# Should Weird Earl's Be Restored? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 20, 2014, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-weird-earls-be-restored/707709 "2014-12-20T00:15:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2014, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-weird-earls-be-restored/707709/1 "2014-12-20T00:15:47Z")
As per **Ed’s** instructions, I’m posting a poll to gauge the reaction to the recent replacing of the much-loved Weird Earl’s section on the main SD page with one of those horrendous Twitter feeds, an abomination to nature if ever there was one. To help get unbiased results, I shall try to keep my own prejudices out of it. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2014, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-weird-earls-be-restored/707709/2 "2014-12-20T00:26:03Z")
I don’t use Weird Earl’s, but it doesn’t harm me so I don’t see why it shouldn’t be kept for the people that do like it, so voting in support of keeping it. ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2014, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-weird-earls-be-restored/707709/3 "2014-12-20T00:27:38Z")
For background, here’s the [link to Ed Zotti’s explanation](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=17990743&postcount=6) of why it was removed. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2014, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-weird-earls-be-restored/707709/4 "2014-12-20T00:35:33Z")
In the entire time I’ve been here I don’t think I clicked on Weird Earl once. ---
**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2014, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-weird-earls-be-restored/707709/5 "2014-12-20T01:32:27Z")
there is a front page?! ---
**Author:** ![clairobscur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@clairobscur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clairobscur)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2014, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-weird-earls-be-restored/707709/6 "2014-12-20T01:51:36Z")
Now that you mention it : it was links to funny sites or something like that? I voted “what’s Weird Earl?”, obviously. ---
**Author:** ![chiroptera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2014, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-weird-earls-be-restored/707709/7 "2014-12-20T02:01:37Z")
I don’t do twitter, but I’ve never clicked on a Weird Earl link either. I only have a vague idea what WE is. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2014, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-weird-earls-be-restored/707709/8 "2014-12-20T02:08:35Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > As per **Ed’s** instructions, I’m posting a poll to gauge the reaction to the recent replacing of the much-loved Weird Earl’s section on the main SD page with one of those horrendous Twitter feeds, an abomination to nature if ever there was one. To help get unbiased results, _I shall try to keep my own prejudices out of it_. Italicizing mine. That was a whoosh right? ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2014, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-weird-earls-be-restored/707709/9 "2014-12-20T02:10:28Z")
> [@DSeid](#): > > That was a whoosh right? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2014, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-weird-earls-be-restored/707709/10 "2014-12-20T03:47:03Z")
I’d rather fill the space with a rotating cast of chocolate boobies. Tastefully done, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2014, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-weird-earls-be-restored/707709/11 "2014-12-20T03:50:22Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > I’d rather fill the space with a rotating cast of chocolate boobies. Tastefully done, of course. So is that a yes or a no? ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2014, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-weird-earls-be-restored/707709/12 "2014-12-20T03:54:07Z")
> [@chiroptera](#): > > I don’t do twitter, but I’ve never clicked on a Weird Earl link either. I only have a vague idea what WE is. That’s me. Anyone care to share how many clicks it got? That should shed some light on the question. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2014, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-weird-earls-be-restored/707709/13 "2014-12-20T04:26:08Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > So is that a yes or a no? I voted no. But I’d be willing to compromise as long as chocolate boobies were part of the equation, and they were classy. ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2014, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-weird-earls-be-restored/707709/14 "2014-12-20T07:56:09Z")
I voted YES. Why can’t there be both a WE thread and a Tweet feed? WE is something to log onto every ten days or so and get some great laughs. Plus, it reminds us of how much more normal we are than most people. 😃 I would have never known there was various websites including services like: rapture insurance for pets, eyelashes for your car’s headlights, a guy who can design your soul on black-light rainbow velvet just from a photo, etc. I can see how some newcomers may think something so pointless demerits this site, but what about what I just stated above? I wouldn’t have been familiar with the existence of sites like those. Is that not “fighting ignorance”? ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2014, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-weird-earls-be-restored/707709/15 "2014-12-20T08:13:20Z")
I’m huing and crying. And tweets? Are we encouraging ignorance now? ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2014, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-weird-earls-be-restored/707709/16 "2014-12-20T08:25:35Z")
> [@Locrian](#): > > Why can’t there be both a WE thread and a Tweet feed? Well, then someone with a smidgeon of web design skills needs to retool the boxes on the front page, to add one more section. Which is a bit more work than replacing the contents of one box. That doesn’t sound like much of a stumbling block, but I have my suspicions. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2014, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-weird-earls-be-restored/707709/17 "2014-12-20T10:48:05Z")
Don’t mistake a dislike of Twitter for a reason to keep Weird Earl’s. You can believe that the time for WE has come and gone, as I do, without loving Twitter (FTR, I hate Twitter). I don’t personally care if WE continues, but I do think it dates the SD a bit - “hyuck, hyuck, gollee Marge, lookit what those innernets have on 'em.” ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2014, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-weird-earls-be-restored/707709/18 "2014-12-20T11:58:18Z")
The world’s a change’n grandpa, get used to it. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2014, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-weird-earls-be-restored/707709/19 "2014-12-20T11:58:35Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > In the entire time I’ve been here I don’t think I clicked on Weird Earl once. Well, I’ll do a “me too”. I have voted no, but I don’t really care- and given that is 14 years I haven’t contributed to it, I can’t see that changing. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2014, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-weird-earls-be-restored/707709/20 "2014-12-20T14:55:37Z")
I have looked at Weird Earl’s once or twice that I think I can remember. I don’t use Twitter, or know much about it, but if it directs people to The Dope, I think that’s a good thing. (I voted No Opinion) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-weird-earls-be-restored/707709.md?page=2)