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Choice Votes   Percent
Yes 58 27.4%   
No 29 13.7%   
Have no SO 121 57.1%   
Have no calculator 4 1.9%   

Survey posted 2003-04-17 02:00 by Henrik.

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I feel special.
RCTParRoThEaD_ Account Info
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What do you mean by significant other?

Reply to this comment    17 April 2003, 02:03 GMT

Re: I feel special.
henrik Account Info
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Girlfriend, boyfriend, wife, husband, ...

Reply to this comment    17 April 2003, 02:22 GMT


Re: Re: I feel special.
angelboy  Account Info
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What's the "Have no SO" mean?

Reply to this comment    17 April 2003, 03:22 GMT


Re: Re: Re: I feel special.
swtaarrs  Account Info
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Have no significant other.

Reply to this comment    17 April 2003, 04:12 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: I feel special.
starwarsfreak_17  Account Info
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Yeah, well, I think that more thought should be put into these polls!
Quetsion:
What relevance does a Significant Other's use of your TI-Calculator have to do with anything that people come to this site for?
A rhetorical question I know, but here's the answer!
Answer:
NONE!

I appologise for my cinical attitude, but come on....

Reply to this comment    17 April 2003, 13:36 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: I feel special.
Rockoff  Account Info

It's "apologize" and "cynical."
-Sorry for my technical attitude.
d:-)

Reply to this comment    17 April 2003, 17:27 GMT


The Advocacy
centauri Account Info

T H E O P I N I O N

"Starwarsfreak17" posed the rhetorical question regarding the significance of the poll question presented by TI-CALC. The above said person "concluded" (and I do use that term with a broad construction in mind; for in construing the term to mean a logical conclusion, one finds that there is great paradox present) that the said question lacks a "point".

As the appellant, I present my case as such:

*** "TI-CALC" clearly posed the question regarding whether or not one lends his or her graphing calculator to his or her significant other, the person of which shall henceforth be named as "SO", in a manner as to find the answer to the question: a question not quite so obvious, for it is not directly posed, but implied ***

The question is: 'Are you--you, as an entity, as a programmer, as a calculator user--capable of doing more things than simply writing lines of code, incomprehensible to the so-called uninitiated?'

Therefore, the first reponse to the presented poll--"Yes [, I lend my calc]", would correspond to "[yes, there is a meaning to my life]". The second, "No [, I am a jerk]", shall indicate "[no; I deserve to be dumped]". The third, originally: "...No SO" shall be read: "My meaningless life consists of consumming food, cyphering the code of 0's and 1's, and excreting that which shall remain unnamed". The forth: "...no calc". Shall I ask why thou art here, without a friendly TI89 by thy side? For the coldness of VTI, I simply cannot endure.

It seems intellectually obvious that TI-CALC is asking you, as a regular visitor, what sort of person you are. "Are all visitors of TI-CALC reminants of Hollow Men?"

I dissent.

<centauri>

Reply to this comment    19 April 2003, 07:43 GMT

Re: The Advocacy
no_one_2000_  Account Info
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Um... right. You have serious issues. ;-)

Reply to this comment    19 April 2003, 18:12 GMT

Re: Re: The Advocacy
molybdenum  Account Info

One man's issue is another mans treasure.

Reply to this comment    21 April 2003, 02:56 GMT


Re: Re: The Advocacy
molybdenum  Account Info

One man's issue is another man's prime personality trait

Reply to this comment    21 April 2003, 02:56 GMT

Re: The Advocacy
AndySoft  Account Info

LOL!

Reply to this comment    20 April 2003, 23:44 GMT


Re: Re: The Advocacy
Timendus  Account Info
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ROTFLOL!

Reply to this comment    23 April 2003, 19:29 GMT

Re: The Advocacy
David  Account Info
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Haha.. that's great.

Reply to this comment    21 April 2003, 18:23 GMT

Re: The Advocacy
gruntman  Account Info
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HEY! I can't lend my calc to my SO, she lives in New York!

Reply to this comment    24 April 2003, 02:34 GMT


Re: The Advocacy
nathan90 Account Info

once u get past the high vocab, wordiness, sounding like an end user agreement, and read it, hes right

Reply to this comment    6 December 2004, 23:57 GMT

Re: I feel special.
ravage485  Account Info
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<RAMBLE> See, what they meant by significant other was really that little voice you hear in your head that tells you to burn things (I know you know what I am talking about, so don't deny it). I almost never let that voice take control, since people always get hurt when I do (namely myself). I wonder if anyone here still knows who I am... Haven't been around for about 3 years :) (collage RULES!!1!!1)</RAMBLE>

Seriously, why the no calc option?? if you have no calc yet you come to this site, i think something is wrong...(w3lc0m3 70 my w0r1d)

Reply to this comment    17 April 2003, 03:39 GMT

Re: Re: I feel special.
Doug Temple Account Info

I agree with the statement about how the no-calc option should not be there. They should include three more options that say:
"No Significant Other, but would if I had one"
"No Significant Other, but wouldn't if I had one"
"I have a responsible Significant Other who doesn't lose her calc"

Side note: you are in college, and you spell college wrongly. That's just sad.

Reply to this comment    17 April 2003, 03:45 GMT

Re: Re: Re: I feel special.
Tavis Segura  Account Info

I suppose they could have also added:

"Yes, except THE calculator"
"Yes, as long as it doesn't leave my sight"
"Yes, but only the virtual one"
"Yes! That's how I lost my first one"
"My SO doesn't even bother asking me"

But then again, deciding among all of these would be harder to do.

