I prefer

 

  • Red M&Ms to blue M&Ms
  • Nikon to Canon
  • The Beatles to the Stones
  • Dates to figs
  • The Empire Strikes Back to A New Hope
  • Reading the Cleveland phone book to reading about the British royal family
  • Bailey's in hot chocolate to beer
  • The truth to the lone assassin theory
  • Composting beets to eating beets
  • Islamic architecture to Christian architecture
  • Vanilla to Chocolate
  • Democrat to Republican
  • Greece to Rome
  • Potatoes to rice
  • Brunettes to blonds
  • Blue to green
  • Philosophy to math
  • Time to Newsweek
  • Spiderman to Superman
  • Protestant to Catholic
  • Dostoyevsky to Tolstoy
  • The east coast to the west coast
  • Round to square
  • Ford to GM
  • Catfish to salmon
  • Left to right
  • PB&J to BLT
  • Ceramic to glass
  • Tea to coffee
  • John Lennon to Paul McCartney
  • Donovan to Dylan
  • Cantaloupe to honey dew
  • Red delicious to Jonathan
  • Small to large
  • British to French
  • Classical to baroque
  • Stone Henge to Coney Island
  • Marilyn Monroe to Jayne Mansfield
  • Star Trek to Star Wars
  • Camus to Sartre
  • Byerly's to Cub
  • Gore to Clinton
  • California to Florida
  • Reagan to Nixon
  • Steelers to Cowboys
  • Fives to ones
  • Naps to walks
  • Epistemology to ethics
  • Geometry to algebra
  • Minnesota to Wisconsin
  • Sixties to fifties
  • Laurel and Hardy to the Three Stooges
  • Kandinsky to Klimt
  • Einstein to Heisenberg
  • Adams to Jefferson
  • Kindle to Nook
  • St. Olaf to the U of M
  • KNOW to WDGY
  • Steve Allen to Johnny Carson
  • Relativity to quantum mechanics
  • Broccoli to cauliflower
  • Cool to warm
  • Cotton to silk
  • John Dillinger to Al Capone
  • RFK to JFK
  • Country roads to  freeways
  • Rock and roll to country
  • Marshall to Eisenhower
  • Mao to Stalin
  • Chou Enlai to Deng Zhou Ping
  • Oak to elm
  • Woodlands to prairie
  • Pens to pencils
  • French fries to mashed potatoes
  • Spiro Agnew to Dan Quayle
  • Sapphire to ruby
  • King Kong to Godzilla
  • Steven Spielberg to George Lukas
  • Football to basketball
  • Imbalance to balance
  • Married life to single life
  • Border collies to boxers
  • Shakespeare to Miller
  • Crest to Colgate
  • Schick to Gillette
  • Gandalf to Dumbledore
  • Scarecrow to Tin Man
  • Deciduous to evergreen
  • Ankylosaurus to brontosaurus
  • Jesus to Paul
  • Moon as green cheese to intelligent design
  • Sophocles to Euripides
  • Harry Potter V to Harry Potter VI
  • Butterflies to dragonflies
  • Lobster to crab
  • Hot tub to swimming pool
  • Surf to tidal pools
  • Patton to MacArthur
  • Moe to Larry
  • Macbeth to Lear
  • Aspirin to Tylenol
  • Ojibway to Dakota
  • Heights to caves
  • Socrates to Plato
  • Odyssey to Iliad
  • 1984 to 1972
  • Writing to photography
  • Star gazing to stamp collecting
  • Ants to spiders
  • Plays to movies
  • Lincoln to Washington
  • Peas to carrots
  • Adam to Hoss
  • Lad to Lassie
  • Chinese to Thai
  • COBOL to Linux
  • Civilization III to Civilization IV
  • Pride and Prejudice to Northanger Abbey
  • Rommel to Hitler
  • Apples to bananas
  • Gore to Bush
  • Cary Grant to Rock Hudson
  • The Addams Family to The Munsters
  • Merlot to Pinot Grigio
  • Dodecahedrons to spheres
  • Minneapolis to St. Paul
  • Christmas trees to fireworks
  • Augustine to Aquinas
  • John to Matthew
  • Hermione to Ron
  • Fish to beef
  • Fuddrucker's to MacDonald's
  • Cloth to leather
  • Hanging to drowning
  • Birds to fish
  • Drums to brass
