Jan 21 2007
Readers’ Choice
I’d like to try something a little different.
I hope that you are enjoying my posts about my trip to South Africa as much as I have enjoyed writing them.
There are plenty more stories to come. I have so many ideas that I thought huh, why not give you all a chance to select what I’ll write about next?
I’ll give you 5 choices and you vote for one. The topic with the most votes will be posted next. I will not post anything until, hmm, next Wednesday evening to give some time for the votes to come in.
Your 5 choices are:
- That Is A Freakin’ Big Caterpillar (with photos)
- We Want To Hear More About Linda
- What else did you eat?
- Toilets! We want more toilets!
- Shocker: Ms. Q Drinks A Beer
Vote for your choice and tell me why you selected it. In a totally arbitrary manner, a vote may be weighed more heavily if the reason given for it is deemed interesting. For example, if you vote for Choice 2 and your reason is, “I’m Linda and I want to read more about myself.” I’d probably count that as 2 votes. Maybe even 3.
I moderate all comments so you won’t immediately see your choice. If you have never left a comment before, your email address is not displayed and you don’t have to leave your real name. This means that you can leave multiple votes if you want to go to the effort of making up various names and reasons and email addresses.
Unfortunately, you will have Nothing To Think About because I will not be posting anything until late Wednesday. I will respond to questions, though.
To help you make a choice, I’ve written about Linda in detail here, and she’s mentioned here.
I talk about food here and here.
I fixate on toilets here and especially here.
The Inimitable Ms. Q is not known for beer drinking. Wine is her “less-filling-tastes-great” beverage of choice.
Evidence is provided here:
Voice Recognition Software and Customer Service
Pornographic Blogs
Self-Evaluation
Airport Restroom Rant (her fixation on bathrooms goes way back)
Rear View (Ms.Q evaluates the clothing habits of the Middle-Aged+ Male)
Seize the Date and Seize the Date (Ms. Q tells how her dorky younger self got a date to the prom).
My vote: Hilliary Clinton…
Oops, need to wait 20 months before I can do that.
For this poll, I want to hear about more toilets. I’m not sure why, but I think it would be quite interested to see more pictures of toilet bowls.
Hey, Sewell – Thanks for your vote for the toilet. Not so sure about Hillary, but this isn’t a political forum.
You may not know why, but Ms. Q understands the strange allure or more accurately, the sick fascination that toilets hold. Rich, poor, famous, forgotten, no matter who we are, we all gotta go and there’s no glamour in the going.
1 because a freakin big catepillar would be interesting
DR: Excellent choice. It’s one thing to see something you expect, like say, a baboon or a mongoose in the Western Cape. Quite another to happen upon a freakin’ big caterpillar.
I’d like to hear about what a caterpiller named Linda, who has a toilet fixation, eats with her beer.
Hey, Jake – if Ms. Q were an Automated Customer Support System, your comment would get this response, “I’m sorry, that is not a recognized selection.”
Your comment would make for an interesting post, though – working title, “Ms. Q Gets Lost In Not-So-Wonder(ful) Land.”
Current tally:
Caterpillar: 1
Toilet: 1
My vote: “Shocker: Ms. Q Drinks A Beer”
Well because it was a d*** good beer and I am sure the story is going to be just as good.
Ms. Q admits that the beer was somewhat tasty. Initially, it was not so tasty to the uninitiated beer-palate of yours truly. Subsequent sips became tastier.
This experience leads me to believe that a Research Project is in order. As I am an experienced Researcher, I can already determine that Beer will require a Research Project of significant breadth and scope. Probably requiring other researchers and some cheaper Interns. NO, not THOSE kinds of Interns. Anyway, you can see what a posting about Ms. Q drinking beer may lead to…
Ms Q
We enjoy your posts from South Africa and our vote is
Shocker: Ms. Q Drinks A Beer. It would be interesting to see your photos taken after several pints.
Hi, H&J — Thanks for your vote and for selecting something that already has a vote. I was worried I’d have to have a tie-breaker.
I am glad you are enjoying my posts. Hmmm. I am curious, are you the “H” I know via 2 Degrees of Separation? That is, the H that is known to say, “A thought came up to my mind” ? If so, nice to finally “meet” you!
With respect to photos of Ms. Q after imbibing several pints of fine Belgian Ale – at four-foot-ten-and-three-quarter-inches, it’s doubtful she could drink that much. Obviously, the optimal beer-size ratio would require…research.
1) That Is A Freakin’ Big Caterpillar (with photos)
I’ll bet those South African Caterpillars have nothing on our Banana Slugs.
Hey, d!
Thanks for the vote. Hmm. Freakin’ Big Caterpillar Versus Banana Slug.
Difficult to know the winner in that uh, slugfest (arrrgggh!)
In the one corner, we have the Freakin’ Big Caterpillar. In the other corner, we have a Banana Slug. It’s Freakin’ Big. It’s Freakin’ Big and Slimey.
Hmmm. You have a point. But the Freakin’ Big Caterpillar has something that the Banana Slug doesn’t.
If anyone wants to find out what it has that a Banana Slug doesn’t, put in your vote for the Freakin’ Big Caterpillar! We’re in tie-breaker mode right now!