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.
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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!"
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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!"
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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
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