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Another reader poll

November 20, 1997
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In order to better serve you, our valued readers, simpleton is holding its second reader survey, and an all-new chance to win cash prizes. Please review the results of last week's survey, then enjoy an all new chance to win.




Results of last week's survey

Democracy. Romance. Dog sweaters. We asked for your opinions, you gave them. Here's how you voted, and why.

NATO expansion
Your decision: For

Abortion
Your decision: For

The single-bullet theory
Your decision: Undecided

The Flat Tax
Your decision: For

Recently discovered
cashier's check
made out to Bill Clinton

Your decision: For

Your ex-girlfriend/boyfriend
Your decision: Against


Most exit poll respondents were confident in their answers, supporting abortion "in all cases," and specifying that they would support the single bullet theory if it were applied specifically to an ex-boyfriend/girlfriend. One participant, who identified himself as "the tri-state area's most trusted pool maintenance specialist," argued passionately for NATO expansion, adding, "When he talked about how he went to McDonalds with OJ, I fuckin' cracked up!"





[celebrity deaths? for]


[totalitarianism-maybe]


MSG-free pu pu platters
Your decision: Against

The universal field theory
Your decision: Against

Cluttered gun belts that
make cops look even fatter

Your decision: For

Aging
Your decision: Against

Sweaters for dogs
Your decision: Undecided

Nude housecleaning
Your decision: For

Hi-fidelity sound reproduction
on 8-track cassette

Your decision: For

One exit poll participant, who gave her occupation as "elder statesperson," favored a special category of "cluttered gunbelts for dogs," while a "portly eminence grise" supported nude housecleaning, "but only if it's a really hot chick, heh!"




[nude housecleaning - all the way!]


Cloning
Your decision: For

Operations that make
retards super-intelligent

Your decision: Undecided

Jokes about how wealthy
Bill Gates is

Your decision: Against

Jokes about deaths of celebrities
Your decision: For

Democracy
Your decision: For

Totalitarianism
Your decision: Undecided

"Democracy is a great theory on paper," said one exit poll participant, an environmental attorney, "but in reality we need a godlike central figure who will undo the scheming of the freemasons and the trilateral commission." Another participant, a tenured professor, expressed hope that totalitarianism may be within reach, "now that they have all those clones of The Leader in 50 different countries." Interestingly, most participants initially supported an intelligence-boosting operation, but became progressively less eqipped to make a decision as the effects of the surgery wore off.

Shifts in tectonic plates
Your decision: For

Simplified spelling of
"nite," "lite" and "tho"

Your decision: Against

More government-funded
research on a cure for
winter boogers

Your decision: For

The Moon Pie as symbol
of toxic post-modern angst

Your decision: For

Dog biting mailman on leg
Your decision: For

A world-renowned pianist applauded more government research on what he called "the scourge of the deft-fingered class," while a graduate student condemned the Moon Pie as "the perfect symbol for a disposable culture."
[indecisiveness? tough call!]


Indecisiveness
Your decision: Undecided

Nuclear power plants
in your backyard

Your decision: Against

Moments of intense euphoria
followed by periods of depression

Your decision: Undecided

A law requiring Austrians
to wear lederhosen and
alpine caps at all times

Your decision: For

More advertisements with
the Mount Rushmore Presidents
wearing baseball caps
and sunglasses

Your decision: For

Voters were strongly in favor of both Lederhosen for Austrians and baseball caps for the founding fathers. Said one participant, a game room attendant, "the cool thing is that you think of all those founding father guys as really dignified and anal, and then when you see Ben Franklin or somebody wearing shades you're like, Wow, Ben's cool!" Euphoria/depression proved a tougher call. "It depends on my mood" said a paralegal.


Today's vote: Probabilities


Now vote on the likelihood of some important public policy developments. After you have made your selections, send your answers in order to be eligible to win cash prizes.

What is the probability that...


Saddam Hussein will comply
with US demands for weapons inspections


You will hear more about
the death of Frank Sinatra
prior to the death of Frank Sinatra


Your next in-flight movie
will star Julia Roberts


Some buttinski will notice
next time you try to
fart on the sly


You will see one shoe
lying on the side of a road
sometime this year


An American city will
be devastated by chemical
weapons within the next
ten years.


An American city will be
devastated by killer bees
within the next ten years


An American city will be
devastated by the year 2000
bug within the next ten years.


An American city will just be
devastated on general principles
within the next ten years.


Somebody looks simply
devastating in an
ensemble by Halston


You will win simpleton's
cash prize this week


You will undergo an
operation that makes
you super-intelligent


Somebody will hold his
wristwatch up to his ear
and say, "That's funny,
my watch has stopped."


Your local PBS affiliate
will feature a situation
comedy made in the United
Kingdom sometime today.


It will be funny


Birds of all kinds will
team up to conquer the earth


Insects will have beaten
them to it


Dog will bite mailman on leg


You will experience moments of intense euphoria
followed by periods of depression


Austrians will be required
to wear lederhosen and
alpine caps at all times


You will see an advertisements
featuring the Mount Rushmore
Presidents wearing baseball caps
and sunglasses


Feel free to explain how you
made your voting decisions in our exit poll,
and register to be eligible to win cash prizes.



Previously in simpleton:



Wednesday: Reader mail: Volume 7
Tuesday: Alone with my email: Memory lane needs widening
Monday: Showdown in the Gulf: The insult that made a bully out of Bill
Friday: The Putz Report: Inaccurate infotainment
Thursday: For or Against? A simpleton reader poll
Wednesday: Reader Mail: Volume 6


A century of simpletons in the simpleton archive.


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