# Secret Code in Straight Dope Archives
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-code-in-straight-dope-archives/2627
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [August 10, 1999, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-code-in-straight-dope-archives/2627 "1999-08-10T01:45:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@Louie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Louie)
#### Post date: [August 10, 1999, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-code-in-straight-dope-archives/2627/1 "1999-08-10T01:45:00Z")
I was going through the SD Archives when I noticed something strange. On the bottom of every page, there is a square, and when you highlight the square, you see a 6 letter code before the square. Here’s the codes that I got so far…
sdmyst
sdcons
sdwild
sdlang
sdorgi
Don’t believe me? Well, check it out [here](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/tsdindex.html), [here](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/tsdindx2.html), [here](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/tsdindx3.html), and [here.](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/tsdindx6.html) Click on any of the topics, then check out the bottom of the page and see for yourself.
Anyone else know about this?
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### Author:  [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)
#### Post date: [August 10, 1999, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-code-in-straight-dope-archives/2627/2 "1999-08-10T01:53:00Z")
Do we kill him or bribe him?
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### Author:  [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)
#### Post date: [August 10, 1999, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-code-in-straight-dope-archives/2627/3 "1999-08-10T01:53:00Z")
Been eating them olives again, Louie? 🙂 🙂
Peace,
mangeorge
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### Author:  [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)
#### Post date: [August 10, 1999, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-code-in-straight-dope-archives/2627/4 "1999-08-10T02:05:00Z")
There is a very simple explanation.
fnord
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### Author:  [@Undead\_Dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Undead_Dude)
#### Post date: [August 10, 1999, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-code-in-straight-dope-archives/2627/5 "1999-08-10T03:36:00Z")
Well, I’m not in the know, but they pretty clearly seem to be categories. Perhaps they are planning to use that to facilitate a search/browse by category function.
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### Author:  [@ravenous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ravenous)
#### Post date: [August 10, 1999, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-code-in-straight-dope-archives/2627/6 "1999-08-10T03:43:00Z")
sdwild = topic deals with animals
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### Author:  [@Contestant\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contestant_3)
#### Post date: [August 10, 1999, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-code-in-straight-dope-archives/2627/7 "1999-08-10T04:14:00Z")
sdcons = Contestant #3 posts
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Contestant #3
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### Author:  [@Babar714](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babar714)
#### Post date: [August 10, 1999, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-code-in-straight-dope-archives/2627/8 "1999-08-10T05:48:00Z")
They use the same technique at [theforce.net](http://theforce.net) so they don’t spiol the movie for people who haven’t seen SW1 yet. kinda kewl.
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### Author:  [@mr\_john](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mr_john)
#### Post date: [August 10, 1999, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-code-in-straight-dope-archives/2627/9 "1999-08-10T06:00:00Z")
sdorgi: so THATS what moderators do.
sdmyst: first time I played that I thought my computer was busted nothing would happen.
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### Author:  [@mr\_john](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mr_john)
#### Post date: [August 10, 1999, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-code-in-straight-dope-archives/2627/10 "1999-08-10T06:02:00Z")
sdlang: KD’s sister
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### Author:  [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)
#### Post date: [August 10, 1999, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-code-in-straight-dope-archives/2627/11 "1999-08-10T15:41:00Z")
sdorgi - where we all meet on Friday after work to… well you get the idea
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To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.
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### Author:  [@Louie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Louie)
#### Post date: [August 19, 1999, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-code-in-straight-dope-archives/2627/12 "1999-08-19T05:27:00Z")
fnord?
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### Author:  [@HeadlessCow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeadlessCow)
#### Post date: [August 18, 1999, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-code-in-straight-dope-archives/2627/13 "1999-08-18T19:44:00Z")
It’s from the Illuminatus books. It is supposedly written within things but we’ve all been trained not to see it (or something close to that).