One of my co-workers turned me on to the Straight Dope, and saw a threadspotting about someone who wouldn’t have a good Christmas without help. So I signed up, and sent a check. Been here ever since!
I had never heard of Cecil or this site until Feb 2000. One of the smartest guys I’ve ever met is a former coworker from India. He was only here on a business visa for 3 months. During that time he turned me on to the site. It certainly must have extended Cecil’s reach considerably to be grabbing those on the other side of the world.
I found http://www.straightdope.com while lazily checking through http://www.bored.com. I remembered how much I’ve enjoyed the books, and showed up to surf the site. I eventually read the Evil Nazi Groundhog thread, and signed up.
I caught the TV show in college about five or six years ago really late at night, but I never could find it again.
Then a couple of years ago, I ran across John Taylor’s website (super hot John Taylor of Duran Duran - http://www.trusttheprocess.com) and he had The Straight Dope listed in his “Pop Culture” links.
Catalyst sent me links to the MBs till I decided to join. Was a complete Cecil virgin. I’m still only here for the message boards. (Sorry, guys, I’m sure Cecil’s great.)
I found out about this site from http://www.bored.com. After reading through the colums I decided to find out what the sdmb was all about. I liked it so I stayed 
I’m an orphan. Someone left me in a basket on Cecil’s front porch.
I was on another message board and thought “I wonder if there are even better ones than this?” I went to Google, put in “message board” and SDMB was almost at the top.
Now I wonder…
Miss Welfy would AIM me links to funny threads. I decided I had something to contribe to one.
And I’ve been wrong ever since.
Looking for why it was called ‘the rabbit test’. That was in about December of 99.
I went to comment on one of the columns in May of this year, and to my delight found that there were message boards!