# A magazine for Dopers.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-magazine-for-dopers/271077>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [October 25, 2004, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-magazine-for-dopers/271077 "2004-10-25T17:27:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![KidCharlemagne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@KidCharlemagne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KidCharlemagne)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-magazine-for-dopers/271077/1 "2004-10-25T17:27:36Z")

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Anybody subscribe to Mental Floss? Looks like a pretty cool magazine:

[http://www.mentalfloss.com/index.htm](http://www.mentalfloss.com/index.htm)

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**Author:** ![gooti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/eb8c5e/32.png) [@gooti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gooti)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-magazine-for-dopers/271077/2 "2004-10-25T18:52:48Z")

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**mouthbreather** got me a subscription a couple of years ago for my birthday and I’d cut off a toe before I’d let it lapse. Well, not really, but you get my drift. I like it a lot. The writers have a witty-yet-knowledgeable style similar to Cecil’s books.

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**Author:** ![Chairman\_Pow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/838e76/32.png) [@Chairman\_Pow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chairman_Pow)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2004, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-magazine-for-dopers/271077/3 "2004-10-28T12:57:52Z")

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Based on this thread, I picked up a copy. I’ve only gotten through half of it. It’s OK. You can see the contents online, and they’re relatively well-written. Basically, it’s for people who delight in really obscure trivia (did you know they’re building a 1,000 mile highway across Antarctica and that they don’t like tourists there?). The articles are written with in a jokey style that also influences their content (one of the questions is “what came first, the can or the can opener”) that some people may like, but is really like a bunch of high school valedictorians (you can tell I went to public school and wasn’t one because not only can I not spell it, but I couldn’t be bothered to look it up) who got high on pot and tried to make a magazine.

The one thing that really blows about it is the layout. Holy fuck is it awful.

My girlfriend, on the other hand, loves it.

I give it a content value of B- and a cost-to-content value of C.