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Your preferred kitchen sink design:
  • Single large bowl
  • Half/half split
  • Asymmetrical split
  • Something else

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What you you expect “pumpkin space” to taste like?

  • Pumpkin plus spice
  • Just the spice (like you might use with pumpkin)
  • Sadness and death
  • Other/atheist

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The October issue of HGTV magazine concludes with a feature about clocks that flip the numbers and a statement that next month might be the last time we flip our clocks so it might as well be fun.

The implication is that we would move to permanent standard time.

In your opinion, compared to changing the clocks twice a year, permanent standard time would be:

  • Much better
  • Better
  • Slightly better
  • No worse and no better
  • Slightly worse
  • Worse
  • Much worse

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Did she mean to put pumpkin space instead of spice?
No
Yes
The pumpkins have taken over

What you you expect “pumpkin spice” to taste like?

  • Pumpkin plus spice
  • Just the spice (like you might use with pumpkin)
  • Better than “pumpkin space”, that’s for sure
  • Other/atheist

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(%@$# compuuter)

What do you expect “pumpkin space” to taste like, given that astronauts say that space smells like burnt steak?

  • Pumpkin plus space/burnt steak
  • Just burnt steak/space, like you theoretically could use with pumpkin I guess
  • Pumpkin spice flavored astronaut ice cream
  • Moon dust
  • Hindu atheist astronauts
  • Sadness and death

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What, in your personal opinion, does “pumpkin spice” actually taste like:

  • Pumpkin plus spice
  • Just the spice (like you might use with pumpkin)
  • Noxious chemicals
  • Chemicals, but really quite nice ones
  • Sadness and death
  • Nothing. I taste nothing. I really should get tested for COVID…
  • Atheist/bacon
  • Space

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What kind of treats will you be giving out on Halloween?

  • something chocolatey
  • something fruity
  • something with either pumpkin spice or pumpkin space
  • something other kind of treat
  • I haven’t decided yet
  • I won’t be giving out treats on Halloween

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  • Harry Truman
  • Doris Day
  • Red China
  • Johnny Ray
  • …wait, is this just going to be the entirety of “We Didn’t Start the Fire”?
  • That’s it, I’m outta here

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How would you rate Peter Jackson’s film The Two Towers?
  • 5
  • 4
  • 3
  • 2
  • 1

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Did you start the fire?

  • Yes, we admit it, we started the fire.
  • No, it was always burning, since the world’s been turning

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Trump (or someone similarly noxious) is president and you are a Secret Service agent. Would you take a bullet for him?

  • yes
  • no

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How many trick-or-treaters did you have at your house last year?

  • 0
  • 1-5
  • 6-10
  • 11-20
  • More than 20

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It’s baking season again! What should I bake? (You may choose 3)

  • Millionaire Shortbread
  • Apple Cider cupcakes (with cinnamon frosting!)
  • Snickerdoodle Bread
  • Apple Cinnamon Mini-Muffins
  • Pumpkin Spice Bundt Cake
  • Butterfinger Cookies
  • Orange Crinkle Cookies
  • Ginger Lime Cookies

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Inspired by the thread about your connection to your birthplace:

When someone asks you, “Where were you born?” do you:

  • Tell them where you first grew up even if that’s not where the delivery was
  • Say the town where the hospital you were born in is even if you were only there the short time after your birth and never resided there
  • Your answer changes depending on what you think the questioner means

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Inspired by responses to the Nikolas Cruz verdict (life without parole, since jurors were not unanimous on his receiving the death penalty)

Your stand on the death penalty

  • strongly support
  • support
  • neutral
  • oppose
  • strongly oppose

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Your location?

  • A US state that has the death penalty
  • A US state that doesn’t have the death penalty
  • A country outside the US that has the death penalty
  • A country outside the US that doesn’t have the death penalty

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The Oxford comma

  • I always use it - love it!
  • I never use it - ugh, hate it!
  • I use it sparingly, and only when necessary to avoid confusion

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When making a word ending in “s” into a possessive, one should

  • add an apostrophe only: Jesus’, Dukakis’, the United States’
  • add an apostrophe-s: Jesus’s, Dukakis’s, the United States’s

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What a crazy language! Something that could catch fire is obviously

  • flammable
  • inflammable

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When making a word ending in s into a possessive, one should

  • Always add an apostrophed s: Jesus’s, Dukakis’s, the United States’s.
  • Always add an apostrophe only: Jesus’, Dukakis’, the United States’.
  • Add an apostrophed s if the non-plural form of the word ended in s: Jesus’s, the boss’s. But not when the word ends in s because it’s a plural: the United States’, the Smiths’.
  • Follow some other rule.
  • Add an apostrophed s or not at random.

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