# 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:** 498
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2026, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9943 "2026-01-26T13:48:25Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > I wear earplugs to bed. I started doing so 20-some years ago Same. I started on the advice of author Nicholson Baker. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2026, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9944 "2026-01-26T15:13:54Z")
> [@gkster](#): > > When I first posted the poll about ER visits and getting there (inspired by my 2nd visit in a lifetime yesterday), I included the “I drove myself” option, which I know isn’t uncommon. I had an ER visit myself about a week ago. I slipped on the ice and hit my head on the ground, giving myself a concussion. My brother drove me to the ER. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2026, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9945 "2026-01-26T16:29:35Z")
For Macca’s post-Beatles songs, I chose “With a Little Luck” and several others. I checked “other” to include “Coming Up.” I first heard that song when I was about nine (it was new then), on a National Airlines 727, through those hard, white, in-your-ear earphones. You had a choice of about five channels (pop/rock, classical…), and everyone heard the same songs in the same order, so you had to wait about 40 minutes to hear a song again. ---
**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:** [January 26, 2026, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9946 "2026-01-26T16:51:28Z")
“Coming Up” was listed in the poll, @JKellyMap. My “other” was “Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five,” which may or may not have technically been a single, but it was the B-side of “Band on the Run,” which I bought when I was a kid, and ended up liking better than the A-side. ---
**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:** [January 26, 2026, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9947 "2026-01-26T17:01:33Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > I checked “other” to include “Coming Up.” I first heard that song when I was about nine (it was new then), on a National Airlines 727, through those hard, white, in-your-ear earphones. You had a choice of about five channels (pop/rock, classical…), and everyone heard the same songs in the same order, so you had to wait about 40 minutes to hear a song again. This reminded me of how his song “My Brave Face” always reminds me of flying when I was working at my first job. By then, the acoustic headphones on United were bigger and black, but it seemed like every time I flew in that period, that song was on their music loop. > [@Wheelz](#): > > My “other” was “Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five,” Same here. Particularly in recent years, it’s become one of my favorites. Pretty silly, nothing-ish lyrics, but I love the orchestration. ---
**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:** [January 26, 2026, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9948 "2026-01-26T17:25:30Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > Same here. Particularly in recent years, it’s become one of my favorites. Pretty silly, nothing-ish lyrics, but I love the orchestration. He was good at minor key songs, when he did them…very wistful, even when they’re rocking a little bit like this one. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2026, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9949 "2026-01-26T20:10:15Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > Coming Up” was listed in the poll, Oops — my bad. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2026, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9950 "2026-01-26T21:22:32Z")
We have a great Urgent care center rather nearby, so visits to the ER (which is not close) are rare. As for the other poll re Mr Mustard, what i dont get is why nearly all his polls are public, but hardly anyone else uses that option. ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2026, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9951 "2026-01-27T00:11:36Z")
I have been to the ER many more times than I would like. I had five visits via ambulance between 11/2022 and 8/2023 due to blood sugar issues (four blackouts when it got too low, one time when my insulin pump stopped working and it got too high–things are much more under control now, knock wood). There were several others in which I drove myself or someone else drove me. Including one last October where the urgent care guy thought I had Something Horrible and it turned out to be covid. Oh well. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2026, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9952 "2026-01-27T00:45:52Z")
I’ve been to the ER a few times. In 2016 with multiple grand mal seizures, in 2015 for an emergency gallbladder removal. I was indirectly hit by a golf cart in my teens which necessitated a hospital visit, and at sixteen I was in a fairly bad car accident where I had to go and get checked out. (Sprained neck both times.) I went quite a few times as a kid, too. Once when I had Scarlett Fever, another when I fell and put a tooth partway through my lip (I remember the immobilization for stitches part being very unpleasant, but I was over it by sundown), and once when I swallowed a penny. Oh and I think a big dog bit my face once when I was a small child and that required stitches (still afraid of dogs.) In all cases I was driven by an ambulance or a family member. ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2026, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9953 "2026-01-27T02:03:48Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > a big dog bit my face once when I was a small child and that required stitches (still afraid of dogs.) That happened to my younger brother! In his case it was a German Shepherd Dog. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2026, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9954 "2026-01-27T02:14:01Z")
Like i don’t know for _sure_ that’s why I’m afraid of dogs, but it happened and it seems as good a reason as any. I’m only really freaked out by them if they are barking at me. ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2026, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9955 "2026-01-27T02:42:08Z")
I can understand that! Though I have had two dogs as an adult (it was not my idea), I am always a little leery of them. Especially the barky ones. _You just never know_… ---
**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:** [January 27, 2026, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9956 "2026-01-27T02:48:01Z")
“Gen-u-wine” is the sarcastic opposite of “genuine” (ˈjen-yoo-uhn). ---
**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:** [January 27, 2026, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9957 "2026-01-27T03:21:15Z")
I agree that it’s “jen-yoo-uhn”, not “jen-yoo-in”. ---
**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:** [January 27, 2026, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9958 "2026-01-27T03:46:15Z")
I genuinely disagree. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2026, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9959 "2026-01-27T12:14:41Z")
“Gen-you-wine” sounds to me like a Mark Twain character, or a hillbilly, or maybe a cowboy. Perhaps it’s a regionalism (southern US, maybe?). For one data point, I grew up in the northeast US, and have lived for 20 years in the Midwest. It’s always been “-in/-uhn” for me (I hear it closer to -in, but in that kind of unstressed syllable, the difference is minimal). ---
**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:** [January 27, 2026, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9960 "2026-01-27T13:48:23Z")
I used to work with a Kentucky guy who saluted me in the hallway, used Southernisms, and did indeed say gen-u-wine. But I always thought he was laying it on pretty thick, as a way to distinguish himself in Boston. ---
**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:** [January 27, 2026, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9961 "2026-01-27T13:59:57Z")
McCartney’s “ **Temporary Secretary** ” has received a couple of votes. I consider it the worst piece of, er, music ever released by any of the Beatles. (Imagine, someone not agreeing with my personal opinion.) mmm ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2026, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9962 "2026-01-27T14:01:24Z")
It’s “gen-u-wine” if you’re Mr. Haney on _Green Acres_. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636.md?page=497) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636.md?page=499)