Do you know what a fortnight is?

Huh. So, a web forum I go to has had an influx of clueless newbies, and as a result registration has been disabled for a fortnight. Cue lots of posts in the one forum that's open to guests asking what a fortnight is. Lots of speakers of American English claim they've never seen the term used, except in specifically British things like Monty Python. The rest of us are boggled. So here is a random poll to find out more.

[Poll #1046987]
Note that the "country" boxes are check boxes, enabling you to select multiple countries if, for example, you grew up in one country and now live somewhere else. I've separated out the US and Canada because I think Canadian English tends to be influenced by British English, but left Australia and New Zealand together because I simply don't know many people from either place. I'm not sure the poll is wonderfully comprehensive or offers all options, so feel free to continue in comments. A better way of asking about location might be to ask what flavour of English you think you speak (British, Irish, US American, etc), but I'm not sure whether people would find that easy to answer, or how many of us on the internet speak only one dialect.

I believe the people on my friends list are an unusually literate lot, so this is something of a biased sample. Feel free to link to the poll from your own journals to get a wider sample.

Links: Web comics, text humour, embedded YouTube & one actual _useful_ link ;)

I currently have 36 tabs open in Opera, which is Too Many, so have a link dump to let me clear them up :)

Web comics:
xkcd cartoon: My Profanity Usage by Cause, link from DoctorOak Alex (I think). Replace "Mario Kart" with "Zelda" and you have me ;)

Left-Handed Toons (by right-handed people): An Open Letter to Subway, linked by booklectic. I also want to see bands called Unnecessary Dairy Overlap.

Textual Humour:
Cephalopod Surprise by Skippy, linked by j00j. If you've wondered why people suddenly have usericons declaring "Pie Doesn't Have Tentacles!", this is the context.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, condensed by mollyringwraith.

Videos:
I may just have to rent/watch Music & Lyrics. This video is probably the funniest 80s pop spoof I've ever seen. Linked by rmjwell.

Livejournal entries with YouTube embedded videos by other people:
Have you ever wondered about the source of the /dance emotes in World of Warcraft?, linked by xiphias.

Xbox 360: The Red Ring of Death, linked by epi_lj. Hilariously funny "death metal" video. Well, hilarious if you know the context of the Red Ring of Death, anyway. Unless your Xbox 360 blew up that way.

Video of a little yellow dancing robot. WAAAANT! *dead of cute*

Actual Useful Content(!):
The Ikea Hacker, link from okoshun. How to reassemble Ikea furniture in different configurations than Ikea was originally intending and create new and interesting works of art (or storage solutions). Awesome :)