Board Thread:Speculation/@comment-96.241.27.58-20170410142704

In the spirit of too much never being enough, here are some suggestions for battles:



1- Harriet Tubman vs. Andrew Jackson w/ Susan B. Anthony cameo: Tussle to the twenty

     (possible press/replay value if/when the $20 switch actually happens)

2- PT Barnum vs. John Boehner:  Who ran the bigger circus?

3- Annie Oakley vs. Sarah Palin: Shooting from the hip vs. shooting from the lip

4- Butch Cassidy vs. Ronald Reagan: Which cowboy had the better posse?

5- Oscar Wilde vs. Jane Austen: tWITter battle of the sexless

6- Mae West vs. Oscar Wilde: Wilde, wild West

     ([the] Oscar eludes Mae despite her aggressive advances)

7- Ms. Cleo vs. Nostradamus w/ Jeane Dixon cameo:  How could you not see this coming?

8- Rockefeller vs. Crassus w/ cameo by Croesus: Which of the bigger asses had bigger assets?

9- King Midas vs. Donald Trump:  Go for the gold!

10- Blanche and Rose vs. Dorothy and Ma: Go for the gold(en)!

11- Lucille Ball vs. Phyllis Diller w/ Carol Burnette and Joan Rivers cameos: Queens of comedy

12- Charlemagne vs. Attila the Hun: Reign of culture vs. reign of conquest

13- Dalai Lama vs. Mother Theresa:  Who’s holier than thou?

<p class="MsoNormal">14- Kanye West vs. Russell Brand: Messiah complex vs. god complex

<p class="MsoNormal">15- Mata Hari vs. Kim Kardashian: Girls gone wild

<p class="MsoNormal">16- Justice Ginsburg vs Judge Judy: Who be the judge?

<p class="MsoNormal">17- Dr. Ruth vs. Sigmund Freud: Let’s talk about sex, baby. [playing the dozens]

<p class="MsoNormal">18- Rodney Dangerfield vs. John Cleese:  Mad respect for the [D]anger

<p class="MsoNormal">19- Bob Barker vs. Alex Trabek:  The host with the most

<p class="MsoNormal">20- Elvira vs. Morticia Addams w/ Lily Munster cameo: Mistresses of darkness

<p class="MsoNormal">21- Charo vs. Dolly Parton:  Seeing double

<p class="MsoNormal">22- Marie Curie vs. Thomas Midgley, Jr:  Dangerous discoveries

<p class="MsoNormal">23- David Carridine vs. Jackie Chan: Who will continue the legend?

<p class="MsoNormal">24- John Henry vs. Paul Bunyan:  Who’s the biggest folk hero?

<p class="MsoNormal">25- Tarzan vs. Steve Irwin:  King of the jungle vs. king of khaki

<p class="MsoNormal">26- Dexter vs. Hannibal Lecter: In the murder business

<p class="MsoNormal">27- Karl Lagerfeld vs. Elizabeth Bathory: Murda Bizness (killing young women’s pride vs. just killing them)

<p class="MsoNormal">28- Che Guevera vs. Fidel Castro:  ¡Viva la Revolucion!

<p class="MsoNormal">29- Queen Elizabeth I vs. Angela Merkel:  A balance of powers

<p class="MsoNormal">30- Queen Elizabeth II vs. Indira Gandhi:  Crumbling empire vs. growing empire

<p class="MsoNormal">31- Donald Trump vs. Leona Helmsley:  Who runs this town? (The IRS.)

<p class="MsoNormal">32- Mother Goose vs. Dr. Seuss:  Mother of rhyme vs. kid’s favorite of all time

<p class="MsoNormal">33- Hans Christian Andersen vs. R.L. Stine: Scaring children since 1835

<p class="MsoNormal">34- Spartacus vs. Malcom X: The struggle continues

<p class="MsoNormal">35- Ramses II vs. Ghengis Kahn: Prolific builder vs. prolific destroyer

<p class="MsoNormal">36- George Orwell vs. Gene Rodenberry: War-tech dystopian vision vs. high-tech utopian vision

<p class="MsoNormal">37- Caligula vs. Kim Jong Un: My delusion of grandeur is bigger than yours

<p class="MsoNormal">38- Vanderbilt vs. Carnegie w/ Ford, Rockefeller and JP Morgan cameos: Who’s captain of this industry?

