- Viral contagion
- A fine distinction
- What does "wau" mean in place names like Milwaukee, Waukegan, and Waupaca?
- Cecil Cited
- The Origin of OK
- Rolling Rock "33"
- bird droppings
- How did they Get Mr. Ed to talk?
- Curve Balls
- Curve Balls and Middle Relief
- Curve Balls
- Different Curves: Baseball v beach ball
- Boogie
- Mary Magdalene
- microwave radiation in countries where electrical frequency is different
- Chance of rain 'always' correct
- How and why cats purr
- What causes the "washboard" effect on unpaved roads?
- with regards to tea and milk
- Microwave radiation
- Miss Lillian
- First Caesarian Section
- In like Flynn
- Petard
- all about roundworms
- What does the G in G-string stand for?
- Kennedy's _Profiles in Courage_
- one more thing about drinking seawater
- Swallowed by a Black Hole?
- old stuff - things crawling in ears
- pathological liars
- Origin of "Roach"
- TV psychics and cold reading
- Where does the term "86" come from?
- Potemkin villages
- thank you! folding paper 6+ times
- cecil's answers
- South Side of town
- Hypnotizing Chickens
- 10 Hot Dogs 8 Hot dog buns
- What loathsome disease did King Herod die of?
- On the term "86'd"...
- Cold Reading at The Straight Dope?
- How come TV psychics seem so convincing?
- Pirates Flag
- Jolly Roger/ Roger Wilcp/Roger-dodger.
- oddball keys on PC's.
- The origin of the term 86'd
- Bezos de-Boobed
- Debeaked?
- Free Roaming Chikkinz
- Free Range Poultry
- Got/Gotten Dear Cecil
- Time to update the Marijuana Munchies column
- Boogers in general
- DOG TAGS ?? why the notch on the end ??
- brown hair?
- Querty in Typewriters?
- Comment on "Can a bullet fired into the air..."
- Krishna is blue why?
- Got / Gotten and Noah Webster
- Thee, Thou, Thine, and Ye Olde...
- No boob writing about no boobs! :)
- Car leasing scams
- who wrote the bible
- Typewriters? What are they?
- Amazon Women
- Origin of "side kick"
- Ethanol as Fuel
- funny money
- About that banned Bugs bunny episode "All This and Rabbit Stew"
- Clucks and Bucks
- Friar Tuck?
- Is it possible to swallow a lit cigarette, then take it out and resume smoking?
- When is the next SD book coming out?
- The article link is incorrect.
- Mosquitos and HIV
- West nile vaccine
- Another way to reach 1st base without hitting the ball
- Apricots - cyanogenetic glycosides and Cancer
- 5 ways to get on base
- Abracadabradoo!
- Ventriloquist Parachute Joke
- Regarding Cecil's column on Potemkin Villages
- How to get to first base
- Ok
- On Ventriloquism
- Dead Man's Hand - http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_307.html
- Radioactive Camp Lanterns
- Catnip and olives
- Dead Man's hand--poker question this time
- Hickock's Hand
- What's the point of the dropped third strike and third strike/4thb umpire mask rule?
- Heavy water
- Heavy Water Moderated Reactors
- More heavy water stuff
- Re: Why manhole covers are round
- Illuminati
- Do decapitated heads briefly remain conscious? Cecil: No. Languille: You called?
- playing card suit column comments
- The Playing Cards Suit
- Leo Strauss
- Why is christmas in december?
- Is Slug Signorino Illiterate?
- Flash photography in museums
- What's correct, "he had GOT some" or "he had GOTTEN some"?
- Ye forget the Lord's punishment!
- tennis scoring
- Old column comment: GM L.A. mass transit destruction
- Ants
- What "PA" stands for in chemistry.
- What is better a $1000 annual raise or a $300 raise every six months?
- Joe Sprinz
- Chances of being beaned by a baseball
- G-strings, baby!
- National Debt
- National Debt: Did the question get answered?
- Is cow's milk "the worst beverage on earth?"
- Gilded Age?
- Closed Captioning
- National Debt
- Cecil on the Muslims...and Arabic...
- The origin of 'elite', as in leetspeak
- Why is tennis scoring so weird?
- Is there a Santa Claus?
- Whole nine yards
- Regarding Blue People--a question.
- Leasing Guantanamo Bay
- re:why does people clink their glasses together after a toast?
- Coming Soon - Sex in Space!
- Roadway washboarding revisited
- We get nostalgic for Victorian Christmases. What did Victorians get nostalgic for?
