# Discussion thread for the "Polls only" thread (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 28, 2022, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380 "2022-09-28T11:33:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 230
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2023, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/4584 "2023-06-01T22:04:51Z")
I think I have driven every mile of Interstate 5, but not all on one trip. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2023, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/4585 "2023-06-01T22:33:06Z")
The only seafood I enjoy, not just shellfish, is fried clam strips. ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2023, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/4586 "2023-06-01T22:54:11Z")
I like seafood so much, but I have to worry about my thyroid. My triumvirate is scallops, crab, and mussels, but it was scallops for the win. I also loved fried clam strips. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2023, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/4587 "2023-06-01T23:08:31Z")
Been to 48 of the 50 cities; only Aurora and Virginia Beach remain unexplored. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2023, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/4588 "2023-06-01T23:23:19Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > I chose crab simply because it’s what I eat the most of. While I like shrimp very much and _love_ scallops, they are both occasional treats, and giving them up wouldn’t affect me too much. But I eat dishes with crab in them quite often, and would like to continue doing so. > [@silenus](#): > > That’s pretty much why I chose shrimp. And i love many of those. Scallop and crab may even be my favorite. But mussels in wine… Steamed clams… Anyway, the ones i actually eat most often are shrimp and lobster. And i like lobster a lot more than i like shrimp. So i voted for lobster. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2023, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/4589 "2023-06-01T23:45:22Z")
that requires [a response](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhgvIjEAxeg) ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2023, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/4590 "2023-06-02T00:38:37Z")
Discussion from earlier in this thread made me go out and buy sugary cereal for the first time in a while. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2023, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/4591 "2023-06-02T00:39:27Z")
My work is done. 👍 ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2023, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/4592 "2023-06-02T01:46:14Z")
The first year PNC Park opened for the Pirates, I took my kids to a game on Father’s Day. Walking across the Clemente Bridge, a beggar (?) sitting on the walkway wished me a happy Father’s Day. He was murmuring incomprehensibly before wishing me a happy day and went straight back to muttering afterwards. My kids both realized something strange had happened. The game was great, then when we walked back across the bridge, the same guy had a few seconds of lucidity to wish me a happy Father’s Day again, immediately going back to babble. Very weird experience. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2023, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/4593 "2023-06-02T05:16:31Z")
I’ve driven most of 95 at some point but not in one trip. I’ve gone as far north as Portland, Maine from DC, and as far south as the Kennedy Space Center, but picking it up in Florida and driving north _back_ to DC. Someday, I’m going to do that Ocean City, MD to Sacramento drive on 50. I’ve been to the airports at Las Vegas and Denver, and I was on a train once that passed through Milwaukee. I didn’t count any of those. On that same train trip we had a stop and transfer in Chicago for about 3 hours where we did leave the station and got lunch at the French Market up the street. I counted that. Only ever been to home Orioles and home Nationals games, but at both stadiums for each. ---
**Author:** ![Die\_Capacitrix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/die_capacitrix/32/9_2.png) [@Die\_Capacitrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Die_Capacitrix)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2023, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/4594 "2023-06-02T06:26:20Z")
I still have my ticket stub from the All-Star game at the Kingdome. Some years back I got some bad shrimp and threw up. Haven’t been fond of them since. Clams, because clam chowder, fried clams, fresh clams with garlic butter and sourdough bread, linguine in clam sauce, smoked clams with Ritz crackers. Keep Clam! ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2023, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/4595 "2023-06-02T13:31:43Z")
> [@WildaBeast](#): > > I drove almost the entire length of I-40 when I moved from North Carolina to California, from Raleigh all the way to the western end in Barstow, CA, but since I didn’t start at the very beginning in Wilmington I was forced to vote “no” in my own poll. Missed it by \>that\< much. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2023, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/4596 "2023-06-02T14:00:29Z")
I cut myself some slack on the interstate question. I’ve driven the _entire_ length of I-5 multiple times, but the trip I counted was one that started in Bellingham, WA and ended in northern San Diego county. I count it because I did it in one swell foop, stopping only to gas up and eat/pee. Took me just over 18 hours. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2023, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/4597 "2023-06-02T14:40:02Z")
> [@Die\_Capacitrix](#): > > I still have my ticket stub from the All-Star game at the Kingdome I’m going this year at Safeco Field (I know). But I won’t have a ticket stub to keep, just something on my smart phone. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2023, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/4598 "2023-06-02T15:59:45Z")
I got together for drinks, years ago, with WordMan and Pulykamell, when WordMan came to Chicago on a business trip. That was something that WordMan set up with the two of us, as he knew we lived in the area, and we had a great time. There are a couple of in-person meet-ups I’ve been talking about with specific Dopers, and just haven’t been able to yet. I was going to go to what might have been one of the last Chicago-area in-person Dopefests, but I wound up being sick that day, and couldn’t attend. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2023, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/4599 "2023-06-02T16:04:24Z")
In my ballpark poll, I’d love to hear from some of the folks who’ve been to stadiums that haven’t been around for a _long_ time. @Eric_C @Mark_Finn @carnut @Fear_Itself Tell me more! And @squeegee, I thought I’d covered everything from the last 70 years or so. Tell me where you’ve been that wasn’t on the list. ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2023, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/4600 "2023-06-02T16:05:20Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > And @squeegee, I thought I’d covered everything from the last 70 years or so. Tell me where you’ve been that wasn’t on the list That was my mistake – I didn’t notice Wrigley on your list. I just fixed my vote. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2023, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/4601 "2023-06-02T16:08:52Z")
**Southern Yankee** and my wife used to work together, and his and my sons are all the same age and were in the same grade at the same school when I lived in North Carolina. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2023, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/4602 "2023-06-02T16:14:11Z")
Back in the day there were regular SoCal and Las Vegas Dopefests, so I’ve met myriad Dopers IRL. Most, unfortunately, have passed on to better things/places/hobbies. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2023, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/4603 "2023-06-02T16:19:26Z")
Aw. I was hoping for a good story there! As for meeting other Dopers: I was in Salt Lake City in 2011 to see a baseball game (the Minor League Bees). I met a guy from the SDMB for a couple beers before the game. He didn’t want to join us for the game itself so it was a relatively short meeting. He seemed like a really nice guy, but he’s since been banned from the boards; I don’t know why. I can’t recall his full username; it was **(some initials)inSLC**. I’d arranged to meet another Doper in Pawtucket in 2012 after a game, but he flaked on me. Don’t remember who it was. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380.md?page=229) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380.md?page=231)