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My King of the Hill minor character poll didn’t seem to go over so well, but maybe Matt Groening’s characters are more memorable. So in honor of the announced return of Futurama, let try a Futurama poll. What are your three favorite minor Futurama characters? I’ll define “minor” as not part of the core Planet Express team.

  • Scruffy, the janitor
  • Zapp Brannigan
  • Kif Kroker
  • Robot Devil
  • Preacher Bot
  • The Don Bot
  • Clamps
  • URL, aka Earl, the robot cop.
  • Richard Nixon’s Head
  • Robot Santa
  • Hypno Toad
  • Lrrr, ruler of the planet Omicron Persei 8
  • Lrrr’s wife
  • Morbo
  • Mom
  • Calculon
  • Nibbler
  • Ogden Wernstrom, Prof. Farnsworth’s rival
  • Roberto
  • Someone else

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You’re a celebrity. You have the ability to turn on and off your recognizability at will. When you are “on,” you are one of the most famous and popular people in the world, and (almost) everyone likes you. When you are “off,” you are anonymous; no more recognizable than anyone else.

How often would you be “on?”

  • All the time
  • Most of the time
  • Half the time
  • Seldom
  • Never

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Do you have your local police non-emergency phone number programmed into your phone?
  • On speed dial. Man, are they tired of talking to me!
  • It’s in there somewhere.
  • It’s written on a piece of paper stuck to the fridge from like 20 years ago.
  • No. Why? It’s not an emergency. I have plenty of time to look it up.

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I knew / know and remember well:

  • Four of my grandparents
  • Three of my grandparents
  • Two of my grandparents
  • One of my grandparents
  • Zero of my grandparents

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I know both teams because 1) I live in Los Angeles and 2) so many people mispronounce Bengals as “bingels” or “bangles” that it has been painfully imbedded in my brain.

An MBA degree that costs $7,000 out of one’s own pocket to get (the rest of the tuition is covered by employer):

  • Worth it
  • Nope

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I approve of how MBAs allow companies to quantify quality by rating my ability to do my job so they don’t have to talk to others about whether or not I am good with customers, coworkers, or add value to the company.

  • Hell yes!
  • Yes, but …
  • No, but…
  • Hell no!

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When it comes to passengers being disruptive on flights to the point of violence, being restrained and/or planes turning around, how much of a factor do you feel alcoholic drinks being allowed is?

  • It’s a minor factor
  • It’s a moderate factor
  • It’s a major factor

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Worse behaviour

  • Kicking a cat.
  • Racism

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Sometimes I see a thread title and it sounds interesting. But if a lot of people have already posted, I often avoid it, thinking I’d probably only say what has already been said several times already. What number of existing replies makes you skip replying?

  • 25
  • 50
  • 100
  • 200
  • 500
  • It doesn’t matter; if I’m interested, I’ll jump in.

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Do you ever wish that Discourse would show poll results in the order in which they were listed, rather than scrambling them in order of popularity?

  • Frequently
  • Sometimes
  • Never
  • All the time
  • Rarely

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  1. The Bangles
  2. The Alarms

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I posted this poll to predict the winner etc. over in the Superbowl thread.

Did you vote?

  • Yes
  • No
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The 2022 Superb Owl halftime performers are:

  • Dr. Dre
  • Kendrick Lamar
  • Eminem
  • Snoop Dogg
  • Mary J. Blige

I can name at least one song from how many of these artists?

  • Zero point zero
  • One
  • Two
  • Three
  • Four
  • All five

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When you buy a lot of Christmas candy (like Rolos or mini-Reese’s cups) at huge discount prices after Christmas do you sort the candy by color and use the red and silver ones for Valentine’s Day and the green and gold ones for St. Patrick’s Day?

  • Yes. Yes I do.
  • No. But great idea; I will do it next year!
  • No. My discount Christmas candy wouldn’t last until Valentine’s Day, let alone St. Patrick’s, regardless of color-sorting.
  • <blink, blink>

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Which Bengals uniform do you like best?
  • Orange jersey/black pants/black socks
  • Orange jersey/white pants/orange socks
  • White jersey/white pants/white socks
  • Black jersey/black pants/black socks
  • Black jersey/whitepants/black socks

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Favorite among King’s Hard Case Crime Novels:

  1. Joyland
  2. The Colorado Kid
  3. Later
  4. Sadly I have missed out and not read any of these.

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There were a lot of EV commercials during the big game yesterday.

  • I own/drive at least one electric vehicle.
  • I don’t own one, but will certainly favorable consider for my next vehicle purchase.
  • I don’t own one and would not buy in the near future because I don’t have a practical way to routinely charge at home/work
  • I don’t own one and would not buy in near future because the range limits would not work for my particular driving needs
  • I don’t own one and would not buy one in the near future because I have other needs the current models can’t meet (towing, plowing, whatever)
  • I don’t own one and would not buy in the near future because the ones I like are too expensive
  • I don’t own a car and don’t expect to in the near future

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You’re 36, NFL head coach, and you just won the Super Bowl.

What do you do now?

  • Go to Disneyland, then get back to work. You could be the greatest!
  • Take a break. You earned it.
  • Retire. You have nothing left to prove here.

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Which of these Best Picture Oscar nominees have you seen?

  • Belfast
  • Coda
  • Don’t Look Up
  • Drive My Car
  • Dune
  • King Richard
  • Licorice Pizza
  • Nightmare Alley
  • The Power of the Dog
  • West Side Story

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