# Have Skald's polls officially jumped the shark? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 21, 2013, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-skalds-polls-officially-jumped-the-shark/671862 "2013-10-21T20:19:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Happy\_Fun\_Ball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_fun_ball/32/17664_2.png) [@Happy\_Fun\_Ball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Fun_Ball)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2013, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-skalds-polls-officially-jumped-the-shark/671862/1 "2013-10-21T20:19:08Z")
You can see the latest [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=705571). What say you? ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2013, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-skalds-polls-officially-jumped-the-shark/671862/2 "2013-10-21T20:24:18Z")
I came here to debate the kind of shark being jumped. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2013, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-skalds-polls-officially-jumped-the-shark/671862/3 "2013-10-21T20:25:32Z")
Where’s the far-fetched hypothetical? ---
**Author:** ![Moonlitherial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2013, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-skalds-polls-officially-jumped-the-shark/671862/4 "2013-10-21T20:31:10Z")
When the title of a thread includes the words “Skald” and “poll” the OP must contain at least 3 paragraphs. Please see subsection 3, paragraph 18 of the T&C’s. ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2013, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-skalds-polls-officially-jumped-the-shark/671862/5 "2013-10-21T20:35:00Z")
Where’s the recipe? StG ---
**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:** [October 21, 2013, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-skalds-polls-officially-jumped-the-shark/671862/6 "2013-10-21T20:38:08Z")
Nah. He put the recipes up front. Some of his polls I find interesting and I participate. Some of them I vote on but don’t participate. Some I am totally disinterested in and ignore. So far no one had forced me to participate. Its about the same as ever. ---
**Author:** ![Lanzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/74df32/32.png) [@Lanzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lanzy)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2013, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-skalds-polls-officially-jumped-the-shark/671862/7 "2013-10-21T20:38:59Z")
A long time ago ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2013, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-skalds-polls-officially-jumped-the-shark/671862/8 "2013-10-21T20:49:03Z")
A long time ago, but the sharks did have lasers on their heads so that was cool. ---
**Author:** ![BleizDu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@BleizDu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BleizDu)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2013, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-skalds-polls-officially-jumped-the-shark/671862/9 "2013-10-21T21:25:38Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Nah. He put the recipes up front. > > Some of his polls I find interesting and I participate. > Some of them I vote on but don’t participate. > Some I am totally disinterested in and ignore. > > So far no one had forced me to participate. > > Its about the same as ever. Yep this. A downside of his polls is that they often make me hungry though. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2013, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-skalds-polls-officially-jumped-the-shark/671862/10 "2013-10-21T22:27:58Z")
I voted for cookie. Jumped the shark, as in beginning a downward spiral to nowheresville? Not really, because if something makes me laugh, even a little, it has value in my world. Even if it’s a rare occurance, I value it. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2013, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-skalds-polls-officially-jumped-the-shark/671862/11 "2013-10-21T22:39:43Z")
I’m just here for the cookie. ---
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2013, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-skalds-polls-officially-jumped-the-shark/671862/12 "2013-10-21T22:51:15Z")
Zombies eat cookies? ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2013, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-skalds-polls-officially-jumped-the-shark/671862/13 "2013-10-21T23:51:23Z")
No, they are generally interesting although I don’t like that some of them these days tend to have an obvious answer that skew heavily one way. Nobody has to read them if they don’t like them. It breaks up some of the monotony of the typical threads that lots of other people start. I see them like the MMP in MPSIMS. I have never understood the purpose or value in that and have never posted to one so I just stopped reading them when I realized that it wasn’t for me. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2013, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-skalds-polls-officially-jumped-the-shark/671862/14 "2013-10-22T00:45:58Z")
It isn’t possible for **Skald** ’s polls to jump the shark, not in this universe. ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2013, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-skalds-polls-officially-jumped-the-shark/671862/15 "2013-10-22T02:02:28Z")
I have nothing against StR, but for the past few years I have harbored an uncomfortable feeling that we are unwittingly helping him flesh out chapters and characters in a book he’s writing, so I tend to participate seldomly. Also, I understand that his constant invocations and mentions of Athena are meant to be humorous, but I will admit that it goes right over my head. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2013, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-skalds-polls-officially-jumped-the-shark/671862/16 "2013-10-22T02:04:51Z")
It is more likely for a shark to jump Skald, if only for his cheesecake. ---
**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2013, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-skalds-polls-officially-jumped-the-shark/671862/17 "2013-10-22T02:12:51Z")
Skald’s polls are delicious You can tell he puts a lot of effort into it. This poll is … is … well, kind of pants, really. You can tell right away that it’s storebought. ---
**Author:** ![installLSC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/54ee81/32.png) [@installLSC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/installLSC)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2013, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-skalds-polls-officially-jumped-the-shark/671862/18 "2013-10-22T02:29:43Z")
I voted “what the hell” because I almost never notice who posted an OP. The only Dopers I instantly recognize are Zev Steinhardt (because of his encyclopediac knowledge of Judaism) and Eve (for knowing virtually everything about pre-WW2 pop culture). ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2013, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-skalds-polls-officially-jumped-the-shark/671862/19 "2013-10-22T13:40:07Z")
Where’s the option for “Fonzie just drove the motorcycle into the side of the shark tank”? The “jumped the shark” implication implies there was some level of quality and subsequent decline; **Skald’s** polls have always been hysterically awful. I like them, but they weren’t ever really “deep thoughts” and now they’ve become silly; they’ve been silly from the very beginning. ---
**Author:** ![Agent\_Foxtrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2013, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-skalds-polls-officially-jumped-the-shark/671862/20 "2013-10-22T18:53:27Z")
> [@Merneith](#): > > Skald’s polls are delicious You can tell he puts a lot of effort into it. This poll is … is … well, kind of pants, really. You can tell right away that it’s storebought. Kind of… pants? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-skalds-polls-officially-jumped-the-shark/671862.md?page=2)