# Non U.S. Dopers: How'd ya get here? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 30, 2003, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-u-s-dopers-howd-ya-get-here/198691 "2003-08-30T21:29:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2003, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-u-s-dopers-howd-ya-get-here/198691/41 "2003-09-01T13:42:10Z")
Hi to my fellow Dutchies **gum, Tusculan and Single Serving Friend** from the movie Fight Club, right? Years ago, I bought one of Cecils books, translated into Dutch (!), at a sale (unwanted, apparently ☹ ) and liked it. Two years ago, I Googled something, came out here, and immediatly bookmarked it in fond memory of the book. I searched the archive first. I hesitated to join the board because I thought I would have to get all technical doing so. Then I got drawn in through Threadspotting, read **Wevets** thread"odd little habits you have" and was hooked. I wish I found this place years ago. ---
**Author:** ![curly\_chick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ba0ec/32.png) [@curly\_chick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curly_chick)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2003, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-u-s-dopers-howd-ya-get-here/198691/42 "2003-09-01T14:05:50Z")
I was on a course from work about how to set up messageboards and the teacher mentioned this place as a good example. I’m expecting to see him at a Dubdope one of these fine days ---
**Author:** ![Rashak\_Mani](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea666f/32.png) [@Rashak\_Mani](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rashak_Mani)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2003, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-u-s-dopers-howd-ya-get-here/198691/43 "2003-09-01T18:56:26Z")
I regularly read the EN Forum a D&D/RPG message board. Asked them about a nice place to discuss politics and intl. affairs… some recommended the SDMB. ---
**Author:** ![MC\_Master\_of\_Ceremonies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bb73d2/32.png) [@MC\_Master\_of\_Ceremonies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MC_Master_of_Ceremonies)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2003, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-u-s-dopers-howd-ya-get-here/198691/44 "2003-09-01T19:13:34Z")
I can’t remember exactly , but it had something to do with Timecube. MCMC, The Republic of Berkshire. ---
**Author:** ![Lobelia\_Overhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@Lobelia\_Overhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobelia_Overhill)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2003, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-u-s-dopers-howd-ya-get-here/198691/45 "2003-09-01T20:01:17Z")
I have no idea what Straight Dope means, or who Cecil is, I found the MB via a link on another MB in a thread about “what other MB’s do you post on?”. 38 SWF Ireland. ---
**Author:** ![chattywine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5daacb/32.png) [@chattywine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chattywine)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2003, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-u-s-dopers-howd-ya-get-here/198691/46 "2003-09-01T22:43:17Z")
Link on another MB to Scylla’s Blimp Story. Instant addiction. - American in Italy ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2003, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-u-s-dopers-howd-ya-get-here/198691/47 "2003-09-01T23:07:49Z")
ooo Thanks people! I realize I’ve been to that site before but I’d missed it before! Thanks…![/hijack] Oh and I forgot to say… I’m from Canada. ---
**Author:** ![bonzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/45deac/32.png) [@bonzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bonzer)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2003, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-u-s-dopers-howd-ya-get-here/198691/48 "2003-09-02T00:12:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Chandeleur \* > This board seems to have quite the range of folks from all over the globe, which I find curious given the roots of this site - a Q & A column from a small Chicago newspaper. Going by the response thus far, I’d seem to be an oddity: a foreigner who got here precisely because those are the site’s roots. While British, I spent several years working in Chicago and the _Reader_ was a regular part of my life there, with Cecil’s column on page 2 the first thing you always turned to. I even saw Ed Zotti speak about the Dope at the annual Dearborn Street bookfair one year. Since I’d missed the _Reader_ after I’d left the city to return to the UK, it was really only a matter of time and the spread of the internet before I eventually had a look for their website … ---
**Author:** ![Pebbles131](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/eada6e/32.png) [@Pebbles131](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pebbles131)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2003, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-u-s-dopers-howd-ya-get-here/198691/49 "2003-09-02T12:20:02Z")
I was sent the link the the blimp story too, then spent the rest of the evening exploring the MB. After only ever going to British equestrian MB’s that have more rules than you could shake a stick at, the SDMB was (and is) the bees knees!! ---
**Author:** ![AngelicGemma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/439d5e/32.png) [@AngelicGemma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelicGemma)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2003, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-u-s-dopers-howd-ya-get-here/198691/50 "2003-09-02T12:43:17Z")
I got bored. Typed in [bored.com](http://bored.com). There was a link to this site, and here I am! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-u-s-dopers-howd-ya-get-here/198691.md?page=2)