# Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/comments-on-cecils-columns-staff-reports/7.md?page=293 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 294 --- ## [Beans](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beans/19954)
**Author:** [@RM\_Mentock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RM_Mentock)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [May 20, 2000, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beans/19954 "2000-05-20T20:23:10Z")
Re: the Mailbag article Why is Boston called “Beantown”?. So, why Boston then, and not New York, or Baltimore? --- ## [covered bridges invented by an american? I think not!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covered-bridges-invented-by-an-american-i-think-not/19969)
**Author:** [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [May 20, 2000, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covered-bridges-invented-by-an-american-i-think-not/19969 "2000-05-20T17:32:04Z")
I believe that the master would do well to look beyond the US borders when he cites historical “facts” such as this: “Covering a wooden bridge is easy. The trusses already form a boxlike framework. Tack on some rafters … --- ## [The Confederate Flag flaps](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-confederate-flag-flaps/19559)
**Author:** [@Honeyko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honeyko)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [May 19, 2000, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-confederate-flag-flaps/19559 "2000-05-19T17:35:36Z")
(Pursuant to the Cecil column in which he rejects the assumption that “squaw” was always a derogatory term.) Outside of the very recent self-fulfilling prophecy of black leaders denouncing the confederate “stars & bars”… --- ## [The third message of Fatima](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-third-message-of-fatima/19476)
**Author:** [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [May 18, 2000, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-third-message-of-fatima/19476 "2000-05-18T17:24:08Z")
The column. Here is the third message of Fatima as reported in today’s Observer (sister paper to the UK’s Guardian). Does anyone else find this just a little bit anticlimactic? --- ## [Happy Trails!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-trails/19642)
**Author:** [@JillGat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JillGat)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [May 18, 2000, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-trails/19642 "2000-05-18T07:08:44Z")
Hey folks, I regret to inform you that I am in my sunset days here on the Straight Dope message board. I’ve enjoyed the hell out of this place and all of you in the CCC forum, but I’ve just had added responsibilities at… --- ## [Comment on "Why do outdoors rooms have half-moon..". etc.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comment-on-why-do-outdoors-rooms-have-half-moon-etc/19486)
**Author:** [@ingemarl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ingemarl)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [May 15, 2000, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comment-on-why-do-outdoors-rooms-have-half-moon-etc/19486 "2000-05-15T22:58:53Z")
Dear Cecil, Having just read this column, I would like to make the following comment: I would not dispose the half-moon hole theory as something a cartoonist dreamt up, which never actually existed. In Sweden (where I … --- ## [Last income tax remark](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-income-tax-remark/18894)
**Author:** [@Honeyko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honeyko)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [May 15, 2000, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-income-tax-remark/18894 "2000-05-15T22:09:33Z")
Said Cecil inhttp://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5\_139.html: (3) No income tax at all? Fine. When the guys in the military come looking for their pay, we’ll tell them to see you. Sign me up, pronto. I like evil reduc… --- ## [Liquid filled golfballs](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liquid-filled-golfballs/19527)
**Author:** [@Ejno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ejno)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [May 15, 2000, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liquid-filled-golfballs/19527 "2000-05-15T01:04:07Z")
If someone was to place a liquid filled golf-ball in the microwave and microwave it on high for an extended period of time, would it build up enough internal force to put a hole in the microwave and shoot through a wall? … --- ## [Re:Whose face is on the $1,000 bill?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-whose-face-is-on-the-1-000-bill/1675)
**Author:** [@CalifBoomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalifBoomer)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [May 14, 2000, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-whose-face-is-on-the-1-000-bill/1675 "2000-05-14T23:43:49Z")
You forgot to list the $100,000 bill, not printed in a while but still legal tender for banks that have them, with Woodrow Wilson on the front. --- ## [Egg peeling secrets](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/egg-peeling-secrets/19379)
**Author:** [@JoeyBlades](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoeyBlades)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [May 14, 2000, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/egg-peeling-secrets/19379 "2000-05-14T16:27:01Z")
Re: http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mpeelegg.html The way I peel hardboiled eggs is as follows: (1) Boil the sucker (2) Thrust it into out-of-the-tap cold water until you can handle it (3) Tap lightly to cause a… --- ## [egg peeling](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/egg-peeling/19424)
