On May 12, 1986, Ballantine Books published The Straight Dope: A Human Compendium. Although the book’s original copyright date is 1984, many of us found a path to The Perfect Master through this Ballantine paperback trade edition.
We’re coming up fast on the 20th anniversary. As a Doper and '99er to boot, I hereby and forthwith, and with extreme prejudice amongst all corpus delecti, do declare May the 12th 2006 to be
DOPO DE MAYO DAY.
Huzzah, Huzzah. To commemorate this day, I personally shall fly to Detroit and read my careworn copy of The Straight Dope: A Compendium Of Human Knowledge on the flight.
I fervently suggest we contact a caterer and hall. These things require planning !!!
Never one to miss a chance to suck up, I’m also going to be sending a lovely and tasteful gift to The Perfect Master himself. I understand that he’s upped the honorarium from twenties to fifties. Perhaps if he’d deign to drop in here to help celebrate, he could guide us in the gift purchasing area.
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