Yeah, sure, you get on your computer and poof, voila, you just decide to type in www.straightdope.com, and you think, oh that’s cool, I think I’ll try it. Yeah right. What’s your story? How did you find SDMB and start your doping experience?
Oh yeah, for me I think I was searching for something on Google and some post came up in my search…
I don’t know what happened to my first attempt at a response so I’ll try again. Hope it doesn’t wind up being a double post.
Anyhow, my son turned me on to the SDMB a couple of years ago and I lurked untill this past December. When he was home for Christmas he told me he was registered so I decided to register as well.
Even though I am a new poster myself I suppose it is acceptable for me to welcome you to the boards Canadagirl.
Fark.
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My wife and i watched the TV show, and I got the bright idea to loo for it on the web. It was probably a year or two though before I clicked on the “message board” link, and another year or so till I registered.
Someone on IRC mentioned the straightdope articles, and I was curious about the message board, so I checked it out. 
A friend pointed me to www.bored.com which has a link to The Straight Dope.
Velma let me in on the fun here at SDMB.
From the George Carlin BBS… someone left a link to (scalia?)s thread about balloons then I read (Fnoonf?)s thread about the car he keyed. THAT was funny! I can’t believe the shit some people gave him. I wish people wrote like that all the time.
Anyway, I thought I’d hang around for a while. Welcome ME. I have no idea when one receives official doper status. Doper, where I come from, means pothead.
A friend of mine bought me the books. I chased the links through the Chicago Reader until I found this place. Then when I realized it was one of the fonts from whence all knowledg flowed, I hopped on the bad foot and did the good thinkg, aka joining it.
From a referral on another board.
I can’t remember really, but I do think it was from the link at bored.
I followed a link from the snopes MB… and I just kinda settled in. I do a lot more lurking than I do posting, but this board has provided many a giggle in times of work related boredom.
Penny arcade mentioned it in one of thier articles, about the astronomer Tycho Brahe (one of the character’s namesake). I found the article interesting and kept reading more and more…then I found the message boards. My geekness factor has since rose exponentially.
Hmm. A triple simultaneous post!
“Yeah right” actually is right in my case. I read all of Cecils books and tried the URL on a whim.
Yep, I read the books, watched the show, and then… I searched the web. Four years later, I’m still here.
I just moved the baked potato over to one said and there it was!
Ok, no, seriously. I saw the TV show, then a few days later found a link on a friend’s website and the rest is history. Or, I dunno, maybe it’s geography.
I finally listened to those damn voices in my head.
Uhm, it was the blimp story, passed along by a friend (before it hit the mainstream, even).
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One SIDE.
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