The Unofficial Quote Poll

[White Borders]

Since the use of quotes are the topic of the day, I thought it would be fun to have an unofficial poll.

[insidethewrapper]

"You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be lead"

[teetwoohsix]

If I had a T206 for every quote................

[PolarBear]

Originally Posted by insidethewrapper

"You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be lead"

If we caught our own fish, then the people we sold it to wouldn't have to pay for it, and the profit would go to the fish.

[calvindog]

I don't mean to be a Barry here, but did anyone notice that the percentages don't add up to 100?

[Jim VB]

This is a Chicago Democratic election Jeff. You can vote for as many things as you want.

Besides, 70% of the time percentages are way overated.


Edited for clarification: As of now, 14 people have voted 16 times. 16 divided by 14 equals 114.29%.

[White Borders]

I think there are some hanging chads in the forum software

[Robextend]

Regarding the polls I heard that 60% of the time they work everytime...

[Matt]

Craig set this poll up to allow respondents to select multiple answers if they want. For those UI software programmers out there (anyone?) that's why it displays checkboxes instead of radio buttons for the selections.

[Fred]

Wouldn't the radio buttons work best to keep it simple? I'm not sure if I can handle making more than one choice.

[3-2-count]

This was an easy one for me.

"Jeff's Cobby is super awesome farout way cool totally rad man"!

[E93]

I never noticed a problem. I don't know how my sentiment should vote in this poll.
JimB

[White Borders]

I vaguely remembered the quote PolarBear posted above, but it took a while (and a bit of Googling) for me to place it. Am I on the road to becoming a dinosaur? Please direct me to the nearest tarpit!

Originally Posted by PolarBear

If we caught our own fish, then the people we sold it to wouldn't have to pay for it, and the profit would go to the fish.

- Stanley Laurel


"That's a pretty smart thought!"
- Oliver Hardy

[jlynch1960]

Quote is a verb. Quotation is a noun. e.g. I quoted so-and-so and it is that quotation to which I now refer. Sloppy grammer has given "quote" a secondary meaning as the noun form (see above).

If you want to state it properly, the question would be "what is your opinion about the use of quotations?" Alternatively, "what is you opinion about quoting someone?"

Feel free to quote me on this.

[Jim VB]

Originally Posted by jlynch1960

Alternatively, "what is you opinion about quoting someone?"

Feel free to quote me on this.

Really?

[Leon]

For me, almost 100% of the time I hate correcting a mistake with a misteak. Then the other 50% of the time I don't really care.

[FrankWakefield]

My recollection is that about 150 years ago, one county in Kentucky had 143% of their registered voters vote in an election...

This must be a Fox "no spin" poll, given the unbiased non-leading way in which the categories were described. All in fun!!!

[PGACPA]

Yogi Bera is famous for his malaprops and verbal bloopers.
Here is one I particularly like.
When asked about frequenting a certain New York nightclub he replied:

"No one goes there anymore...it's too crowded!"

And during his run for the senate (I think 1958), JFK said the following at a dinner regarding rumors his father was buying the election:

"I have just received the following telegram from
my generous daddy. It says, 'Dear Jack: Don't buy a
single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm
going to pay for a landslide."