The votes are in!

Last week I decided to peer review my tagline. It was quite an exciting day in blogging terms. I created a poll and invited the world at large to choose between my existing tagline and two new ones.

The choices were:

(a) The irreverent and irrelevant ramblings of a man who hasn’t really got anything to say, but is going to say it anyway…

(b) The wit and wisdom of a man who has neither…

(c) Don’t laugh; you’ll only encourage him…

It was certainly enlightening and I’m pretty overwhelmed by how many people interacted with me that day, on this blog, and via other forms of social media, so thanks for that!

The two which seemed to garner the most vocal support were (a) and (c). Supporters of (a) were adamant that I shouldn’t have to change my tagline if I didn’t want to, whereas supporters of (c) thought that change was well overdue.

Interestingly, fewest people seemed to convey any opinions regarding  (b) but ultimately, when I looked at the results of the poll, (b) was the clear winner.

I’m relieved – it was my wife’s favourite and I probably should just have listened to her to begin with.

I think on balance it was my favourite too, although I’d have been happy with any of them. Someone suggested to me that it sounded a bit like Oscar Wilde might have said it. I’ve done a few paranoid Google searches to see if he did, because I do think I might have accidently paraphrased something he did say, but I can’t find the direct quote, so for now we’ll just have to assume that I am as clever as Oscar Wilde…

Speaking of quotes, I realised I had a fridge-magnet with a Shakespeare quote on it that might have been ideal. It’s from Twelfth Night (a play I have actually studied lest you judge me for my fridge-magnet buying habits)

The quote is:

“Better a witty fool than a foolish wit”

That’s definitely better than anything I could have come up with.

So on balance we can conclude that I’m about as good as Oscar Wilde but not quite as good as Shakespeare.

If that were remotely true, I would be genuinely happy, but I think I’m some way off being quoted on t-shirts, mugs and other people’s blogs, so I’m no Oscar Wilde just yet…

So there we go. A new tagline has been chosen. Democracy works.

If your particular favourite didn’t get chosen, then don’t lose heart. This is, after all, a fairly facile blog and none of this really matters.

But I had fun and surely that’s the most important thing of all…