Soon after I started here I found a lot of the stuff depressing and decided I needed to lighten the mood by finding strange and bizarre stories to post to help with all of the child abuse, murders, rapes etc..
I came across an article about 30% of American women saying their dog listens better to them than their husbands.
http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?t=104065&highlight=husband+dog so I posted it and made a poll. I added cats, brothers, mothers, fathers, ferrets and other options. Then for some reason I thought adding "My soft feathered brown Australian emu" would be a funny choice. I put it in and Drip~Drop voted for it. When I saw it got a vote I started adding it to all of my non serious polls whenever I could and it seems to have taken on a life of it's own.
BTW, for being the first to vote for the emu choice Drippy has been give the title of Emu Queen