# How did you find the Straight Dope site? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 27, 2003, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-find-the-straight-dope-site/151162 "2003-01-27T04:02:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Pelleas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e8c25b/32.png) [@Pelleas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pelleas)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2003, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-find-the-straight-dope-site/151162/41 "2003-01-27T22:39:35Z")
My son introduced me to Straight Dope about a year and a half ago and I have been lurking ever since. When he was home this past Christmas I asked him if he had registered and he said he had so I decided to as well. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Magic8ball](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Miss\_Magic8ball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Magic8ball)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2003, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-find-the-straight-dope-site/151162/42 "2003-01-27T22:57:13Z")
My antie GingeroftheNorth has bene on it for a while. And, since I adore her and want to grow up and be just like her, I decided to join the site. ---
**Author:** ![andygirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@andygirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andygirl)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2003, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-find-the-straight-dope-site/151162/43 "2003-01-28T04:04:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Indygrrl \* > \*\*I looked up Andygirl, which is my usual name on other messageboards, and saw that there’s someone on here with the same name. Interestingly enough, I don’t think I’ve ever seen her post anything except for the first day or so I was on here. \*\* Hey, I’m working on 3000 over here. Hmph. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![puckstopper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@puckstopper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puckstopper)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2003, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-find-the-straight-dope-site/151162/44 "2003-01-28T08:55:31Z")
I started reading Cecil in The New Times here in Phx way back in the late 70’s - I think. It was a long, long time ago - before there was much of a world-wide-web. (Unca Cec called us the Teeming Thousands back then. Har har.) From there it was the books, then there was a TV show (THAT didn’t last long!). I figured that he’d turn up on the web sooner or later - otherwise this would be a pretty worthless technology, eh? I’ve been cruising the website for a few years - I just now got around to registering… And people think I’m lazy - ha! ---
**Author:** ![Tblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/278dde/32.png) [@Tblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tblue)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2003, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-find-the-straight-dope-site/151162/45 "2003-01-28T09:20:28Z")
From a link to the ubiquitous “LotR: what if other authors…” thread, that was posted on [Swordforum.com](http://Swordforum.com) - I followed and signed up - I’m a sucker for playing with words. And I’ve really enjoyed reading other posts since. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2003, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-find-the-straight-dope-site/151162/46 "2003-01-28T10:26:25Z")
I found it very enlightening thankyouverymuch. Oh, how did I _find_ it? I wanted to find out the rate of the expansion of the universe, and seeing as I am mathematically/scientifically retarded, this was the only place that I could pose a question that I could understand the answer to. Now that is not to say that the answer was necessarily correct, but, hey, who am I to argue!! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2003, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-find-the-straight-dope-site/151162/47 "2003-01-28T12:40:21Z")
I used to lurk at snopes and it was mentioned over there. ---
**Author:** ![ElwoodCuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/edb3f5/32.png) [@ElwoodCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElwoodCuse)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2003, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-find-the-straight-dope-site/151162/48 "2003-01-30T05:18:43Z")
My dad gave me one of Jan Van Brunveld (SP?)'s books on urban legends, and they had many links to Cecil’s columns on this website. I came here and read through the archives, and then jumped onto the boards. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Raven\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@The\_Raven\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Raven_1)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2003, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-find-the-straight-dope-site/151162/49 "2003-01-30T06:36:54Z")
Howyadoin, I collect facts, pseudo-facts and urban legends in my never-ending quest to be the most insufferable pompous know-it-all I can be 🙂 I was doing a google search on the lyrics to _Louie Louie_ and ran across [straightdope.com](http://straightdope.com)’s archive. That was when it all changed… -Rav ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2003, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-find-the-straight-dope-site/151162/50 "2003-01-30T06:47:22Z")
Turned left at Greenland… 😉 Had been reading the Straight Dope books and wanted to see if there was an online version of it. ---
