# How did you find The Straight Dope?

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**Created:** [May 15, 2016, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-find-the-straight-dope/754859 "2016-05-15T17:39:08Z")
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### Author: ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)
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When I ran into Cecil at a party thrown by Sam Wagstaff around 1977 and we both pondered that we were probably the only two straight guys there, he mentioned his column to me as a passing thing. He wasn’t sure if he was going to keep doing it. I encouraged him to keep at it, who knew that ignorance was so prevalent.

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