  • African to South American
  • Mayan to Incan
  • Black pants to khaki pants
  • Long hair to short hair
  • Revolutionary history to Civil War history
  • The Red Sox to the Yankees
  • Voluptuousness to leanness
  • Taffy to Ella
  • Nonfiction to fiction
  • Drama to comedy
  • Asparagus to artichoke
  • Shelob to Aragog
  • Wood to plastic
  • Marble to granite
  • Heidegger to Husserl
  • Economics to sociology
  • The Two Towers to The Return of the King
  • The Union to the Confederacy
  • Humor to jokes
  • Superman to Batman
  • X-Men to the Fantastic Four
  • Stan Lee to R. Crumb
  • Mad to Cracked
  • LSD to psilocybin
  • Obama to Hillary
  • Catchup to mustard
  • Scrabble to Monopoly
  • Darth Vadar to Dick Cheney
  • Shiraz to Riesling
  • Israel to Palestine
  • Gollum to Grindel
  • Bridge to poker
  • Hair to Jesus Christ Superstar
  • Godzilla to Barney
  • Old SNL to recent SNL
  • Jon Stewart to Stephen Colbert
  • Purple to orange
  • Ireland to England
  • KKK to Nazis
  • Silly Putty to Play Doh
  • Playboy to Penthouse
  • WTC to the Empire State Building
  • West to east
  • Enlightenment to the Renaissance
  • Painting to sculpture
  • Arabian to quarter
  • Titanium to platinum
  • Comic books to graphic novels
  • Ceramic to bamboo
  • Loren Eiseley to Thomas Lewis
  • Terrariums to aquariums
  • Dictionaries to encyclopedia
  • The suit spades to hearts
  • The game Hearts to Spades
  • Sermons to lectures
  • Essays to stories
  • Christianity to Islam
  • Rum to gin
  • T. H. White to Mallory
  • No tattoos to tattoos
  • Precision to ambiguity
  • Discovery Channel to the History Channel
  • Prochoice to pro-life
  • Frogs to the Boche
  • Paul Bunyan to Pecos Bill
  • Spirit at Bear Lodge to Snapshot
  • Cancer to emphysema
  • Emotions to thoughts
  • Pictures to words
  • Schools to hospitals
  • Pennsylvania Avenue to Boardwalk
  • The Incredibles to Toy Story
  • Dogs to cats
  • Hagrid to Snape
  • Blueberries to cherries
  • Target to Walmart
  • Battlestar Galactica to Star Trek
  • Folding towels to sorting socks
  • Flash Dance to Dirty Dancing
  • Lincoln Memorial to Jefferson Memorial
  • Madison to Marshall
  • Butter to margarine
  • Digital to emulsion
  • Costco to Sam's Club
  • Love to death
  • Buddism to Hinduism
  • MIA to the Walker
  • India to China
  • Vegetables to meat
  • Art Deco to Cubism
  • Chicken to turkey
  • Chocolate to Neapolitan
  • Fall to spring
  • Bridge to chess
  • Truth to fear
  • Photography to drawing
  • Pepperoni to sausage
  • Italian to Mexican
  • Target to Kmart
  • Brass to copper
  • Mozart to Beethoven
  • Korean War memorial to the Vietnam War memorial
  • Allan Funt to Durward Kirby
  • Cyclops to Wolverine
  • Root beer to Pepsi
  • Sleeping Beauty to The Little Mermaid
  • Lambchop to Beany and Cecil
  • Danny Kaye to Liberace
  • John Henry to Pecos Bill
  • Blueberries to cranberries
  • Pecan pie to apple pie
  • Naked to clothed
  • Scrabble to Clue
  • Cool colors to warm colors
  • Making mistakes to doing nothing
  • Achilles to Hercules
  • Warren to Scalia
  • FBI to CIA
  • Ho Chi Minh to Nasser
  • Rocky and Bullwinkle to Woody Woodpecker
  • Blindness to deafness
  • Gold to silver
  • Steve Martin to Chevy Chase
  • Tolkien to C. S. Lewis
  • Blue to purple
  • Flair to Bic
  • Suburbs to urbs
  • Einstein to Edison
  • Fried cheese curds to funnel cake
  • Ferris wheels to roller coasters
  • Books to movies
  • Lakes to rivers
  • Mothers to fathers
  • Catfish to mahi mahi
