Re: Another Poll Topic Worth Considering

I see your point Perl_usr, and I must agree with you on this one. However, most polls I've currently seen did have proper options without oxymorons in them. I guess the guy who made this poll up (who is (s)he, by the way?) had a minor slip of the mind. Most of the times his (or her) polls are quite well thought out and sensible/relevant...

~~I shouldn't be worried about this if I were you...~~

Update: I'm wondering which darking, and less humerous side, of me was posting this... Obviously, this poll is funny! I guess I shouldn't drink that much before trying to post here :-)

thelenm++: which was kind enough to point me to this!

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Re: Re: Another Poll Topic Worth Considering by thelenm (Vicar) on Sep 22, 2002 at 04:48 UTC
Maybe it's just me, but I didn't think there was a slip of the mind at all. Having both "less polls" and "fewer polls" is funny, because one is grammatically correct and one isn't. "Funnier polls" is different from "more funny polls" ("funnier polls" implies keeping the number the same, but increasing the funniness). I guess in order to maintain parallelism, there could also have been a "seriouser polls" in addition to "more serious polls". Then again, "more serious polls" is ambiguous and could be interpreted either way. :-) "Magnetic monopolls" and "fishing polls" are obviously just puns. "Event notification" is also an indirect pun... the original option was "Event notification (polling sucks)", but I guess it was decided that saying it that way made the pun too explicit. Anyway, I think this poll was mostly intended to be humorous rather than serious, although we can "seriously" see from the results that people would like to see more polls. -- Mike `-- just,my${.02}`	[reply]
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