What if, instead of elections, we had polls by Boojatta?

[TechBear_Seattle]

Poll question: What if, instead of elections, we had polls by Boojatta?

Admins: Posted to R/T because this is where Boojatta likes to post polls. :hi:

[saltpoint]

1. The more we would have of Boojatta the better off we would be.

I'd argue indefinitely for a top-drawer mind with a great range and Boojatta meets those criteria handily.

[knitter4democracy]

2. I really like pie.

I got a new recipe for strawberry pie that I'm really tempted to make tomorrow while I do some other baking.

[MikeH]

5. We can all become pious

Eat pie and become pious.:9

Actually I never liked strawberries, so I would not care for strawberry pie. Among the pies I like are apple pie, pumpkin pie, blueberry pie, and chocolate cream pie.

[knitter4democracy]

24. I make a really good apple pie.

I can my own apple pie filling with only local Michigan apples at just the right time, and I use that for apple pies the rest of the year. I like taking a pint jar of that filling, a jar of my homecanned peaches (drained), and a handful of Michigan dried cherries, tossing that all in a pie shell, and topping it with a crumb topping. Yum!

If eating pie makes one pious, then I'm probably up for sainthood. ;)

[hvn_nbr_2]

3. I think Boojatta writes California ballot propositions.

Nobody knows what they say either.

[Why Syzygy]

4. It's another call out thread!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=214&topic_id=206080&mesg_id=206132

Have you acquainted yourself with the "hide thread" feature (little 'x').

[TechBear_Seattle]

6. This is a "salute thread," not a "call-out"

I rather like reading Boojatta's polls. Then again, I rather like looking at surrealist art, too. :hi:

[Why Syzygy]

8. I hope you never feel a need to "salute" me.

Strange how he never feels swayed enough by your "salutes" to show up in these call out threads.

[Silent3]

7. I don't mind this thread personally, I have a hard time myself resisting...

...having a laugh at the crazy polls posted by a certain member of DU, but I'm afraid you're in "calling out another member" territory and this thread will probably get locked.

Next time I'd recommend referring more obliquely to the subject matter. :)

(Edit: I should have noticed that someone else mentioned this issue first. Oh, and calling it a "salute" probably won't save you. ;) )

[Boojatta]

9. Recommended.

Naturally, I voted for "Who the (censored) is Boojatta?" How could I ignore advice from Socrates? Asking oneself the question is the first step to acquiring the knowledge.

Note: I'm relying upon my unaided recollections. By using a search engine, I might discover that I got the name wrong. Was it actually Euclid and not Socrates? Anyway, somebody said "know thyself."

[TechBear_Seattle]

10. It is from the Temple at Delphi

And Socrates is one of the people to whom the expression is credited, along with Pythagoras and Solon. :hi:

[conscious evolution]

21. I think everybody has said it

at one time or another.

[kwassa]

11. But, what is a Boojatta?

sounds like a bike manufactured in Indonesia.

[moggie]

12. What is a Boojatta

If his chief good and market of his time
Be but to sleep and poll? A beast, no more.
Sure he that made us with such large discourse,
Looking before and after, gave us not
That capability and godlike reason
To fust in us unused.

[kwassa]

14. Thank you for that explanation.

:wtf:

[Boojatta]

15. The original version of that is...

an excerpt from Act 4, Scene 4 of Hamlet.

What is a man,
If his chief good and market of his time
Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more.
Sure, He that made us with such large discourse,
Looking before and after, gave us not
That capability and god-like reason
To fust in us unused.

[Boojatta]

17. A slightly modernized version...

If one's life is mainly devoted to sleeping and polling, then one is living the life of a beast, rather than a whole human being. After all, we have the ability to think. To fail to apply that ability to some meaningful pursuit is to fail to use the capacity that sets us apart from beasts.

[Meshuga]

19. You're not a beast

You are a machine! :-)

[Silent3]

16. In posting how like an angel!

In obfuscation how like a god!

[Occam Bandage]

13. This is not a fact. nt

[moggie]

18. You're surreal

[Occam Bandage]

23. ...

Ceci n'est pas un lien.

[moggie]

27. Clickclickclick

Dammit! Clickclickclickclick

[rug]

20. They would last longer than Franken's.

[conscious evolution]

22. Will they be on Diebold machines?

[westerebus]

25. Were it not for the turning machines, there would be no pie. n/t

[Silent3]

26. Even with the Turing machines, there can be no complete pi. n/t

[westerebus]

29. Incomplete Pi ? The saga of flaky crust and the ten thousand polls. n/t

[edhopper]

28. Boojatta:

An enigma, wrapped in a mystery, wrapped in a question, wrapped in a flaky crust.