Thank Goodness Cookies Won!

Best Christmas Treat?

Cookies	8 (36%)
Eggnog	5 (22%)
Hot Cocoa	0 (0%)
Turkey/Ham	1 (4%)
Candy Canes	1 (4%)
Fudge	7 (31%)

I was beginning to lose faith in my readers. Cookies are OF COURSE the best Christmas treat! ;)

Happy Treat-Eating!

As for the favorite Christmas movie...

"Miracle on 34th Street" wins by a hair (or since it's gross to say that, it just wins by one vote).

It's a Wonderful Life	2 (11%)
A Christmas Story	4 (22%)
Christmas Vacation	0 (0%)
How the Grinch Stole Christmas	4 (22%)
Miracle on 34th Street	5 (27%)
Something else not listed	3 (16%)

In case anyone wants to know the "correct" answer (aka Jennie's answer), it is A Christmas Story. This movie reminds me of childhood, watching it OVER and OVER with my dad who never stopped laughing while it was on. I'm not exaggerating. When the joke stopped being funny, he started laughing in anticipation at the ones that were coming up. I love this movie too. It's a classic.

It's a Wonderful Life would be the 2nd answer. I think of it as one of my alltime favorite movies, but I watch it throughout the year. God Bless George Bailey.

Happy Christmas, all!

P.S.- If you were a "Something else" person, please tell me what it is.  Now is your chance!

Swiss Miss will be happy to know...

Coffee	5 (22%)
Tea	4 (18%)
Hot Chocolate	6 (27%)
Hot Apple Cider	4 (18%)
A specialty drink, tailored to my tastes	1 (4%)
It's too hot for hot beverages	2 (9%)

Votes so far: 22

The winner of the Hot Beverage poll is....hot chocolate, eeking out coffee by one vote.  I'm surprised, but not shocked.  I mean, it is just one vote.  What *does* surprise me is that a comparable number of people picked hot apple cider.   I love the stuff, just thought it was something my random mom always made. 

So there you have it.  Because you know you wanted to know which hot beverage the readers of this blog prefer.

!!!!!!The results are in!!!!!!!

Which is it? Exclamation Mark!	6 (27%)
Exclamation Point!	16 (72%)
Irrelevant. I don't use them.	0 (0%)

I knew for sure this was going to be skewed.  Only I thought it would be in the other direction.  Really?  Exclamation point wins?  I thought everyone said exclamation *mark*. 

While wikipedia recognizes them as equal terms, it refers to it as "exclamation mark" throughout the article.

Perhaps I should ask what this is -?-.  Do you refer to it as a question point?  I rest my case.  :)

P.S. - Thank you to everyone who indulges me by voting in my meaningless polls.

Either way, it's sticky.

The results of the Jam or Jelly poll are as follows:

Jam	5 (35%)
Jelly	3 (21%)
They're not the same thing?	5 (35%)
Why is Jam so much cheaper?	6 (42%)

There were 14 voters.

So, basically five people don't know the difference, five people perfer jam, three prefer jelly, and one of the 14 ONLY wants to know why Jam is cheaper and apparently has no preference or doesn't eat it at all.  Interesting.

I've been informed by three sources that the difference between jam and jelly is that jam is made from the entire fruit, and jelly is made from only the juice of the fruit.  I suppose the juice extraction step is extra and therefore, more costly.  You know, as opposed to chunking a bunch of whole grapes, strawberries, etc in big jam-making machine.  Apparently I'm not the only person to consider this mystery of sticky fruit-based things.  Please refer to this link for a concise look at the difference between jelly, jam, and yet another...preserves.  If you notice in the URL, it's question 84.  That's pretty high priority, if you ask me.

I now consider myself enlightened in the realm of sticky breakfast accoutraments.  Except syrup.  And don't even get me started on that.

Is Your Mom on Facebook?

Yes	17 (73%)
No	6 (26%)
I'm not sure	0 (0%)

Well there you have it.  I'm one of the 6.  Joyce calls it FaceMail.  At one point, when I was still living at home, I spent a couple of hours trying to teach her to check email.  She might still be able to do it, but that's all the time I could commit to spending on that one task.  She's not so captive an audience.  Needless to say, she's not on Facebook.  I'm surprised, I guess, that so many moms are. 

So...does this mean I need to get Joyce on Facebook?  Nah.  Some things are better left alone.

Preventive, Preventative...uhh, Pre-emptive?

Preventive 8 (47%)
Preventative 8 (47%)
I don't know, but now I'm googling it. 1 (5%)

Deadlocked.  Man, I know how to pick a poll topic. 

I had never heard the term "preventive" until the health care reform debate of late.  All my life, I said "preventative".  Now, I'm afraid I was wrong.  Is it an either or type of thing or is it a different part of speech? 

Come on now, grammar nerds.  It's your time to shine!

Which fruit reigns supreme?

Apple 2 (13%)
Pear 2 (13%)
Banana 5 (33%)
Orange 2 (13%)
Some kind of berry 4 (26%)

Banana?  Really?  You're wrong.  I'm so not a picky person, but that's one of about 5 things I just cannot bring myself to eat.  (Fun fact, I know.)  The correct answer is Pear.  (Oh, you thought this was a poll?  It was actually a QUIZ.)

Obviously my sample size makes this statistically insignificant.  Will that stop me from immediately posting a new one?  Heck no!  Vote on!

The Big Coupon Debate

So, I'm closing the coupon poll (not surprisingly because I am impatient.  See Today's other blog.).  As suspected, the results are inconclusive.  I still have no answer.  So I guess that means I get to do what I want. Incidentally, I pronounce it coo-ponn, despite the fact that it makes me feel like a British snob...or something.

Out of 18 votes, 9 go to cue-ponn, 8 go to coo-ponn, and only 1 doesn't frickin' care. 

Now I get to ask another random question.  For no other reason than I *heart* polls.