[Poll] The not-secret not-meme

[thefourthvine]

So, there was this secret questions meme going around. And of course I was curious - I am, after all, made mostly of curiosity (actual formula: 70% curiosity, 22% sarcasm, 8% cheese) - but you had to agree to post the meme to get the questions. And I don't do memes here.

And then a certain person rended the veil of secrecy. I won't name her. (Okay, I will. It was toft_froggy. All hail her!) And. Well. I was kind of disappointed. I expected AWESOME questions. I expected questions WORTH keeping a secret. ("Who is fixing the current presidential election?" for example.) Instead, they were - well. I didn't think they were optimized for fannish use, let's put it that way.

So obviously I had no choice; I wrote my own version of the meme (with extensive help from best_beloved, as I was actually nursing the earthling while I did this). But I still don't post memes here. Instead, I am posting a poll! Please answer with names selected from your friends list. And please do answer. Unlike the original meme, these are things I seriously want to know.



[Poll #1262743]

Comments

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

And, truly, I think that secrets have the obligation to be interesting. I have been disappointed in this way in the past. (Also, the best means of keeping things private is to make sure they're really boring and then tell everyone. So if something isn't interesting, there's no point to keeping it a secret!)

And, wow, secret clubs in kindergarten. Either we weren't that advanced when I was wee, or I was so out of it that I didn't even know there was a secret. (The latter is more likely, I suspect.)

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

I accidentally became friends with Kim (I don't remember if I gave her a swing because I felt sorry for her or if I gave her a cookie I didn't like, but apparently making friends with Kim involved bribery) who was friends with Heidi (who, like the president, could only be approached through the right contacts) who turned out to be the girl to know everything about incredibly dull secret clubs.

After that brief tenure in the limelight -- where we sat around and did nothing but gloat about the fact that no one else knew about the secret club, I kid you not -- I returned to being a political outsider in our kindergarten class. You see, I committed the error of saying -- "this is stupid" -- and leaving.

After I walked out, I was informed that they had finally found something to do. They banned me in absentee!

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

See, this is the difference between kids and adults. Among adults, if you leave, they elect you club treasurer.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

I was happy to return to taking my shoelaces off and making them into reins for the stuffed horse.