**Author:** [@wezelshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wezelshark)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [May 14, 2000, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/egg-peeling/19424 "2000-05-14T16:24:43Z")
i used to have a little gadget that poked a hole in the fat end of the egg shell…this allowed water to get inside the shell where the membrane forms a sort of bubble…as the egg cooked the water separated the membrane fro… --- ## [Comment on "What's the origin of the word "dad"?"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comment-on-whats-the-origin-of-the-word-dad/19487)
**Author:** [@ingemarl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ingemarl)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [May 14, 2000, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comment-on-whats-the-origin-of-the-word-dad/19487 "2000-05-14T09:16:29Z")
Dear Cecil, I strongly support the theory of the origin of “Dad” as some product of childish speach. However, something perhaps more interesting is the origin of the word “Papa”, or just “Pa”: As scholars all know, “fa… --- ## [Skeptical Inquirer on The Oak Island Treasure](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skeptical-inquirer-on-the-oak-island-treasure/18710)
**Author:** [@CurtC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CurtC)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [May 13, 2000, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skeptical-inquirer-on-the-oak-island-treasure/18710 "2000-05-13T03:36:54Z")
It appears that the board still doesn’t accept posts from the Opera browser, so here goes with IE. I hope the thread doesn’t get posted twice. Relevant Straight Dope article: What’s the scoop on the mysterious buried tr… --- ## [Female ejeculations?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-ejeculations/19122)
**Author:** [@curiousKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curiousKat)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [May 13, 2000, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-ejeculations/19122 "2000-05-13T01:24:18Z")
Cecil mentioned in passing that one of the women reported having ejeculations. My GYN says such things do not happen, that it is just urine leak. I think she is wrong. What does Cecil say?? --- ## [More nitpicky for Karen](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-nitpicky-for-karen/19253)
**Author:** [@SY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SY)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [May 12, 2000, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-nitpicky-for-karen/19253 "2000-05-12T23:19:59Z")
Really minor, but h/2pi (“h-bar”) is not Planck’s Constant, h is. It would be more correct to say that in atomic units, Plank’s Constant is set equal to 2pi or, equivalently, h-bar is set equal to one. Back in my quantu… --- ## [Rock and Roll Origins](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-and-roll-origins/19350)
**Author:** [@Prospero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prospero)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [May 12, 2000, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-and-roll-origins/19350 "2000-05-12T19:41:07Z")
I’ve been working for some time in trying to track down the origins of this term, and have independently tracked down most of what I saw in the column. I’ve tried to go a step further, and have a theory, which I have no… --- ## [Is the south side always the baddest part of town?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-south-side-always-the-baddest-part-of-town/19100)
**Author:** [@Topi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Topi)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [May 12, 2000, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-south-side-always-the-baddest-part-of-town/19100 "2000-05-12T17:00:10Z")
In his article “Is the south side always the baddest part of town?” http://www.straightdope.com/columns/991105.html Cecil wasn’t sure if there is predominant division in cities between rich/poor and north/south or som… --- ## [Cecil Is Wrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-is-wrong/18332)
**Author:** [@PUNdit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PUNdit)\ **Replies:** 40\ **Last updated:** [May 12, 2000, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-is-wrong/18332 "2000-05-12T15:20:21Z")
In Does giving blood reduce your chances of getting heart disease?, Cecil is wrong. He does an adequate job discussing a fringe theory, and had he stopped there would have had an acceptable, if incomplete, column. But wi… --- ## [Violence after the Superbowl.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/violence-after-the-superbowl/19254)
**Author:** [@Resin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Resin)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [May 12, 2000, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/violence-after-the-superbowl/19254 "2000-05-12T15:06:44Z")
I don’t have any statistics or whathaveyou, but I’m pretty sure that domestic violence increases during the Superbowl. My girlfriend is a domestic violence/sex crimes victim advocate for the State Attorney. Basically,… --- ## [Decapitated Heads](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decapitated-heads/18496)
**Author:** [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [May 12, 2000, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decapitated-heads/18496 "2000-05-12T04:41:08Z")
After I recently read Cecil’s column about decapitated heads surviving long enough to realize their fate, I was haunted for days. Kept crying just at the thought of the poor man in the cab in Korea. Then I thought of the… --- ## [Butt orgasms](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-orgasms/18949)
