# 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:** 16\ **Page:** 3
**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:** [December 11, 2002, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-get-here/141896/41 "2002-12-11T13:20:16Z")
Hey Nurobath, I’m trying to put together a Sac Dopefest. See MPSIMS… it’s in there somewhere. Ahem… Several years ago, a friend of mine was researching Skunk2 cams for his Civic. Somehow while googling and such, he came across here. He read a “Who would win, a Star Destroyer or the Enterprise” and sent me the link. I’ve been here, internet access willing, pretty much ever since. ---
**Author:** ![mkl12](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@mkl12](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mkl12)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-get-here/141896/42 "2002-12-11T13:28:48Z")
I was a lurker at the Bad Astronomy board, when the most famous troll there, a guy named **Piper** , mentioned that he had found a larger audience at the SDMB, where he had registered under the name **seethruart**. WHen I followed him here, I didn’t like the boards at first, but I started reading Cecil’s columns. Some time later I gave the boards another try and I haven’t left since. ---
**Author:** ![Biba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@Biba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biba)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-get-here/141896/43 "2002-12-11T14:04:04Z")
It was jarbabyj who directed myself and a few others over here (superbee and lieu to name a couple). Actually, that reads badly, I would like to state that superbee and lieu are NOT a couple…honest. ---
**Author:** ![Skerri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Skerri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skerri)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-get-here/141896/44 "2002-12-11T14:05:23Z")
I started reading the SD column many years ago in a little indie paper called “The Upwith Herald”. It was the first incantation of the same Charleston City Paper that **Slainte** mentioned. (This was about 1991, 1992.) I was fascinated; I saw the show, read the column online when I couldn’t get the paper. I never paid much attention to the fact that there were message boards until I started this job. I’d been looking for something to do all day, as my job is not very labor-intensive. (My job is very “Office Space”-ish, I work for about 45 minutes a week.) One day, I finally clicked on the Threadspotting link, which was about **Scylla’s** diaper changing rules. I haven’t left since then. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Skerri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Skerri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skerri)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-get-here/141896/45 "2002-12-11T14:09:00Z")
Oh, I haven’t been reading the column online since 1991. I just realized that sounded odd. I started reading the column online about 3 years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Legomancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/779978/32.png) [@Legomancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legomancer)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-get-here/141896/46 "2002-12-11T14:11:53Z")
How did I get here? Well, when a man and a woman love each other very much, they do this special kiss… I used to read the SD site and post on different forums. When I became annoyed with those forums I discovered the forums here. ---
**Author:** ![roadrunner70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19b73/32.png) [@roadrunner70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roadrunner70)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-get-here/141896/47 "2002-12-11T14:14:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Biba \* > \*\*It was jarbabyj who directed myself and a few others over here (superbee and lieu to name a couple). Actually, that reads badly, I would like to state that superbee and lieu are NOT a couple…honest. \*\* I think I liked it better when you just lurked… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-get-here/141896/48 "2002-12-11T15:38:37Z")
superbee, I need the car on Friday. ---
**Author:** ![NE\_Texan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e99b99/32.png) [@NE\_Texan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NE_Texan)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-get-here/141896/49 "2002-12-11T15:42:55Z")
My wife’s a big fan of trivia, and I found the first Straight Dope book in the bookstore and gave it to her as a gift. Naturally, I read it too, and was hooked. When the Usenet group was being discussed and voted on, I picked it up there and read it. That’s where I found out about this board and web site, which I’ve been reading ever since. ---
**Author:** ![singular1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@singular1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/singular1)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-get-here/141896/50 "2002-12-11T15:46:32Z")
I used to post to the [SurvivorSucks.com](http://SurvivorSucks.com) message board during the first and second season of Survivor. They got bored with the show long before I did, but I kept going back to the message boards, hoping to find the same level of great posting and getting more and more disappointed. One of the links off to the left of the board was the SDMB, and [planetsucks.com](http://planetsucks.com) lost a poster forever! ---
**Author:** ![welby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@welby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/welby)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-get-here/141896/51 "2002-12-11T15:50:01Z")
I don’t know. But I _knew_ I should have taken a left at Albuquerque. ---
**Author:** ![Witch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/258eb7/32.png) [@Witch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Witch)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-get-here/141896/52 "2002-12-11T16:23:38Z")
I’d always been a big fan of the books. So I figured I’d take a mosey over and see what it was like, figuring if it the site was filled with boring dorks I could always leave. I’ve been here a year now 😃 ---
**Author:** ![JessEnigma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cdc98d/32.png) [@JessEnigma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JessEnigma)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-get-here/141896/53 "2002-12-11T21:52:50Z")
I’ve been a fan of the books for a long time, but back when it was on AOL, a few people who posted on message boards I hung around also posted on the SDMB. Eventually, I went over there based on their recommendations. I just migrated along to the web boards when the time came, though I didn’t like them too much at first. Different crowd of people. I lurked for a long time before I bothered to post anything, but now I’m hooked. ---
**Author:** ![Siege](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@Siege](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siege)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-get-here/141896/54 "2002-12-11T22:29:05Z")
Teleportation. I’d say I’ve got to improve my aim, but I think I’ll take this miss. (Freudian slip – that was nearly “mess”). CJ ---
**Author:** ![eunoia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eunoia/32/97_2.png) [@eunoia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eunoia)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-get-here/141896/55 "2002-12-11T23:09:12Z")
How did I get here? Letting the days go by, let the water hold me down Letting the days go by, water flowing underground Same as it ever was… ---
**Author:** ![Kilvert\_s\_Pagan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@Kilvert\_s\_Pagan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilvert_s_Pagan)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-get-here/141896/56 "2002-12-12T01:59:02Z")
I became an instant Cecil fan in 1988 when I got ahold of _More of the Straight Dope_ (which is, IMHO, still the best of the bunch - I, to this day, still utilize the warm downy neck of a live goose). In 1999 I explcitly went looking for Cecil/TSD on the web and found this site. I’m a little embarrased by my post count (as, comparatively, an old-timer), but of course not ashamed of having put real life and young children first. Later, I turned my brother **Lawoot** onto it, and he’s become a much more frequent participant. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-get-here/141896.md?page=2)