I get called all the time - I am the nexus of all telephone survey research. I think it's because I represent several categories unusual to my neighborhood (single, male, straight, no kids, devastatingly handsome, etc) and they figure they can kill eight birds with one stone by getting my take. So I get called about twice a month.

Tonight a rep from 'ICR', a research firm based in the Philadelphia 'burbs, called asking to speak with the youngest male in the household who is over 50. I didn't hear the survey-taker correctly and I said "I am the youngest male in the household under 50," which disqualified me, and so she hung up. Now, if I'd heard it correctly I would have lied and said I was over 50, because I lie to survey takers all the time, just for shits and giggles. Normally I tell them I'm a Jewish afro-Puerto-Rican pro-choice post-op transsexual who began life as a female and who has always voted Democrat but this time I'm voting for the Republican as a result of my deep concern for homeland security issues and those terrorist bastards. Because that, my friends, is the way to seriously f*ck up statistical models.

So I'm a little put out that I didn't hear the question correctly. My guess is that the Democrats have commissioned a survey to figure out how older men are reacting to Sarah Palin. So if they call you and you're not in the actual target respondent group, well...have some fun.

Update: It's also possible that it's the Republicans who are commissioning the survey, in which case I'm sorry for wasting $15,000 of campaign funds, Senator McCain.