**Author:** ![Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angel_of_the_lord/32/2949_2.png) [@Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angel_of_the_Lord)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2003, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-find-the-straight-dope-site/151162/51 "2003-01-30T06:57:24Z")
When I was about 10, I started reading all the trivia books in the library, and that happened to include Cecil’s first three tomes. I got hooked to them, and when I first found [Amazon.com](http://Amazon.com), I heard about and ordered the fourth book. I think when I read the forth book, there was something in it about the AOL SD place. I found that, posted there a few times, and was very sad when it went away. Around that time, I found the [straightdope.com](http://straightdope.com) site. I started reading the columns, and lurking on the messageboards. When I was 17, I got the courage to make my first post (in GQ, no less! I was brave!). . .which was completely awkward, and got me insulted by **Scylla**. I didn’t post for about five months, then I tenatively stuck my toe back in the water, and I’ve been addicted ever since. ---
**Author:** ![Yumblie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/76d3ee/32.png) [@Yumblie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yumblie)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2003, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-find-the-straight-dope-site/151162/52 "2003-01-30T07:24:40Z")
Someone linked it from another message forum and I started lurking in the Great Debates forum around September 2001. I slowly expanded my lurking to General Questions, but didn’t go beyond there. I registered in February 2002, I think, but didn’t actually post until June, in which I posted a question in General Questions. Then I didn’t post for a while, and recently decided to check out the other forums. So I’ve started posting a bit more. And thus ends my life story. ---
**Author:** ![antechinus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/fbc32d/32.png) [@antechinus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/antechinus)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2003, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-find-the-straight-dope-site/151162/53 "2003-01-30T07:35:25Z")
Link from [http://www.skeptics.com.au/](http://www.skeptics.com.au/) (I think) Then bought the books and read the archives for 6 months. Found the SDMB link, subscribed and lurked for 1 year. ---
**Author:** ![ReBusEniGma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@ReBusEniGma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ReBusEniGma)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2003, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-find-the-straight-dope-site/151162/54 "2003-01-30T07:47:42Z")
I was googling for the answer to a question I had and came accross SD… was totally my thing. I lurked for several months before joining. Although a newbie myself, I found myself going through ‘dope withdrawl’ with the recent outage… ha! Welcome! ---
**Author:** ![Dunmurry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d2c977/32.png) [@Dunmurry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunmurry)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2003, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-find-the-straight-dope-site/151162/55 "2003-01-30T10:26:07Z")
I was looking for the meaning of “Antidisestablishmentarianism” and searched for it. Cecil had answered it in a classic column, so then I went to the homepage and from there to the Message Board. ---
**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tristan/32/18058_2.png) [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2003, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-find-the-straight-dope-site/151162/56 "2003-01-30T11:02:33Z")
I was helping a friend research on Cams and Camgears for his car, and he stumbled across a thread on cars here. He looked at the rest of the titles, and e-mailed me the URL. Been here ever since. I’ve gone under (gone to lurking) once now, but I don’t think it’ll happen again. To many good people here. ---
**Author:** ![sperfur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9adbd/32.png) [@sperfur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sperfur)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2003, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-find-the-straight-dope-site/151162/57 "2003-01-30T20:53:03Z")
I’m with NoClueBoy - the duck quack e-mail. I could buy that a duck’s quack doesn’t echo. I just couldn’t believe that no one knew why. Surely, somebody knows why! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![AZCowboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/97f17d/32.png) [@AZCowboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AZCowboy)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2003, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-find-the-straight-dope-site/151162/58 "2003-01-30T22:10:40Z")
[Fark.com](http://Fark.com), on the thread about “Who wrote the Bible?” ---
**Author:** ![Azael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a8b319/32.png) [@Azael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Azael)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2003, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-find-the-straight-dope-site/151162/59 "2003-01-30T23:25:22Z")
I got bored while I was looking around on Snopes and decided to try the “Similar Pages” feature on the Google toolbar. The Straight Dope popped up and I was hooked. ---
**Author:** ![raz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@raz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raz)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-find-the-straight-dope-site/151162/60 "2003-01-31T00:41:14Z")
I also found this site via [Bored.com](http://Bored.com). I asked a friend to reccomend me a good website (because I was bored) and he told me to go to [www.bored.com](http://www.bored.com). I hung around the message boards for a few months before finally deciding to register. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-find-the-straight-dope-site/151162.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-find-the-straight-dope-site/151162.md?page=4)