<p class="MsoNormal">39- Marco Polo vs. Herodotus:  Lyin’ Large

<p class="MsoNormal">40- Shirley Temple vs. young Michael Jackson w/ Honey Boo Boo and Gary Coleman cameos (or vice versa):  Talented toddlers and tiaras

<p class="MsoNormal">41- Cesar Millan vs. Ivan Pavlov: Leader of the pack

<p class="MsoNormal">42- Gutenberg vs. Zuckerberg:  All the words that are fit to print

<p class="MsoNormal">43- Zorro vs. The Scarlet Pimpernel:  Fox vs. fop

<p class="MsoNormal">44- Sitting Bull vs. Montezuma II: Battle of the Americas

<p class="MsoNormal">        (Native American leaders who united their lands and welcomed European immigrants before being killed by them, but not before getting their “revenge”)

<p class="MsoNormal">45- Montezuma II vs. King Tut: Demi-god throwdown

<p class="MsoNormal">46- Donald Trump vs. Caligula: tiny hands vs. tiny boots

<p class="MsoNormal">        (Incestuous narcissists with tentative grips on reality at the helm of declining empires)

<p class="MsoNormal">47- Charlemagne the Great vs. King Sejong the Great:  Reigns of enlightenment and education

<p class="MsoNormal">48- Karl Marx vs. Cesar Chavez:  Putting theory into practice

<p class="MsoNormal">49- Maximillian Robespierre vs. Susan B. Anthony w/ Sojourner Truth cameo: Wartime suffragists and abolitionists with very different goals and endings

<p class="MsoNormal">50- Stephen Biko vs. Ben Carson:  Black consciousness vs. Black unconsciousness

<p class="MsoNormal">51- Hammurabi vs. King John:  Who’s the better coder?

<p class="MsoNormal">52- Lewis Black vs. Oscar the Grouch: Anger mismanagement

<p class="MsoNormal">53- Empress Wu Zetian vs.Hathesput:  HBIC -- Who run the world?

<p class="MsoNormal">54- Abbott and Costello vs. Statler and Astoria:  Who’s on first?

<p class="MsoNormal">55- Oliver Stone vs. Gore Vidal: Conspiracy theorist vs. conspiracy analyst

56- Rosa Parks vs. Lady Godiva: Sitting in protest

57- Richard Simmons vs. Abby Lee Miller: Sweatin’ to the Oldies

58- Jackie Robinson vs. Billie Jean King: Ball busters breaking barriers

59- Barbie vs Boudicca:  Women in a man’s world

60- Al Bell vs. Al Gore:  non-inventor of telephone vs. non-inventor of internet

61- Alexander Graham Bell vs. Louis Daguerre:  A picture is worth 1,000 words

62- Julian Assange vs. Anonymous: Even Super Mario couldn't plumb all these leaks

<p class="MsoNormal">63- Elizabeth Taylor vs. Danielle Steel: Sex and scandal and so many spouses

<p class="MsoNormal">64- Catherine de Medici vs. Kris Jenner:  Megalo-momagers

<p class="MsoNormal">65- Bender vs. C3PO:  Kiss my shiny metal ass!

<p class="MsoNormal">66- Rupert Murdoch vs. Jeff Bezos:  Yellow journalism at its finest

<p class="MsoNormal">67- Angelina Jolie vs. Josephine Baker: Patron saint of the child army vs. mother of the rainbow tribe

<p class="MsoNormal">68- Lorne Michaels vs. Aesop: Skittish satirist vs. fabled fabulist

<p class="MsoNormal">69- Hellen Keller vs. Temple Grandin: Sensory deprivation vs. sensory overload

