Icon-o-clash 3: The "Real-World" Edition

Wow - wait a minute - Mr. Turtle and Mr. Peanut are TWO different icons!! Okay, I think I may be too shocked to vote.....but then again, Mr. Turtle involves chocolate, so he wins!
Lauren
 

ooooh - i love turtles. that says it all. Did Mr. Peanut even have a catch phrase?
 

Jon, it's too bad you are back on the crack! President Carter turns everything to gold (execpt that whole hostage thing), but who wouldn't want to be affiliated with the dude from Habitat, more humantarian missions than Bono, and critical of the Bush regime.

Game, set, match, Carter!

Now my bashing is complete, I can't vote for the peanut for 2 reasons. First Turtles are made out of peanuts, + Chocolate + other processed goodness = one good Christmas season treat. Secondly, the guy needs some pants, his "nuts" are showing.

CB-
 

Mr. Peanut is peanut.

Mr. Turtle is chocolate and caramel and peanut.

Turtle wins!
 

First, all the talk about who's gayer than who, and now Jon A is dissecting my nuts!

Pecans, indeed. Sorry about that.

Nobel Peace Prize winner Jimmy Carter takes his nuts with SALT. I'm voting for him.

Viva la revolución!
 

Not that he needs my vote, but Mr. Turtle, of course. For all the reasons cited above.
 

I'm throwing in my hat with the peanut with the cane. The turtle looks too insipid to see the cane coming and with babes around during training you know he's not going to do the necessary squats or push-ups. There will be ear biting and a little salt in the wound. The turtle doesn't stand a chance...and oh yeah

...pecans ARE gay

And a peanut? It is a legume.

(And here's an aside I think everyone can see coming...isn't the Turtle singing about Cannabilism??)
 

Mr. Peanut doesn't need the appeal of the ladies to know his own self-worth.

Voting with the Legume posse.
 

Are pecans gay?

Describing them as "gay" only infers an insult to them if the writer and reader consider being gay an inherently bad thing, which I do not. I also assume the writers of the many innocent "gay" comments are as keen as me to celebrate diversity, or are at least tolerant of it. It's just the way we all talked as kids, right?

If people could find another way to express that they find a character boring, bad, unappealing, of low quality, annoying, or unfair, I would greatly appreciate it. I'm probably being extra sensitive, but if you'd indulge me, that would be really lovely.

Then again, if the point was to imply that pecans are happy, joyful, lively, festive, bright, or colourful, I apologize. The language is loaded, you see.

Or is there an association with pecans and "gay" becuase of Gay Lea's chocolate pecan shortbread recipe? We'll never know...
 

I don't think I was the first person to mention Gay but...I am humbled by your comments. Really I only meant them as a jab at the silly comments about Gay Peanuts...why can't there be Gay Pecans? (Yes I think I understood the comments to suggest being Gay was bad...but I liked how open-ended my own retort turned out to be...possessing many interpretations but in the end...sigh...not really) and yes at the same time I think I was regressing to the school yard (which I find myself doing a lot of when playing this blog game).

My apologies to both Gay (Happy) and Gay (sexually diverse) folks everywhere (nuts included).

- Legume Party Chair"person"
 

No worries - no offense taken - that was sort of what I thought you meant, in which case, we're both on the same team.

Thanks for being so understanding and accomodating, though.

Long live legumes, until we eat them that is!