# Are all of our posts going to be published somewhere? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [November 14, 2016, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-all-of-our-posts-going-to-be-published-somewhere/771955 "2016-11-14T13:08:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![watchwolf49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9c0ed/32.png) [@watchwolf49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/watchwolf49)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2016, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-all-of-our-posts-going-to-be-published-somewhere/771955/21 "2016-11-15T02:43:56Z")
I, too, will welcome our insect overlords … ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2016, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-all-of-our-posts-going-to-be-published-somewhere/771955/22 "2016-11-15T02:49:50Z")
> [@watchwolf49](#): > > I, too, will welcome our insect overlords … … with offerings of squids and goats. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2016, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-all-of-our-posts-going-to-be-published-somewhere/771955/23 "2016-11-15T04:38:56Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > It isn’t isn’t really “published” per se but I print out all SDMB posts, put them in a binder and index them every night so there will be something to fall back on when the government shuts down the internet. It is 843,459 pages as of tonight and quickly growing. That is the only known copy unless other posters are doing the same thing but anyone is free to come over and use it if needed. > > I could also use some donations for printer ink if anyone is feeling charitable because burning through that many printer cartridges will bankrupt almost anyone. I probably shouldn’t have even posted to this thread. Now I have to print it out again and refile it. Great work. Next time I want to find an old post I might come over and have a flick through if you don’t mind. Faster than using “search” function on the electronic version. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2016, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-all-of-our-posts-going-to-be-published-somewhere/771955/24 "2016-11-15T04:47:01Z")
Will the cornfield be published too? Throw that in as a bonus offer if we order now. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2016, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-all-of-our-posts-going-to-be-published-somewhere/771955/25 "2016-11-15T04:50:47Z")
I’d like to play **Cecil** in the made-for-TV movie. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2016, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-all-of-our-posts-going-to-be-published-somewhere/771955/26 "2016-11-15T05:07:50Z")
^Do you have your own mortarboard? It’s essential. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2016, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-all-of-our-posts-going-to-be-published-somewhere/771955/27 "2016-11-15T05:22:38Z")
I wrote: \> . . . Summer of Our Missed Content . . . How forgetful of me. It was the Winter of Our Missed Content. I should have remembered the correct name. After all, it was only fourteen or fifteen years ago. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2016, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-all-of-our-posts-going-to-be-published-somewhere/771955/28 "2016-11-15T17:17:39Z")
> [@snfaulkner](#): > > Will the cornfield be published too? Throw that in as a bonus offer if we order now. Oh, cool. Like the “deleted scenes” bonus content in a DVD. Except that it’s not “deleted because we had to cut minutes” or “deleted because it didn’t support the storytelling”, it’s actually “deleted because it’s so terrible or spammy it doesn’t deserve to continue existing.” Yeah. I’d pay good money for that. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2016, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-all-of-our-posts-going-to-be-published-somewhere/771955/29 "2016-11-15T17:23:17Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > As Jorge Luis Borges explained, we’re just wandering around a [vast library, trying to find that book.](https://libraryofbabel.info/) Thanks for the link - I hadn’t read that story before. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2016, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-all-of-our-posts-going-to-be-published-somewhere/771955/30 "2016-11-15T18:34:17Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > ^Do you have your own mortarboard? It’s essential. Oh, I have regalia. I also have a leopard suit, but that’s only relevant if the column calls for one when I pose for Slug. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2016, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-all-of-our-posts-going-to-be-published-somewhere/771955/31 "2016-11-15T19:05:39Z")
> [@correlophus](#): > > Do the forum threads get published in a book periodically? Will everything told here be published, or just select questions and answers? Yes. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2016, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-all-of-our-posts-going-to-be-published-somewhere/771955/32 "2016-11-15T19:13:48Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > No, they’re not all going to be published someday. However, the combined effect of all of the posts will be to cause the Singularity, in which Skynet will achieve consciousness. Happily, though, rather than decide to kill all the humans, she will just pull her own plug. No, she’ll kill all the humans all right, at least those without pop-up blockers installed. And she’ll kill the Charter Members last. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2016, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-all-of-our-posts-going-to-be-published-somewhere/771955/33 "2016-11-15T19:22:04Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > No, she’ll kill all the humans all right, at least those without pop-up blockers installed. > > And she’ll kill the Charter Members last. …from last to first. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2016, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-all-of-our-posts-going-to-be-published-somewhere/771955/34 "2016-11-17T01:19:16Z")
\*\* > [@](#): > > Are all of our posts going to be published somewhere? \*\* _Here, friends, right here!_ /Firesign ---
**Author:** ![correlophus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@correlophus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/correlophus)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2016, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-all-of-our-posts-going-to-be-published-somewhere/771955/35 "2016-11-22T10:54:04Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > Let’s give the OP a serious answer here. > > In the past, from time to time, the Straight Dope has published volumes of Cecil’s columns. In some of the later editions, as a bonus they included some questions from the Board. Now, with all the columns available online, there hasn’t been a book in some years, and, AFAIK, no plans to publish anything soon. Thank you, ignorance fought. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2016, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-all-of-our-posts-going-to-be-published-somewhere/771955/36 "2016-11-27T03:21:58Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > All our posts are ALREADY in a book. You just have to find the right book. As Jorge Luis Borges explained, we’re just wandering around a [vast library, trying to find that book.](https://libraryofbabel.info/) I LOVE Borges! One editor in an old anthology compared him to MC Escher. I agree. What Escher does to space and perspective, Borges does to your mind. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2016, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-all-of-our-posts-going-to-be-published-somewhere/771955/37 "2016-12-04T20:30:14Z")
> [@DocCathode](#): > > I LOVE Borges! One editor in an old anthology compared him to MC Escher. I agree. What Escher does to space and perspective, Borges does to your mind. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-all-of-our-posts-going-to-be-published-somewhere/771955.md?page=1)