# How did you find Straight Dope? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 16, 2001, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-find-straight-dope/76610 "2001-08-16T19:14:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![galen\_ubal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galen_ubal/32/4440_2.png) [@galen\_ubal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galen_ubal)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-find-straight-dope/76610/21 "2001-08-17T00:27:21Z")
I was looking for the reason for a chef’s hat shape, and Yahoo search led me here. Read the archives for a while, then I found _Evil Nazi Grounhogs_- I was hooked. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m probably getting flamed over at “Lefties!,” so I really should be there. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-find-straight-dope/76610/22 "2001-08-17T00:32:47Z")
My friend told me about how The Straight Dope had lryics to songs, and other cool informational tidbits. So I finally came here about a year after he first told me about it. I found the message boards, and registered for them that day. oddly enough, though, my friend doesn’t peruse the boards. ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-find-straight-dope/76610/23 "2001-08-17T00:33:40Z")
I, er, got here by way snopes, which I got to by way of the Left Behind Message Boards. And that’s all I have to say about that. ---
**Author:** ![GilaB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8e7dd6/32.png) [@GilaB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GilaB)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-find-straight-dope/76610/24 "2001-08-17T02:08:42Z")
I also found it through [bored.com](http://bored.com), although I took no notice of the fact that there was a message board for the first few months, figuring that all message boards were full of stupid people flirting and not much else. Then I saw Scylla’s threadspotting (I think on instructions for his daughter during diaper changing), read a bunch of other threadspottings, lurked for a couple of months, and finally caved and registered. Snopes has links to here? ---
**Author:** ![Dave\_Stewart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@Dave\_Stewart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dave_Stewart)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-find-straight-dope/76610/25 "2001-08-17T02:15:42Z")
My boss’ son posts here. But he wouldn’t tell me what his posting name is, so I still don’t know, do I Theo Britton? I checked it out about a year ago when Theo first told me about it, but I didn’t get hooked until recently when I used a search engine to find some info on the female pope, and found Cecil’s piece on the subject. ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-find-straight-dope/76610/26 "2001-08-17T02:31:41Z")
I used to read it in the early 90’s in the Montreal _Mirror_ until they dropped it. Then when we got the internet hooked up at home a few years later, I started to read _The Skeptic’s Dictionnary_. Noticed all the links to Cecil’s columns. I started to read them again, then I started on some _Threadspotting_. Finally I joined. The rest is up in the air. ---
**Author:** ![Ruffian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71e660/32.png) [@Ruffian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruffian)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-find-straight-dope/76610/27 "2001-08-17T06:16:11Z")
In 1997, my now-husband, then-boyfriend (DeathLlama) sent me a link to one of Cecil’s columns that struck him as amusing. We both ended up reading virtually the entire archive before I joined the original AOL board with a shamelessly archive-searchable question: “Why are Grape Nuts called that when they are neither grapes nor nuts?” While my boyfriend enjoyed reading the columns, he didn’t hop onto the SDMB bandwagon until a couple of years later. ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-find-straight-dope/76610/28 "2001-08-17T06:32:43Z")
I had been reading his newspaper … article report thingy … for about 6 years and I knew he had a webpage and stuff but never bothered to go to it. I knew I would spend hours there, and yup, that’s what happened. Anyway I found out that there were two Dennis the Menaces created on pretty much the same day, one in the US, the other in UK and I wanted to ask Cecil so I went and found it and instead asked the TM. The rest, as they say, will bore you. ---
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-find-straight-dope/76610/29 "2001-08-17T08:28:03Z")
Ditto to **detop**. Ahh, intelligence in a free weekly paper [zellers ad voice] how do they do it? ---
**Author:** ![daffodil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@daffodil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/daffodil)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-find-straight-dope/76610/30 "2001-08-17T10:03:57Z")
I found “The people of Straight Dope” first. Google was searching for photos of ordinary people [Sorry guys] which I needed for an essay. Then I got curious where all those people went to. So, here I am. ---
**Author:** ![Lodrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@Lodrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lodrain)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-find-straight-dope/76610/31 "2001-08-17T10:45:02Z")
I didn’t quite _find_ this board… I was hit in the head in a dark alley with a large cinder block, tied up, and dumped in a cell in the heart of the Great Caverns of Cecil Adams. They fed me left-overs, and once in a while, they brought me out to be hunted by the moderators for sport. ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-find-straight-dope/76610/32 "2001-08-17T14:50:58Z")
When this board used to be on AOL, I used to always read it along with the urban legend (Leggs Urbana?) page on America Online. E3 ---
**Author:** ![Netbrian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71e660/32.png) [@Netbrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Netbrian)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-find-straight-dope/76610/33 "2001-08-17T16:44:11Z")
I also got here by way of [http://www.bored.com](http://www.bored.com) , and after reading the columns on and off for quite awhile, I accidentily clicked Threadspotting… And I was glued to the monitor, watching a half-kidding question get answered with a great degree of accuracy and scientificness. And the rest is just me lurking a long time before posting. ---
**Author:** ![Palve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a698b9/32.png) [@Palve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palve)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-find-straight-dope/76610/34 "2001-08-17T17:03:48Z")
How did I find this place? You told me, fool! Death to the green squirrels! My armies will conquer the world! (Invading a continent near you) 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Demise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/34f0e0/32.png) [@Demise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demise)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-find-straight-dope/76610/35 "2001-08-17T17:06:24Z")
I read the column in _The Austin Chronicle_, but I never went to web site until I followed a link from [http://www.cruel.com](http://www.cruel.com) a couple years ago. Then I didn’t bother with the MB until about a year after… ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-find-straight-dope/76610/36 "2001-08-17T17:27:09Z")
Read the columns. Bought the books. Typed it into a browser window. Actually, now that I think about it, I first checked it out on AOL, briefly. Strangely enough, I almost never read Cecil himself anymore. stoid ---
**Author:** ![Kwyjibo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/59ef9b/32.png) [@Kwyjibo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kwyjibo)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-find-straight-dope/76610/37 "2001-08-17T17:31:42Z")
I first heard about The Straight Dope back in my University days when I picked up Cecil’s first book. \ A co-worker showed me the SD site and was hooked when I realised that it was actually related to that book. ---
**Author:** ![IMWOMANHERE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/57b2e6/32.png) [@IMWOMANHERE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IMWOMANHERE)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2001, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-find-straight-dope/76610/38 "2001-08-18T04:35:29Z")
My brother has been talking about it since the mid-80’s. I just started reading recently. I can’t believe some of the postings! So funny, sad, informative. But, it is a piss poor day you don’t learn something. ---
**Author:** ![Cyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e4f/32.png) [@Cyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyn)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2001, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-find-straight-dope/76610/39 "2001-08-18T04:47:41Z")
The first time I visited \*\* Drachillix \*\*at his house, he brought up the site to show me all the neat sig lines…and to get me into his bedroom, I suspect. Thanks, Straight Dope! ---
**Author:** ![Cyberhwk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7993a0/32.png) [@Cyberhwk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyberhwk)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2001, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-find-straight-dope/76610/40 "2001-08-18T05:34:33Z")
I first started back on the AOL site. I was bored as hell one night using the “Random” feature that will throw you to a random page and guess what came up? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-find-straight-dope/76610.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-find-straight-dope/76610.md?page=3)