# 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:** 470
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2024, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/9384 "2024-01-18T15:45:33Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > That would be my first reaction – a delusion or a human-created fake; but the poll specifies that the person who’s spoken to by the angel is convinced that it’s real. Hence the reason I specified this. I wanted to avoid the fighting of the hypothetical. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2024, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/9385 "2024-01-18T18:37:18Z")
What, no Thelma Ritter? ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2024, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/9386 "2024-01-18T18:46:52Z")
I picked Honorius, because a saint of the same name is the patron saint of bakers. Also Pius XIII, for luck, and Julius, as a Julius was the guy who annoyed Michelangelo. ---
**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:** [January 18, 2024, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/9387 "2024-01-18T18:56:48Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > I’m confused. How did you get inspected (therefor having the receipt) but not have the sticker? My car passed inspection except for the missing screw. British Leyland was no longer in business so my mechanic couldn’t order the part. My old sticker was still good for a month. I parked the car and used another one. I spent many hours looking for the part. Once I found the part, put it in, and adjusted the headlight, I had to take the car to the shop for the new sticker to be applied. I explained this to the cop, who disliked me for any number of reasons; my long hair, my youth, whatever. He wrote the ticket with a huge grin. This was all decades ago. I’ve told other cops the story since then and they’ve all said at most they’d write me a fix-it ticket. Yes, I was driving without a sticker, but I was driving at most two miles from my home to the mechanic. ---
**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:** [January 18, 2024, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/9388 "2024-01-18T18:57:00Z")
> [@psychonaut](#): > > “Sixtus the Sixth” has a nice ring to it. I agree. I also picked Felix, because it seems like a lucky name for a superstitious person. I forget what my other choice was ---
**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:** [January 18, 2024, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/9389 "2024-01-18T18:58:11Z")
I got a lot of speeding tickets as a young man. They were all well-earned. But then I turned 30 and something strange began to happen: I’d still get pulled over, but they’d just give me a warning every time, often not even an “official” warning citation, just a verbal “Slow it down, sir.” Haven’t gotten an actual ticket in at least two decades. I haven’t started driving any slower. Even times when I was caught dead to rights and was certain I’d be getting a ticket, still just a warning. Frankly, it’s really weird at this point. It’s not like I was mouthing off to them when I was younger. Guess I just have a contrite face. 😁 ---
**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:** [January 18, 2024, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/9390 "2024-01-18T19:08:27Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Once I found the part, put it in, and adjusted the headlight, I had to take the car to the shop for the new sticker to be applied. > > I explained this to the cop, who disliked me for any number of reasons; my long hair, my youth, whatever. He wrote the ticket with a huge grin. > > This was all decades ago. I’ve told other cops the story since then and they’ve all said at most they’d write me a fix-it ticket. Yes, I was driving without a sticker, but I was driving at most two miles from my home to the mechanic. Ah. Thanks for explanation! Yes, I’d have expected no ticket if I was on the way to the mechanic! or at worst ‘if you’ve got the sticker before the payment’s due, you won’t have to pay’. Though I’d probably also have taken the back roads as much as possible, just in case. ---
**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:** [January 18, 2024, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/9391 "2024-01-18T19:52:45Z")
I picked Ritter Sport because it’s the only one i’ve heard of, and … **IT’S CHOCOLATE**. ---
**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:** [January 18, 2024, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/9392 "2024-01-18T23:58:29Z")
Completely forgot to add a “No” option! (fixed now) 😁 ---
**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:** [January 19, 2024, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/9393 "2024-01-19T00:21:48Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > I also picked Felix       _Felix the pope_       _The wonderful wonderful pope_ ---
**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:** [January 19, 2024, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/9394 "2024-01-19T00:31:15Z")
> [@pjd](#): > > I picked Ritter Sport because it’s the only one i’ve heard of, and … **IT’S CHOCOLATE**. Me, too. ---
**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:** [January 19, 2024, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/9395 "2024-01-19T00:33:02Z")
I picked Jason Ritter because of Gravity Falls. ---
**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:** [January 19, 2024, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/9396 "2024-01-19T01:38:19Z")
The friends and so polls were hard. But I guess we’ve tended to hang out in groups, so which are “my friends” and which are “friends i met because they are a friend’s so” is sometimes hard to answer. And some of my friends i guess i met through my husband. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2024, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/9397 "2024-01-19T03:40:04Z")
I picked country singer Tex Ritter. ---
**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:** [January 19, 2024, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/9398 "2024-01-19T03:58:56Z")
I don’t think I’ve met a Felix, and voted accordingly. But I’m not sure. ---
**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:** [January 19, 2024, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/9399 "2024-01-19T04:04:00Z")
I’ve known two Felixes. One I grew up and went to high school with, the other was my mother’s college roomate’s husband who visited from out of town. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2024, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/9400 "2024-01-19T05:54:01Z")
Almost all of my wife’s friends are male, dedicated or defeated bachelors. Most of my friends drifted apart after we moved to different states or in the case of one, got born again Christian and followed it down the Trump hole. Wife and I are each other’s first spouses, and are the second or third SO of note. So… yeah. We are the outer boundary of what is considered to be a stable relationship in our group of friends. Side note: my wife and my first SO were … how to say this, bugnuts? I have been told that my FiL at one point threatened my now wife’s then SO that if he showed up at said house (parents) he’d be met with a loaded firearm. So never coming into contact with either of them was and remains a priority. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2024, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/9401 "2024-01-19T06:26:03Z")
Oh, “my wife’s and my,” maybe ? I couldn’t parse this at first, calling your wife “bugnuts.” At first I thought maybe the two of them were into insects and they were annoying her dad with their entomological activities! I think you mean you & spouse each have a crazy ex, yes? ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2024, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/9402 "2024-01-19T06:34:16Z")
Sorry, shouldn’t be posting past my bedtime, yes, we each have one prior SO (not spouses) that are certifiably insane, and therefore actively avoid ever finding out about their current location, status, etc. And now sleep! ---
**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:** [January 19, 2024, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/9403 "2024-01-19T11:38:22Z")
This past xmas my siblings and I discussed how wonderful a job our parents did. Like the song says, “Don’t it always seem to go That you don’t know what you’ve got Till it’s gone”. I gave them both **A** s. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380.md?page=469) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380.md?page=471)