# Pay for columns?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pay-for-columns/1311>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [April 8, 2000, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pay-for-columns/1311 "2000-04-08T05:14:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![lindsay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3be4f8/32.png) [@lindsay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lindsay)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2000, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pay-for-columns/1311/1 "2000-04-08T05:14:00Z")

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Yes, I would pay $12.00 a year for answers, as long as there were several minutes of reading.

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lindsay

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2000, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pay-for-columns/1311/2 "2000-04-08T13:55:00Z")

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::: very gently :::

Are you talking to someone that’s in this room, Lindsay?

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“Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast!” - the White Queen

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**Author:** ![RM\_Mentock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e274bd/32.png) [@RM\_Mentock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RM_Mentock)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2000, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pay-for-columns/1311/3 "2000-04-08T13:57:00Z")

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It’s a survey response, idnit?

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rocks

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2000, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pay-for-columns/1311/4 "2000-04-08T18:56:00Z")

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Oh. Okay.

But why is she posting it in GQ? Were we supposed to do that?

_ **OHMYGOD! DIDIDOTHEWRONGTHING?? I’M SORRY, CECIL, I DIDN’T KNOW I WAS SUPPOSED TO POST THE ANSWERS! FORGIVE ME! FORGIVE ME!** _

Or was it an essay question? I don’t remember–things tend to blur together so much, ever since the explosion…Mother? Uncle Fred?..It’s getting dark…

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“Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast!” - the White Queen

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**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2000, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pay-for-columns/1311/5 "2000-04-08T18:56:00Z")

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That’s what is seems like to me, **RM**. And because **lindsay** offered to pay, s/he is _my very favorite person in the whole wide world!_ All that said, this is really more a thing for About This Message Board, so I’ll move it over there.

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**Author:** ![ralphredan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f4b2a3/32.png) [@ralphredan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralphredan)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2000, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pay-for-columns/1311/6 "2000-04-08T23:43:00Z")

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Manhattan-  
FYI This topic is still open.

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**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2000, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pay-for-columns/1311/7 "2000-04-09T16:04:00Z")

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Of course this thread is still open. This is the About This Message Board forum. Manhattan is moderator of the General Questions forum. Manhattan moved a thread opened in GQ ([url=http://boards.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/007359.html]this one[/url), which is now closed there, to the ATMB forum, which is, of course, open here and is what you are currently reading.