<p class="MsoNormal">70- Galileo vs. Edwin Hubble: Stargazers

<p class="MsoNormal">71- Euclid vs. Picasso:  The genius of geometry

<p class="MsoNormal">72- Louis Pasteur vs. Alexander Fleming:  Better booze vs. safer sex

<p class="MsoNormal">73- Antoni Gaudi vs. Frank Lloyd Wright: To be Frank, that’s so Gaudi

<p class="MsoNormal">74- Frank Lloyd Wright vs. Will Wright (SIMS):  Principals of design

<p class="MsoNormal">75- Hippocrates vs. Dr. Who:  Modern medicine men

<p class="MsoNormal">76- Anderson Cooper vs. Herodotus:  A distorted narrative

<p class="MsoNormal">77- Christopher Columbus vs. Leif Ericson w/Sacagawea cameo: “First!”

<p class="MsoNormal">78-  Lena Dunham vs. Edith Wharton:  Age of the not-so-innocent

<p class="MsoNormal">       (Award-winning female writers with extensive NYC social circles they readily criticize[d])

<p class="MsoNormal">79- Marie Antoinette vs. Melania Trump w/Imelda Marcos cameo:  Let them eat diamonds

<p class="MsoNormal">80- Dr. Oz vs. Wizard of Oz:  Snake oil by the Oz

<p class="MsoNormal">81- Mary Kay (Ash) vs. Billy Mays w/ cameo by Amway:  The hard sell

<p class="MsoNormal">82- Harry Belafonte vs. Desi Arnaz: Day O vs. babaloo

<p class="MsoNormal">83-  Angela Davis vs. Margaret Thatcher: Polar opposites

<p class="MsoNormal">84- Margaret Thatcher vs. Nancy Reagan: Fighting for the soul of Ronnie

<p class="MsoNormal">85- Ricardo Montalban vs. Sean Connery w/Johnathon Goldsmith cameo:  Bringing sexy back

<p class="MsoNormal">86- Ponce de Leon vs. Joan Rivers:  The fountain of youth

<p class="MsoNormal">87- Constantine vs. Khalid ibn al-Walid: Providence over province

<p class="MsoNormal">88- Vladimir Kryuchkov (KGB) vs. J Edgar Hoover (FBI): Spy vs. spy – how to state this deeply enough?

<p class="MsoNormal">89- Nebuchandnezzar II vs. Khufu: Garden of Life vs. Valley of Death

<p class="MsoNormal">90- George III vs. Nebuchandnezzar II:  The madness of kings – uniter of kingdoms vs. destroyer of nations

<p class="MsoNormal">91- El Cid vs. Oliver Cromwell:  Pre-Spanish civil war hero vs. British civil war pseudo-hero

<p class="MsoNormal">92- Plutarch vs. Tolstoy:  Epic historical fiction

<p class="MsoNormal">       (Influential writers, historians, philosophers whose advice was sought by many)

<p class="MsoNormal">93- Mark Twain vs. JK Rowling:  Sweet Southern charm vs. acerbic English wit

<p class="MsoNormal">94- Cesar Chavez vs. James Dole w/ Dolores Huerta and Chiquita Banana cameos: Sowing Seeds of Discord

<p class="MsoNormal">95- Machiavelli vs. Rasputin:  Man behind the curtain

<p class="MsoNormal">96- Machiavelli vs. Jim Henson: Who’s pulling the strings?

<p class="MsoNormal">97- da Vinci vs. George Washington Carver: Leonardo vs. Black Leonardo

<p class="MsoNormal">98- Empress Theodora vs. Catherine II:  Who’s down with O.P.P.?

<p class="MsoNormal">99- Simon Bolivar vs. George Washington:  Cumbre de los estados unidos de las Americas

<p class="MsoNormal">100-  Nice Peter and EpicLloyd vs. Peter Fluck and John Lloyd: Epic spit

<p class="MsoNormal">101- EpicLloyd and Nice Peter vs. Simon and Garfunkel:  Epic folk

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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks to the ERB team for years of fun.

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<p class="MsoNormal">-KX <ac_metadata title="100+ Ideas [and tags] for ERB Season 6 Battles"> </ac_metadata>