# How did you end up here? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 8, 2003, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-end-up-here/217756 "2003-12-08T20:19:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![SanguineSpider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SanguineSpider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanguineSpider)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-end-up-here/217756/21 "2003-12-09T05:19:46Z")
I was doing a search and it came up somehow. I can’t remember what I searching for but someone’s spider thread popped up and I’ve been a fan ever since. ---
**Author:** ![jesleigh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/58f4c7/32.png) [@jesleigh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jesleigh)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-end-up-here/217756/22 "2003-12-09T05:27:38Z")
I’m another sent here from [bored.com](http://bored.com)…ironically, I no longer need that site 😃 ---
**Author:** ![misstee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/958977/32.png) [@misstee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/misstee)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-end-up-here/217756/23 "2003-12-09T05:40:16Z")
My good friend **withaK** , got me hooked on it. ---
**Author:** ![Brad\_Pittiful](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b3f665/32.png) [@Brad\_Pittiful](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brad_Pittiful)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-end-up-here/217756/24 "2003-12-09T05:41:46Z")
i was at another message board and someone posted the biggest vbulleten boards and saw this and checked it out ---
**Author:** ![sulawesi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@sulawesi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sulawesi)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-end-up-here/217756/25 "2003-12-09T05:45:16Z")
I overheard **Mirrored Indigo Shadows** talking about it to someone else and hassled her until she gave me the URL. Incredible that that was over three years ago. ---
**Author:** ![DreadCthulhu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/db5fbb/32.png) [@DreadCthulhu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DreadCthulhu)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-end-up-here/217756/26 "2003-12-09T05:47:16Z")
Well, I was searching out minds of dreamers to terrorize in their sleep, when I encountered a particurly strong mind, that didn’t go insane at my presence. That mind belonged to a Cecil Adams. From there, I figured out where is board is from his mind, and decided to posses a human so as to post on this site. Just to pass the time, of course, until The Stars Are Right. ---
**Author:** ![lel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8797f3/32.png) [@lel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lel)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-end-up-here/217756/27 "2003-12-09T06:16:01Z")
At the time, it was only a link or two off the Left Behind message boards. (I came a year or two after the whole “board war” thing.) ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-end-up-here/217756/28 "2003-12-09T06:36:11Z")
Loved the books during the 1980s (they’re rare and hard to get hold of via retail outlets here). Come late 2000, I was messing around with this wondrous thing called the Internet, where it seemed that _everything_ cool had a website. I put in a Yahoo search for Dave Barry – and found Cecil’s site quite by accident. Happy day! Got up enough gumption to join the messageboard in Jan '01. ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-end-up-here/217756/29 "2003-12-09T06:54:23Z")
I have short-term memory problems and now, apparently, some long term memory problems. I honestly do no remember how I arrived here. I do remember fleeing from a very unhealthy “spiritual” New Age forum that had some of the most mean-spirited people I have ever known. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-end-up-here/217756/30 "2003-12-09T07:16:56Z")
I’ve known about the column since well before 1980, and I bought all the books when they came out. I got to the message board by going to the then-new website, where there was a link that invited you to “Post a question to our Teeming Millions…or perhaps Cecil himself”! Or something like that… Anyways I think it was back in '98 or '99 when I got here. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-end-up-here/217756/31 "2003-12-09T08:08:36Z")
I have no idea. My life did not begin until I arrived here. All that was before is gone. ---
**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-end-up-here/217756/32 "2003-12-09T08:10:31Z")
Co-worker sent a link to one of Cecil’s articles he had, evidently, found hilarious. D’oh! I can’t for the life of me remember which one! (senility is creeeeping in! And I’ve only just turned 40!) Spent about a month reading the articles old and new; then I noticed the boards. Spent another month or three lurking; then I actually decided to answer a post. It’s all been downhill from there… ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-end-up-here/217756/33 "2003-12-09T08:17:28Z")
An online friend lurks here and she and I were talking one night when I mentioned I was bored, so she linked me. That was a year and 2000+ posts ago. ---
**Author:** ![BIH\_Boy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/49beb7/32.png) [@BIH\_Boy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BIH_Boy)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-end-up-here/217756/34 "2003-12-09T11:25:37Z")
Exactly the same as the OP. What are the chances of that? (Probably quite high) ---
**Author:** ![PalJuicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a8b319/32.png) [@PalJuicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PalJuicy)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-end-up-here/217756/35 "2003-12-09T11:45:37Z")
I had a question for Cecil about soap then I just started poking around the site. ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Clanger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@Small\_Clanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Clanger)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-end-up-here/217756/36 "2003-12-09T15:15:58Z")
Googled some bizzare question that took me to a Cecil answer on the SD page, found the archive and read _everything_. Followed a couple of thread-spottings (one was the ring-in-nose thread, LOL at work, had to hide in the support room to laugh it off) Then I found a thread “are scalar weapons for real?”. I had to join a (ahem) community, that could put so much smarts into being so stupid. Oh, and to fight ignorance, dammit. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-end-up-here/217756/37 "2003-12-09T15:31:12Z")
I was a big fan of the compilation books, and a regular on alt.fan.cecil.adams on usenet. When the board moved from AOL (which I never had nor desired a membership in) to here, I jumped in. ---
**Author:** ![Thinks2Much](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@Thinks2Much](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thinks2Much)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-end-up-here/217756/38 "2003-12-09T15:40:43Z")
I have been reading Cecil since 1991, but did not find the website until maybe 2000. I did not look at the message boards or threadspotting for a few years, though, just stuck to the articles. ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-end-up-here/217756/39 "2003-12-09T17:29:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jesleigh \* > \*\*I’m another sent here from [bored.com](http://bored.com)…ironically, I no longer need that site 😃 \*\* Bingo! ---
**Author:** ![Horseflesh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horseflesh/32/7502_2.png) [@Horseflesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horseflesh)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2003, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-end-up-here/217756/40 "2003-12-10T08:26:10Z")
I fell through a hole in time and woke up in Cecil’s bathtub. The rest, as they say, is history. 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-end-up-here/217756.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-end-up-here/217756.md?page=3)