• right turn on red
  • designated hitter rule

  • alligator or crocodile
  • analog or digital
  • apples or oranges
  • automatic or stick
  • AM or FM
  • burn out or fade away
  • beef or chicken
  • beer or wine
  • before or after
  • black or white
  • butter or mayo
  • Cavalier or Roundhead
  • creation or selection
  • close-hauled or running free
  • coffee or tea
  • Coke or Pepsi
  • day or night
  • DCE or DTE
  • (wanted) dead or alive
  • death or bunda
  • death or dishonor
  • Democrat or Republican
  • die on your feet or live on your knees
  • dom or sub
  • duct tape or duck tape
  • English or metric
  • feast or famine
  • fish or cut bait
  • flora or fauna
  • flotsam or jetsam
  • fold or crumple
  • football or soccer
  • Free as in speech or Free as in beer
  • free bottle in front o’me or pre-frontal lobotomy
  • fur us or again us
  • gas or electric
  • give up or die trying
  • grazer or browser
  • heaven or hell
  • hit or stay
  • hot or not
  • leather or lace
  • live free or die
  • local or long distance
  • lunchmeat or unsolicited commercial email
  • magnetic or true
  • manic or depressive
  • mom or dad
  • motivate or procrastinate
  • objective or subjective
  • obsessive or compulsive
  • on or off
  • online or brick and mortar
  • paper or plastic
  • pass or fail
  • petrol or diesel
  • planned or accident
  • pro-life or pro-choice
  • rant or rave
  • rare or well done
  • RC or CofE?
  • regular or unleaded
  • right handed or left handed
  • right or wrong
  • rule in hell or serve in heaven
  • sail or power
  • shit or get off the pot
  • sink or swim
  • spit or swallow
  • stalactite or stalagmite
  • starboard or port
  • sugar cone, or waffle cone
  • sweet or savory
  • tastes great or less filling
  • talk or listen
  • toe the line or stand up for what you believe in
  • top or bottom
  • tortoise or hare
  • transmit or receive
  • up or down
  • union or confederacy
  • vote or abstain
  • weak anthropic or strong anthropic
  • win or lose
  • you eat the bear or the bear eats you
  • zip or button
  • duck it or fuck it
  • nut up or shut up
  • put up or shut up
  • shape up or ship out
  • take it or leave it
  • love it or leave it
  • make or break
  • fight or flight
  • now or never
  • go big or go home
  • do or do not (there is no try)
  • fold or call

  • beg, borrow, or steal
  • burn, rape, pillage or plunder
  • coffee, tea or me
  • day, late, or graveyard
  • fries, rice pilaf or baked potato
  • local, state or federal
  • progressive, regressive or flat
  • shit, piss, or go blind
  • Windows, Mac, or Linux
  • lead, follow, or get out of the way
  • this, that, or the other thing

Remixes

  • fish or swim
  • sink or cut bait
  • you eat the bear, or the pope pisses in the woods

The original list (2003) is from my old site: archived copy on the Wayback Machine. Typos fixed here.