Sheep in the year 2015

That's not the right question.

I'd say middle aged is 40-50.

But I'd also say "middle aged" is a nicer way of saying "old."

For clarity's sake, I define old as "I can no longer do most of the things I did in my 20s."

And Coco, I've got your back on "Shake It Off." At least we have each other.

 

Middle-aged is when your dick malfunctions and you need Viagra.

 

Shit. I used Happy as the song. That was 2013? The Internet lied to me again!!!

 

40? Shit, I'm old.

 

1. 50
2. Tom Brady
3. 99% Invisible
4. The fonts
5. Mississippi
6. Carrots
7. 5
8. 2
9. Happy
10. Jameis Winston

 

I was going to put Shake it Off down as well, but figured most would do Happy.

 

My recurring thought is that Sheep should ditch questions that can be measured by Internet rankings.
Much better, and more challenging, to offer questions that force us to pick from three or four choices.

It's not really a Sheep thing if we all run straight to Google, is it? Just a thought, not a complaint.
Though we all could contribute questions every other week or so to load up on more-challenging stuff.

 

Response -- Rationale
1. 65 -- retirement age
2. Russell Wilson -- QB of SB favorite
3. This American Life -- related to Serial
4. So much White space -- common complaint on announcements thread
5. Michigan -- relying on football season prominence to make it front of mind
6. Carrots -- this has to be closest to consensus of all questions
7. Won't change/never -- feel like this is a safe default that should garner multiple votes
8. 1 week - the type of thing people use the new year's holiday for?
9. Happy -- Billboard No. 1 for year, even though released in late 2013. Became prominent at Oscars in Feb
10. Mariota -- although I think Winston is drafted first and will be superior

 

We all contribute one (or more) questions at the start of the season so Ms. Pot has a bank of questions to choose from plus the ones she comes up with.
The ones where you limit to 3-4 choices are less challenging and result in higher scores because the possibility of a 1-3 point answer there drops considerably. The open-ended ones that send you Google and still have you scratching your head about what to pick (like the podcast question) are the more challenging ones.

 

I figured I was way too old to have a prayer on the song of the year question. I went with Problem.

 

Choosing between 3-4 answers would eliminate all the headscratching Mister Creasote-type answers. No offense, Creo.

 

Time to get started with yet another basement-renovation project...