  • A sharp stick in the eye to flying on commercial jet liners
  • Broken bone to tooth extraction
  • Lone Spur Grill to Applebees
  • Colorado to Wyoming
  • Chichen Itza to Tulum
  • Canada to Mexico
  • Horses to pigs
  • Eagles to osprey
  • Lasagna to ravioli
  • NASA to CIA
  • Thursday to Friday
  • Battlestar Galactica to anything else on TV
  • M&Ms to Junior Mints
  • Running outside to the tread mill
  • COBOL to Fortran
  • St. Olaf to St. Thomas
  • Listening to speaking
  • Hume to Locke
  • Miller to Ionesco
  • Monk to Colombo
  • Incandescent to florescent
  • Hand written letters to email
  • American history to European history
  • Frankenstein to Jane Eyre
  • Klee to Mondrian
  • Red to white
  • American Graffiti to Breaking Away
  • Bogdanovich to dePalma
  • Athena to Aphrodite
  • Firm pillows to soft pillows
  • Monarchs to moths
  • Hot dogs to hamburgers
  • Comedy to horror
  • History to biography
  • Boris Badenov to Snidely Whiplash
  • Dave Moore to Don Shelby
  • The Sixties to the Seventies
  • Marigolds to nasturtiums
  • Solitude to parties
  • Consumerism to Islam
  • The Time Machine to The War of the Worlds
  • FDR to any president
  • Harry Potter III to Harry Potter IV
  • Galileo to Gutenberg
  • Beanie weenie to SpaghettiOs
  • Absurd humor to puns
  • Chewbacca to Tonto
  • Pudgy to skinny
  • Blue to humpback
  • Spock to Data
  • Mars to Venus
  • Whole wheat to white
  • Potatoes to pasta
  • Music to rap
  • Halloween to Easter
  • Virginia Avenue to St. James Place
  • Vocabulary to grammar
  • Silly Putty to Hula Hoops
  • May Day to Labor Day
  • Trotsky to Stalin
  • Rosalind Franklin to Francis Crick
  • Hawthorne to Poe
  • Zero to pi
  • People to profits
  • Sgt. Peppers to the White Album
  • Jabba the Hutt to the Wicked Witch of the West
  • Skill to talent
  • Made in the USA to Made in China
  • Orchids to roses
  • Sail to steam
  • Gaudi to Wright
  • Chopin to Liszt
  • Greek to Latin
  • Gordon Lightfoot to Bob Dylan
  • Rita to Sexy Sadie
  • Sonatas to cantatas
  • Missions to visions
  • Corinthian to Doric
  • Pop to soda
  • Nonviolent to violent
  • Richard Speck to Jeffrey Dahmer
  • The personal essay to memoir
  • Plaid to floral
  • Maple nut to caramel
  • Lime stone to obsidian
  • Steve Martin to Bob Hope
  • Meadows to strip malls
  • Jayne Meadows to Dorothy Kilgallen
  • What's My Line to Candid Camera
  • Bourne to Bond
  • Beach Boys to the Mamas and the Papas
  • Analog to digital
  • Toads to frogs
  • Tesla to Edison
  • Oranges to tangerines
  • Angel food to devil's food
  • Leonardo to Goethe
  • Soft to Hard
  • Purgatory to Jidana
  • Green grapes to red grapes
  • Dodecahedrons to icosahedrons
  • One on one to groups
  • Visuals to emotionals
  • Canoes to kayaks
  • Thursdays to Tuesdays
  • NASCAR to WWF
  • Picard to Kirk
  • Sunni to Shiite
  • Hollywood to Bollywood
  • Grilled to fried
  • Federalist to Democrat
  • Frankenstein to Wolfman
  • H. G. Wells to Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Semicolons to colons
  • Foster's to Guinness Stout
  • Cretaceous to  Jurassic
  • Anglo-saxon to Romantic
  • Too little to too much
  • Lupin to Sirius
  • Stilettos to shot guns
  • Pierce Brosnan to Roger Moore
  • Green Lantern to Flash
  • Reuben to grilled cheese
  • New Year's to Christmas
  • Eclairs to cupcakes
  • Intermission to halftime
  • Winning to losing
  • Marvin the Martian to Wiley Coyote
  • Titanic to Bismarck
  • Machu Pichu to Angkor Wat
