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It's beginning to look a lot like Warsaw

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tstage
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It's beginning to look a lot like Warsaw
Posted by tstage on Friday, December 30, 2005 9:33 AM
Is it me, or is there an extraordinate amount of poles...er, polls on the forum at this time?...

Tom

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Posted by Adelie on Friday, December 30, 2005 9:45 AM
[(-D][(-D][(-D][(-D]

I knew something good was coming when I opened this, Tom.

As far as the polls, I take pride in the fact that I have avoided all of them thus far. My goal for next week is to open just as many as I did this week.

- Mark

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, December 30, 2005 9:49 AM
Are Polish jokes now politically correct?
Will
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Posted by cwclark on Friday, December 30, 2005 10:09 AM
send all inquiries to: warsaw, polland c/o model railroader magazine forum...ha ha ha...i just could'nt resist that!.....[:D]..i really don't mind the polls until they ask questions like: what's your favorite railroad and they don't have my favorite listed....what's up with that?...does it mean that since my favorite isn't listed then I can't play in anybodies reindeer games?...am i an outcast and shunned and hated by all model railroaders that don't adhere to my brand of roadname?...am i a real geek 'cause it wasn't listed and wasn't a popular railroad with the moral majority?...should i break out into a phycotic fit of rage because mine wasn't there in the choices? .... aaaaarrrrrggggghhhhh!... whew!...glad i got that off my chest....yeah...most polls on the forum are pretty dumb...chuck

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Posted by tstage on Friday, December 30, 2005 10:38 AM
Will,

Clarification: It was a play on words; NOT on the Poles as a people. The subject of the post was a take off of the Christmas song by a similar title


Mark & Chuck,

A few of the polls I don't mind answering. The majority I steer clear of. I have yet ot post one....

Tom

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Posted by MisterBeasley on Friday, December 30, 2005 11:45 AM
Maybe we should have a separate forum for polls. Sort of a, well, uh, poll vault.

Sorry about that.

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Posted by cacole on Friday, December 30, 2005 12:01 PM
Simple solution that I use is, if it is a poll I just skip over it and go to the next item. If a topic line doesn't interest me, I don't even read it. Overall, I probably only read one or two items per page.

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Posted by loathar on Friday, December 30, 2005 12:11 PM
Hey! I'm actually a Pollack! (I don't care, I've heard them all) I've only seen about 3 or 4 that got my attension. I've never posted one myself. I was over checking out Kalbachs Scale Auto forum.WOW! That forum is organized a lot better than this one is. You can go right to a certain section and get a quick answere.
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Posted by tstage on Friday, December 30, 2005 12:11 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by MisterBeasley

Maybe we should have a separate forum for polls. Sort of a, well, uh, poll vault.

Sorry about that.

No apology needed. I liked it...[(-D] Bruce, how 'bout we leave you in charge of it? You can be the "poll cat".

Tom

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, December 30, 2005 12:18 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by MisterBeasley

Maybe we should have a separate forum for polls. Sort of a, well, uh, poll vault.

Sorry about that.



HA HA HA. I really liked that one... Poll vault ... Ha HA Ha [:D]
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Posted by tpatrick on Friday, December 30, 2005 1:02 PM
Q. Who was Alexander Graham Polansky?

Ans. He was the first telephone Pole[:P]
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Posted by MisterBeasley on Friday, December 30, 2005 1:55 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by tstage

QUOTE: Originally posted by MisterBeasley

Maybe we should have a separate forum for polls. Sort of a, well, uh, poll vault.

Sorry about that.

No apology needed. I liked it...[(-D] Bruce, how 'bout we leave you in charge of it? You can be the "poll cat".

Tom


I'll get on it right away! Sort of a "Poller Express..."

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, December 30, 2005 1:57 PM
Were being pun-ished!
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Posted by Leon Silverman on Friday, December 30, 2005 2:22 PM
To paraphrase a line from the song "Mr. Grinch": I wouldn"t touch this question with a 39-1/2 foot pole.
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Posted by MisterBeasley on Friday, December 30, 2005 3:24 PM
Back in the balloon-stack locomotive days, when the didn't have telephones or the Internet, guys would ride around on horseback asking these kind of questions. That's how the "gallop polls" got started.

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, December 30, 2005 3:35 PM
Dispite the fact that I'm Bi-pollack, I got a good laugh out of this thread.
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, December 30, 2005 3:35 PM
Hey,is true that in poland , forward is backard and backward is forward on the power pack hahaha, just kidding.
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Posted by AntonioFP45 on Friday, December 30, 2005 3:45 PM
What's the matter with polls?

I just can't see the big deal. Some of them are obvious conversation starters, while others seem to have a value as obtaining info from a cross-section of modelers.

In any case, I take a few seconds to glimpse at a poll. If it's something I can answer, I'll go ahead and cast a vote and move on in most cases.

"I like my Pullman Standards & Budds in Stainless Steel flavors, thank you!"

 


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Posted by tstage on Friday, December 30, 2005 5:51 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by MisterBeasley

Back in the balloon-stack locomotive days, when the didn't have telephones or the Internet, guys would ride around on horseback asking these kind of questions. That's how the "gallop polls" got started.

Stop horsin' around, Bruce!! Next you'll be saying that firemen were the first to develope the greased polls...[V]

Tom

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Posted by trainboyH16-44 on Friday, December 30, 2005 9:41 PM
I'm dying inside...but a good laugh here!
Yeah, ther are bad polls, but there are also good polls!

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Posted by PennsyHoosier on Friday, December 30, 2005 11:26 PM
If you have a problem with Poles, go to Chicago--second largest Polish city in the world.

If you have a problem with polls, well, you have no recourse.[:D]
Lawrence, The Pennsy Hoosier
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, December 30, 2005 11:42 PM
polls good one!!![:D]
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