Well, the point is that Leo Laporte read from Baker’s 2012 Death Pool thread during one of his broadcasts(which is internet only, I think).
He was talking about it specifically.
Very cool! He even read the tagline “Fighting ignorance…”
That is very cool and I stand corrected. Still, it wasn’t anything close to the origin of a broader cultural phenomenon.
Who is Leo Laporte?
It happened once for 20 minutes…
Still not of greater cultural awareness, but I have one of the very few “3. Hi Opal!” T-shirts she made and it got recognized at a restaurant once. I always figured the hostess was one of us but never got the chance to ask.
I’m probably being whooshed, but google bumps results for sites you visit. Your google loves the straightdope, not google in general.
Exactly. Google knows where you go and sorts the results accordingly. It knows that you’ll be more likely to want a link to a site that you regularly visit.
So many times people are so proud that “OMG we showed up at the first hit on Google!!” but on a non-Doper computer it might be the third page.
And the long 2005 thread on the topic here begins with:
I wouldn’t be surprised if this question predated the internet, getting kicked around in “letters” columns of various magazines and so on. I would also not be surprised if it was discussed on USENET before the commercialization of the internet.
Thank you. It’s actually a fairly common thought problem for engineering students and goes back a while.
Not exactly CNN, but we were linked in a Cracked article one time. Here’s a thread I started on it.
It has happened more than once. Somebody there reads our threads.
An article in The Atlantic online linked to this thread about NPR reporters having great names.