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Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
4629

Do you support downtown businesses?

  • Yes, I am proud to support downtown businesses
  • I live, work and shop downtown
  • I’ll spend money there sometimes
  • I listen to the rhythm of the gentle bossa nova
  • Occasionally I’ll shop or eat there
  • Rarely do any business downtown
  • Downtown is a howling wasteland of blighted hopes and high crime
  • I only go downtown if I need to visit the post office, library or if they command my ass to appear at the courthouse
  • There’s no one kind there to help and understand me
  • We ain’t got no downtown
  • Downtown should be spelled with a capital “D” to add panache
  • Downtown is just too goddamn quaint
  • How can you lose?
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4630

What is your take on having biological needs and drives?

  • I dislike having biological needs and drives that I am a slave to and would do away with all of them if I could. :angel: :free:
  • I like having biological needs and drives that I am a slave to. Go with the programming fellow bio-bots! :robot: :grimacing:
  • I like some of the biological needs and drives that I am a slave to but would discard the ones that I do not enjoy. :pig:
  • I answer Other because I have a super special brain that drives me to be tediously periphrastic and pestilentially vexatious! :roll_eyes: :yawning_face:
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4631
The “soap opera effect”: does it bother you?
  • Yes. Despise it. Ruins the movie/show for me.
  • Yes, but I can tolerate it.
  • I notice it, but I don’t mind it.
  • I notice it, and I kind of like it.
  • I understand what it is, but for whatever reason I don’t notice it.
  • I don’t know what that is.
  • Something else.
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4632

Did you interpret “downtown” as:

  • The retail area of the town you live in
  • The downtown area of a nearby city
  • Any brick & mortar shopping area
  • Something else
  • Honestly, i was confused by this poll
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(Vote for as many as you like)

4633

In general, how much do you enjoy travel? (for fun, not for work)

  • Love, love, love it!
  • I mostly like it
  • Indifferent
  • I mostly dislike it
  • Loathe, loathe, loathe it!
  • I feel I must select “it depends” or “other” despite the fact that the question states “in general”
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4634

Do you care about the shell color of the chicken eggs you buy?

  • I care and want brown eggs
  • I care and want white eggs
  • I only care when I dye eggs and then want white
  • I only care when I dye eggs and then want brown or a less common color
  • I don’t care, eggs are eggs
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4635
  • Eggs are eggs
  • Eggs is eggs
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4636

Shell color aside, do you buy a specific type of chicken egg (e.g. from a particular breed or producer) because they taste better or are otherwise better from a cooking standpoint?

  • Yes
  • No
  • Wait - that’s an option?
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4637
Which of these rappers do you think is the best actor?
  • 50 Cent (Get Rich or Die Tryin’, Escape Plan: The Extractors)
  • Common (Smokin’ Aces, Wanted, Suicide Squad)
  • DMX (Belly, Romeo Must Die, Exit Wounds)
  • Ice Cube (Friday, Boyz n the Hood, Anaconda)
  • Ice-T (New Jack City, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit)
  • LL Cool J (Deep Blue Sea, Charlie’s Angels, NCIS: Los Angeles)
  • Ludacris (Crash, The Fast and the Furious)
  • Mos Def (The Italian Job, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy)
  • Queen Latifah (Chicago, Bringing Down the House, Set It Off)
  • Tupac Shakur (Juice, Poetic Justice, Above the Rim)
  • Will Smith (Bad Boys, Independence Day, Enemy of the State)
  • Someone else
  • I’m not familiar enough to vote
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4638

Which of these old advertising slogans do you remember well enough that you can identify the product that was being advertised?

  • You’re soaking in it!
  • Does she or doesn’t she?
  • Put a tiger in your tank.
  • It’s the real thing.
  • I can’t believe I ate that whole thing.
  • Reach out and touch someone.
  • Have it your way.
  • Rich Corinthian leather.
  • From the land of sky blue waters.
  • Plop plop, fizz fizz.
  • Double your pleasure, double your fun.
  • A little dab will do ya.
  • You’ll wonder where the yellow went.
  • You knocked my block off!
  • That’s a spicy meatball.
  • You deserve a break today.
  • Breakfast of champions.
  • Parts is parts.
  • Finger lickin’ good.
  • We try harder.
  • Where’s the beef?
  • Stronger than dirt.
  • Don’t leave home without it.
  • The quicker picker upper.
  • Fly the friendly skies.
  • The uncola.
  • Betcha can’t eat just one.
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4639

Which of these TV catchphrases are you familiar enough with that you can at least identify the show they’re from?

