Newspoem
22 June 2001
Anne Bargar
Anne Bargar

Deep Woods Poll

n an informal poll conducted this weekend, it was discovered that 4 out of 5 ticks prefer Anne to Bob. This poll was conducted using a pair of tweezers and a bottle of rubbing alcohol. These findings have a possible
Or something like that.
margin of error somewhere around 4 or 5 %, because every poll has a similar margin of error. When we ignore the news we ignore the margins of error, and when the radio waves cannot penetrate through the woods and bore into our skulls we end up ignoring both.

In other news, 98% of all tourists are deeply irritating people in some form or another. This percentage has a margin of error of 6% or so, making it inversely proportionate to the number of people any given person finds when visiting a tourist attraction. Or something like that.

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