# Cecil's Column Made It To the "Breaking News" page on "Fortean Times" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [March 5, 2003, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecils-column-made-it-to-the-breaking-news-page-on-fortean-times/159224 "2003-03-05T12:57:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecils-column-made-it-to-the-breaking-news-page-on-fortean-times/159224/1 "2003-03-05T12:57:56Z")
_Fortean Times_ is the magazine of unexplainable events & phenomena. Cecil’s Column on the Tungusta Event made it to their webpage. [http://www.straightdope.com/columns/030228.html](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/030228.html) See “Breaking News” for March 5, 2003 [http://217.206.205.129/breaking\_news/breaking\_news.shtml](http://217.206.205.129/breaking_news/breaking_news.shtml) Should Unca **Cecil** be flattered or insulted by this? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Truth\_Seeker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5fc32e/32.png) [@Truth\_Seeker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truth_Seeker)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecils-column-made-it-to-the-breaking-news-page-on-fortean-times/159224/2 "2003-03-05T21:10:15Z")
Wow! **Dex** was right about “fame and fortune” awaiting. Pity none of it is mine. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Ryan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7feea3/32.png) [@The\_Ryan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Ryan)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2003, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecils-column-made-it-to-the-breaking-news-page-on-fortean-times/159224/3 "2003-03-06T05:37:13Z")
I’m not clear on how something that happened in 1908 is “breaking news”. ---
**Author:** ![SlowMindThinking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@SlowMindThinking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlowMindThinking)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2003, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecils-column-made-it-to-the-breaking-news-page-on-fortean-times/159224/4 "2003-03-06T15:44:18Z")
Whatever happened, something broke. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Clawman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47c2d/32.png) [@The\_Clawman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Clawman)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecils-column-made-it-to-the-breaking-news-page-on-fortean-times/159224/5 "2003-03-07T14:35:06Z")
The Fortean Times magazine occasionally references Straight Dope. Most recent time I can recall the Mythconceptions column cited [this classic article](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5_071.html) when debunking the duck quack echo story, and described it as “one of the finest popular science pieces you will ever read”. (I paraphrase from memory). ---
**Author:** ![duber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c5a1d2/32.png) [@duber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duber)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2003, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecils-column-made-it-to-the-breaking-news-page-on-fortean-times/159224/6 "2003-03-11T01:45:31Z")
I think Cecil should be honored. I’ve read the occasionaly issue many times. Fortean Times published an article on Tunguska in which one of the theories was that one of Nikola Tesla’s experiments went horribly wrong (or right?)…couldn’t find it on their site, though. ---
**Author:** ![T.Slothrop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3e96dc/32.png) [@T.Slothrop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/T.Slothrop)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2003, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecils-column-made-it-to-the-breaking-news-page-on-fortean-times/159224/7 "2003-03-11T08:52:32Z")
That article is how I found my way here. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2003, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecils-column-made-it-to-the-breaking-news-page-on-fortean-times/159224/8 "2003-03-11T13:20:00Z")
**duber T. Slothrop**— WELCOME!! Stay awhile. Enjoy the madness! The water is fine. Dive right in! 🙂