How many of us here have ever submitted a question to the great and mighty one? By question, I mean through the Reader e-mail, meant to be answered in the column?
What was your question? Did it get used in a column? Did you frame the printed reply to show all who entered your home?
A few years back I sent one, that got lost/ignored/laughed at, and never heard back. Lately, all my arcane searches for knowledge simply go into GQ, where I’ve never been let down.
umm, I got snarky about one of cecil’s columns. He pointed out a spelling mistake in the follow on answers to the column. So yep now I know how “weasel” is spelled. Still hasn’t taken me up on an offer of a beer.
Back in 2000, a question of mine became a staff report. I asked why James Bond wanted his martini shaken, not stirred. In it, Manny of the SDSAB was kind enough to say,
High praise indeed! My loyalty to the Dope has been unquestioning ever since.
I had read a questionable account about the origin of the word “quiz” arising from a bar bet. I asked the master for confirmation and was pleasantly surprised when a minion e-mailed a link to the answer - the next day!!!
I wasn’t a Doper then and I’ve deleted the e-mails, so I don’t recall which of the SDAB replied (wish I’d kept it so I could extend proper thanks here).
I’ve since asked three other questions. Since I’ve no word yet - as a result of this thread - I have posted them to the SDMB. They are…
Years ago, I asked a very specific question about an Rh-factor issue in my family that has caused some disagreement (specifically, I’m the only member in my immediate family with a negative Rh factor; my parents think it’s impossible). Never got an answer. I know I had looked at the archives first, but I didn’t think Cecil’s original piece on it answered my specific situation. Oh well. Maybe I was swapped at the hospital. :eek:
I asked if I would save money buy buyning gas really early in the morning when it’s cooler (I live in a semi-tropical area). The answer was yes, but not much.
My next master plan to save money involves having my car inspected a month late every year. I figure I’ll save thirty bucks every 13 years or so. Go me!
Oh yeah!
Years ago…I think I even did it by snail mail, I asked a question about haircare products, specifically about many of them claiming to repair damage and split ends. My hairdresser informed me that that was not possible, that once you have a split end, that was that. You either had to cut it off above the split, or it would never come together. I wondered how the products could claim such a thing if it wasn’t true. That was 4 or 5 hairdressers ago…so a looong time. I even remember the title, "Hair brained, or Hare brained?"
Got completely ignored. Never answered. That was before I was a doper, and even so, it doesn’t pop up in the archives.
Haven’t had a question I thought worthy of Unca Cece or his minions since.
