Quoting Adam Borowski ([email protected]): > What's the point of a poll that's stuffed with votes from one side?
How does that not describe just about every Internet poll, ever? I did, though, rather like what the government of Hungary did about Stephen Colbert fans brigading the Internet poll to rename the Northern M0 Danube Bridge between Buda and Pest: Hungarian Ambassador András Simonyi appeared on The Colbert Report (Colbert's comedic television programme) to congratulate Mr. Colbert on placing first with 17 million votes (the entire population of Hungary being about 10M), but deadpanned that Hungarian law imposed a couple of additional requirements: One, he said Colbert would need to be fluent in Hungarian. Two, once that minor problem was addressed, Mr. Colbert would need to be _deceased_. A fortnight later, the Hungarian Geographical Name Committee decided to ignore the poll and name the bridge 'Megyeri' on grounds of it connecting the Káposztásmegyer and Békásmegyer districts. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
