# Another Bad Astronomy reference... in TMQ!?

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 31, 2003, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-bad-astronomy-reference-in-tmq/151961 "2003-01-31T21:25:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![White\_Lightning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@White\_Lightning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/White_Lightning)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-bad-astronomy-reference-in-tmq/151961/1 "2003-01-31T21:25:48Z")

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This past Tuesday’s Tuesday Morning Quarterback column by Gregg Easterbrook on [ESPN.com](http://ESPN.com)’s Page 2 site [mentioned badastronomy.com](http://espn.go.com/page2/s/tmq/030128.html) (about 75% of the way down the column, just below the picture of the Apollo), the website that is run, of course, by the SDMB’s own **The Bad Astronomer**.

I know there are some Dopers that read TMQ at least semi-regularly. Now we know there are Bad-Astronomers-in-training that cross over, too.

Congrats, **TBA**. Keep on spreading that anti-ignorance.

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**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-bad-astronomy-reference-in-tmq/151961/2 "2003-01-31T21:34:13Z")

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I was going to start this thread when the boards were down, but forgot when they came back up.

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**Author:** ![White\_Lightning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@White\_Lightning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/White_Lightning)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-bad-astronomy-reference-in-tmq/151961/3 "2003-01-31T22:17:44Z")

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Me too. But I remembered!

**Dave** , a TMQ reader? Doesn’t surprise me.

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**Author:** ![Shark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/73ab20/32.png) [@Shark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shark)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-bad-astronomy-reference-in-tmq/151961/4 "2003-01-31T22:23:54Z")

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I saw the reference too. When I saw it I thought that he had to be talking about **The Bad Astronomer** also. I had to check the cite he gave to verify that **Phil = The Bad Astronomer** though.

I like TMQ, but sometimes I wish it didn’t take so long to get through. Sometimes they like me get some work done at work.