# Has a GQ post ever made it to The Straight Dope Column? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [October 24, 2002, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-gq-post-ever-made-it-to-the-straight-dope-column/133630 "2002-10-24T03:14:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Road\_Rash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a8b319/32.png) [@Road\_Rash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Road_Rash)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2002, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-gq-post-ever-made-it-to-the-straight-dope-column/133630/1 "2002-10-24T03:14:53Z")
The question above. Has a MB post been so original or thought provoking for it to actually get published? ---
**Author:** ![Loopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loopus/32/15343_2.png) [@Loopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopus)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2002, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-gq-post-ever-made-it-to-the-straight-dope-column/133630/2 "2002-10-24T03:37:52Z")
I think the question answered in [this column](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/020222.html) was originally posted in GQ, though for the life of me I can’t find the thread now. ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2002, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-gq-post-ever-made-it-to-the-straight-dope-column/133630/3 "2002-10-24T04:16:14Z")
There’ve been several questions that showed up in GQ before they appeared as columns. One I remember was a question about the consistency of the bad side of town. There have been others - I’ll look whenever search starts working again. ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2002, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-gq-post-ever-made-it-to-the-straight-dope-column/133630/4 "2002-10-24T06:49:54Z")
One person started such a thread and has both the thread and column in his/her sig. I don’t know who, and I don’t think you can search for sigs, but keep an eye out- I’ve seen it quite often. ---
**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:** [October 24, 2002, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-gq-post-ever-made-it-to-the-straight-dope-column/133630/5 "2002-10-24T10:03:46Z")
Ed Zotti himself (who I believe is a very, very close confidante of The Perfect Master) posted the GQ referenced by Ringo above here [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=7499&pagenumber=1](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=7499&pagenumber=1) ---
**Author:** ![gazpacho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6f9a4e/32.png) [@gazpacho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gazpacho)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2002, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-gq-post-ever-made-it-to-the-straight-dope-column/133630/6 "2002-10-24T15:16:11Z")
[http://www.straightdope.com/columns/020208.html](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/020208.html) This one was a SDMB question first. It even says so in the column. I remember the thread. ---
**Author:** ![JillGat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc29f/32.png) [@JillGat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JillGat)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2002, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-gq-post-ever-made-it-to-the-straight-dope-column/133630/7 "2002-11-03T09:03:39Z")
[http://www.straightdope.com/columns/991203.html](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/991203.html) by Mentock re. the Chandler wobble is one. There have been at least five. ThinkSnow asked another one. I can’t remember the others. - Jill ---
**Author:** ![thinksnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thinksnow/32/2849_2.png) [@thinksnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thinksnow)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2002, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-gq-post-ever-made-it-to-the-straight-dope-column/133630/8 "2002-11-24T16:23:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* JillGat \*\* > … ThinkSnow asked another one. I can’t remember the others. - Jill What?! I did? Woohoo! I must find this! ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2002, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-gq-post-ever-made-it-to-the-straight-dope-column/133630/9 "2002-11-24T18:58:13Z")
A search of Google for columns including the string [via the Straight Dope Message Board](http://www.google.com/search?q=site:.straightdope.com+%22via+the+straight+dope+message+board%22&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&safe=off&start=10&sa=N) turned up 14 hits. Some of these are follow-ups which probably came from CoCC and not GQ. There may be more that do not include reference to the message board. My Staff Report about the possibility of Vikings having lived in Cambridge, Mass., was in answer to a GQ question, but the report is not marked as such. I think the original GQ thread got lost in one of the upgrades. Since this is a question about this message board, I’ll move this thread to ATMB.