# Discussion thread for the "Polls only" thread (Part 2) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 16, 2024, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636 "2024-02-16T02:56:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 160
**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:** [August 30, 2024, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3182 "2024-08-30T13:56:58Z")
I thought Josh Brolin was good in **W** , but not as good as Richard Dreyfuss playing Cheney was. ---
**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:** [August 30, 2024, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3183 "2024-08-30T14:24:52Z")
I thought Travolta did a great job as Clinton in **Primary Colors** …but of course he wasn’t actually Clinton, just a character obviously based on Clinton (named Jack Stanton). ---
**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:** [August 30, 2024, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3184 "2024-08-30T18:51:38Z")
I thought Kevin Kline was really good as President Bill Mitchell. He played every President and no President at the same time. ---
**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:** [August 30, 2024, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3185 "2024-08-30T20:38:21Z")
Yes, _Dave_ is, as I’ve posted in another thread, my all-time favorite political comedy. Kline was great in it in both roles. Haven’t seen _Dick_ yet, but it’s been on my list for awhile. ---
**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:** [August 30, 2024, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3186 "2024-08-30T21:38:28Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Haven’t seen _Dick_ yet, but it’s been on my list for awhile. _Dick_ is much less subtle and interesting than _Dave_. It is more farcical (Will Ferrule plays one of the WaPo reporters). But, it does explain the 18-minute gap. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2024, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3187 "2024-08-31T00:22:41Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Yes, _Dave_ is, as I’ve posted in another thread, my all-time favorite political comedy. Kline was great in it in both roles. > > Haven’t seen _Dick_ yet, but it’s been on my list for awhile. I love _Dave_ too. I love the scene where Sigourney Weaver (The First Lady) comes up to him when he’s in the shower. _Dick_ is a lot of fun. The humor is pretty broad, but you’ll still laugh. Michelle Williams was really good – her taped “love song” is hilarious. ---
**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:** [September 1, 2024, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3188 "2024-09-01T16:48:53Z")
For my first computer, a Commodore 64, we never bought a monitor. We just just used the television. One of the reasons my parents decided to buy a second television was so that I could do my homework on the computer (word processor) while they watched the news. And because they wanted a television with a remote control. ---
**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:** [September 1, 2024, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3189 "2024-09-01T17:19:30Z")
I’ve done 8 of the Top 20 jobs in some fashion or another. Barry’s Burgers gets me Food Prep and Cashier. I ran a power-washing truck in high school, which covers Janitorial, since what I did most was clean gas stations and the like. The Photo Huts (remember those?) gets me Construction and Laborer, as does my camper shell fabrication business. Our courier service gets me Operations Manager and Mechanic. I swear I can still do brake jobs on Nissans in my sleep. I earned extra money in college and after as an Events Bartender. Then I was lured by the siren call of Education. Ah, the glamor, the glitz… ---
**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 1, 2024, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3190 "2024-09-01T17:22:18Z")
The only one I’ve done as working for somebody else is server. I’ve done a batch of the others as part of my own direct-market farm business, but don’t know whether that counts. 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 1, 2024, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3191 "2024-09-01T17:36:39Z")
When I was a kid and teenager, my parents (along with my aunt and uncle) owned a True Value hardware store. I worked there as a cashier through high school. During the summer between my freshman and sophomore years of college, I helped move the contents of a different True Value store from one building to another. That was two months of hard, sweaty, heavy work, so I counted that as “laborer.” ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2024, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3192 "2024-09-01T19:24:32Z")
I was a line cook in a small restaurant myself and a partner ran for a year, to help out a retired couple. No fast food chains, however. I checked “food service” for this. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2024, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3193 "2024-09-01T19:37:06Z")
I had both white and green displays. The poll doesn’t accommodate having had more than one color. ---
**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 1, 2024, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3194 "2024-09-01T19:40:04Z")
Me too ! I’ve made a new poll … ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2024, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3195 "2024-09-01T19:41:07Z")
👍🏼 👍🏼 👍🏼 👍🏼 👍🏼 ---
**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 1, 2024, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3196 "2024-09-01T19:57:30Z")
I never owned a monochrome monitor or terminal _per se_, but I used them; there were plenty on campus when I was in college. My family’s first computer was a Timex Sinclair 1000, a monochrome computer. We used a small black & white TV as its monitor. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2024, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3197 "2024-09-01T20:10:48Z")
[![](https://www.classic-computers.org.nz/blog/images/2010-12-21-kaypro4-working.jpg) ](https://www.classic-computers.org.nz/blog/images/2010-12-21-kaypro4-working.jpg) Fancy! I bought one of these and a daisywheel printer, which took me through 2 master’s degrees. My roommate got it when a friend gave me a used Mac. ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2024, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3198 "2024-09-01T20:14:15Z")
I had only two jobs before I graduated college and started working as a software engineer, which was my job for the rest of my working life. The first job was washing bottles in a university chemistry lab. The other was transcribing orally dictated weather balloon readings, which was better than it sounds. Usually the person making the recording had a radio playing in the background, so my job was basically listening to the radio for a few hours, and writing down a number every minute or two. ---
**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:** [September 1, 2024, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3199 "2024-09-01T20:14:42Z")
At different times, I’ve used white, green and amber. And I’ve owned some, but don’t remember which. ---
**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:** [September 1, 2024, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3200 "2024-09-01T20:17:09Z")
I owned a Franklin Ace 1000 with a green text screen. ---
**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:** [September 1, 2024, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3201 "2024-09-01T20:42:56Z")
9 out of the 20 most common jobs. But never cashier. I had an original (1984) Mac, which had a black-on-white display. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636.md?page=159) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636.md?page=161)