A friend of mine knew I had a really boring job and liked message boards so he sent me a link. Been a member ever since (except the months off due to unemployment).
I had several friends who were Dopers(One still is)and got interested after that.
I’d gotten one of Cecil’s books back in the 80’s. I always collected the Bathroom Reader, etc.
Forgot about it, until the TV show on A&E then went back and bought his other books.
Stumbled upon the Chicago Reader/Straight Dope website sometime in 1996 when looking to see if he had any new books out.
I have actually had Cecil answer a question!
Cheers!
My husband posts here.
Back in '83 or '84 a book fair came to my high school. I purchased one of the Straight Dope books. Around '99 or 2000 I either searched Yahoo or Google for the Straight Dope. I then lurked on the boards until they went pay to post. What can I say? I’m a sucker for a deal. The teaser was half-price to join and half-price for life if you become a charter member. So I joined that April (was-it-2003?).
You don’t wanna know that. Trust me, you. Do not. Want. To know. That.
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Quasi
I don’t even remember. I spent a lot of time at the main part of the website, with occasional forays into ‘‘Threadspotting’’ but I was too intimidated to post for a long time. I’m guessing I found it while looking at Snopes or something similar.
Back when it was on AOL, I stumbled upon the Circus Peanuts column. How could you not love a column about why anyone would eat Circus Peanuts, and the threads that followed?
The zombies dragged me in here.
Opera had it as one of the default installed bookmarks. I installed Opera because I was in class for some unknown computer topic and for one reason or another, I couldn’t get to the Internet with IE, but I had enough starch to get Opera to the school workstation…and Opera had no such limitations.
I spent a LOT of that class perusing the Dope…it was a few months later that I encountered the Forums.
I too got it from bored.com
that’s a great site…
I agree with posts 80 and 89.