  • Yogurt to cottage cheese
  • Trees to rivers
  • Root beer to Sprite
  • Richard Dreyfuss to Jack Nicholson
  • Celtics to Lakers
  • Sacajawea to Pocahontas
  • Contrast to mush
  • Tofu to rice
  • Saturn to Uranus
  • Brass to steel
  • Don Knotts to Ed MacMahon
  • Spock to Bones
  • Tapioca to rømmegrøt
  • Spartacus to Robespierre
  • Jack Sparrow to the Mad Hatter
  • Active voice to passive voice
  • The Rifleman to Gunsmoke
  • Maleficent to Cruella deVille
  • Spiderman to the Hulk
  • Dead Nazis to dead klansmen
  • Balaam's ass to the serpent
  • Caillebotte to Manet
  • The new Baltar to the old Baltar
  • Dr. Seuss to Maurice Sendak
  • The Rockford Files to Perry Mason
  • The Attack of the Killer Tomatoes to Plan Nine From Outer Space
  • Shaggy dogs to short hair dogs
  • To Sir with Love to Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
  • Laugh In to Hee Haw
  • The Smothers Brothers to The Limelighters
  • Pecan Mudslides to M&M Blizzards
  • Pahoo to Hop Sing
  • Costco to Walmart
  • The Weimar Republic to The Third Reich
  • Cucumbers to zucchinis
  • Lascaux Cave art to modern graffiti
  • Mammals to marsupials
  • Marshmallows to licorice
  • Corns to hemorrhoids
  • Curves to angles
  • Passing plays to running plays
  • Barney Fife to Barney Rubble
  • The Atlantic to Harper's
  • Stories of King Arthur to stories of Robin Hood
  • Grasshoppers to spiders
  • Kung Fu to The Lone Ranger
  • Lasagna to quiche
  • Working dogs to hunting dogs
  • Learning to teaching
  • Kimchee to salsa
  • Cloth diapers to plastic diapers
  • Briefs to boxers
  • Massage to exercise
  • Kentucky blue to crab
  • Eating out to eating in
  • River valleys to mountains
  • Thunder storms to blizzards
  • McGonagall to Hagrid
  • Hal to Henry V
  • Pong to Asteroids
  • Nachos to enchiladas
  • Kimchee to sauer kraut
  • Coke to Pepsi
  • Pepperoni to sausage
  • Beirut to Medellín
  • The Declaration of Independence to the US Constitution
  • Fantasia to Snow White
  • Bumpy rides with scenery to smooth rides without
  • Shooting at f22 to shooting at f2.8
  • Asymmetry to symmetry
  • Old rocks to old wood
  • Moby Dick to Willy
  • Marvin Gardens to Connecticut Place
  • Merlot to cabernet
  • Charles Colson to Carl Rove
  • Oil to water color
  • Orange roughy to cod
  • Simon and Garfunkel to the Doobie Brothers
  • Grief to anxiety
  • Plum to forest green
  • Acoustic to electric
  • Clarence Darrow to William Jennings Bryan
  • Fangorn to Old Man Willow
  • Gibbons to orangutangs
  • Pizza rolls to egg rolls
  • The New England Patriots to the Oakland Raiders
  • Beef to pork
  • Cooking outside to cooking inside
  • Solar power to nuclear power
  • Geos to Yugos
  • Cajun to Italian
  • The H-Man to the Blob
  • Asimov to Bradbury
  • Not going to Somalia to not going to Egypt
  • Women to men
  • Flying kites to water skiing
  • Tommy Kramer to Fran Tarkenton
  • Burger King to MacDonald's
  • Reality to fantasy
  • Giants to Eagles
  • Imagination to knowledge
  • Big cities to small towns
  • A sharp stick in the eye to debt
  • A walk in the surf to a walk in the woods
  • Bailey's in hot chocolate to beer
  • Crossword puzzles to sodoku
  • Festering sores on my anus to the Dallas Cowboys
  • Mark Twain to Joseph Conrad
  • Mashed potatoes to couscous
  • Turkey gravy to chicken gravy
  • Klee to Picasso
  • Walnut to oak
  • Home Depot to Menards
  • Dayton's to Macy's
  • Crystal to ceramic
  • Maple syrup to molasses
  • Clam chowder to tomato soup
