# Archive Access- The Books

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**Created:** [January 22, 2001, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archive-access-the-books/51267 "2001-01-22T15:19:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2001, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archive-access-the-books/51267/1 "2001-01-22T15:19:17Z")

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I wanted to link in an old Straight Dope bit from one of the original books. The thread was re:body hair, and it’s need. I seemed to remember Unca Cecil covering this in one of the books.

I went to search, and typed in body hair. I got 4 hits- but none of them were very old. Oldest was 1999, even though I didn’t put a time limit on the search. How do I go and find the classics, or older archives- or what ever the properly used term is?

I would have been glad to send the right link into a posting, to let the OP know that this has been covered, but I couldn’t get to the books. Are the books even accessable here? Please help- I’ve read them enough that when someone OP’s a question and it was covered in the books, it kind of tickles my memory. I’d love to know how to access them.

Thank you so much,

Cartooniverse

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**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2001, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archive-access-the-books/51267/2 "2001-01-22T19:04:09Z")

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The indexes of the first 4 books (including columns that are not online) can be reached from the [Straight Dope Question Index](http://www.straightdope.com/topics/) Are you thinking of the columns that explain why body hair appears to stop growing while scalp hair does not? See below

[http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1\_097b.html](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_097b.html)  
[http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3\_044a.html](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_044a.html)