# Today's Random Useless Poll: Summer isn't summer.... **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 8, 2005, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-random-useless-poll-summer-isnt-summer/307465 "2005-06-08T15:28:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2005, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-random-useless-poll-summer-isnt-summer/307465/21 "2005-06-08T19:00:47Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > :eek: :smack: Oh Jesus. My mind went straight to Me, Myself & Irene, and the gutter. Never seen it. Have I just embarrassed myself without even meaning to? ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2005, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-random-useless-poll-summer-isnt-summer/307465/22 "2005-06-08T19:29:35Z")
Until finals are complete. In which case, for me, Summer starts at Noon tomorrow. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2005, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-random-useless-poll-summer-isnt-summer/307465/23 "2005-06-08T19:38:34Z")
> [@Big Bad Voodoo Lou](#): > > Never seen it. Have I just embarrassed myself without even meaning to? Spoiler: She walks in the hotel room at night, and he wakes up suddenly. He’s got a pic of her, and lotion, and tissues out. He desperately tries to hide it, scrabbling around… and a watermelon with a hole in it rolls out of the covers and thumps to the ground. In case you still don’t get it, he used to hole to masturbate. ---
**Author:** ![dangermom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@dangermom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangermom)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2005, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-random-useless-poll-summer-isnt-summer/307465/24 "2005-06-08T20:37:33Z")
Today I spent an hour picking boysenberries in the cold rain. It was kinda bizarre. It should be summer, it was summer last week, now it isn’t and I’m wearing a wool sweater to work. I’ve actually never seen this happen before, it’s very weird. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2005, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-random-useless-poll-summer-isnt-summer/307465/25 "2005-06-08T21:00:32Z")
…until the tourist traffic turns a quick trip to the corner market into a half-hour drive. ---
**Author:** ![GilaB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8e7dd6/32.png) [@GilaB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GilaB)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-random-useless-poll-summer-isnt-summer/307465/26 "2005-06-09T00:50:28Z")
Until I’ve been wearing sandals every day for a week. ---
**Author:** ![pasunejen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/58956e/32.png) [@pasunejen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pasunejen)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-random-useless-poll-summer-isnt-summer/307465/27 "2005-06-09T01:32:54Z")
…until I decide it’s worth taking the car to work instead of walking for 25 minutes and arriving damp all over. God, I hate the summer. ---
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-random-useless-poll-summer-isnt-summer/307465/28 "2005-06-09T02:17:31Z")
… without a brisk thunderstorm in the evening to cool things down after a hot day. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-random-useless-poll-summer-isnt-summer/307465/29 "2005-06-09T03:06:55Z")
. . .Until St. Louis Cardinals’ broadcaster Mike Shannon says some totally incomprehesible malaprop during the course of a game. Last night, in describing a routine ground ball that suddenly took a crazy bounce, he said “he couldn’t make a play, but right now he’s just happy he got his glove up and saved his pearly gates.” Umm, That’s “whites” Mike. He saved his “pearly whites.” ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-random-useless-poll-summer-isnt-summer/307465/30 "2005-06-09T03:11:53Z")
Until I’ve visited my mom and grandma and had a peach and vanilla ice cream waffle cone parfait. _drool_ ---
**Author:** ![Strinka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/strinka/32/512_2.png) [@Strinka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strinka)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-random-useless-poll-summer-isnt-summer/307465/31 "2005-06-09T03:35:43Z")
Until June 21[sup]st[/sup]. ---
**Author:** ![lizardling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f4b2a3/32.png) [@lizardling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lizardling)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-random-useless-poll-summer-isnt-summer/307465/32 "2005-06-09T03:38:05Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > :eek: :smack: Oh Jesus. My mind went straight to Me, Myself & Irene, and the gutter. Speak for yourself. Me, my mind went to a Certain SDMB Classic thread that involved a watermelon. :eek: 😃 ---
**Author:** ![lizardling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f4b2a3/32.png) [@lizardling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lizardling)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-random-useless-poll-summer-isnt-summer/307465/33 "2005-06-09T03:40:56Z")
Anyhoo - it ain’t summer until I start sweating (which doesn’t happen until +80F – I still think fondly of the days where I could shock friends by whining about being cold on what they \*claimed \* was a 90F day :dubious: ). ---
**Author:** ![brianjedi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@brianjedi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brianjedi)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-random-useless-poll-summer-isnt-summer/307465/34 "2005-06-09T04:19:09Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > . . .Until St. Louis Cardinals’ broadcaster Mike Shannon says some totally incomprehesible malaprop during the course of a game. > > Last night, in describing a routine ground ball that suddenly took a crazy bounce, he said “he couldn’t make a play, but right now he’s just happy he got his glove up and saved his pearly gates.” > > Umm, That’s “whites” Mike. He saved his “pearly whites.” Or… … until Mike Shannon is drunk in the 4th inning on consecutive nights. (He’s soused tonight, because of the rain delay.) … until the Cub bullpen wilts like lettuce on a hot sidewalk. … until you question how people south of the Ohio river lived with this heat before air conditioning. ---
**Author:** ![Kozmik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8dc957/32.png) [@Kozmik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kozmik)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-random-useless-poll-summer-isnt-summer/307465/35 "2005-06-09T07:32:44Z")
It ain’t summer till you eat your Ball Park frank. ---
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-random-useless-poll-summer-isnt-summer/307465/36 "2005-06-09T13:19:48Z")
…until I start bitching and moaning about how much I hate summers in Baltimore. …until my husband I sit down at the laptop together to seriously try to figure out how we can move to Alaska for three months. …until I burn the backs of my thighs on the leather seats in the car. …until I start to research in earnest how I can have the sweat glands in my back removed (seriously, it’s like a frickin’ puddle back there). ---
**Author:** ![Typically\_Sunday](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Typically\_Sunday](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typically_Sunday)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-random-useless-poll-summer-isnt-summer/307465/37 "2005-06-09T17:23:28Z")
Until the first week of oppressive heat. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-random-useless-poll-summer-isnt-summer/307465/38 "2005-06-09T17:36:34Z")
> [@lizardling](#): > > Speak for yourself. Me, my mind went to a Certain SDMB Classic thread that involved a watermelon. :eek: 😃 Link, please? ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-random-useless-poll-summer-isnt-summer/307465/39 "2005-06-09T17:43:04Z")
For the last 3 years (including this one) for me Summer isn’t summer if I don’t have a stomach operation… I’m going in again next week. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-random-useless-poll-summer-isnt-summer/307465/40 "2005-06-09T18:20:53Z")
until I’ve removed the first wasp nest… until one of my weirder friends drapes himself in towels and does an impromptu drag queen act around the pool (I got a feeling it’s coming this weekend)… until the liquor store guy makes a comment about the sudden increase in liquor/beer buying. Oh wait, that’s already happened. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-random-useless-poll-summer-isnt-summer/307465.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-random-useless-poll-summer-isnt-summer/307465.md?page=3)