Minotaur with a Trident or a Centaur with a Crossbow? - 2008-03-24 04:37:40
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Jon (who is usually the one to clue me into MetaFilter fun) didn't know of this meme when I asked him this question:
Who would win in a fight, a minotaur with a trident or a centaur with a crossbow?
The MetaFilter Thread. 91 comments at the moment.
UGO website - where they have video answers of various folk they've asked the question to.
Original interviewee:
Weird AL and the explanation on that page:
"This is where the whole Minotaur Versus Centaur thing started. "Weird Al" was coming into the office for an interview. We waited our whole lives to meet Al and this was the opportunity of a lifetime. We wanted to ask him things he's never been asked before and as we spiraled into the abyss of the absurd trying to come up with clever things to ask him, our Managing Editor Chris Radtke, in a moment of clarity had the only stroke of genius he'll ever have in his lifetime. "I know," he said with his mouth full of Twinkie, "how about we ask him who would win in a fight: a minotaur armed with a trident or a centaur armed with a crossbow?" UGO's Editorial staff was silent for a moment, and then everybody started to riff on thier answers. Two hours later the debate was still raging and life as we know it was changed forever. Like so many other things, it all begins with "Weird Al" Yankovic."
As for myself, I'm going with the centaur.
And
Neil Gaiman has my back on that.
But then, I haven't watched all of the videos and there may be a really good minotaur arguement I've missed.
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