# 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:** 14\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Astra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f14d63/32.png) [@Astra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astra)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2003, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-end-up-here/217756/41 "2003-12-10T08:28:18Z")
People over at Snopes were always talking about it, so I looked in. I registered a couple years ago, but my account died due to inactivity, so I’m back again. ---
**Author:** ![Sweet\_Sota\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@Sweet\_Sota\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sweet_Sota_Girl)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2003, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-end-up-here/217756/42 "2003-12-10T08:33:14Z")
My ex-boyfriend showed it to me. ---
**Author:** ![scott\_evil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@scott\_evil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scott_evil)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2003, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-end-up-here/217756/43 "2003-12-11T10:51:56Z")
My agent booked me. ---
**Author:** ![auliya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/90db22/32.png) [@auliya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auliya)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2003, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-end-up-here/217756/44 "2003-12-11T11:25:53Z")
I was moaning about lack of interesting things to read on the net , and trying to find out what newsgroups and bulletin boards were - when a friend sent me here - and here I have stayed, happily for the most part. Except when my poor innocent oldest son wandered blindly into the pit one day and was hounded from the board - I didn’t feel happy then, but I stayed, and he recovered. ---
**Author:** ![notquitekarpov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@notquitekarpov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notquitekarpov)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2003, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-end-up-here/217756/45 "2003-12-11T14:08:14Z")
Great thread idea BTW! 'Cos I remember very well - via a simple Google search. A work colleague had a problems with squirrels in the room of his house and we were having a wild discussion how to get rid of them. In the UK they are protected! Protecting tree rats circa “rats in drag” - crazy eh? So I google on Squirrel Pest Control and up pops a SD thread entitled **“How to kill evil Nazi Groundhogs”**. Now I have not tried to link a thread to another but a search has found my original entry to the wonderful world of SD and here it is. I lurked - copy the link to my mates and we thought this one of the funniest things we had ever read on the web… ([http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=15906&highlight=Evil+AND+Nazi+AND+Groundhog](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=15906&highlight=Evil+AND+Nazi+AND+Groundhog)) A memorable day! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![bigdfrombigd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/df705f/32.png) [@bigdfrombigd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bigdfrombigd)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2003, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-end-up-here/217756/46 "2003-12-12T21:37:55Z")
I read this hysterical rant about potato wedges and I linked on from that story. I have been addicted ever since. I look up said rant occasionally and burst my hole laughing every time. I never get tired of it.😃 ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2003, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-end-up-here/217756/47 "2003-12-12T22:03:14Z")
Mr. 'addi sent me an e-mail. All it said was the word “amusing” along with a link to [If LotR Had Been Written By Someone Else!?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=138905) ---
**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2003, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-end-up-here/217756/48 "2003-12-12T22:57:06Z")
I was a reader of the column in a Salt Lake indie paper caller the SLUG. One day i took a chance on the net and searched to see if there were online columns. And once, I saw a blimp. ---
**Author:** ![ultradawn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d9b06d/32.png) [@ultradawn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultradawn)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2003, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-end-up-here/217756/49 "2003-12-15T01:31:27Z")
word of mouth led me to this site ---
**Author:** ![BellaDellaItalia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/fbc32d/32.png) [@BellaDellaItalia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BellaDellaItalia)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2003, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-end-up-here/217756/50 "2003-12-15T01:35:02Z")
[www.bored.com](http://www.bored.com) ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2003, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-end-up-here/217756/51 "2003-12-15T01:42:58Z")
The stupid duck’s echo e-mail. I called “BS” and had to find a way to back up my point. A search (including asking on another, lesser board) led me to the Master’s voice. While reading it, I saw the link to the board, so I had to check it out. A reply in a GD thread required my presence, so I signed up right away. Then, one day, I happened upon the Trek Dopers and was led to a life of debauchery. ---
**Author:** ![Kiros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/439d5e/32.png) [@Kiros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiros)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2003, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-end-up-here/217756/52 "2003-12-15T01:51:33Z")
Someone on another board I frequent (who, I imagine, is a member here as well) posted a link to **Scylla’s** blimp in the night story. I enjoyed it so much I looked around a bit 🙂 Lurked for a while (a good six months), honestly the only reason I finally registered when I did was to do a search. -K. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2003, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-end-up-here/217756/53 "2003-12-15T02:40:25Z")
Long, long ago, in a forgotten time known to senile madmen as “the 80s” my parents gave me _The Straight Dope_ and _Return of the Straight Dope_ for my birthday. I devoured and esentially memorized them from cover to cover. Fast-forward to the late 90’s. I’m surfing the 'net and something, somewhere reminds of The Straight Dope, so I type [straightdope.com](http://straightdope.com) into the address bar just to see what happens, and here I am. ---
**Author:** ![E.Thorp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@E.Thorp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E.Thorp)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2003, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-end-up-here/217756/54 "2003-12-15T07:57:17Z")
**Aguecheek** told me about it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-end-up-here/217756.md?page=2)