# Non-US Dopers--How did you find this place? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 15, 2000, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-us-dopers-how-did-you-find-this-place/14723 "2000-03-15T04:13:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ZenBeam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3ab097/32.png) [@ZenBeam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZenBeam)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2000, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-us-dopers-how-did-you-find-this-place/14723/1 "2000-03-15T04:13:00Z")
The Straight Dope isn’t overseas (AFAIK). How did you SDMBers from other countries think to come here? ## Not you Canadians. You think we’re not looking, but we know you sneek over here and swipe our free alternative weekly papers. 🙂 _It is too clear, and so it is hard to see._ ---
**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:** [March 15, 2000, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-us-dopers-how-did-you-find-this-place/14723/2 "2000-03-15T09:24:00Z")
Well, I’m in the USA, but I have never read the column in a newspaper! I found this board because the Straight Dope web page is listed at [Yahoo! - Entertainment - Humor - Columns and Columnists](http://dir.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Humor/Columns_and_Columnists/) ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2000, 9:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-us-dopers-how-did-you-find-this-place/14723/3 "2000-03-15T09:34:00Z")
I have no idea. I remember I was searching for something in yahoo, found a column about it here, and everything since seems to have revolved around my addivction to it since… still havent been able to get into the chat because of my firewall, but I suppose that can only be a good thing… * * * well, at least one person wants to meet me… [http://fathom.org/polldata/pollcheck.adp?poll=dope-page5&question=62](http://fathom.org/polldata/pollcheck.adp?poll=dope-page5&question=62) Cheers!! ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2000, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-us-dopers-how-did-you-find-this-place/14723/4 "2000-03-15T12:12:00Z")
A friend of mine told me that there was a site that explained what Kemosabe really meant. He said he looked it up in a search engine and it came to here. He was right. I read the columns online for about a year before I joined the SDMB. * * * [The Legend Of PigeonMan](http://www.hotkey.net.au/~guanolad/pigeonman/) - **Shadow of the Pigeon** - Weirdo of the Night ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2000, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-us-dopers-how-did-you-find-this-place/14723/5 "2000-03-15T12:17:00Z")
I was going through the following page (don’t bother to try the link, it’s dead): [http://munshi.sonoma.edu/JAMAL/weird.html](http://munshi.sonoma.edu/JAMAL/weird.html) It is called “Weird but True” or something. One of the entries was about a duck not having an echo. The site then proceeded to link to an SD column which debunked this piece of folklore. I started reading the archives and joined the message boards a few weeks afterwards. We all know what happened since… * * * **Coldfire** _Voted **Poster Most Likely To Post Drunk** _ * * * _ **"You know how complex women are"** _ - Neil Peart, **Rush** (1993) ---
**Author:** ![RussellM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed8c4c/32.png) [@RussellM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RussellM)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2000, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-us-dopers-how-did-you-find-this-place/14723/6 "2000-03-15T12:24:00Z")
ZenBeam > [@](#): > > The Straight Dope isn’t overseas (AFAIK). How did you SDMBers from other countries think to come here? The url I use is [www.straightdope.com](http://www.straightdope.com) I guess I must get redirected without knowing it to [www.straightdope.USAonly.com](http://www.straightdope.USAonly.com) Russell ---
**Author:** ![Andy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/aeb1de/32.png) [@Andy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2000, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-us-dopers-how-did-you-find-this-place/14723/7 "2000-03-15T12:31:00Z")
RussellM: I believe ZenBeam is referring to the syndicated newspaper column seen in the US which i’ve never seen in any non-US english language newspaper. Sorry to piss on your bonfire :). My link was the Chicago Reader, read the column, found the site and don’t work hard enough as a result ever since. ---
**Author:** ![RussellM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed8c4c/32.png) [@RussellM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RussellM)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2000, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-us-dopers-how-did-you-find-this-place/14723/8 "2000-03-15T12:36:00Z")
OK, I could have been a little more constructive - this is not the Pit - but the OP was just a little parochial. A better response might have been - I wonder how many of us transition from print to e-babble, and how many of have never seen Cecil in print? Russell ---
**Author:** ![RussellM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed8c4c/32.png) [@RussellM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RussellM)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2000, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-us-dopers-how-did-you-find-this-place/14723/9 "2000-03-15T13:28:00Z")
android209 > [@](#): > > I believe ZenBeam is referring to the syndicated newspaper column seen in the US which i’ve never seen in any non-US english language newspaper Yes, I know. 209, did you come here from the column, or did you follow a link, here about it from a friend? I suspect that most people follow a tangled web to get here, whether they start in the US or the rest of the world. ‘Here’ is not, in any real sense, ‘there’. It’s only a url. The rest of the world can easily come visit. It wasn’t really a bonfire, just a little spark. Russell (not in the US) ---
**Author:** ![Andy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/aeb1de/32.png) [@Andy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2000, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-us-dopers-how-did-you-find-this-place/14723/10 "2000-03-15T13:35:00Z")
No, not a tangled web for me. Read the column in the reader (on paper), found reader online, found the straightdope. The rest is history. For me, that is. Immemorably so for the rest of you I guess 😉 ---
**Author:** ![ZenBeam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3ab097/32.png) [@ZenBeam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZenBeam)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2000, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-us-dopers-how-did-you-find-this-place/14723/11 "2000-03-15T17:56:00Z")
I guess I should have asked everyone for their stories about how they found this place. Time for a [new thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum4/HTML/006057.html)… * * * _It is too clear, and so it is hard to see._