A poll of utmost national significance

[Orrex]

Choose your answer carefully--it may affect the fate of the world!

[jukes]

1. does no1 but me

appreciate the nifty little prizes? oh, woe...

:cry:

[Orrex]

3. Let me tell you the reason for this poll

In my most recent box of Cracker-Jacks, the prize was a 1 x 1.5 inch square of paper with Abraham Lincoln's picture stamped on it, with a half-inch horizontal slit at the midpoint. It was, believe it or not, a pencil topper.

If that's not the absolute lamest "prize" ever foisted on the popcorn-eating public, I'd like to know what is.

[jukes]

5. yes, lame

they use to have cool shit when i was a kid; plastic figures, rings, etc. they haven't been keeping up w/ their standards, y have, consequently, lost market-share.

*CONSUMER POWER*!!!

[tjwmason]

2. Haven't tried either - we don't get them over here.

But for its starring role in Breakfast at Tiffany's and for its name-sake on British television ( http://www.whirligig-tv.co.uk/tv/children/crackerjack/crackerjack.htm ) my vote has to go to Cracker Jack.

[JVS]

4. Screaming Yellow Zonkers!

[Oeditpus Rex]

6. Beat me

In my eighth-grade math class, you actually got extra credit for bringing Screaming Yellow Zonkers on Friday. :bounce:

Mrs. Bailey was cool. :thumbsup:

[Orrex]

7. Fie on you!

In my school, Mrs. Bailey was the visiting Dental Hygienist, and we all feared her. Hers was a cruel brush-stroke much feared by the young cultivators of gingivitis, and her "disclosure tablets" stained crimson our every flossing sin.

Never did I hear a cry of "Screaming Yellow Zonkers" in her presence. One dreads to consider what might have been the result...

[Oeditpus Rex]

8. Well, at MY school

Mrs. Bailey was cool and well-liked. She used the overhead projector a lot, and she'd carry on little conversations on it — like:

"Why does X-4 equal Schenectady?"

"Dunno."

She was also one of the few teachers common to both my sister and me who didn't expect me to be as adept as my sister.