# So how did you find the Straight Dope? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 14, 2001, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-did-you-find-the-straight-dope/57921 "2001-03-14T07:49:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Sweet\_Sue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Sweet\_Sue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sweet_Sue)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2001, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-did-you-find-the-straight-dope/57921/41 "2001-03-15T01:17:42Z")
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**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2001, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-did-you-find-the-straight-dope/57921/42 "2001-03-15T01:23:31Z")
I’m from a small town in Ohio that does not carry any alternative newspapers. Like some previous posters, I happened to run across the first book in the Humor section at Waldenbooks (the only bookstore in town). I read it and was hooked. I remember being extremely frustrated that there were all these people living in cities with alternative newspapers that got to read the Straight Dope _EVERY WEEK_, and I had to settle for waiting a couple years for the next book to come out. Then I experienced the years of frustration during which I was aware that there was a Straight Dope message board, but it was available only through AOL. And then, wonder of wonders, it made it to the Real Live Internet, and so here I am. By the way, I personally have bought multiple copies of each and every single SD book (because I loaned copies to friends and then had to replace the ones for my personal collection) and so I feel I have done my part toward clearing out the warehouse stacks in preparation for the next book (pleasepleaseplease say there will be another book, pleasepleaseplease). ---
**Author:** ![Pammipoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/87869e/32.png) [@Pammipoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pammipoo)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2001, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-did-you-find-the-straight-dope/57921/43 "2001-03-15T05:32:49Z")
Muffinman used to send me links to his posts occasionally, and eventually, I started straying towards other people’s posts too. I got hooked, and now a good portion of my days are spent on here. I’ve been registerred a year less than Muffinman, and I think I’ve already doubled his post count. Go figure. ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2001, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-did-you-find-the-straight-dope/57921/44 "2001-03-15T05:53:42Z")
I found the Straight Dope in an alternative paper in Raleigh, N.C. Then they dropped the column. I had to wait years for my next Cecil fix. This is my first post(I lurk no more!) ---
**Author:** ![cuauhtemoc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecb155/32.png) [@cuauhtemoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cuauhtemoc)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2001, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-did-you-find-the-straight-dope/57921/45 "2001-03-15T06:01:00Z")
I was surfing the net trying to find out it the tabs from soda cans can really be traded for kidney dialysis treatments. A friend of my family has been collecting them for twenty years, and I always wondered… I’d never heard of Cecil Adams, but when I found the answer to my question I went on to totally plow through the archives in about four days. I was enthralled. Now I have three or four websites that I check for updates every morning before I even think about doing any work - Straight Dope and Snopes are two of the staples of my morning routine. I have recommended the site to a lot of people, but nobody has ever come back to me and said “Hey, thanks for sending me to that site, it was fascinating!” Even my Dad, who I thought would love it, only found it mildly diverting. ---
**Author:** ![Dani\_Filth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f07891/32.png) [@Dani\_Filth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dani_Filth)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2001, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-did-you-find-the-straight-dope/57921/46 "2001-03-15T11:12:11Z")
When i used to live in Dallas, TX (i live in austin now, but anyways…) i read a paper there called “The Met” sometimes. Wouldn’t ya know it, Straight Dope was in that paper. I’ve been a fan ever since. 🙂 -Dani ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2001, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-did-you-find-the-straight-dope/57921/47 "2001-03-15T12:03:35Z")
The [San Francisco Bay Guardian](http://www.sfbg.com) has a sex column that I read from time to time. One time somebody asked Andrea Nemerson (the columnist) what a merkin was. Andrea provided a link to [Cecil’s answer](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_232.html), because “Cecil knows everything”. And so here I am. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2001, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-did-you-find-the-straight-dope/57921/48 "2001-03-15T13:07:20Z")
Hello. My name is **jr8** (“Hi, **jr8** ”) and I’m a Straightdope addict. My story mirrors **Fugazi** ’s: > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Fugazi \* > \*\*I used to go to a site called [bored.com](http://bored.com), they posted a link to Straightdope. I spent a couple of months going through all the archived columns. After exausting all the columns I stumbled across the message board. Haven’t been back to [bored.com](http://bored.com) in a long time. \*\* Like so many others, I started with the whimsical sites – a bit of trivia, some word games, that sort of thing. But soon they weren’t giving me the intellectual stimulation I craved, and the sites I started out with became a gateway for harder stuff Oh sure, I tried only reading Cecil’s daily columns, and at first that was enough. I told myself I could quit any time I wanted. But soon I needed more than one column a day. I started reading the archives. Every day, it was more and more columns, until there were no more. At last, crazed for a fix, I clicked the Threadspotting link – and there was no turning back. And so you see me here today – a sadder but wiser man. ---
**Author:** ![Evnglion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f04885/32.png) [@Evnglion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evnglion)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2001, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-did-you-find-the-straight-dope/57921/49 "2001-03-15T13:23:24Z")
I was doing a search at [http://www.google.com](http://www.google.com) for Goat or other barn-yard animal launchers. I came across a post on sdmb about a goat cannon that someone was wanthing to construct. That is still my favorite post of all time. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2001, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-did-you-find-the-straight-dope/57921/50 "2001-03-15T13:34:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by rastahomie \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by poohpah chalupa \* > > **I spend a lot of time hanging out in the reference section in bookstores…I have a voracious appetite for mindless information and still read books by Feldman, Poundstone, et al.** > > Same here. > \*\* Me, too! 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-did-you-find-the-straight-dope/57921.md?page=2)