As paperbacks in the early 80’s
Damn those books gave me comfort in the fact that I as a high school dropout still had folks few and far between that I could relate to. This was way before this website was a tool for the masses. friends could sit and contemplate the very nature of reality and share books written by fritjof capra,etc. The floor was open.
What the hell has happened to the very core and essence of the staight dope?
The SDMB has become a clusterfuck of gammar nazis, self absorbing intellectual tampons and opinionated pricks out of control.
By the way, Why do men have nipples?
Stick to GQ, CoCC, CoSR, and maybe CS. Those forums putatively are devoted to objective answers. Of course you’re going to get raw opinion on the other forums. What did you expect? That’s what they say they’re about.
Incidentally, Fritjov Capra’s books are very dubious.
I’m not so much an intellectual tampon as a bag of mental brilliance that can’t help spraying my opinions deep into others. More of an intellectual douche, if you will. Anyway, you know what they say - light a candle or curse the darkness.
By the way, it’s always good to have some more Allman Brothers fans around here.
Speaking of the Straight Dope books, I’ve always wondered… whatever became of “Joyce K, Seattle”?
In the 90’s when it had the only cartoon in the only free paper in Berkeley. When the paper dropped the column I found it online.
I found the column online and I’ve read most of what is in the archives here, but I’ve never seen one of the books.
The real question with male nipples isn’t why we have them - its why wouldn’t we have them? They’re useful on women and essentially useless but not harmful on men, so there’s no reason for them to be selected against in guys.
I saw the books first.
Wore my 1st ed of book 1 clean out.
I don’t believe the message board has deteriorated much, if at all, and I’ve been on the board since AOL days.
Anyway, I first read the Straight Dope in the paperbacks, which I got from the local library in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s. I fell in love with the books and was thrilled to learn that a community of people existed that actually cared about what was true.
I first read The Straight Dope when I was in the hospital recovering from major spinal surgery. My brother in law bought me a SD book and I was hooked from moment one. I laughed so much that I had to keep putting it down because it was painful. The Dope got me through a really hard time in my life (and opened up a whole world of friends to me later on the interwebs)