# How did you get here? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 11, 2002, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-get-here/141896 "2002-12-11T01:02:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Spoc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Spoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoc)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-get-here/141896/1 "2002-12-11T01:02:16Z")
Curious what forces led everyone here. I assume contact info at the end of Straight Dope columns is a big one. I had never absorbed those lines when reading it in a local paper. Me, you ask? I was surfing info about the glycemic index and up came a Straight Dope column I had missed. (Remember that great face off? Anyone know what happened to Jennygirb-or something like that-? Looks like she vaporized in short order, even after having been quite validated and encouraged by high powers…) ---
**Author:** ![Francesca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc348/32.png) [@Francesca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francesca)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-get-here/141896/2 "2002-12-11T01:08:18Z")
I got directed here a year and a half ago by my other half, **Alex B** , who had no idea I would like it so much that my post count would overlap his by about 2000. Rar. He found this place via [bored.com](http://bored.com). ---
**Author:** ![bdgr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a87d85/32.png) [@bdgr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bdgr)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-get-here/141896/3 "2002-12-11T01:11:44Z")
I found the straight dope while looking for Joe Bob Briggs goes to the drive in, and was instantly hooked. I found it online at AOL, but since I didnt have an AOL account, I only got to check in when I was over at my dads house. ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-get-here/141896/4 "2002-12-11T01:12:09Z")
I got here from the _cough_ Left Behind Message Boards. I was a regular over there, then a link to here got posted at one point. I liked it here better. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Cosmopolitan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/94ad74/32.png) [@Cosmopolitan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cosmopolitan)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-get-here/141896/5 "2002-12-11T01:28:21Z")
Wow. I don’t even remember. Hmm. ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-get-here/141896/6 "2002-12-11T01:29:22Z")
I discovered it on AOL and lurked and followed them here to lurk some more before I registered. ---
**Author:** ![monica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a183cd/32.png) [@monica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monica)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-get-here/141896/7 "2002-12-11T01:35:19Z")
I used to get trivia mailings. One of them had a link to How Stuff Works. I followed a link from there to the SDMB archive. I then found the message boards. ---
**Author:** ![d12](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/71c47a/32.png) [@d12](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/d12)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-get-here/141896/8 "2002-12-11T01:38:53Z")
Brother used to show me the bizzare questions Cecil answered. As the ignorant kid I am, I thought it was a drug related site (my brother was experimenting at the time) because of the Dope. Looked through and found the message boards. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-get-here/141896/9 "2002-12-11T01:49:06Z")
> [@](#): > > I discovered it on AOL and lurked and followed them here to lurk some more before I registered. Ditto for me. Although I first discovered _The Straight Dope_ and computer message boards, as totally unrelated entities, when I was in college in the mid-to-late eighties and working in the college computer center, and copies of Cecil’s first two (and at that time only) Straight Dope books were part of the office paraphenalia. ---
**Author:** ![Magickly\_Delicious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magickly\_Delicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magickly_Delicious)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-get-here/141896/10 "2002-12-11T01:51:48Z")
Some RL friends mentioned it, so I came on down. ---
**Author:** ![Slainte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a698b9/32.png) [@Slainte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slainte)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-get-here/141896/11 "2002-12-11T01:53:44Z")
Found Straight Dope in the Charleston City Paper, followed it here, lurked a bit & finally registered. ---
**Author:** ![capybara](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/capybara/32/202_2.png) [@capybara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capybara)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-get-here/141896/12 "2002-12-11T01:53:54Z")
I think someone had mentioned that the Straight Dope was online (doesn’t show up in the newspaper here that I’ve noticed)-- a boyfriend in college had all the books and I’d gotten hooked-- and I came to check it out and read many many of the older articles and then ran into the boards. My browsing boards to reading articles ratio shifted with time. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-get-here/141896/13 "2002-12-11T01:58:47Z")
The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft the straightdope URL from the bosom of the water signifying by Divine Providence that I, Arnold Winkelried, was to frequent the site. That is why I am here! ---
**Author:** ![Global\_Citizen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/46a35a/32.png) [@Global\_Citizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Global_Citizen)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-get-here/141896/14 "2002-12-11T01:59:27Z")
I’m a member of an online gaming community for adults. A member, while in IRC chat mentioned this place as a site for good debates, interesting info and all-round pleasant time. That’s how I got here. Global Citizen ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-get-here/141896/15 "2002-12-11T02:17:46Z")
I don’t remember. My life began that day. Everything before then is a blur. ---
**Author:** ![misstee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/958977/32.png) [@misstee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/misstee)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-get-here/141896/16 "2002-12-11T02:26:12Z")
A lurker turned me on to it. And boy has it been fun. Thanks, **withak**!!! ---
**Author:** ![Flowerchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/858c86/32.png) [@Flowerchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flowerchild)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-get-here/141896/17 "2002-12-11T02:27:27Z")
I got here by [www.bored.com](http://www.bored.com) ---
**Author:** ![Fred](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/db5fbb/32.png) [@Fred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fred)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-get-here/141896/18 "2002-12-11T02:29:24Z")
Since I just posted this recently, I’ll do the old c&p > [@](#): > > Esprix joined a message board of which I am an upstanding member and, for one reason or the other, got embroiled in a rather massive flame-war with yours truly. He started a thread in the Pit entitled “Esprix the Newbie?” remarking both on the interesting fish-out-of-water scenario of Esprix being the new kid on the block and as a rant about my immaturity. Someone from the SDMB decided to join my forum and post something to the like of “People on a better message board are laughing at all you idiots.” By doing a google search for “Esprix” that led me here I was able to locate said message board, and, subsequently, said thread. I then posted my response to the pile-on in absentia. Much discussion ensues, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Spoc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Spoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoc)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-get-here/141896/19 "2002-12-11T02:30:35Z")
d12, talk about thinking SD was drug related! I was ferried in by the surfed article I mentioned above, at about 4:00 a.m. First topic threads I saw were about “Pregnant Dopers.” It didn’t click right away, and I thought wow, this is gonna be an open-minded group, if you can even admit to hobbies like that. So, of course I was disappointed when I put two and two together. HAAAAAAAA! Not. ---
**Author:** ![Landshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/77aa72/32.png) [@Landshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Landshark)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-get-here/141896/20 "2002-12-11T02:31:21Z")
Don’t recall precisely, but having first read Uncle Cecil’s books, I would imagine those led to this site. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-get-here/141896.md?page=2)