# European posters **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 18, 2000, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/european-posters/25987 "2000-07-18T15:57:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CnoteChris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/278dde/32.png) [@CnoteChris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CnoteChris)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2000, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/european-posters/25987/1 "2000-07-18T15:57:33Z")
Why so many European posters on this board? Is the Chicago Reader, Cecil Adams, a huge success accross the pond? I’m not against it nor critical of it, just curious as to it’s popularity over ‘there’. Thanks Chris ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2000, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/european-posters/25987/2 "2000-07-18T16:05:06Z")
I was told that [http://www.straightdope.com](http://www.straightdope.com) was a cool site . I had a look , spent a lot of time reading the archives. Asked a question and was sent here. I don’t think it’s that well known as anything other than a web-site . It might be different on the mainland but I would say that the majority of Europeans either just came across it surfing or were told about it by someone who came acr… well I’m sure you can work out the rest. ---
**Author:** ![RussellM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed8c4c/32.png) [@RussellM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RussellM)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2000, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/european-posters/25987/3 "2000-07-18T16:05:37Z")
Welcome to the USAww, now available in the rest of the w Russell ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2000, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/european-posters/25987/4 "2000-07-18T16:13:58Z")
Off to MPSIMS. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2000, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/european-posters/25987/5 "2000-07-18T16:20:12Z")
We’ve got the internet in Europe too now. But I gotta log off, I have to feed my hamster that’s running the threadmill to keep the computers power flowing 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2000, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/european-posters/25987/6 "2000-07-18T17:14:50Z")
Yeah, I’ve just to go boil the kettle too. Damn steam-powered PC. The _Chicago Reader_ isn’t, as far as I know, available in the UK, and nobody I’ve ever met has heard of Cecil Adams. All of the major papers here (the UK) run their own Q&A columns, with the most notable being _The Guardian_ and its _Notes & Queries_ section (website [http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/notesandqueries/index.html](http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/notesandqueries/index.html)). I can’t remember for the life of me how I found this place. ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2000, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/european-posters/25987/7 "2000-07-18T17:16:47Z")
There is a site called [http://bored.com/ie.html](http://bored.com/ie.html) Which a friend recommended and I just looked around. I think it was printed on a mouse-mat with a load of other sites. ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2000, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/european-posters/25987/8 "2000-07-18T17:18:15Z")
BUT that really should be [http://www.bored.com/ie.html](http://www.bored.com/ie.html) ---
**Author:** ![Soda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@Soda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soda)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2000, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/european-posters/25987/9 "2000-07-18T17:22:51Z")
Yep, same thing here. I was bored and someone suggested [http://www.bored.com](http://www.bored.com) and there was Cecil and my life was complete. Then I found the SDMB and I haven’t been bored since.