**Author:** [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [May 11, 2000, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-orgasms/18949 "2000-05-11T23:46:21Z")
Anyone care to guess the Doper Cecil pegged as a “Butt” woman in this week’s column? Also this is the first time I recall him so blatently relying on the SDMB for material. --- ## [Who's the Perve?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-perve/18778)
**Author:** [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [May 10, 2000, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-perve/18778 "2000-05-10T23:08:21Z")
All right, who’s been having sex with goats? --- ## [Boltzmann's Constant](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boltzmanns-constant/19145)
**Author:** [@Yossarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yossarian)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [May 10, 2000, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boltzmanns-constant/19145 "2000-05-10T18:28:28Z")
In the mailbag column, http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/memc2.html STDSTAFF Karen mentions: Umm… Heat Capacity (Cp, for constant pressure), not Boltzmann’s constant (k), is the converstion constant between heat en… --- ## [A Feather and A Hammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-feather-and-a-hammer/18299)
**Author:** [@Huckleberry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Huckleberry)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [May 10, 2000, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-feather-and-a-hammer/18299 "2000-05-10T14:48:53Z")
The Straight Dope answer located at this URL: http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mgravity.html is incorrect. It seems that the supplier of the answer did not take the time to consider the question throughly or did not e… --- ## [Wizard of Oz and Dark Side of the Moon.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wizard-of-oz-and-dark-side-of-the-moon/18861)
**Author:** [@Anachronism](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anachronism)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [May 9, 2000, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wizard-of-oz-and-dark-side-of-the-moon/18861 "2000-05-09T19:12:09Z")
If it is a coincidence it certainly is an amazing one. Of course everything doesn’t sync up, it has to be a listenable album on it’s own. The synchronicity would explain the long silent portions on the album. The scene … --- ## [death of PEZ inventor](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-of-pez-inventor/18947)
**Author:** [@trilobite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/trilobite)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [May 9, 2000, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-of-pez-inventor/18947 "2000-05-09T18:33:53Z")
“The Column on Pez” Did the inventor die of an intravenous PEZ overdose? If not, let me be the first to start the rumor. (The quote in the column is a tad ambiguous). --- ## [Ejaculate--high calorie or mostly water?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ejaculate-high-calorie-or-mostly-water/18799)
**Author:** [@Bletchley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bletchley)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [May 9, 2000, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ejaculate-high-calorie-or-mostly-water/18799 "2000-05-09T16:48:45Z")
Here is the column to which I refer: http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1\_054 I wanted to mention that in 1982, while I was a freshman in medical school, I remember a really old professor talking about this. He was … --- ## [Re: Orgasms - Cecil forgot...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-orgasms-cecil-forgot/19007)
**Author:** [@IanDJones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IanDJones)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [May 9, 2000, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-orgasms-cecil-forgot/19007 "2000-05-09T16:03:21Z")
Cecil forgot to mention the drug Anafranil (used to treat Obsessive Compulsive Disorder,) which, in extremely, very, totally rare cases, when a patient who uses it yawns… well… has an orgasm! Too bad it’s rare, or everyo… --- ## [Blinded by the Light](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blinded-by-the-light/19011)
**Author:** [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [May 9, 2000, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blinded-by-the-light/19011 "2000-05-09T15:52:06Z")
My understanding, gleaned from a “Rock Lists” book by those Rolling Stone folks some years ago, was that “Blinded by the Light” was in part about young men pleasuring themselves. Masturbation and “looking into the sights… --- ## [beatles butcher cover](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beatles-butcher-cover/18631)
**Author:** [@Rhiannon1031](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon1031)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [May 8, 2000, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beatles-butcher-cover/18631 "2000-05-08T18:16:39Z")
I recently read the article about The Beatles Butcher cover (http://www.straightdope.com/columns/980109/.html). I found a link to a website all about his subject,so naturally I checked out the website…lots of gross photo… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/comments-on-cecils-columns-staff-reports/7.md?page=292) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/comments-on-cecils-columns-staff-reports/7.md?page=294)