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The best 2nd May VIII song

Each year the 2nd May boat composes a song - and there are some classics. But which is the ultimate?

2003, Boat of Legends		18%

2002, 2nd VIII - Go, Go!!		6%

2001, Second VIII Rhapsody		48%

2000, Maybe we're just a boat of perfectionists		0%

1999, Cover our spoons		12%

1998, I vow to thee my Boatclub		3%

1997, Row Hard		12%

Total: 33 members' votes

by dw229 - Mon 24th May 2004, 4:06pm

I reckon having a midi backing track might be an advantage in this poll...

by 2nd VIII pioneer - Tue 25th May 2004, 9:35am

How can you beat lyrics like these?

"Rowin' rowin' rowin', Kings catches they are slow in, we bump them they kep goin', Row Hard!"

Surely the original and best!

by dw229 - Tue 25th May 2004, 9:41am

How come the percentages add up to 96%?

by dw229 - Tue 25th May 2004, 9:42am

Or is it an unfortuitous combination of rounding errors? Perhaps more sig figs are required...

by Richard - Tue 25th May 2004, 9:54am

dw229 said: How come the percentages add up to 96%?

It seems to round down the percentages - regardless of what the figure is in decimals.

Currently there are 29 people having voted - so 1 person voting gives a %age of 3.45% - rounded to 3%, 2 people voting gives 6.90% - rounded down to 6% etc.

by "we don't know the meaning of quiche..." - Tue 25th May 2004, 9:55am

Perhaps this should be done on a Euro(w?)vision format, with voters able to allocate points to more than just one song?

by Martin - Tue 25th May 2004, 10:21am

Richard said: It seems to round down the percentages - regardless of what the figure is in decimals.

Well spotted. Sorted.

by Dubya - Tue 25th May 2004, 4:48pm

If pringles dont have 100 grams per hundred grams, surely we don't need 100 percent per 100 percent!

by jpd - Fri 28th May 2004, 6:31am

Ian/Martin:

In Mozilla (1.4.2) the largest poll option has the men's and women's bars on top of each other (instead of being next to each other). It probably just needs the table to be a couple of pixels wider.

by mjb - Fri 28th May 2004, 8:36am

jpd said: Ian/Martin:

In Mozilla (1.4.2) the largest poll option has the men's and women's bars on top of each other (instead of being next to each other). It probably just needs the table to be a couple of pixels wider.

Does it in IE as well

by Richard - Fri 28th May 2004, 9:54am

mjb said: Does it in IE as well

Looks fine on my IE

by Martin - Fri 28th May 2004, 10:26am

Richard said: Looks fine on my IE

This is because it has been fixed ;-)

by dw229 - Fri 28th May 2004, 11:04am

It did it in Firefox too...the King of all browsers.

by jmg - Fri 28th May 2004, 12:28pm

Martin said: This is because it has been fixed ;-)

While we're on the subject... In plain mode, on the front page, there are links on each of the percentages shown with the poll, which point to a fragment of html code rather than to a page

by dw229 - Fri 28th May 2004, 3:31pm

Also, on pages like this one when you hover your mouse over the crew name underneath the crew list it lights up like a link, but isn't one...

by Dubya - Fri 28th May 2004, 4:06pm

dw229 said: It did it in Firefox too...the King of all browsers.

How is it different from mozilla 1.7?

by dw229 - Fri 28th May 2004, 4:19pm

I don't know.

Look at www.mozilla.org

by Martin - Fri 28th May 2004, 5:07pm

dw229 said: Also, on pages like this one when you hover your mouse over the crew name underneath the crew list it lights up like a link, but isn't one...

Dan, I don't understand. Can you email me a screenshot of it doing it?
Just hit the Print Scrn button and paste it into paintbrush or something like that.

by fan of firefox - Mon 31st May 2004, 4:32pm

Woo! Amazing lighting up crew list! Arent we special!