# Historic Figures Who'd Make Good Dopers

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**Created:** [June 25, 2004, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/historic-figures-whod-make-good-dopers/252172 "2004-06-25T13:41:02Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 28, 2004, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/historic-figures-whod-make-good-dopers/252172/61 "2004-06-28T02:44:40Z")

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Somehow I doubt we’d settle that, **Mighty\_Girl**. Erik wouldn’t be able to produce any cites, only anecdotal evidence. And Columbus would be impossible to argue with because he’d insist that he was _really_ on the Ars Technica forums, not the Straight Dope.

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