Straight Dope columns that have changed your life

Remind me not to be in your general vicinity when you flush a toilet, Svt:wink:

I think the first column I ever saw was the one about a rat coming up through the toilet. That may have been Daoloth who linked it to me, I’m not sure as it was so long ago. The next one I read, sometime later, was probably about Hitler. Much time passed until, about the end of July 2002, I went in a couple day binge of the site, when I finally registered. I think that date was August 8, 2002.