light. What? You guys don’t like traffic? What about Daylight Saving Time? Alright, never mind.

1960s
Your proudest achievements:
Well, ironically, I made Muhammad Ali a fighting champion while also creating the Peace Corps. I also tossed a couple dudes up to the moon. And sure, I invented lasers and did the first heart transplant, blah, blah, blah. But what’s really important is that I gave you guys the Beatles and Woodstock. You’re welcome.
Things you don’t like to talk about:
Uh, well, I kinda killed a bunch of people. Marilyn Monroe, Martin Luther King Jr., JFK, and the Charles Manson ones. But, seriously, I don’t want to talk about them or Vietnam, so go away.


So which of these two is the greater decade? You tell us by casting your vote, for one or the other, in the comments section. On Tuesday we’ll announce the winner (so vote before then), and then throw two other decades up against each other, for round three.


Posted by Reputation@Stake from A Link And A Smile

16 comments:

  1. I figure the 60s will win this round, so when it comes to the semi-finals I'll vote for the 60s then.

    But this time I'm voting for the 1910s, because I'm in a bit of a turn-of-the-century nostalgia kick at the moment, and I an fascinated by such an enterprising decade.

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  2. have to vote 60's this time around, lasers the Beatles and Woodstock, excellent

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  3. Teddy Roosevelt was alive in the 1910's?! The 60's may be the only contender against the 80's, so my vote lies there.

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  4. Women were naked and passing out poon in the 60's so the 60's gets my vote.

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  5. Landing on the moon and the beginning of Star Trek gets my vote for the 1960's.

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  6. I gotta go with the 60's although I am a little bummed I was a tad to young to really enjoy the summer of love. Got my rock and roll start here though so not all bad.

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  7. AHEM....well, since I was born the SAME day JFK was shot, it cancels that one out (yeah, ok). I'm voting for the 60's.

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  8. I go almost entirely on what I see in the movies, the 1910's always looked interesting. I vote for them.

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  9. You really are making this too easy on me. The early part of the last century may have been a smallpox infested racist mess with must damage done to people and the environment by the harsher manufacturing techniques of the Industrial Revolution but the 1960s had HIPPIES, smelly, godless, HIPPIES who smelled that way on purpose. "Keep on TRUCKIN'?. Keep shutting the fuck up, cut and comb your hair and take a bath...and match your shirt to your pants ya goofs.

    1910 all the way baby.

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  10. I vote for the 60s because we were getting closer to Oreos with double stuff by then.
    xoRobyn

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  11. Stupid technicalities... I've been in pain, I should be allowed to email my vote.

    Well, not making the mistake this time. I choose the 60's for the sake of music. 1910 did very little for me. It wasn't even good enough to give me TV.

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  12. 60's. For the same reason as TS. Nothing to add to that really. It's all about the music /catchphrase

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  13. Although I do love the first few decades of the 1900's, I've gotta go with 1960. I totally would have been a hippy, maaaaan.

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  14. The 10's seemed busier with good things up their sleeve...but I guess music does it for me....more like the guys from Liverpool not to mention the moon landing and start of real Sci-fi tilts the scale for me....

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  15. 1960's, definitely. In 1910 serfs and slaves still existed. (In our day they still do in some places in the world, but we know it's wrong.) The 1960's had polio vaccine, and incredible music.

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  16. there is no question that the 60's is the most influental decade maybe in our history. It changed everything! So, if you're going to San Francisco, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair....

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