  • Ay caramba!
  • Bazinga!
  • Bite my shiny metal ass!
  • Book 'em, Danno!
  • Danger, Will Robinson
  • Did I do that?
  • Dy-no-mite!
  • Hey hey hey!
  • Homey don’t play that!
  • I know nothing!
  • Kiss my grits!
  • Pow! Right in the kisser!
  • Screw you guys, I’m going home!
  • What’choo talkin’ 'bout, Willis?
  • Wubba Lubba Dub-Dub
  • You got it, dude!
  • None of the above
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4640
Which of these singers do think is/was the best actor/actress? (pick up to 3)
  • Awkwafina (Crazy Rich Asians, Shang-Chi)
  • Beyonce (Austin Powers in Goldmember, Dreamgirls)
  • Cher (The Witches of Eastwick, Moonstruck, Mermaids)
  • Kris Kristofferson (Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, Blade)
  • Lady Gaga (A Star Is Born, American Horror Story)
  • Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls, The Secret Life of Bees )
  • Jennifer Lopez (Maid in Manhattan, Out of Sight)
  • Madonna (Desperately Seeking Susan, Evita)
  • Mandy Moore (A Walk to Remember, This Is Us)
  • Meat Loaf (Fight Club, Rocky Horror Picture Show)
  • Willie Nelson (Red Headed Stranger, Stagecoach)
  • Dolly Parton (9 to 5, Straight Talk)
  • Elvis Presley (Jailhouse Rock, Blue Hawaii)
  • Rihanna (Battleship, Ocean’s 8)
  • Frank Sinatra (Anchors Aweigh, On the Town, Guys and Dolls)
  • Barbra Streisand (Funny Girl, The Prince of Tides)
  • Harry Styles (Dunkirk, Eternals)
  • Justin Timberlake (Alpha Dog, Bad Teacher)
  • Mark Wahlberg (The Departed, Ted)
  • I’m not familiar enough to vote
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4641

DISOWNED ADAPTATIONS SERIES: Do you agree with the original creator that the adaptation sucked?
[assume basic Thumbs Up or Down regardless of the qualifiers I used]

Alan Moore, V for Vendetta:
  • Yes it sucked
  • No it was great!
  • Uncertain/don’t know/NOTA/etc.
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4642

DISOWNED ADAPTATIONS SERIES: Do you agree with the original creator that the adaptation sucked?
[assume basic Thumbs Up or Down regardless of the qualifiers I used]

Roald Dahl, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
  • Yes it sucked
  • No it was great!
  • NOTA
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4643

DISOWNED ADAPTATIONS SERIES: Do you agree with the original creator that the adaptation sucked?
[assume basic Thumbs Up or Down regardless of the qualifiers I used]

The Shining, Stephen King (whose opinion of the film as film has improved, tho its worthiness as an adaptation has not)
  • Yes it sucked
  • No it was great!
  • NOTA
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4644

DISOWNED ADAPTATIONS SERIES: Do you agree with the original creator that the adaptation sucked?
[assume basic Thumbs Up or Down regardless of the qualifiers I used]

Richard Matheson, What Dreams May Come:
  • Yes it sucked
  • No it was great!
  • NOTA
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Richard Matheson

4645

How do you navigate, when traveling a distance by foot but needing to be able to get back to your original location? Assume no maps, aids, or technology, and cannot ask anyone for directions.

A 1990s Newsweek article about gender differences stated that men generally navigate by spatial orientation and women generally navigate by landmarks.

  • I am a woman and I navigate by landmarks
  • I am a woman and I navigate by spatial orientation
  • I am a man and I navigate by landmarks
  • I am a man and I navigate by spatial orientation
  • I use none of those methods
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4646

Do you plan to see Dune: Part Two in a theater?

  • Yes
  • No
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4647

Which of these TV catchphrases are you familiar enough with that you can at least identify the show they’re from?

  • A la peanut butter sandwiches!
  • And now we do the dance of joy!
  • Are you free?
  • Bork bork bork!
  • By the power of Grayskull!
  • Computer says no.
  • Ha! I kill me.
  • I asked you not to tell me that.
  • I’ll get it!
  • I said good day!
  • Just one more thing…
  • Keep those cameras safely rolling.
  • Oh my God, I’m gorgeous!
  • Nanu nanu.
  • Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
  • Shady Pines, Ma.
  • Wowsers!
  • none of the above
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4648

I have seen every episode of the following sitcoms.

  • 3rd Rock from the Sun
  • All in the Family
  • Cheers
  • Family Ties
  • Fawlty Towers
  • Friends
  • Get Smart
  • Married with Children
  • Seinfeld
  • That '70s Show
  • The Golden Girls
  • The Mary Tyler Moore Show
  • The Office (US)
  • Three’s Company
  • I’ve seen some episodes of these shows, but for no one show have I seen every episode.
  • I’ve been living under a rock for the past 50 years and so haven’t seen any episodes of any of these shows.
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