After a week of plot exposition, we still do not know what motivates the Topekan's transdimensional kidnapping spree. However, there is little doubt that these dimension-hopping farmers have a hidden agenda...

Thanks for posting it Tele! I appreciate it. Now I just hope that my poll will live up to mkinyon's high standards.

Ooh! You've made SIX-teh NAAAAINE posts.

Menstrua totally looks like one of the Middle Pangaeans.

You've made your bed, Sniper, now you have to lie in it. What you do there is up to you.

Nice poll, Naelok! I was a bit torn between options 1 and 3, but I went with 3. Thanks for helping to bring it to reality, Tel*.

Holy crap! (A phrase which has new meaning [goats.com] to me now.)

This puts my last few weeks of polls to shame.

I thank you for your praise, though I think that this [goats.com] was a far superior poll to my meagre offering.

I'm surprised at how well Menstrua is doing, as I expected that to be the least popular option. I guess references to obscure minor villians are the way to go. I disagree with Snipergirl about her being a Middle Pangean though... She does seem to believe on pre-destination [goats.com], after all. And, as has been established in the latest strip, pre-destination makes Middle Pangeans angry.

As a side note, Jon apparently had it set so that only Premium members were allowed to make polls. This has been changed, however, as I can now make polls to my heart's content.

Does this bed have a red bedspread?

Do I have to lie in it once a month?

Is it time to whip out another vampiric werewolf lesbian [blogspot.com] reference?

we still dunno who kidnapped jon or what he is up to do we?

we still dunno who kidnapped jon

Middle Pangeans.

what he is up to do we?

Phillip is in a "dry county".

So Jon is obviously drunk all the time.

Does this bed have a red bedspread?

Hey, you made it--don't you know what color the bedclothes are?

Is it time to whip out another vampiric werewolf lesbian [blogspot.com] reference?

Absolutely, but only because you're in Australia. In certain US states, you need to carry one.

I can now make polls to my heart's content.

Sometimes untenured faculty members at universities will say: "Someone should head a committee to look into that". To the tenured, this is known as "volunteering".

You just wrote one of those sorts of sentences.

I can't just suddenly take over the TCPs. You invented them, after all. In fact, if not for you making the TCPs, I would never have delurked to begin with. To deprive the forum of mkinyon polls would be a disservice to the entire community.

How does a tenured Math Professor end up in Goats by the way? I just tried to gain insight into the mkinyon personality by reading your research [iusb.edu], but after reading the first few sentences I saw that that plan was not going to be particularly productive.

I can't just suddenly take over the TCPs.

Not right away, but there will be a period this summer while I'm moving to Denver when I will probably have to miss a few weeks in a row. You're the heir apparent for that period. After that, you'll get to use your "now I am the master" line, and then I'll vanish and my clothes will crumple to the floor.

To share the joy, if I have to miss again between now and the big move, I'll ask other folks. (Tel*, Llama*, sniper*, mystic*, I'm talking to you.) But the summer block is all yours.

How does a tenured Math Professor end up in Goats by the way?

By turning left at the chicken coop.

well... that makes sense based on this new plot development, yay!

does that mean you didn't like the popularity of my last guest week? ;)

I seem to be moving to Virginia about the same time you're moving to CO... fun stuff.

I seem to be moving to Virginia

They won't be paying you enough! I promise!

On the other hand, you'll only be about a five hour drive from the next D.C. area Pub Night, as opposed to your present 13.

does that mean you didn't like the popularity of my last guest week?

No offense intended to any previous guest TCP writers.

Congrats on finding gainful employment!

you'll only be about a five hour drive from the next D.C. area Pub Night

Charlottesville is only about 118 miles from DC... where is the pub night located that it's 5 hours away?

where is the pub night located that it's 5 hours away?

Usually on the other side of the Beltway.

the Beltway

huh? i'm from indiana. i don't know that terminology. is that the freeway that circles it?

And I still can believe you're both leaving. The ones that got away...

And yeah, I got caught in that trick once or twice. I'm more careful about what I say "we" should do - that ends up being a combination of "me" and maybe someone's arm I can twist to help.

Well congratz on the job if I understand it right.

After that, you'll get to use your "now I am the master" line, and then I'll vanish and my clothes will crumple to the floor.

I'm not the backstabbing sort of apprentice, I am afraid. When you return, I will have to simply insist on your return to the world of poll-making.

I'd like to say, for the record, that I'm enjoying the portrayal of the Middle Pangaeans as a group of self-loathing gun nuts. It should be great to see Jon among them especially.

You're just worried that I'll have a wardrobe malfunction. I don't blame you, really.

Agreed in re Middle Pangaeans. One wonders about their version of the Dr. Phil show.