# 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:** 397
**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:** [August 9, 2025, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7922 "2025-08-09T01:11:45Z")
I’ve never even come close to catching, picking up, or being offered a home run, foul ball or a ground foul from the field in any baseball game - MLB, minors, college, high school, Little League (the Little League World series is starting next week!), pee wee, or T-ball. I did get a home run ball tossed casually to me by Brooks Robinson… … he was already retired and it was during a pool party/BBQ in his back yard when he took me and a couple other guys inside to see his memorabilia. ---
**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:** [August 9, 2025, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7923 "2025-08-09T04:42:03Z")
> [@carrps](#): > > Btw, my younger sister gets migraines as well, and she just had an aura! She went to the eye doctor because she thought she might have had a detached retina. Yikes! I sometimes get migraines. The very first time, it was just an aura. I was terrified something was wrong with my eye, and had my husband leave work and drive me to an emergency eye appointment. As we arrived, the aura stopped being a blind spot and spread out into a ring. I described my symptoms to the ophthalmologist, who asked me if i had a headache. “No”, i said. “That’s odd”, he replied, “you have a migraine”. I’ve since had more traditional migraines, usually without the aura. But they aren’t as bad as what I’ve heard other people describe, including my sister and my son and my cousin’s husband. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2025, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7924 "2025-08-09T16:19:32Z")
My Dad used to take me to sportsball games. But in my adult life, only Sharks hockey as the Sharktank was within (long) walking distance, and we often got free tickets. But we no longer live there. ---
**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 9, 2025, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7925 "2025-08-09T18:01:44Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > But they aren’t as bad as what I’ve heard other people describe, including my sister and my son and my cousin’s husband. You’re lucky. I had a few friends at work who got migraines as bad as mine. One of them would sometimes have to to to the ER for demerol. ---
**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:** [August 11, 2025, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7926 "2025-08-11T13:42:44Z")
Are we sure that all of the men listed in @psychonaut Marx Brothers poll have a brother, or at least are not only children? ---
**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:** [August 11, 2025, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7927 "2025-08-11T13:54:39Z")
No. That’s why he said “who is your favourite Marx brother (or perhaps Marx only child)?” ---
**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:** [August 11, 2025, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7928 "2025-08-11T15:43:36Z")
When I was looking up Marxes to include in the poll, I started off by carefully checking whether each one had a sibling. But after the first half-dozen or so this became very time-consuming and so I abandoned the plan and added the parenthetical note that @pjd refers to. ---
**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:** [August 11, 2025, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7929 "2025-08-11T23:35:43Z")
Karl Marx had a sister named Onya, who tragically died in a foot race accident. In her memory, her name is invoked at the beginning of all foot races to this day. ---
**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:** [August 12, 2025, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7930 "2025-08-12T00:18:57Z")
A guy called Reddy Gou died in the same accident and is also invoked. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2025, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7931 "2025-08-12T01:06:28Z")
Altho the french dip (yes, invented in Los Angeles) and the cheesesteak are ‘all over” , so, to a less extent are the other two. I am not sure if i have had a “italian beef” , but a few places not far away claim to have it. I will order a french dip as a casual restaurant, and in San Jose there was a decent cheesesteak down the steak from us. ---
**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:** [August 12, 2025, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7932 "2025-08-12T01:18:55Z")
I voted ‘No’ in my Boney M poll, even though I had to have heard of them to make the poll. Sometimes life doesn’t offer us clear choices. Anyway, never heard of them until Inna and I watched **Black Mirror** , now they keep popping up everywhere. Go figure. ---
**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:** [August 12, 2025, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7933 "2025-08-12T01:22:45Z")
I’m sad for those who don’t know Boney M. Ra-ra-rasputin, Russia’s greatest love machine? And “Ma Baker” was sampled in Lady Gaga’s “Poker Face,” adding a delicious subtextual note of murder. ---
**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:** [August 12, 2025, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7934 "2025-08-12T01:31:35Z")
I haven’t voted yet. I didn’t recognize the name of the group, but I’m kind of out of it, culturally. And i looked them up in Wikipedia, and i know most of their hits. _By the Rivers of Babylon_ was huge, i may have heard it every day for months. ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2025, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7935 "2025-08-12T01:37:11Z")
How did the Reuben get left out of regional sandwiches? It’s iconic, invented in Omaha, Nebraska in the ‘30s at the Blackstone hotel. ---
**Author:** ![Hatchie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hatchie/32/3983_2.png) [@Hatchie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hatchie)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2025, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7936 "2025-08-12T03:05:10Z")
I wouldn’t call Boney M a disco act. They covered a lot of ground in the pop spectrum. Attempts to break them in North America somehow never took hold, except for that one gigantic hit mentioned above. You just never know - Abba yes, Boney nein. Those hundred million records were gobbled up by Europeans. That’s all I know about Boney M. ---
**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:** [August 12, 2025, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7937 "2025-08-12T03:14:22Z")
I’ve not only not heard of Boney M, I don’t even know what a “disco act” is. Is that a band? ---
**Author:** ![Hatchie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hatchie/32/3983_2.png) [@Hatchie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hatchie)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2025, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7938 "2025-08-12T03:26:05Z")
I suppose it might be. ---
**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:** [August 12, 2025, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7939 "2025-08-12T04:18:13Z")
A disco act is a band primarily known for playing disco music, a genre of dance music that peaked in popularity in the 1970s. Contrary to what @Hatchie writes, Boney M was very much a disco act. While their music crossed a number of genres, virtually all of their top-20 hits were disco tunes. Disco is all they’re really known for, except perhaps to dedicated fans or those who started following them well after their career peak. ---
**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:** [August 12, 2025, 10:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7940 "2025-08-12T10:02:17Z")
> [@Hatchie](#): > > Attempts to break them in North America somehow never took hold, except for that one gigantic hit mentioned above. You just never know - Abba yes, Boney nein. Those hundred million records were gobbled up by Europeans. That’s all I know about Boney M. Huh. You know, the year i heard them all the time might have been the year i spent the summer in Denmark. And as for Rasputin, i know the karaoke version really well, because it’s a favorite tune of a square dance caller i used to dance to all the time. But this may be the first time i heard the lyrics. ---
**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:** [August 12, 2025, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7941 "2025-08-12T14:33:10Z")
The thing is, that Babylon song was a cover of an already reasonably big hit by the Melodians, which appeared on the fabulous soundtrack “[The Harder They Come](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Harder_They_Come_(soundtrack))” (a soundtrack more popular than the movie, at least outside Jamaica). But I had no idea Boney M. had a follow-up with it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636.md?page=396) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636.md?page=398)