Reply to this comment    17 April 2003, 04:03 GMT


Stupid Poll Options Galore!
Seaborgium  Account Info

Or how about some really stupid options like:

1. I have a domination fetish and I whip my SO if they ask a question other than, "Can I have more?" Or, "Harder, please."

2. My SO IS my calculator

3. My SO hates me because I love my calculator more than they.

4. Cowboy Neal like option, possibly involving the word w00t! or HTML tags.

Reply to this comment    17 April 2003, 18:10 GMT

Re: Stupid Poll Options Galore!
smartguy8  Account Info

Grow up... you're a man, be mature!

Reply to this comment    19 April 2003, 06:11 GMT

Re: Stupid Poll Options Galore!
Nicholas Uhland  Account Info

You are disturbed, so am I.
how bout some more freaky options like

my SO used my calculator as a sex toy

or

My calculator killed my SO out of jealousy

Reply to this comment    20 April 2003, 03:28 GMT


Re: Re: Stupid Poll Options Galore!
no_one_2000_  Account Info
(Web Page)

I'm telling you, the link port is TOO SMALL. ;-)

Reply to this comment    20 April 2003, 17:22 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Stupid Poll Options Galore!
Michael O'Brien  Account Info
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Maybe not for him..

Reply to this comment    21 April 2003, 21:37 GMT


Re: Stupid Poll Options Galore!
burntfuse  Account Info

If your questions were on the poll, I would have picked your second one. Not kidding.

Reply to this comment    20 April 2003, 17:14 GMT

Re: Re: Re: I feel special.
Rockoff  Account Info

But I do agree with him that it's kind of weirdw if you come to this site if you don't have a TI calculator. Maybe those people come just to check out the message boards???
d:-)

Reply to this comment    17 April 2003, 17:35 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: I feel special.
Chickendude  Account Info
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I came a little bit before I got my first, I started looking for games before I got mine.

Reply to this comment    17 April 2003, 18:00 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: I feel special.
swtaarrs  Account Info
(Web Page)

Same here. I ordered my 89 from amazon.com and make the mistake of choosing standard ground shipping, so it took 7 days to get here. By then I had about 30 games downloaded and unzipped, ready to go on the calc. I had even downloaded VTI to try them out :-).

Reply to this comment    19 April 2003, 06:25 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: I feel special.
AndySoft  Account Info

I can here last year when I was borrowing a friend's calc. I was looking for stuff to see if the cables for my digital camera or organizer worked with the calc. Nope. :(

Reply to this comment    20 April 2003, 23:46 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: I feel special.
no_one_2000_  Account Info
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Wow... I came about two years after I got mine. That's when I "discovered" that there was more to the calculator than just the BASIC programs that I wrote :)

Reply to this comment    22 April 2003, 02:28 GMT

Re: Re: Re: I feel special.
smartguy8  Account Info

What about "who doesn't lose his calc?" Rare as it may seem, girls do come to this site, i.e. my sister (she has a calc to). Due to the 19th Amendment, women are given equal rights. Sexist remarks are not needed in this world (chicks, hotties, babes,...). It is so degrading to our female counterparts and we should feel ashamed for putting them down like that. I believe in equal rights. Pay attention in History class...

Reply to this comment    19 April 2003, 06:00 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: I feel special.
no_one_2000_  Account Info
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He didn't mean for it to be sexist. Why should he be ashamed?
The last time a female posted on here was a while back (yAPPy).

Reply to this comment    20 April 2003, 17:27 GMT


Re: Re: Re: I feel special.
Jason Chu  Account Info

correction:

I have a responsible Significant Other who doesn't lose his/her calc"

Side Note:you should have said:

"You spelled college INCORECCTLY"

(i dont think there is such thing as "wrongly")

Reply to this comment    22 April 2003, 06:06 GMT


Spelling...
Tavis Segura  Account Info

*lol* Good move!

I don't know if it was intentional, but you spelled "incorrectly" incorrectly.

Reply to this comment    22 April 2003, 06:23 GMT


Re: Spelling...
slimey_limey  Account Info
(Web Page)

Bravo, and thank you for eliminating confusion the world over!

Reply to this comment    22 April 2003, 16:33 GMT

Re: Re: I feel special.
JcN  Account Info

Who is the guy who voted "No Calculator" anyway?

Reply to this comment    19 April 2003, 20:46 GMT


Re: Re: Re: I feel special.
burntfuse  Account Info

Yes, it is very strange that there were some people that voted 'no calc'. Maybe it was a prank or something.

Reply to this comment    20 April 2003, 17:15 GMT


Re: Re: I feel special.
Nicholas Uhland  Account Info

Wow, you are in a collage?
I didnt think that thats possible.
I mean physical beings cant be in a group of pictures or objects on a surface. It just cant happen.
Unless.....
We could flatten out all of the mispelling losers out there and put them into a collage.

Reply to this comment    20 April 2003, 03:23 GMT


Re: Re: Re: I feel special.
no_one_2000_  Account Info
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Oh, I get it... "collage", as in pictures and stuff arranged on something... like those posters at school :)

Reply to this comment    20 April 2003, 17:30 GMT


Re: I feel special.
DarkSideProgramming  Account Info

I agree wholeheartedly. What is this legendary significant other? I have not heard of such :)

Reply to this comment    22 April 2003, 16:31 GMT

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