# How Did You Hear About Staight Dope Message Board? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 20, 2000, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-hear-about-staight-dope-message-board/46565 "2000-12-20T19:54:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/258eb7/32.png) [@Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wonko_The_Sane)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2000, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-hear-about-staight-dope-message-board/46565/21 "2000-12-21T04:19:11Z")
It was listed on the [http://www.iantheterrible.com](http://www.iantheterrible.com) links page. I read the articles for about a year, and then discovered the message board and registered. ---
**Author:** ![Modian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Modian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Modian)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2000, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-hear-about-staight-dope-message-board/46565/22 "2000-12-21T16:06:26Z")
> [@](#): > > There was a link to the AOL SDMB on the main screen of AOL. I clicked on it, found the board, and have been on ever since, off and on. This was back in 1997. Same here. Tho I didn’t read the board much on AOL, cause their boards sucked ass. Spent most of my time going thru the archived articles, especially the Sex one. _cough_ Once they switched to the web, I started watching the board more. ---
**Author:** ![Sledman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@Sledman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sledman)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2000, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-hear-about-staight-dope-message-board/46565/23 "2000-12-21T16:11:06Z")
I owe it all to the Great **Gazoo**! ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2000, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-hear-about-staight-dope-message-board/46565/24 "2000-12-21T16:13:24Z")
As has been said before by me: Discovered the books when I saw “caloric content of sperm” in a sentence in the first book. Happened upon the website a year or so later. Delurked to respond to the seti@home thread. ---
**Author:** ![bluecanary](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bluecanary/32/3614_2.png) [@bluecanary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bluecanary)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2000, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-hear-about-staight-dope-message-board/46565/25 "2000-12-21T21:52:13Z")
From the Snopes message board. And I heard about Snopes from the [about.com](http://about.com) Urban Legends column And I heard about the [about.com](http://about.com) thing when I was trying to find out about an urban legend I’d seen ---
**Author:** ![SterlingNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@SterlingNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SterlingNorth)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2000, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-hear-about-staight-dope-message-board/46565/26 "2000-12-22T04:29:41Z")
I actually used the site for research! Amazing huh. It was when my family decided to enter the ninteenth century and finally get a car! This was back around March of 1998 (As a side note, I will finally get my sixteenth-year birthday present. I will be learning to drive!) It turned out to be a stick shift. Since mom and I didn’t want my dad to destroy the car before I could get to drive it, we started looking for stick tips. So we were looking for how to drive, and brake a stick shift. This was one of the sites that Ask Jeeves found. [To slow a stick-shift, should you brake or downshift?](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/980227.html) Well, I surfed around and saw a few of their old articles. I enjoyed the writing, mainly so I came back every week. Well By March 1999, AOL stopped wasting money on Cecil’s jets and jacuzzis and threw him and his board out the door. Thus this board was born, and I joined. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-hear-about-staight-dope-message-board/46565.md?page=1)