# 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:** 1\ **Showing post:** 5591
**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:** [July 16, 2023, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/5591 "2023-07-16T12:32:29Z")
I’ve driven past the Capitol, but that’s the closest I’ve ever been to it. The only show I’ve watched recently (meaning in the last twelve months) is _Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries_, so the next thing I watch will probably be another episode of that. I do need to watch the last few episodes of _Professor T_ and _Murdoch Mysteries_, though, so I may watch one of those instead. I picked Data, with Bishop as second choice, for my robot guardian. My preferred candidate would be a third-party one, so if they came close in even a three-way split I would be astounded. My favourite socks are the ones I bought four years ago when the local Sears was closing and everything was on sale. No idea what brand they were, but I wish I’d gone back for a couple more packages. I flew Tokyo-San Francisco on Northwest Orient back in '87, and was so impressed by the service I actually sent a letter to corporate commending one of the FAs. Most of the flying I’ve done since then has been space-A on military flights, but the Air Force wasn’t one of the poll options… > [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > I am currently about 100 pages into “Stranger in a Strange Land” and I am extremely disappointed at the quality of the writing and, as I read, I have one eye on the trash bin. That was one of the only two Heinlein books I couldn’t finish (the other being _Job_). The second time I tried, I think I made it into the second chapter before giving up. I know there’ve been a few other books I didn’t finish, but I don’t remember any of the titles. > [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > For those of you always-finishers: don’t you even allow yourselves to put a book aside for awhile (or indefinitely)? Drove my ex crazy (actually, that was a putt, not a drive) by having one book at each end of the couch and one in the bedroom, and reading whichever one was closest. > [@Polls only: No discussion](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polls-only-no-discussion/953642/3598): > > Your preferred or main form of exercise My favourite form of exercise is jogging, but nowadays I mostly don’t exercise, so those were the two options I picked. The main form of exercise I do engage in is pushing a shopping cart around the supermarket. (Fortunately, most of the stuff I buy is at or near eye level, so I don’t have to keep bending over to get things from the bottom shelf…) --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380)._