# 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:** 238
**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:** [December 4, 2024, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/4742 "2024-12-04T20:16:08Z")
I live on the corner of an avenue and a close, but my address is in the close and that’s not on the list. Before that i was in _a_ way ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2024, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/4743 "2024-12-04T22:11:21Z")
I live on a Court, aka Cul de Sac. ---
**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:** [December 4, 2024, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/4744 "2024-12-04T22:14:33Z")
I’m in Colorado _Springs_ which wasn’t in the list, although it would probably fit in with the - Falls or Rapids subgroup. 🙂 Voted other. ---
**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:** [December 4, 2024, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/4745 "2024-12-04T22:15:34Z")
I also just realized I forgot Park and Heights, but it is too late to edit the poll. ---
**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:** [December 4, 2024, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/4746 "2024-12-04T22:17:26Z")
I’d also have suggested [something] - _Forest_ as another common descriptor! ---
**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:** [December 4, 2024, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/4747 "2024-12-04T22:26:06Z")
And [something]-dale… ---
**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:** [December 4, 2024, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/4748 "2024-12-04T22:37:31Z")
The most recent poll leaves off, “huh, i don’t think I’d even have noticed that some other poll got more votes.” ---
**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:** [December 4, 2024, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/4749 "2024-12-04T23:25:02Z")
The previous occupants of my house painted a cow spot pattern on the kitchen walls. I have to admit I kind of liked it, so I kept it that way. So I guess my kitchen has a cow theme. ---
**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:** [December 4, 2024, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/4750 "2024-12-04T23:32:02Z")
My kitchen doesn’t have a deliberate theme, in the sense of a batch of decorations with the same sort of pictures or whatever on them. But it’s a great big kitchen in a genuine (historically and current) farm house and it’s full of the sort of stuff that accumulates in a genuine farmhouse kitchen. Voted maybe. ---
**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:** [December 5, 2024, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/4751 "2024-12-05T00:48:29Z")
Our kitchen doesn’t have a theme. But, the kitchen in my parents’ home, when I was growing up, had a rooster theme. Lots of rooster decorations (not to mention the groovy gold/orange/brown color scheme). I blame it on it being the 1970s. ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2024, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/4752 "2024-12-05T01:05:32Z")
I never had a themed kitchen until I bought my house 21 years ago. I had the kitchen remodeled and bought fruit-themed rugs, dish towels, tablecloth, wall decor. Over the years I added some butterflies and hummingbirds to mix things up. When I retired five years ago, I changed it over to a coffee theme because I had found a fabulous rug to build around. I imagine that’s the way it will stay. ---
**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:** [December 5, 2024, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/4753 "2024-12-05T01:58:53Z")
I’d never made the heart symbol with my hands, but I did it and then answered yes. 🫶🏼 ---
**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:** [December 5, 2024, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/4754 "2024-12-05T04:23:41Z")
Not sure about the mall santa. I have a vague memory, but it’s so vague that it might just be from reading about other kids doing so, or seeing a line of them somewhere waiting while we just passed by the area. ---
**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:** [December 5, 2024, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/4755 "2024-12-05T06:38:39Z")
Just asked my mom about this, as I had no memory of ever visiting Santa. She confirmed that was because I never did! ---
**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:** [December 5, 2024, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/4756 "2024-12-05T11:00:49Z")
My kitchen doesn’t have a theme. [But this one does](https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/153847517#/?channel=RES_BUY) (scroll through the photos). And I technically live in a **-ham**. ---
**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:** [December 5, 2024, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/4757 "2024-12-05T13:26:39Z")
At first I thought our kitchen didn’t have a theme, but then I realized it does. My gf has a coffee pot collection displayed in the kitchen. So, coffee. Of course I’ve interacted with Santa at the mall, both as a kid as well as with my kids. We also take our dogs to a brewery for pictures with Santa (the _real_ Santa!). [![](https://i.imgur.com/Od1GpUX.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/Od1GpUX.jpeg) ---
**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:** [December 5, 2024, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/4758 "2024-12-05T14:28:19Z")
Technically, the name of my town means “\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_” Valley in Serrano. I was taken to a Mall Santa (really a Department Store Santa. This was in pre-mall days of Yore.) I’ve **been** a Bar Santa. Did that gig several years running. ---
**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:** [December 5, 2024, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/4759 "2024-12-05T14:33:01Z")
I’d made the heart symbol with my hands ironically, but them I’m smack in the middle of GenX, so most things I do is for ironic purposes. We took our kids to see Santa Max at the mall in Charlotte when we lived there. He was just a pretty cool guy who raised reindeer in the Tennessee mountains. It was also nice to have photos of the boys with the same Sanra for several years. I have no recollection of this, but there are photos of a little Maus with a Santa at some sort of Santa grotto. There were not really many malls in the seventies. ---
**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:** [December 5, 2024, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/4760 "2024-12-05T15:21:13Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > I’ve **been** a Bar Santa. We participated in SantaCon with **kopek** (RIP). He was Amish Santa, handing out cigars. I was Bad Santa (I handed out porn to the naughty \>18 kids). ---
**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:** [December 5, 2024, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/4761 "2024-12-05T16:05:50Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > I was taken to a Mall Santa (really a Department Store Santa. This was in pre-mall days of Yore.) Come to think of it, if that vague memory is actually of me being taken to see a Santa, it would have been a Department Store Santa. It would have been in the 1950’s, and I don’t think I’d even heard of a mall then. But we routinely shopped at department stores. I miss good department stores. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636.md?page=237) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636.md?page=239)