What was the first question on the SDMB GQ? What was Cecil’s first column about? I tried to look it up in the archieves but could not find it.
[ul]It probably was:
"Does anyone have a question?"
As to Cecil to might have had to do with words ending in “gry”. :D[/ul]
At the Straight Dope Home Page, you can click on the FAQ and get to Cecil’s First Column.
Cool; that’s exactly 30 years ago this week. Happy professional birthday, Cecil!
The earliest extant GQ thread I can locate is [url=http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=715]Multiple Moons…
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. This assumes that threadid numbers are true representations of the order threads were posted.
Limitations:[ul][li]The SDMB, I am led to believe, existed on AOL long before the version we use now.[]I searched backward starting at about threadid 1000 until I found this one. Then I looked at every threadid back to 600 and found no other GQ threads. I did not search all 714 threadids before this one, so I may have missed something.[]There are literally scores if not hundreds of invalid threadids (which I assume are threads which have been pruned), so it is very possible that there are earlier threads from GQ which simply have not come down to us today.[/ul][/li]
Hope this helps.
Aw, crap.
Here’s the link, anyway: Multiple Moons…
Oh, and for the curious, the 714 threadids before the one I linked to all appear to be ATMB and what we now call CCC.
Interesting. I think Cecil should still give out LPs for the best question of the week. I can’t imagine that would increase the workload for biblio, DrMatrix and manhattan…
Hell, Munch, if Cecil so much as acknowledged the best question of the week, I’d be happy.
I think I’d be happier if he ridiculed the worst question of the week.
Cecil was giving away Beach Boys LP’s?
Is that a reward or a punishment?