Well, friends, I have dipped my toes in the shallow end of the swimming pool that is POLLZ ON BLOGZ and I must say the water felt quite nice. Thanks to all who voted in the first ever TxtMsgBtl poll -- 129 people participated and the results were quite conclusive.THE RESOUNDING WINNER: STIR! (29%)
Suggested by my mother, this name seemed to have the perfect mix of coldness/forcefulness, an association to alcohol and a vague sexual connotation.
As one of my friends put it (in gchat): "haha / i also liked "stir" / i basically liked the ones that sounded the least sexual, but then were actually potentially really weirdly sexual."
SECOND PLACE: DECOY! (26%)
Clearly, the elder members of my family knew what they were doing. Decoy was my dad's submission. And while I don't really get it (is the idea that the nightclub is a decoy for a better, more fun and more real nightclub?), I do think it has a cool sound to it.
FOURTH PLACE: PETAL! (14%)
Petal was my submission and it seems to have been a love/hate proposition for the voting masses. For everyone who told me they kind of had a soft spot for the most feminine of the choices, there was someone else who echoed the feelings of a different gchatting chum of mine: "I was thinking about it but then it seemed not 'cold' enough." Alas, my name was destined for the back of the pack.
I kind of wish I had submitted my second-choice name to the family pool: SANDBOX (tagline: "Play Nice").
For all of you mathematicians, here are the comprehensive results:
5 comments:
I read Decoy as de-coy, as in this isn't the place to be shy or modest.
I liked Decoy because it sounded fun and original. Stir would have been my second choice but I live by three casinos and one of them has a lame ass night club called Stir and so that spoiled it for me. I kind of think that all night clubs have gay ass names. If someone opened up a bar and named it 'Cheap Cold Beer', I'd be up for that. Hope you had a cool trip.
Um...so i met you on Saturday night (at the YDN Olympics...) and it was one of the high points of my life. I said "Are you Josh Duboff?! I read your blog!" and you didn't really say hello, but instead asked me what nightclub name I voted for. And then you got really excited and told me that one of your companions was your best friend from home and the other was your best friend from Yale and for some reason this was a really cool fact. And then I think you walked away.
I am guessing you do not remember this encounter, but I decided to share it with you since it was pretty much like meeting a really cool famous person (except not really).
haha josh i saw you voting in the library!
I don't trust this poll. Decoy clearly should have won. Voter fraud.
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