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10-31-2009, 02:26 AM
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I'm sure I'll get a lot of crap for asking this since I should know by now, but I have now clue what all this carrot stuff is all about. It's bugging me! Clue in a fellow bassist? 
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10-31-2009, 02:36 AM
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Endorsing Artist: SWR Amplifiers | | Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Sydney, Australia | | | As far as I can tell this isn't so much a bass thing as a talkbass thing. People making polls are trying to show respect for the fact that polls are closed questions and there might be other unthought-of options. Including a "carrots" options is there to (playfully) capture all the other possibilites. |
10-31-2009, 02:37 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Here we are... | | | "Oh carrots are divine, you get a dozen for a dime, it's magic. They fry, a song begins; they roast and I hear violins, it's magic. Why do I kid myself? Other loves that I have are all really few. When in my heart I know, the magic's my love for you." -Bugs Bunny,Rabbit Every Monday,1951
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It's time to ask What Would Carrot Top Do?  ... |
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10-31-2009, 01:03 PM
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Originally Posted by David1234 As far as I can tell this isn't so much a bass thing as a talkbass thing. People making polls are trying to show respect for the fact that polls are closed questions and there might be other unthought-of options. Including a "carrots" options is there to (playfully) capture all the other possibilites. | ^ well said. Carrots are " politically correct".
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10-31-2009, 01:19 PM
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Originally Posted by paf77 I'm sure I'll get a lot of crap for asking this since I should know by now, but I have now clue what all this carrot stuff is all about. It's bugging me! Clue in a fellow bassist? | Because typing Broccoli would just be stupid..... 
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10-31-2009, 01:56 PM
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10-31-2009, 04:57 PM
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10-31-2009, 06:14 PM
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10-31-2009, 06:58 PM
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11-01-2009, 07:42 PM
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I had that coming I guess though.
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11-01-2009, 07:44 PM
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11-01-2009, 08:02 PM
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Originally Posted by ProfGumby Because typing Broccoli would just be stupid..... | This!!!
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11-02-2009, 01:04 AM
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Originally Posted by WalterBush It's not a poll without carrots, plain and simple. There's a real explanation, of course, but it's much sillier, and better left to people Who Were There. | So that's why all my polls fail .
As for the explanation, that's abso-effing-lutely correct.
It probably won't make any sense for those who weren't there, and I have a hunch that it probably didn't make much sense for those not involved back then either  .
IMHO only of course.
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11-02-2009, 01:52 AM
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Originally Posted by WalterBush It's not a poll without carrots, plain and simple. There's a real explanation, of course, but it's much sillier, and better left to people Who Were There. | It's too bad I wasn't there. 
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11-03-2009, 06:13 AM
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11-03-2009, 06:32 AM
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Originally Posted by WalterBush It's not a poll without carrots, plain and simple. There's a real explanation, of course, but it's much sillier, and better left to people Who Were There. |
I've been there from the beginning and I remember when polls were first introduced and there was much complaining along the lines of where's the option for "xxxxxx"...?
I think that at the time, Jazzbo was famous as a vegetarian TBer and John Turner as moderator edited some polls to give Jazzbo a "vegetarian option".
Since then it has passed into TB folklore and has become a must-have for every poll! 
But we are talking about 10 years ago now... 
So my memory might be hazy...?
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11-03-2009, 06:34 AM
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Originally Posted by ProfGumby Because typing Broccoli would just be stupid..... | Exactly! Quote:
Originally Posted by WalterBush It's not a poll without carrots, plain and simple. There's a real explanation, of course, but it's much sillier, and better left to people Who Were There. | Exactly!
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11-03-2009, 06:41 AM
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