POLL
Yes, you read that correctly. 17,170 people took the time to vote on this (so far). I'm a big basketball fan, and an even bigger fan of time wasting, but this is utterly ridiculous.
Oh and Yahoo, we are onto you. We know you don't really care about the final tally. We know you aren't sitting around the water cooler talking about the latest ups and downs of the "yes I'm a fan" voters. "Bonnie in accounting just e-mailed me, and 'yes' is up 6% since lunch!" This is just a shameless way to increase traffic, or "hits" to your site as you like to call them.
Now I understand that Yahoo is more heavily trafficked than this site, but we have not had anywhere near that amount of people read our insightful, funny, original content since the inception of the blog.
Could it be that we are too challenging? Too insightful? Too funny? Don't answer that.....
With the public's love of mindless polls in mind, I've decided to add a few polls to this post, in hopes of enticing some of the more...how do I put this nicely.... shamefully illiterate readers to take a peek at what we have to offer.
*Editors note- It's really time consuming and hard to put a poll into a post, so you won't actually be able to vote and see the results, unless you'd like to put your answers in the comments. Paige will tally them up sometime in the future.
Poll
Which is larger, an elephant or a bumble bee?
() Elephant
() Bumble Bee
() About the same size
() I don't know
Poll
Do you like movies?
() Yes
() No
() I don't know
Poll
How do you feel about the internet?
() It's great! I hope it's here to stay
() I don't like it, I wish it would go away
() I don't know
Poll
What is your favorite number?
() One (1)
() Two (2)
() Other
() I don't know
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About the same size
ReplyDeleteI don't know
I don't like it, I wish it would go away.
Other
I look forward to seeing the tally.
"Do you think Yahoo had Jonathan Swift in mind when they named this site?"
ReplyDeleteThis person asked a very poll-like question about Yahoo on a Yahoo answers site.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110822070416AAzkvE9
My head just exploded...
Do you prefer the word "Houyhnhnm" to "Yahoo"?
ReplyDelete( )Yes
( )No
( )Maybe
( )Don't Know
( )Don't Care!
( )Where's my mai tai?????
Also, my favorite number is 5.
ReplyDelete5 elephant-sized bumble bees that I like and hope are here to stay.
Ah! Ah! Ah!
I don't prefer the word houyhnhnm,but I do prefer the word euonym.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6ep8KOR284
Or my favorite spelling bee moment:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfWUhCL0A-I
You're having a bad hair day. How do you cope?
ReplyDelete( ) I put a cute barrette in my hair and then have girl time with my BFF
( ) I pull out a scrunchy from the gungus-filled bottom drawer, pull out a bottle of Scotch, and watch M.A.S.H. reruns for the rest of the day.
( ) Do you research, poll-mongers! I never have a bad hair day.
( ) Murder. It's the only way to relieve anger.
( ) Other
( ) Prefer not to answer (understanding that by choosing this answer, I have, in fact, answered, and have created a paradox of such mind-blowing proportions that I no longer have any hair with which to have a bad hair day).