# 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:** 378
**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 13, 2025, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7542 "2025-07-13T19:29:49Z")
Maine is a beautiful state. My BiL is from there, and he and my sister lived there for about 8 (?) years. Both my nephew and niece were born there. I’d love to go back some day. ---
**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:** [July 13, 2025, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7543 "2025-07-13T19:38:41Z")
> [@carrps](#): > > I only went to a sleep away camp once (for a week), and it was a Girl Scout camp. So, not Gucci like Camp Mystic I went to a sleep away camp for several weeks in the summer for, IIRC, one summer at one camp, then a gap, then a couple of summers at another camp. I don’t remember anything Gucci about it; I remember double-decker cots which we made up ourselves, eight or ten kids plus a couple of counselors to a cabin. There are a lot of variations, and some sleep-away camps are pretty bare bones (though we did have actual cabins, not just tents.) – I just looked up the one whose name I remember. Apparently it was abandoned in 1995. From what I can tell of the pictures taken by somebody who toured it fifteen years later, portions of it may have been a bit ritzier than I remember; but I wouldn’t have been impressed at the time by how high the ceilings were in what to me was just a big wooden cafeteria room. I wouldn’t have thought of horses as ritzy, either, because I lived in farm country and a lot of people, including farmers with very little money, had horses. And my memory was apparently right that the cabins and bathrooms (bathrooms in a separate building some distance behind the cabins) had no electricity. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2025, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7544 "2025-07-13T19:43:48Z")
> [@Die\_Capacitrix](#): > > We bought a Saturn SC2 in 1992/3. When we moved to Europe, we didn’t bring it with us, as it would have been difficult to maintain. Until the last models- which kinda really werent saturns at all- they were great cars. I gave my SC2 to my wife, it is her back up car, and runs great. When i was in scouts, we had summer camping trip, for like a short week. Tents with wood floors, cots, wood fired stoves, running water and porta potties. Kinda rustic. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2025, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7545 "2025-07-13T20:33:21Z")
In the automotive loyalty poll, a grand total of 6 (out of a total of 65) votes went to a U.S.-based manufacturer (and 5 of those 6 went to Ford). mmm ---
**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 13, 2025, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7546 "2025-07-13T20:51:40Z")
My last two cars have been Nissans so I guess that counts as loyalty. ---
**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:** [July 14, 2025, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7547 "2025-07-14T01:20:27Z")
I’m actually a _second generation_ overnight-camp go-er. My step-mother had very fond memories of attending camp in Geneva Glen, Colorado. So my brother and I went for the years I was 11-12 (Knighthood I and II). For the summer I turned 13, I was prepping for my Bar Mitzvah and after that, I was mostly working on academic pre-prep for College and events. Considering the Cost, it was quite a luxury to attend, especially considering the time it took to get too/from the Camp from our home in Southern NM, but it was a fun couple of weeks. > **[About GG](https://www.genevaglen.org/about/)** > > Geneva Glen Camp is a summer camp located in the mountains of Colorado for children. I have fond memories of the place, though with some of the Colorado Wildfires in the last couple of decades, I’d worry. ---
**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:** [July 14, 2025, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7548 "2025-07-14T01:43:06Z")
If only Peccavi had been on the list… ---
**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:** [July 14, 2025, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7549 "2025-07-14T01:57:14Z")
It’s possible that I think I know the origin of somebody’s name but I’m wrong. ---
**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:** [July 14, 2025, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7550 "2025-07-14T02:06:19Z")
I can remember the discussion of the origin of WOOKINPANUB’s name; previously I had thought it was some sort of dyslexic wookie in a pub. ---
**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 14, 2025, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7551 "2025-07-14T03:56:00Z")
I went to Boy Scout camp nearly every summer. After I was old enough to mow lawns, I would earn enough money to attend additional weeks as part of the Auxiliary Troop. At the age of sixteen, I was a CSD (Camp Staff Development). Seventeen and eighteen, I worked at camp. I loved summer camp. ---
**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:** [July 14, 2025, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7552 "2025-07-14T12:58:33Z")
I have preferences among those spices for particular foods; but I like all of them in suitable contexts. Not sure whether I should vote “no preference” or not, and there isn’t any “other” option, so didn’t vote. ---
**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 14, 2025, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7553 "2025-07-14T13:42:10Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > In the automotive loyalty poll, a grand total of 6 (out of a total of 65) votes went to a U.S.-based manufacturer (and 5 of those 6 went to Ford). Which is one of the brands I would _not_ buy. I don’t get brand loyalty. Models come & go, or get redesigned into something different (usually upsized, upscaled, & up-priced) every couple of years. I want a new vehicle that meets _my_ checklist of requirements. The last two cars I’ve owned aren’t even made anymore; they’ve discontinued those models so I can’t just go & buy the current version of the same thing again. If you have a vehicle that meets my requirements then I’ll look at it. If not, I won’t. Just because you made something I may have liked x years ago doesn’t mean your reputation hasn’t slipped or that your current lineup is what I’m looking for. Case in point, hardly anyone makes a sedan anymore. If you last four cars were a sedan from \_\_\_; would you get a sedan from someone else (assuming that’s the style you want) or go back to your old stallwart but be forced into an SUV that you don’t really want. ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2025, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7554 "2025-07-14T14:17:38Z")
> [@Spiderman](#): > > Case in point, hardly anyone makes a sedan anymore. If you last four cars were a sedan from \_\_\_; would you get a sedan from someone else (assuming that’s the style you want) or go back to your old stallwart but be forced into an SUV that you don’t really want. I have purchased all kinds of different cars during my lifetime mostly based on availability and convenience. I am planning on buying a Toyota Corolla as soon as my town is done tearing up the roads. I do not want an SUV. I want a sedan and they are one of the few that still manufacture them. ---
**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 14, 2025, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7555 "2025-07-14T18:50:49Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > I have preferences among those spices for particular foods; but I like all of them in suitable contexts. Not sure whether I should vote “no preference” or not, and there isn’t any “other” option, so didn’t vote. Seems to me that no preference fits. I like all of those spices but it depends on the dish. I voted no preference ---
**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:** [July 14, 2025, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7556 "2025-07-14T19:12:01Z")
I voted for one of them, but i agree that it depends on the dish. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2025, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7557 "2025-07-14T19:43:33Z")
I know little about my fellow posters. If you are a expert in XXX, I usually wouldnt remember it. QtM and Northern Piper are two exceptions, ---
**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 14, 2025, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7558 "2025-07-14T22:26:29Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > If you are a expert in XXX, I usually wouldnt remember it. Good, I’ve moved on from my prior career as a movie star. 🤫 ---
**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 14, 2025, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7559 "2025-07-14T23:45:27Z")
I don’t remember the background of most posters or the origin of their names (despite reading threads about it). Of the list given I knew 8 of the name origins. That’s a much higher batting average than I would have with posters as a whole. ---
**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2025, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7560 "2025-07-15T11:57:58Z")
I hate to be _that_ guy BUT - the ‘pelican’ part of _#1 Alligator Pelican_ is obviously not a pelican. It looks to me like a female mallard duck, although I see many fewer mallards than I do pelicans. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2025, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7561 "2025-07-15T13:32:40Z")
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