# Discussion thread for the "Polls only" thread (Part 3) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 29, 2026, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157 "2026-01-29T18:21:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 117
**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 13, 2026, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/2321 "2026-07-13T20:55:53Z")
If they have been oiled and baked uncovered, I’ll eat the skin. If they come in a foil wrapper. I just scrape off the fluffy stuff and leave the skin. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2026, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/2322 "2026-07-13T21:08:56Z")
To the baked potato question, I answered “Yes,” but I _wanted_ to answer “Maybe.” If it’s a big enough meal or I’m not all that hungry, I might not finish the potato, and in that case the skin might well get left behind. I also might not eat it if it were not very good (e.g. tough and chewy), but I assumed “perfectly cooked” ruled out that possibility. ---
**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 13, 2026, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/2323 "2026-07-13T23:11:03Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > If it’s a big enough meal or I’m not all that hungry, I might not finish the potato, and in that case the skin might well get left behind. Yeah, I’m still eating that sucker. Even if it tastes like regret and bad decisions, I’m eating it. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2026, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/2324 "2026-07-13T23:11:27Z")
> [@Frodo](#): > > Add books to read and it’s far FAR better than Christian Heaven. Well, maybe that is Christian Heaven, but yeah, a comforable chair, good books, and lots of good meals- pretty nic e. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2026, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/2325 "2026-07-13T23:23:55Z")
Sometimes I eat the potato skin. Sometimes I don’t. Sometimes I eat part of it, as the mood takes me. I refuse to commit to one option only. ---
**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 14, 2026, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/2326 "2026-07-14T00:00:16Z")
[![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FuFTHF_X0AAwmJf?format=jpg&name=small) ](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FuFTHF_X0AAwmJf?format=jpg&name=small) ---
**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, 2026, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/2327 "2026-07-14T00:01:27Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > Yeah, I’m still eating that sucker. Even if it tastes like regret and bad decisions, I’m eating it. You, on the other hand, are a kindred spirit. But praise never taste like regret. Just (in sufficient quantity, with enough butter and salt) like bad decisions. ---
**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:** [July 14, 2026, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/2328 "2026-07-14T01:11:36Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > If they have been oiled and baked uncovered, I’ll eat the skin. If they come in a foil wrapper. I just scrape off the fluffy stuff and leave the skin. Is this related to twins or potatoes? ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2026, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/2329 "2026-07-14T01:20:03Z")
I would make their first name Unrelated , but give them an alliterative middle name- so they have a choice later on. ---
**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 14, 2026, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/2330 "2026-07-14T03:41:58Z")
I would just pick each of the twin’s names the same way I would pick the name for any child. Not deliberately related and not deliberately unrelated. Saddling kids with cutesy rhyming names or something like that seems almost malicious. I didn’t see an appropriate choice so didn’t answer. ---
**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, 2026, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/2331 "2026-07-14T03:44:09Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Sometimes I eat the potato skin. Sometimes I don’t. Sometimes I eat part of it, as the mood takes me. I refuse to commit to one option only. So I’ll mark you down as a yes. See? Not that hard. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2026, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/2332 "2026-07-14T11:56:53Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > I would make their first name Unrelated , but give them an alliterative middle name “And these are the twins, Unrelated Jim and Unrelated John.” ---
**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 14, 2026, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/2333 "2026-07-14T12:51:58Z")
From the Boston Unrelateds? ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2026, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/2334 "2026-07-14T13:11:10Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > I would make their first name Unrelated , but give them an alliterative middle name- so they have a choice later on. > [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > “And these are the twins, Unrelated Jim and Unrelated John.” This is comedy gold. 👏 ---
**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:** [July 14, 2026, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/2335 "2026-07-14T13:28:22Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > I voted for unrelated names: bumt it’s possible that I might go for two grandparents’ or great grandparents’ names, IF all the following conditions were met: the grands or greats in question were dead (Jews don’t name for a living person); I thought well of both of them; nobody else in the immediate family had yet re-given those names; and the names didn’t appear obviously related to anybody who didn’t know the family history. Same here. ---
**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 14, 2026, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/2336 "2026-07-14T14:17:05Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > I’m not against sour cream or bacon or some other topping but if done right there is no need for anything other than butter, salt and pepper. Yes. annd my favorite steakhouse has housemade sour cream. Delicious. I do NOT eat the skins though. I love the earthy taste of the potato insides, but the skin tastes like dirt to me. When potato skins were the _de rigueur_ appetizer back in the day, I never ordered them. Too dry and, yes, tasted like dirt. > [@Frodo](#): > > The twins poll lacks an option “Name them exactly as if they were not twins, without checking if the names are related or not” Yeah, I was looking for that option. I’ve know a fair amount of twins in my life, and the ones with cutesy names ultimately went by nicknames that made their names different. I grew up with identical twins down the block – Ronald and Robert. They were so identical that as kids we usually just called each one Twin – until Ronald (or Robert?) cut off one of his thumbs. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2026, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/2337 "2026-07-14T15:45:28Z")
> [@carrps](#): > > They were so identical that as kids we usually just called each one Twin – until Ronald (or Robert?) cut off one of his thumbs. An identical twin losing a finger? Were they magicians, by any chance? ---
**Author:** ![ricepad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b38774/32.png) [@ricepad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ricepad)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2026, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/2338 "2026-07-14T15:57:52Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > I wonder if they listened to Deaf Leopard while grading papers. Or the Ramones. ---
**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, 2026, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/2339 "2026-07-14T16:37:49Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > > [@carrps](#): > > > > They were so identical that as kids we usually just called each one Twin – until Ronald (or Robert?) cut off one of his thumbs. > > An identical twin losing a finger? Were they magicians, by any chance? I first read that as he cut off the thumb of whomever called him “Twin” 😲 > [@ricepad](#): > > > [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > > > I wonder if they listened to Deaf Leopard while grading papers. > > Or the Ramones. Perhaps it was Alice Cooper grading those final papers before School’s Out for Summer BTW, they could hear, the band name is **Def** Leppard ---
**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:** [July 14, 2026, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/2340 "2026-07-14T16:45:47Z")
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