March 2008: In anticipation of Lino's spring break trip to Gus Lloyd's house in Tampa, Gus placed a poll on his web site and asked listeners to choose what Lino should do while he was there. The five choices were:
- Option 1 nobody can remember
- Option 2 nobody can remember
- Option 3 nobody can remember
- Clean toilets
- Nothing -- Gus should serve Lino
What started out as an innocent poll turned into much, much more. "Clean toilets" took a strong lead for the first few days of the poll, and then Lino promoted it on his show and "Nothing" bounced back to take the lead. Both choices traded the lead for days, and then Gus decided to have a little fun with the poll by having an on-air trivia contest, with correct answers meriting multiple votes for whatever choice the caller desired. (You can guess where most of those votes went.) This prompted Lino to call into Gus' show and declare the whole thing a big scam, among other epithets. If only you could hear the actual clip... and you'd be able to if only my computer's hard drive hadn't destroyed itself back in mid-May. Gus ended up relenting and canceled out all of the multiple votes, and afterwards was mercilessly mocked for a short speech where he declared to everyone that it was "my poll" to do with as he saw fit.
Eventually the poll devolved into a huge tug-of-war between fans on both sides, some of whom figured out how to manipulate the poll to cast huge numbers of votes at once. In the end, "Clean Toilets" ended up winning the poll by about 300 votes (out of over 8,000 cast), but in a show of Christian humility Gus declared that he wouldn't force Lino to clean toilets after all, and that he would in fact serve Lino while he was there.
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