# Is the SDMB mentioned in Cecil's columns in the paper?

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**Created:** [June 13, 2002, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-mentioned-in-cecils-columns-in-the-paper/113931 "2002-06-13T21:27:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2002, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-mentioned-in-cecils-columns-in-the-paper/113931/1 "2002-06-13T21:27:11Z")

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or at least the [straightdope.com](http://straightdope.com) website? I’ve never seen Cecil in the papers, just in books. (the last book, mentioning the message board, led me here!!)

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**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2002, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-mentioned-in-cecils-columns-in-the-paper/113931/2 "2002-06-13T21:36:10Z")

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I don’t think so. My local alternative weekly doesn’t have it, but I’ve seen it in other newspapers when I travelled and I don’t remember any mention of the message board.

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**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2002, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-mentioned-in-cecils-columns-in-the-paper/113931/3 "2002-06-14T00:18:13Z")

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_The Portland Phoenix_ has this boilerplate at the bottom of every column

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> Comments, questions? Take it up with Cecil on the Straight Dope message board, [www.straightdope.com](http://www.straightdope.com), or write him at the Portland Phoenix, 482 Congress Street, Suite 501, Portland ME 04101.

I don’t know about that rag though. They spelled my name with a fucking capital _B_, for God’s sake.

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**Author:** ![femtosecond](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f08c70/32.png) [@femtosecond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/femtosecond)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2002, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-mentioned-in-cecils-columns-in-the-paper/113931/4 "2002-06-14T12:35:39Z")

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[Can a noise be loud enough to kill you?](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/010406.html)

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> […] Please tell me. I’m scared. --Nick, via the Straight Dope Message Board

It sometimes is mentioned as the source of a question.

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**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2002, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-mentioned-in-cecils-columns-in-the-paper/113931/5 "2002-06-14T12:39:59Z")

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\<\< … a fucking capital B, for God’s sake. \>\>

Dear Cecil,  
Do upper case letters hae sex? Do they call out “for God’s sake” when they have orgasm? Does this add new meaning to the term “the big O”? If a capital P gets a lowercase b pregnant, does that produce an uppercase B?

Sincerely,  
Your friend

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**Author:** ![zut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zut/32/2875_2.png) [@zut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zut)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2002, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-mentioned-in-cecils-columns-in-the-paper/113931/6 "2002-06-14T14:55:42Z")

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Also, Cecil specifically mentions the SDMD in the text of [this column](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/000505.html) (Can some people have orgasms without genital stimulation? 05-May-2000), noting that,

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> I had Little Ed quiz Gary about his friend and also post a query on the Straight Dope Message Board at [www.straightdope.com](http://www.straightdope.com), where, I swear, you could ask people if they’d had sex with goats and an hour later have somebody asking, “Define sex.”