- Graphology, Yet Again
- In what language do deaf people think?
- DECEMBER 25th CHRISTMAS QUESTION
- Classic, 7/3/81
- Saturnalia
- About the No Fly Zone over my house
- Baseball and a nine-ball walk, according to Cecil.
- Re: Can I make money selling my hair to a wigmaker?
- Castor Oil availability
- Exodus 38:4 in "Jews no longer sacrifice animals" report
- Today's D & D rerun
- You want victory cabbage with that?
- Why are Sadie Hawkins dances now called, 'tolos'?
- Origin of the term "bullpen" in baseball
- Napoleon's Little Buddy
- Left-Handed Catchers
- Qwerty, Dvorak, XPeRT keyboards
- Twice as Much Money - Where can I get some of that
- flipperless pinball machines
- What are the four common English words ending in "-dous"?
- 'Cincinnati Kid' poker hand
- Copy machines and radiation
- Capone's Grave
- Getting away from it all ...
- the g-string thingyeah so,
- What is the plural of "penis"?
- The Mole People
- Fabulous Answer! (but...nuncle?)
- Another "mole people" question
- BZZZT re 2-letter Scrabble words
- Signorino's mole man and Ricola's alp man; separated at birth?
- Datum/Datums/Data
- Are there better languages?
- The biology of Eskimo people
- Eyebrow raised ...
- Applesource
- What causes "piss shivers" (Continued)
- "Long Winded"
- Plastic Bags & Credit Card
- Smiles and frowns, more or less
- Someone give Cecil a remedial grammar lesson!
- What is the holy grail?
- Johnny Appleseed trees
- Eyebrow bugs: couldn't you just have lied?!
- I want eyebrow bugs!
- Reference to Electric Chair article, What Physically happens on an electric chair
- Martin Luther King's plagiarism
- How did Johnny A where no shoes in Winter?
- 'Flesh-colored' in John the Conqueroo column
- Date of Eight Miles High Column
- Glen Campbell and the Wrecking Crew
- Cockroaches and mammals
- Coffee: You'll stunt your growth, kid!
- re: instruments and pitches
- Holy Crap! I'm a Star!
- Hard Water, Soft Water
- Who was more popular, Elvis or the Beatles?
- Bush AWOL Article
- What's the origin of horny ?
- Legal Tender
- Air Fresheners
- What's the true story on South American Nazis?
- wrestling-real or fake
- Swedish boxer Ingemar J?
- Happy 31st Anniversary Cecil!
- Otzi
- Is a child's ghost visible in Three Men and a Baby?
- Microsoft ripping off Helvetica
- Why has no animal species ever evolved wheels? - by Marie Hansen, Saint Augustine
- Why do you see pairs of shoes hanging by the laces from power lines? - Lloyd S.
- Phoebe Snow
- Cecil's Tabasco Column
- The National Guard Gets Lost in the BUSHES
- Jefferson's Party - not Democratic-Republicans
- Big Bopper's name
- A duck's quack not echoing...why do people think this?
- Vests unbuttoned and fast shuffles
- When was a river delta first called a "delta"?
- Are prison populations affected by capital punishment?
- More about "Helvetii"
- Swiss coins
- Possible error in the Egyptian gods column
- Hand signals for rock paper scissors
- in regards to the dimensions thing...
- Californium-252. How expensive is it?
- Do more convicts = less crime?
- Do more convicts = less crime?
- Lava Lamp article
- Californium is cheap compared to this
- Antimatter and the big bang?
- Reporting "illegal income" on your tax return
- Memes
- I disagree with only one thing Cecil has said in "Memes"
- meat and vegetables
- Pre-Noah Vegetarians? Not So Fast ...
- Is it my imagination or is the "meme" column not new?
- Memes and morphic resonance
- Meme's site thats a little bit easier to understand
- origins of "whole nine yards"
- cecil=retard and google user
- Decapitated heads & consciousness
- The Selfish Gene
- Tipping
- What's the origin of the myth that cats can suck the breath out of babies?
- Questions about Noah's meat
- murderers: butlers vs. gardeners
- Zero is a natural number
- Revising Classic Columns (Hendrix)
- Jimi Hendrix
- Jimi Hendrix
- Health benefits of smoking
- So let's say I wanted to make $50k a year
- Of Coupons & Trading Stamps
- Pygmies
- Dex downplays Sacagawea's significance
- Pygmies and Belgium
- Eating flesh with its life-blood in it.
- mojo / mojo wire