silly pollage

[deird1]

I feel the urge to do a poll.

A serious poll from me right now would go something like this:

Given that I am sick, and awake at 12:47am with no possibility of getting back to sleep even though I'm tired should I:
a) go to work tomorrow and suffer through a long day, thus demonstrating commitment to new job?
b) stay home tomorrow, and watch huge amounts of tv?
c) decide I'm way too sick to get on a plane on Friday, and give up on Adelaide trip?
d) dose myself up on all the anti-cold pills I can find, and hope the world retreats behind a fuzzy cloud of numbness?

That would be depressing. Have a silly poll, instead:

Poll #8236

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 20

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I have to marry a supervillain. Should it be:

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Lex Luthor
10 (50.0%)

Syndrome
0 (0.0%)

Andrew Wells
8 (40.0%)

Norman Osborn
0 (0.0%)

Firelord Ozai
2 (10.0%)

I am out of money, and have to kidnap a Plucky Heroine to hold a superhero to ransom. Should it be:

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Lois Lane
5 (25.0%)

Willow Rosenberg
5 (25.0%)

Sophie Devereaux
3 (15.0%)

Katara
1 (5.0%)

Tuppence Beresford
6 (30.0%)

Given that I have just kidnapped the aforementioned Plucky Heroine, how screwed am I?

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Very, very screwed.
2 (10.0%)

Not at all. She's very nice, and will probably take pity on your inept villainy.
9 (45.0%)

Enjoy your lovely ransom money. You won't have long to enjoy it.
2 (10.0%)

You really didn't think this through, did you?
9 (45.0%)

Run. Just run.
4 (20.0%)

For tax reasons, I have to give up one of my many superpowers. The one I should STOP having is:

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invisibility
0 (0.0%)

superspeed
1 (5.0%)

entropy reversal
1 (5.0%)

controlling all birds
13 (65.0%)

spider sense
5 (25.0%)

Comments

[redsixwing]

I think you'll have better luck kidnapping Lois Lane. She's the only one of those with a posse slightly more likely to just pay it and get her back than, say, finding a way to rescue the plucky heroine while coincidentally destroying all your villainous plans.

Of course, if you're married to Lex Luthor that throws the chances of ransom right out the window. And you should totally marry Ozai, because he is hot.

Sorry.

[jesuswasbatman]

I did think about kidnapping Lois Lane on the grounds that Superman never kills or maims people gratuitously, but I can't remember if Lois doesn't.

[redsixwing]

Hmm, good point!

I can't remember if Lois has a good punch, either (reason #1 I'd not kidnap Katara: she defends herself very capably. Reason #2 is "it would upset Aang AND Katara" and that ends in all my villainous plans destroyed with cabbages.)

[angearia]

Oh, see I kidnapped Katara knowing she'd take pity on me for my being forced to marry the Firelord (she's good at defending herself, but I would be very sneaky and lure her in). My villainy is complex and sympathetic since I'm apparently living in the A:tLA 'verse.

(Yes, Deird, I finally started watching it! I'm at the beginning of Book 3. :))

[redsixwing]

Aha! That's a whole different kind of villainy, that is.

I mostly just wanted to see Ozai go up against Superman. Surely I can manipulate them into getting in a tussle, yes?

[deird1]

Avatar! Yay!

:D

[angearia]

I just finished it last night and it was soooo good. SOOO GOOD. I kinda want to watch it all over again, and then read lots of Azula fanfiction. :)

[beer_good_foamy]

Yeah, that's what I thought, too. As long as you don't inadvertantly kill yourself, kidnapping a friend of Superman's is pretty much a risk-free scenario.

[vass]

I chose Tuppence on the grounds that she's the most personally ineffectual of that group. But it's been a very long time (whoa, twenty years! And I'm only almost thirty-one!) since I read the Tommy and Tuppence books, so I could be misremembering.