One of ours played Louie Louie versions over and over. The one with the marching band was actually pretty good.. in a weird way.
I have feelings about homeless people and pets. I voted other.
One of our cats used to belong to an abused woman. The cat was clearly abused, too, and has some PTSD, although he’s getting better. But he’s often afraid we are going to hit him. We try not to walk directly towards him, or move our hands towards his face. (That latter is hard for me, because that’s how i greet our other three cats, all of whom expect pets, not blows, and come up to butt against my hand.)
Anyway, she wouldn’t leave the guy who was abusing her until she found a shelter that would care for her cat. And she looked for a place she could run that would take the cat. i was only supposed to have the cat until she found someplace. And briefly, she did. But then her abuser found her, and she had to flee again. For a while she kept checking in, in tears, asking how the cat was doing. I took photos of the cat to send to her. And then the shelter lost track of her, and asked us to adopt the cat.
I kept the cat, in part so that if she shows up and asks, she can have him back. Despite his skittishness, he’s very cuddly and a good emotional support animal. (So long as he comes to you, and but vice versa.) I really didn’t want a fourth cat, even though he gets along pretty well with the others.
Anyway, you can’t just wish your pets away. Not everyone can find a place to keep their pet. Asking a person who has lost their home to also have their pet put down seems incredibly cruel. And that’s what most “shelters” mostly do, i happen to live in a part of the country that has few enough unwanted pets that most find homes, but that’s not the norm.
We have a sad then happy cat story. Older orange boy, long haired, kinda large- lived with his person- older woman for years. Then, she sadly had to go into a hospice, but made her grown up kid and his family promise to take him in. Well, he was grumpy about this, so without telling her, they dropped him off at the Shelter. Grumpy older cats dont get picked, but one of the shelter volunteers knew us, and asked us to meet him- one sight of my wife- older woman - and he fell in love again, crawed into her lap, so of course we adopted him.
Mind you, he is not fond of the other cats, but otherwise now happy. He tolerates me.
Exponent is simply a number. I think the name of the operation that you’re looking for is exponentiation. What a big ugly word that is. No wonder people want to call it an exponent.
From Latin ex ponens, literally ‘putting it out there’. From Latin roots, exponentiation would be ‘making it into something that puts it out there’.
An exponent is both a number and the indicator of a specific operation.
P.A.W.S. or Pets Are Wonderful Support refers to a number of North American non-profit organisations that advocate the value of the bond between humans and their pets as a means to extend a person’s quality of life and life-span, specifically elderly or disabled persons. The PAWS organizations provide subsidized pet food, veterinary care, pet medication and human services such as dog walking, litter box cleaning and transportation to thousands of clients, all free of charge. They are a leading organization in the world of pet care and pet appreciation.
I suspect the poll was inspired by the E of “PEMDAS,” which is most commonly understood as “Parentheses; Exponents; Multiplication and Division; Addition and Subtraction,” but Wikipedia uses “Exponentiation” in place of “Exponents.”
There’s nothing wrong with thinking of the E as standing for either “exponents” or “exponentiation”; both work equally well to remind you of the order of operations, which is the point of the mnemonic. True, “exponents” isn’t an operation, the way “multiplication” et al are, but then neither is “parentheses.”
The P doesn’t stand for “parentheses”, it stands for “parenthetecizialation”. 
gesundheit
It was actually one of those “move two toothpicks to make the largest number possible” using the number 5008. I removed the top and bottom toothpick from the first zero and used them as an exponent, giving me 51108^11. People then started objecting, telling me that’s not a number.
Shit, just realized I should have done 51108^L.
That would have been clever, but ISTM allowing a non-Arabic number system is a small step from allowing symbols that represent numbers — and surely you could make an infinity sign by moving just a couple toothpicks?
(Maybe not as easy as I thought. You’d have “5 infinity 8,” which is only a number if we’re allowed to re-interpret juxtaposed digits to mean “x times x”.)
An exponent is an advocate, proponent, or spokesman.
Damn math geeks 
It’s an expression that represents a number. Would they have allowed something like “10 x 34”?
I don’t think your poll really hits the point, though, because
51108^11
is not an exponent. 11 is the exponent in what you created.
To that point, my poll doesn’t really mention this example, just “what is an exponent”?
Well, my answer to your poll is that in this example, the number “11” is the exponent (a number), and you indicated by placement that it should be used for exponentiation.
When I joined they told me there wouldn’t be any math.
I agree with puzzlegal, the poll’s question really has nothing to do with the question of whether 5110811 is a number. For the latter question, I’d say it is an expression, not a number. Within the expression, the number 51108 is the base and the number 11 is the exponent.
I voted that I didn’t know the secondary definition of goon until “that” thread. The real answer is I didn’t read the other thread so I wasn’t aware until the poll question. Since that question quoted the other thread I figured that was close enough.
This for me, as well.
As for the Christmas tree, we sometimes decorate it, but not this year. When we do decorate it, the back (against the wall) gets no ornaments.