# 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:** 373
**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:** [July 9, 2025, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7442 "2025-07-09T15:51:48Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > I haven’t eaten corn on the cob in over 50 years. With lip fur it is contraindicated unless you are sitting next to a garden hose. Pre-mustache I did more of a spiral around the cob. > > These days I usually just cut the kernels off, mix them with mayo, taijin and lime and eat it from a bowl. If I had to chose between facial hair and fresh Jersey Sweet Corn I would choose the corn every time. I would eat it every day during the summer if I could. Probably a dozen farm stands within a couple miles from here. ---
**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:** [July 9, 2025, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7443 "2025-07-09T17:27:48Z")
Yes, I’m counting the days until our local fresh corn stand opens. In addition to CotC, I make [Anne Burrell’s corn chowder](https://www.foodnetwork.com/fnk/recipes/corn-chowder-8862518) at least once every corn season. I even bought a new tool for stripping kernels of the cobs in anticipation. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2025, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7444 "2025-07-09T19:47:57Z")
I could not choose a chocolate beverage. When it comes to chocolate, I am quite promiscuous. ---
**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:** [July 9, 2025, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7445 "2025-07-09T23:55:48Z")
I hate Bosco! Bosco’s bad for me. Mommy puts in my milk and tries to poison me. But I fooled mommy. I put it in her tea. And now there’s no more mommy to try and poison me! Very popular ditty when I was a kid along with _Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory of the Burning of the School._ I’ve only ever had Nesquik and Carnation Instant Breakfast, and I’d choose Quik. Never had Ovaltine, but it always seem off-putting to me for some reason. ---
**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:** [July 10, 2025, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7446 "2025-07-10T00:35:30Z")
A glass of varm milk, perhaps? ---
**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:** [July 10, 2025, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7447 "2025-07-10T01:07:38Z")
Who put the benzedrine in Mrs. Murphy’s Ovaltine? ---
**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:** [July 10, 2025, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7448 "2025-07-10T03:15:27Z")
Now, that’s _really_ going back! I remember my first grade class singing the song that parody was based on to Monsignor McLaughlin at our Christmas pageant. ---
**Author:** ![psychonaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psychonaut/32/4655_2.png) [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2025, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7449 "2025-07-10T11:47:04Z")
I picked Ovaltine for the “favorite cold chocolate milk mix” poll, but I don’t consider it to be a “chocolate milk mix”. It’s a malt drink powder that happens to have a little cocoa in it, and malt is the overwhelmingly dominant flavour. (So much so that they even make a separate “chocolate” version of Ovaltine with more cocoa.) ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2025, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7450 "2025-07-10T16:12:46Z")
My ex-wife, daughter, and I were in a crowd scene for some movie, but I don’t think that counts as an ‘extra’… does it? ---
**Author:** ![RollOutTheBarrel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rolloutthebarrel/32/1649_2.png) [@RollOutTheBarrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RollOutTheBarrel)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2025, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7451 "2025-07-10T16:23:43Z")
I’d say it counts. I was in a crowd in a movie and I always say I was an extra in it. ---
**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:** [July 10, 2025, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7452 "2025-07-10T16:25:29Z")
I did a bunch of Extra work when I lived in San Francisco. I was in an HBO show called _Looking_, TNT’s _Murder in the First_, Discovery channel’s _I (Almost) Got Away With It_, a few commercials, and various low-budget short films and movies. It was a really fun way to make a little pocket money. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2025, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7453 "2025-07-10T16:30:49Z")
I was specialty technical crew for a movie & was filmed in two scenes; one I didn’t make camera even though that scene did but the other one I did. ---
**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:** [July 10, 2025, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7454 "2025-07-10T17:33:42Z")
Like **JohnT** I have been in several crowd scenes in movies. I’ve also been in the background to several scenes of TV’s _Hunter_. They were filming up in the Valley and I happened to be walking down the street at the time. ---
**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:** [July 10, 2025, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7455 "2025-07-10T17:50:34Z")
I did extra work for Patch Adams and a couple of episodes of Dawson’s Creek. ---
**Author:** ![zimaane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a3d4f5/32.png) [@zimaane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zimaane)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2025, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7456 "2025-07-10T18:07:46Z")
I’ve been in the studio audience for a quiz shiw, and the camera briefly panned over us, but I dont think that counts as an ‘extra’? ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2025, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7457 "2025-07-10T22:10:22Z")
I don’t know why so many people have such difficulty drinking ice-filled drinks. Robert Hays would say they have a drinking problem. Teeth are the perfect barrier as long as you’re not trying to chug the whole cup in one go. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2025, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7458 "2025-07-10T22:11:55Z")
My science museum would have a fully operational nuclear reactor with transparent containment walls. ---
**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:** [July 10, 2025, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7459 "2025-07-10T22:16:29Z")
The closest I’ve come to being in a movie was seeing a movie being made. It wasn’t much of a movie. I think by the time it made it to streaming (never released) it was called _Reverse the Curse._ It came from the book David Duchovny wrote called “Bucky F@cking Dent”. I got to watch Duchovny direct Evan Handler for a minute. I really should track it down. A couple of friends of mine were extras on it. ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2025, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7460 "2025-07-10T22:25:08Z")
The poll lacked the option I would’ve chosen “I don’t”, basically when I get one of those (which here only happens in cinemas, restaurants are parsimonious with the ice) I drink all the easily reachable coke with the straw, then open the container to get at the small amount of liquid remaining and get a facefull of ice. ---
**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:** [July 10, 2025, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7461 "2025-07-10T23:15:01Z")
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