  • 7up to Sierra Mist
  • Screws to nails
  • Mary Jane to Lois Lane
  • The Animals to The New Christy Minstrels
  • Dean Martin to Jerry Lewis
  • Being burned to death to being buried alive
  • Copper to brass
  • Lasagna to meat loaf
  • Happiness to bliss
  • Walking to dancing
  • Cranes to flamingoes
  • Dr. Seuss to L. Frank Baum
  • Persimmon to pomegranate
  • Sweet to sour
  • Carl Sagan to Michael Crichton
  • Simon to Garfunkel
  • Johnny Unitas to Jeff George
  • Blue to red
  • Fresh peaches to fresh strawberries
  • October to February
  • Davy Crockett to Daniel Boone
  • Alessandra Torresani to just about anything
  • Discovering I am wrong to not discovering I am wrong
  • NASA to NSA
  • Silver to steel
  • Miniature Australian shepherds to Border collies
  • Cheez-Its to Cheese Nibs
  • Getting whacked on the side of my head with a 2x4 to being interrupted
  • Work stress to marital stress
  • Mucha to Lautrec
  • Milk chocolate to dark chocolate
  • Sneezing to coughing
  • Lobster to crab
  • Being stuck in traffic to insomnia
  • The Andrew Garfield Spiderman to the Tobey Maguire Spiderman
  • Dune the book to Dune the movie
  • Fuchsia to jonquil
  • Tchaikovsky to Stravinsky
  • Pecan pie to pumpkin pie
  • Pippin to Merry
  • Stubbing my toe to hitting a finger with a hammer
  • Macbeth to Hamlet
  • Galaga to asteroids
  • Hume to Locke
  • Pinot Noir to cabernet
  • Drama to musicals
  • The library to the zoo
  • Creativity to discipline
  • Paris to Vienna
  • Cooperation to competition
  • Driving across country to flying across country
  • Xanax during flights to holy living terror during flights
  • Nausea to headaches
  • Silent resignation to hurting people I love
  • Wind up watches to watches with batteries
  • Fountain pens to ballpoint pens
  • Biting the head off a live toad to reading one more editorial describing a candidate or policy as "flawed"
  • Being called an asshole to being told that we need to agree to disagree
  • Dijon mustard to honey mustard
  • Monty Python to Benny Hill
  • Finding a leech attached to me to having a spider crawl on me
  • Being at home during a blizzard to a picnic in a park on a sunny day
  • Any movie with Colin Firth in it to any movie with Jim Carrey in it
  • Watching the Vikings lose another regular season game to watching the Vikings lose in the playoffs yet again
  • Guacamole to salsa
  • Curly to Shemp
  • Rey to Princess Leia
  • Tintin to Johnny Quest
  • Woody Woodpecker to Yogi Bear
  • The number 17 to the number 2
  • Douglas Hofstadter to Richard Dawkins
  • Oz books to The Hardy Boys books
  • Queequeg to Tonto
  • Being sixty-four to being seventeen
  • V hand gesture palm facing out to V hand gesture palm facing in
  • Princess Diana to whole lot of the rest of the Royal Family
  • The first amendment to the second amendment
  • Cherries to peaches
  • Apollo project to Gemini project
  • He who hesitates is lost to look before you leap
  • Western Digital external drives to Seagate external drives
  • Fiction written in the past tense to fiction written in the present tense
  • Kindness to mercy
  • Ceramic arts to fabric arts
  • Honey crisps to Granny Smiths
  • The Blob to the H-man
  • Mulching leaves with a lawn mower to raking them up
  • The Incredible String Band to The Grateful Dead
  • Reading fifty-year-old copies of Horse Disease Quarterly to reading Ayn Rand
  • Faramir to Boromir
  • The early Elvis Presley to the late Elvis Presley
  • Super 8 to E. T.

Not that it matters.