Binary Poll of Randomness (+2)

[yendi]

Sometimes, no matter how many options there are, only two choices are viable. Only one of these, imho, has a correct answer, and anyone who knows me knows which one it is (that said, I feel strongly on four of the five).

[Poll #315616]

Comments

[tablesaw]

I refuse to limit the Oxford/Harvard comma to a binary debate. Also, you may want to mention that John Ford is usually "John M. Ford." If, like me, you need to use Google to remember which books each wrote, you'll want to be able to avoid the history of John Wayne.

[yendi]

Good point, but LJ still doesn't allow polls to be edited, alas.

And the works of John Ford, director, aren't too shabby, either.

[bassfingers.livejournal.com]

Yes, but I shudder to think what his Star Trek work would have been like...

[yendi]

Lots and lots of quick-draw shootouts.

[digriz.livejournal.com]

Excessive, commas always, cause, me to have, fits, of rage. Remember reading the Targum at RU? I couldn't even get through a couple of paragraphs of ANY story without thinking that my high school English teacher would've had a heart attack.

And it's all about the BFG, baby.

[tsarinanic.livejournal.com]

Stuff like that is why I became the copy editor of the Green Print for a year. Although they didn't use any commas, if I remember correctly. It's been a few years. I am, however, completely behind the use of the additional comma in a list.

[yendi]

The BFG is nice, but the SPNKR is a thing of beauty.

[olliesmama.livejournal.com]

Did you really think I'd say anything other than Peter David???

*grins*

Re: serial commas

[wolfieboy.livejournal.com]

You've possibly seen my posts about serial commas.

No one's parents are Ayn Rand and God.

Re: serial commas

[ladyortyger.livejournal.com]

*giggle* I remember that. :)

[swisscheesed.livejournal.com]

Re: commas -- I no longer have a preference -- it's now a matter of Chicago vs. AP style.

[sylvia101.livejournal.com]

this is the best poll i have seen in a long time.

[yendi]

Thanks! I try to poll on the important subjects. :-)

[experimentego.livejournal.com]

I'm only going to admit that I didn't take this poll properly because I got most of my answers as completely incompatible with your own choices (barring Holding Out for a Hero and the use of commas, which I'm so glad we're on agreement on.)

I haven't read Chandler, Hammett or any Trek novels because I'm so damn illiterate that way, and Doom only matters to me more than Marathon because owning a Macintosh AND getting support for it in my country is so impractical that it ruled out being able to play Marathon at the time it came out.