# Come to Think of It, I Don't Think I Have Ever Tried a Poll **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [November 20, 2009, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-to-think-of-it-i-dont-think-i-have-ever-tried-a-poll/518335 "2009-11-20T21:13:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-to-think-of-it-i-dont-think-i-have-ever-tried-a-poll/518335/1 "2009-11-20T21:13:13Z")
Do I know how to create a poll? Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-to-think-of-it-i-dont-think-i-have-ever-tried-a-poll/518335/2 "2009-11-20T21:17:24Z")
Apparently not. Neither do I, never tried it. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-to-think-of-it-i-dont-think-i-have-ever-tried-a-poll/518335/3 "2009-11-20T21:17:48Z")
Magic 8-Ball says: All signs point to “No.” ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-to-think-of-it-i-dont-think-i-have-ever-tried-a-poll/518335/4 "2009-11-20T21:17:57Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > Do I know how to create a poll? > > Regards, > Shodan Tricky question. Do I have the answer? Actually it’s simplicity itself. Experiment with it in Preview. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-to-think-of-it-i-dont-think-i-have-ever-tried-a-poll/518335/5 "2009-11-20T21:19:26Z")
That’s odd. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-to-think-of-it-i-dont-think-i-have-ever-tried-a-poll/518335/6 "2009-11-20T21:20:57Z")
Apparently you guys answered between the time when I submitted the thread, and when I added the poll. Or something. Is that how it is supposed to work? Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-to-think-of-it-i-dont-think-i-have-ever-tried-a-poll/518335/7 "2009-11-20T21:23:23Z")
Oh hey, there it is. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-to-think-of-it-i-dont-think-i-have-ever-tried-a-poll/518335/8 "2009-11-20T21:40:25Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > Do I know how to create a poll? > > Regards, > Shodan If I have pissed in your corn flakes, you could just say so. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-to-think-of-it-i-dont-think-i-have-ever-tried-a-poll/518335/9 "2009-11-20T22:12:12Z")
You haven’t pissed in my cornflakes - I was just fooling around with the poll feature. My apologies if you were offended. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-to-think-of-it-i-dont-think-i-have-ever-tried-a-poll/518335/10 "2009-11-20T22:16:51Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > You haven’t pissed in my cornflakes - I was just fooling around with the poll feature. My apologies if you were offended. > > Regards, > Shodan I was 78% sure that you were joshing with me. As I’m fairly certain that you voted for Bob Dole in '96, I will trust in your integrity and say _We’re cool, dude._. But you’ll have to send me some cheesecake of Lucille Bremer to make up for it. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-to-think-of-it-i-dont-think-i-have-ever-tried-a-poll/518335/11 "2009-11-20T22:26:07Z")
Polls are deceptively difficult - mostly because the instructions suck major ass. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-to-think-of-it-i-dont-think-i-have-ever-tried-a-poll/518335/12 "2009-11-20T22:29:35Z")
You’re missing a fifth choice – “None of the above”. No poll is complete without that one. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-to-think-of-it-i-dont-think-i-have-ever-tried-a-poll/518335/13 "2009-11-20T22:33:13Z")
Lucille Bremer? Isn’t she the one who was [electrocuted](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_94wGm5Prdv0/Sko_MGA2HoI/AAAAAAAADxM/ZPq_r_W3g58/s400/Lucille+Bremer++++Yolanda+and+the+Thief+(1945).jpg) after farting in her bath? Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-to-think-of-it-i-dont-think-i-have-ever-tried-a-poll/518335/14 "2009-11-20T22:34:33Z")
> [@Giles](#): > > You’re missing a fifth choice – “None of the above”. No poll is complete without that one. That is what _Fool of a Took! \_ is for.. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-to-think-of-it-i-dont-think-i-have-ever-tried-a-poll/518335/15 "2009-11-20T22:36:47Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > That is what _Fool of a Took! \_ is for.. Fool of a Took! Even after you add that fourth option, there are still more options. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-to-think-of-it-i-dont-think-i-have-ever-tried-a-poll/518335/16 "2009-11-20T22:36:57Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > Lucille Bremer? Isn’t she the one who was [electrocuted](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_94wGm5Prdv0/Sko_MGA2HoI/AAAAAAAADxM/ZPq_r_W3g58/s400/Lucille+Bremer++++Yolanda+and+the+Thief+(1945).jpg) after farting in her bath? > > Regards, > Shodan The usual feckless threats. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-to-think-of-it-i-dont-think-i-have-ever-tried-a-poll/518335/17 "2009-11-20T22:39:13Z")
> [@Giles](#): > > Fool of a Took! Even after you add that fourth option, there are still more options. Stop being smarter than me, thou foul dwimmerlaik! ---
**Author:** ![picker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/picker/32/13969_2.png) [@picker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picker)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-to-think-of-it-i-dont-think-i-have-ever-tried-a-poll/518335/18 "2009-11-20T23:03:41Z")
Option #4: The Welshmen take him down before he levels up to Lore-Master. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-to-think-of-it-i-dont-think-i-have-ever-tried-a-poll/518335/19 "2009-11-20T23:10:54Z")
> [@picker](#): > > Option #4: The Welshmen take him down before he levels up to Lore-Master. I thought about making some wisecrack about how neither the Welsh nor any Welshman shall ever defeat me, but I figure if I do Tuba or one of the other adults will adjudge the thread as having descended into pointless weisenheimericity and that would make me sad. Besides, I have forgiven the people of Wales their many sins on account of them having produced not merely Catherine Zeta-Jones but also Aimée Ann Duffy, second-greatest songstress of our age, and thus I have transferred my irrational hatred to another race. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2009, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-to-think-of-it-i-dont-think-i-have-ever-tried-a-poll/518335/20 "2009-11-21T00:23:33Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > Apparently you guys answered between the time when I submitted the thread, and when I added the poll. > > Or something. Is that how it is supposed to work? > > Regards, > Shodan Yes, in fact there is a sometimes-disorienting lag between when you write the OP, which is then posted, and when you complete the poll. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-to-think-of-it-i-dont-think-i-have-ever-tried-a-poll/518335.md?page=2)