# Encyclopedia Britannica banned in Texas?? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [February 20, 2006, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/encyclopedia-britannica-banned-in-texas/345344 "2006-02-20T17:56:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2006, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/encyclopedia-britannica-banned-in-texas/345344/21 "2006-02-21T10:48:50Z")
> [@samclem](#): > > If you had been accosted by a crack seller, would that mean that crack was legal in Texas? šŸ™‚ Well maybe, if he had a booth set up in the hallway complete with a huge fancy banner that said ā€œGet-yer-quality-crack-sold-here!ā€ In other words my guy had a booth and a fancy display set up in the mall. šŸ˜‰ ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2006, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/encyclopedia-britannica-banned-in-texas/345344/22 "2006-02-21T12:09:55Z")
Call in to the radio show and tell the man that ā€˜gullibleā€™ is not to be found in any dictionary in America. Ten to one heā€™s still repeating it a year from now. Itā€™s sometimes difficult to tell if someone is skilled at trolling or is merely stupid. Luckily, I no longer care to make the (largely illusory) distinction. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2006, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/encyclopedia-britannica-banned-in-texas/345344/23 "2006-02-21T14:29:20Z")
ā€œTexasā€ hasnā€™t banned any encyclopedia. Britannica is readily available at any library in Austin, and in all likelihood, at almost every library in the state. Now, is it possible that some school somewhere in the state threw out its entire Britannica collection because of one objectionable passage? Who knows? There are some loonies out there, and I canā€™t swear that itā€™s never happened in SOME school. But I can vouch that 1. Thereā€™s no statewide ban, and 2. In a town as liberal as Austin, Iā€™d never hear the end of it from liberal friends if this had really happened. So, Iā€™m incolined to say itā€™s a crock. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2006, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/encyclopedia-britannica-banned-in-texas/345344/24 "2006-02-21T14:45:50Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > I was just listening to Kojo Nnamdi on the radio and he stated that the entire Encyclopedia Britannica was banned in Texas because it contained a recipe for beer. Snopes was no help, and when I googled, I found a site where people claimed it was a crock, but no definitive cites. > > I just know thereā€™s a Doper who knows the answer to this, right? Whatā€™s the story? Hereā€™s a counter-idea. Post some horrible slander about Kojo Nnamdi either here or on some other website. Have somebody copy/paste that into an email to send to Kojo Nnamdi informing Kojo Nnamdi that this must be true because itā€™s on the internet. Better yet, send it to Kojo Nnamdiā€™s competition. Would that work? ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2006, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/encyclopedia-britannica-banned-in-texas/345344/25 "2006-02-21T15:16:33Z")
> [@FilmGeek](#): > > Donavan Freberg? > > You do know heā€™s got a porn blog, right? Google creamsicle and blogspot if you want to see it. Somehow I get the feeling I should be very afraid of the consequences of using my Google-Fu for such nefavious purposes. ---
**Author:** ![Alan\_Smithee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2acd7d/32.png) [@Alan\_Smithee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alan_Smithee)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2006, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/encyclopedia-britannica-banned-in-texas/345344/26 "2006-02-21T21:57:50Z")
Is no one standing up for Kojo? Donā€™t get me wrong, Kojo fucks up now and thenā€“and this is definitely a now. But heā€™s not stupid. Boring and inane, maybe, but I expect better from him. I mean, he does try to discuss things no one in their right mind would do a radio show aboutā€“like local DC politics. Just like C-Span and PBS, even if I couldnā€™t be bothered to pay attention, I felt vaguely better that **somebody** was interested. I always felt like Kojo was boring so I didnā€™t have to be. Surely that counts for something! Did you send an email, **FairyChatMom**? Iā€™m curious how (and whether) he responds. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/encyclopedia-britannica-banned-in-texas/345344/27 "2006-02-22T22:37:16Z")
I sent an email, but I havenā€™t heard back. Ah wellā€¦ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/encyclopedia-britannica-banned-in-texas/345344.md?page=1)