Poll results: Why hasn't anyone updated the poll i

Hobgoblins, Philip Marlowe, and Spurious Logic.

Results: 1.That's just what they'd be expecting us to do [7 Votes]
2.Because, that's why [3 Votes]
3.Always leave 'em wanting more [0 Votes]
4.Polls are for Girls [3 Votes]
5.Foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds [9 Votes]
6.Go ask your mother [2 Votes]
7.The staff is mesmerised by the OC, and can't be bothered. [5 Votes]
8.You haven't paid us yet for the last poll. [2 Votes]
9.We're still hungover from fanatic patriotism and nationalistic fervour. [5 Votes]
10. I, like, totally sent a poll in the mail. Didn't you get it? [2 Votes]
11. Polls are so last week. [1 Vote]
12. Fellfrosch is a lazy sack of crap. [20 Votes]

To ignore the glaring obviousness for a moment, let's dissect the Other results:

It's interesting to note that nobody at all has any faith in the idea of polls actually trying to pander to their audience. Actually, this is probably a good thing, because they never really do.

Polls are for girls? And not one of those three spotted the irony? Well, all the more amusing for the rest of us. Applying simple logic:
1.Voting for “Polls are for Girls” lends credit to that point of view,
2.That point of view being 'polls to be for girls',
3.The three people who agreed with that view voted in the poll,
4.Therefore are Girls.
5.QED.

I'd also like to put forward the suggestion that at least 8 out of 9 people voted for “Foolish consistency...” merely because it contains the word 'hobgoblin'. Well, I would, except that I didn't.

I predict that the two people who voted for delayed payment are Fell and Fell's minion of the week.

Now listen here. You can get hangovers from alcohol, caffeine, and, according to Raymond Chandler/Phillip Marlowe, women. I've never yet heard of a hangover derived solely from overwhelming patriotism. I always thought the headache and nauseousness were symptoms of those forced to share company with the fervent nationalists. Gopher has obviously not been anywhere near an American in the lustful throws of National Holiday celebration.

“Polls are so last week.”
Oh, come on. Take another look at the logic used on “Polls are for Girls”, and you will realise that You, Sole Voter, are likewise “so last week.”

Ok, Ok. I've been trying to avoid the issue for a little while. But this poll has to include the most overwhelming majority of any I've seen thus far.

34% of voters think Fellfrosch is a lazy sack of crap.
Removing the attraction of the word 'hobgoblins', peculiar logic and wanting to sound like you're one step ahead of the poll-writer, I think a 2-option vote (Fell is/is not a lazy sack of crap...) would be frightening in its unanimity.
What I want to know is this: Fell, what did you vote for?

Written by Master_Gopher on July 22nd, 2005