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Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
6110

You want to buy something inexpensive (product cost is < $25) online that could easily fit in a plastic shipping envelope (no oversized boxes); how much more will you pay for shipping?

  • 10%
  • 25%
  • 50%
  • 75%
  • 100%
  • more than 100% of the cost of the product
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6111

You are at a baseball game and the batter hits a home run. The ball is flying right at you. It’s a historic home run and the ball will be worth $1 million at auction. How confident are you in ability to catch it?

  • Quite confident
  • …maybe?
  • I am highly unlikely to catch it; might get hit in face
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6112

Have you ever had a migraine?

  • yes
  • no
  • I’m not sure.
  • something else
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6113

Parking lots

If you are driving in a parking lot looking for a parking space, do you pull through one space to park in an open space in front of it?

  • Always
  • Sometimes
  • Never
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If you are parked in a parking space in a parking lot, do you pull through an open space in front of you to exit your space?

  • Always
  • Sometimes
  • Never
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If you are driving in a parking lot looking for a parking space, do you back in to an open parking space?

  • Always
  • Sometimes
  • Never
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6114

Have you ever typed up a sarcastic/hyperbolic poll, maybe with curse words, and then deleted it before posting, because you don’t want people to think you have gone completely over the edge?

  • No.
  • No. Never. Not me, nuh uh!
  • I might have done this a couple times.
  • I do this a lot.
  • I’m pretty sure everyone on this thread already thinks I am irredeemably nuts anyway.
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6115
How many pairs of shoes do you own?
  • 1- 10
  • 11-20
  • 21-30
  • 30+
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6116

Without looking it up, do you,

  • Feed a fever, starve a cold
  • Starve a fever, feed a cold
  • It doesn’t matter
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6117

Blush

  • I wear makeup, including blush
  • I wear makeup, but not blush
  • I do not wear makeup.
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6118
  • I have caught a home run ball on the fly at an MLB game.
  • I have gotten a home run ball at an MLB game, but didn’t catch it on the fly.
  • I have touched or been hit with a home run ball at an MLB game, but didn’t ultimately get it.
  • I have caught a foul ball on the fly at an MLB game.
  • I have gotten a foul ball at an MLB game, but didn’t catch it on the fly.
  • I have touched or been hit with a foul ball at an MLB game, but didn’t ultimately get it.
  • I have been handed or thrown a ball from a player or coach at an MLB game.
  • I have caught a home run ball on the fly at a professional baseball game other than MLB (Minors, independent leagues, etc.).
  • I have gotten a home run ball at a professional baseball game other than MLB, but didn’t catch it on the fly.
  • I have touched or been hit with a home run ball at a professional baseball game other than MLB, but didn’t ultimately get it.
  • I have caught a foul ball on the fly at a professional baseball game other than MLB.
  • I have gotten a foul ball at a professional baseball game other than MLB, but didn’t catch it on the fly.
  • I have touched or been hit with a foul ball at a professional baseball game other than MLB, but didn’t ultimately get it.
  • I have been handed or thrown a ball from a player or coach at a professional baseball game other than MLB.
  • None of the above.
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6119
  • I have attended at least one MLB baseball game
  • I have attended at least one professional baseball game other than MLB
  • I have never attended any professional baseball game
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6120

@John_DiFool’s poll asking for your favourite Marx brother seems to be missing a few options.

Apart from Groucho, Harpo, Chico, Zeppo, Gummo, and Mannie, who is your favourite Marx brother (or perhaps Marx only child)?

  • Daniel, football player (Atlanta Falcons)
  • Frederick, producer/director/writer (Hoop Dreams)
  • Gary, guitarist and songwriter (The Sisters of Mercy)
  • Greg, football player (Atlanta Falcons)
  • Gregg, actor (Days of Our Lives, As the World Turns)
  • Jeff, composer and lyricist (Avenue Q)
  • Karl, economist and philosopher (Capital, The Communist Manifesto)
  • Kerry, guitarist (Music Director of the Grand Ole Opry)
  • Leo, historian and author (The Machine in the Garden)
  • Louis, toy maker (Rock’em Sock’em Robots, Big Wheel tricycles)
  • Michael, fencer (1980–1996 Olympian)
  • Reinhard, Catholic priest (Archbishop of Munich)
  • Richard, singer-songwriter (“Right Here Waiting” and other chart-topping hits)
  • Robert, marine archaeologist and writer (Saturday Evening Post, Argosy)
  • some other Marx not listed here
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6121

Who is your favorite Warner Brother (or sister)?

  • Yakko
  • Wakko
  • Dot
  • I preferred the Pinky and the Brain segments
  • I don’t get this reference
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6122

Turducken:

  • I have eaten Turducken
  • I have not eaten Turducken
  • I have made (or helped to make) Turducken
  • I have not made Turducken
  • I would like to eat (or eat again) Turducken.
  • I have no interest in eating Turducken (or eating it again.)
  • I have no idea what a Turducken is.
  • Turducken is fun to say! Turducken Turducken!
  • Turducken can be used as a good metaphor for non-food things.
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6123

Battle of the American regional beef sandwiches. Choose your favorite:

The top two will move on to round 2 in a few days.

  • Cheesesteak (Philadelphia)
  • Italian beef (Chicago)
  • Roast beef po’ boy (New Orleans)
  • French dip (Los Angeles)
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I debated whether the French dip could be considered “regional" since you can find them most places now, but it appears on Wikipedia’s list of American regional sandwiches. And I suppose that’s true of the cheesesteak, too.

6124

Until, like, 2 months ago, I have never heard of this group and am gobsmacked to find they sold over 100,000,000 records.

Have you heard of the disco act Boney M.? (Public poll)

  • Yes
  • No
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6125

The aforementioned Boney M had a huge disco hit about Rasputin. Yes, that Rasputin.

  • I knew this already. He was Russia’s greatest love machine
  • Wait, what? Seriously?
  • Eh, whatever
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6126

The aforementioned Boney M had another huge hit “By the Rivers of Babylon” that was almost entirely based on Psalm 137 (with one line taken from Psalm 19)

  • I knew this already
  • Eh, whatever
  • Wait, what? Seriously?
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6127

With which are you most familiar?

  • By the Rivers of Babylon
  • By the Waters of Babylon
  • Some other song inspired by the psalm
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Rivers, The Melodion’s version

Rivers, Boney M’s version

Waters, traditional

Waters, Don Mclean’s version (studio)

Waters, Don Mclean’s version (live)

6128

Oops!

6129

Will the above breaking of the taboo bring the wrath of Og on the people of the Straigh Dope?

  • Yes
  • No
  • it will bring the wrath of * insert another deity * instead
  • I don’t believe in Og
  • Who’s that Og guy anyway?
  • SMASH
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