# How did you find the SDMB? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 26, 2002, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-find-the-sdmb/110865 "2002-05-26T02:16:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Dunmurry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d2c977/32.png) [@Dunmurry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunmurry)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2002, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-find-the-sdmb/110865/42 "2002-05-27T11:42:58Z")
I was looking for the meaning of “antidisestablishmentarianism” one day, and the search engine produced one of the Straight Dope questions (What does antidisestablishmentarianism mean?), answered by SDSTAFF Dogster and Ian. I then started looking through the site and looked at the messageboard. ---
**Author:** ![Cougarfang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c67d28/32.png) [@Cougarfang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cougarfang)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2002, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-find-the-sdmb/110865/43 "2002-05-27T11:56:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by pepperlandgirl \* > \*\*Found it through [bored.com](http://bored.com). Spent months reading the archives. When I finished there I figured I’d find out what the MB was like. > > I’ve been hooked ever since. \*\* Me too. [sub]I didn’t even know there was a messageboard here until a couple of hours before I signed up. I was browsing through the Threadspotting archive, having exhausted the rest of the Archives, and Fenris’s [Used Soul Appraisals](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=72040&pagenumber=1) interested me so much I signed up on the spot. And now that I’ve wasted- ah, used up about half my waking time every day on this site since then, I don’t know whether to thank him or to curse him… 😉 :D[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2002, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-find-the-sdmb/110865/44 "2002-05-28T12:55:14Z")
I was a faithful reader of the SD column in my local paper (though it’s now been discontinued there), so when I moved to England for a year, I went online to catch up on the articles I was missing. Eventually I joined the SDMB, so if you look at my earliest posts, most of them have to do with England. ---
**Author:** ![Canby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7c8e57/32.png) [@Canby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canby)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2002, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-find-the-sdmb/110865/45 "2002-05-28T18:45:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lissla Lissar \* > \*\ ***Guinastasia** brought me. Blame her. The Huntress of the Online Fora found me at a costuming message board, started emailing me, and casually said things like, (slight exaggeration) “Lissar, get you butt over to the Straight Dope or I’ll kill you.” > So here I am. \*\* I followed one of **Guinastasia’s** links from customerssuck. And stuck around. Today I even started a thread. Whee! ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2002, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-find-the-sdmb/110865/46 "2002-05-28T23:57:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Wearia \* > \*\*[http://www.bored.com](http://www.bored.com) > The Straight Dope - Find out true answers to many of life’s most interesting questions. > I couldn’t resist that description. > Wearia \*\* I couldn’t remember when/where I found SDMB until I read that. I found the SDMB link on [www.bored.com](http://www.bored.com). I found [www.bored.com](http://www.bored.com) by typing ‘bored’ into altavista. No prizes for guessing why I typed ‘bored’ into altavista. ---
**Author:** ![Melandry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Melandry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melandry)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2002, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-find-the-sdmb/110865/47 "2002-05-29T00:04:31Z")
I followed a link of **Tengu’s** on the snopes board to a thread in the BBQ Pit, became a Pit lurker, spent months controlling myself (“You can’t register, you’ll never get any work done! Plus, they’ll flame you into a weeping puddle on the floor!”) but eventually I caved and registered. I think I’m doing quite well, with only 45 posts in one month… ---
**Author:** ![Violet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ebca7d/32.png) [@Violet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Violet)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2002, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-find-the-sdmb/110865/48 "2002-05-29T00:08:22Z")
I was referred! ---
**Author:** ![imthjckaz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/imthjckaz/32/3223_2.png) [@imthjckaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/imthjckaz)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2002, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-find-the-sdmb/110865/49 "2002-05-29T00:57:40Z")
**Spider Woman** sucked me in. And I wanted to find out what was more important than sex. [sub]priorities have since been rectified[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![JimOfAllTrades](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@JimOfAllTrades](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimOfAllTrades)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2002, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-find-the-sdmb/110865/50 "2002-05-29T01:36:03Z")
I found the original Straight Dope book in a bookstore while I was out of town on business in about 1992. Read it that night and bought the second one as soon as I could find it, then bought the rest as they became available. I was cruising around AOL in early ’97 or thereabouts, and there was a link to the Straight Dope site (which was on AOL exclusively at that time). I think it had started only very recently, because Ed was the only moderator. A month or so later, Jane became the first board Goddess, followed fairly shortly by Tuba, then Jill, Euty, and Lynn (I confess I don’t remember the exact order after Tuba). When Unca Cece et al. left AOL and went to web, I came along. I don’t post a bunch, but I’m a longtime loyal doper. Ugly ---
