# 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:** 343
**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:** [September 18, 2023, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/6844 "2023-09-18T22:42:53Z")
I enjoy Scottish bagpipes, but not as much as I enjoy Irish uilleann pipes. ---
**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:** [September 19, 2023, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/6845 "2023-09-19T01:49:53Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > It hasn’t worked anywhere else. TBH, “Amazing Grace” has never, ever worked for me, bagpipes or otherwise. I don’t mind bagpipes but I don’t seek them out as over here in the U.S., we mainly only hear two tunes out of them and one is the dreadful Amazing Grace, the other is a marching tattoo that I never bothered to learn the name of. Please, players, play a different tune! ---
**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:** [September 19, 2023, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/6846 "2023-09-19T02:19:50Z")
It worked in Star Trek II, mostly because it immediately followed Kirk almost breaking down in his eulogy and Sulu’s voice breaking when he called everyone to attention. I once heard a bagpipe (band? brigade?) do “What Do You Do With a Drunken Sailor?” It was fricken hilarious. ---
**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:** [September 19, 2023, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/6847 "2023-09-19T02:36:01Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > I once heard a bagpipe (band? brigade?) do “What Do You Do With a Drunken Sailor?” It was fricken hilarious. That’s like my fav bit of audacity: the Tubadours playing the theme song from The Magnificent Seven. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2023, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/6848 "2023-09-19T14:50:44Z")
I like the pipes; and there’s a local band which I hear occasionally; but they’re not a huge part of my life. There didn’t seem to be an option for “I like them OK, especially outdoors and played skillfully”; so I didn’t vote. ---
**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:** [September 19, 2023, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/6849 "2023-09-19T16:54:07Z")
Yeah, bagpipes are fun in moderate dosages. I have recordings of “Scotland the Brave” and “Mull of Kintyre” that I pull up every now and then when I’m in the mood. “Amazing Grace,” however, is treacly religious glurge and I hate it. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2023, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/6850 "2023-09-19T17:57:19Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > only [on a](https://youtu.be/cnVjkE87FDY?si=3H0joxbGiYSj9FVt) unicycle You just won the thread. That is all kinds of _awesome_. I like the bagpipes in moderation, although I do think “Amazing Grace” has unfortunately become a funeral cliche. ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2023, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/6851 "2023-09-19T18:19:07Z")
Well this is annoying. Apparently there’s no way to view the results of a “number rating” poll without voting in it, so I can’t see the results of my own polls for the streaming services I don’t subscribe to. And I don’t want to throw off the average by voting it them. Or is it just because no one has voted in them yet? Maybe I’ll be able to see the results once someone actually votes. ETA: Ah, ok, now that people have voted I can view the results. ---
**Author:** ![Hatchie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hatchie/32/3983_2.png) [@Hatchie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hatchie)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2023, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/6852 "2023-09-19T18:42:03Z")
I’m not going to do the “How many shows on Netflix etc.” series because I’d rather push one of those elevator buttons and go to a nice floor, maybe the penthouse on the 49th. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2023, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/6853 "2023-09-19T19:27:51Z")
I think I recognize some of the names; but I strongly suspect that, for instance, I’m thinking of the wrong Sutton. Anything to do with Sutton’s Spoons? Didn’t vote. ---
**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:** [September 19, 2023, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/6854 "2023-09-19T19:31:28Z")
Names I recognize, without having to look up any additional info: - Greg Landry: quarterback for the Detroit Lions in the 1970s - Gerry Cheevers: hockey player, might have played for the Boston Bruins - Ian Anderson: singer/flautist for the rock band Jethro Tull - Norris McWhirter: longtime co-editor, with his twin brother, of the Guinness Book of World Records - Robert Wadlow: one-time “world’s tallest man” ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2023, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/6855 "2023-09-19T19:32:16Z")
Didn’t recognize a single name. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2023, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/6856 "2023-09-19T19:48:15Z")
Ian Anderson, Greg Landry, Franklin W. Dixon. Surprised that more people did not know Dixon. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2023, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/6857 "2023-09-19T19:58:54Z")
I recognised :- Ian Anderson - Jethro Tull person. R. Dean Taylor - house ghost person. Robert Wadlow - tall person. Norris McWhirter - guiness record book person. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2023, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/6858 "2023-09-19T20:16:08Z")
For the record, that list of names is comprised of folks who had some meaning to Young Master Mustard. And psst, @pjd, you are incorrect about R. Dean Taylor. mmm ETA: > [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > Didn’t recognize a single name. I should have included a “none of them” option, sorry. ---
**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:** [September 19, 2023, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/6859 "2023-09-19T20:20:45Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > Surprised that more people did not know Dixon. In my case, it’s because I don’t think I ever read a Hardy Boys book. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2023, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/6860 "2023-09-19T20:21:00Z")
Another FYI, I was pleasantly surprised to learn that 96-year-old **Phyllis Coates** is alive and (presumably) well. mmm ---
**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:** [September 19, 2023, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/6861 "2023-09-19T20:39:46Z")
Actor who played Sargeant Carter on _Gomer Pyle_. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2023, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/6862 "2023-09-19T20:42:25Z")
My favorite of the poop/movie title thread was not listed in the poll. **A Christmas Story** I don’t know why but that’s just funny. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2023, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/6863 "2023-09-19T21:06:14Z")
Was I the only person who recognized Hugh Brannum as the real name of Mr. green Jeans from Captain Kangaroo? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380.md?page=342) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380.md?page=344)