**Author:** ![ElwoodCuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/edb3f5/32.png) [@ElwoodCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElwoodCuse)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2002, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-find-the-sdmb/110865/51 "2002-05-29T16:12:03Z")
I was reading one of Jan Brunveld’s (sp?) books about urban legends, and he talked about the SD quite a bit. I went here and read almost everything in the archives, then discovered the message boards. My first post was the Babel Fish story from HHGTTG in a thread about the existence of God. ---
**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2002, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-find-the-sdmb/110865/52 "2002-05-29T17:43:16Z")
At work, Googling 3 little pigs for an image of the wolf attempting to blow down the brick house and came accross a personal webpage of a doper who had a link to the message board. I don’t know who she was but if memory serves me, her site also included 1. A joke about guinea pigs mowing down the big bad wolf, 2. A picture of a 3 screen movie theater marquee that read “Erin Brockovich” “Screwed” “My Dog Skip” and 3. A Main St type intersection that read Banger and Leaver. ---
**Author:** ![OxyMoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e9a140/32.png) [@OxyMoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OxyMoron)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2002, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-find-the-sdmb/110865/53 "2002-05-30T02:51:03Z")
My freshman year roommate introduced me to the Dope back in 1986. I read in one of the Twin Cities freebies, then in the New York Press when I started law school. I actually joined, but almost never posted, to the AOL site - IIRC they included it in their New Features area or some such thing. I started reading it on the Web pretty quickly, but didn’t re-join the SDMB until a fair time later - and then lurked for at least a year. ---
**Author:** ![Omnivore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e47774/32.png) [@Omnivore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omnivore)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2002, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-find-the-sdmb/110865/54 "2002-05-30T03:56:09Z")
I started reading the Straight Dope and eventually stumbled upon the Message Board and, after some months, chose to sign up. ---
**Author:** ![pbrtallboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f475e1/32.png) [@pbrtallboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pbrtallboy)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2002, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-find-the-sdmb/110865/55 "2002-05-30T05:37:49Z")
**skerri** sent me the link after I inquired what was keeping distracting her from my instant messages one day last year. I finally decided to join after she responded (time after time) “posting on the MB” to my “what are you up to?” queries. ---
**Author:** ![Osbie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/cdc98d/32.png) [@Osbie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Osbie)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2002, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-find-the-sdmb/110865/56 "2002-05-30T05:47:34Z")
Another convert of **Guinastasia** here. We met at another board and she suggested this one had waaaaaaaaay more sex appeal. I was also amused by the “Fighting Ignorance Since 1973. (It’s taking longer than we thought.)” slogan. She failed to mention that it had all the trapping power of a massive black hole, however. Must. Leave. Apartment. Growing. Pale. And. Flabby. No. Social. Life. ---
**Author:** ![SoMoMom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@SoMoMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SoMoMom)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2002, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-find-the-sdmb/110865/57 "2002-05-30T06:12:30Z")
I found it while doing a search on articles about Halloween. ---
**Author:** ![Alexxandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/278dde/32.png) [@Alexxandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alexxandra)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2002, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-find-the-sdmb/110865/58 "2002-05-30T14:42:34Z")
I followed Guinastasia over from another message board, [www.customerssuck.com](http://www.customerssuck.com) . I was a fan of her posts over there, and when she recommended this site, I just had to come check it out. And I have been hooked ever since! (Aside to Guin…you and su\_carbs were the BEST over there!) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Great\_Zamboni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@The\_Great\_Zamboni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Great_Zamboni)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2002, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-find-the-sdmb/110865/59 "2002-05-31T01:12:29Z")
I found it on AOL’s keyword list when this had an AOL keyword. Maybe it still does. I don’t care. ---
**Author:** ![Lyra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Lyra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lyra)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2002, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-find-the-sdmb/110865/60 "2002-05-31T01:31:41Z")
I followed a link from the best website ever. > **[Walton & Johnson - The Radio Gawds](https://waltonandjohnson.com/)** > > The Favorite Morning Radio Show from Texas to New Orleans. No other show offers the compelling talking points, guests and music that W & J does! These guys did AM radion in New Orleans, now they are in Houston area. They had this as a link and now I am hopelessly addicted. ---
**Author:** ![Nightsong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nightsong/32/3083_2.png) [@Nightsong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightsong)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2002, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-find-the-sdmb/110865/61 "2002-05-31T01:51:40Z")
I was bored one day, and grumbling about how the local papers didn’t carry the wholesome goodness that is The Straight Dope. So, I decided to take a chance that [www.straightdope.com](http://www.straightdope.com) wasn’t a porn site and tapped it into my browser… and voila. 😃 * * * \<\< “I’m a 4-wheel-drive pickup type of guy. So is my wife.” – Mike Greenwell, Baseball player \>\> [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-find-the-sdmb/110865.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-find-the-sdmb/110865.md?page=4)