CHICAGO,IL – After much consideration by the Straight Dope staff, it has been decided that the Straight Dope Message Board is to be shut down and replaced by a Google Engine.
The “Straight Dope” is a newspaper column that has been in print since 1973 and is written by one “Cecil Adams”. It’s mission, “To Fight Ignorance”. For years, folks have written in to Cecil to answer their tough and mind bending questions, and their answers, if they were answered, were posted in the Chicago Reader.
As time passed, and an electronic message board was put in place where fans of Cecil could ask and answer each others questions. But all this has now ended.
“It wasn’t a hard decision to make,” a board administrator commented, “we wanted to cut costs, and to save our members some time while looking to have their questions answered.
Besides, our own message board members agree that Google is much smarter than they are. They always tell others members to go there when they have asked a question, after all.”
The details of this board closure are publicly available on the internet. Where might you find them? Do a Google search…
(Originally posted in my LJ, and yes, it was written by me.)
You don’t read The Onion very often, do you, Ferrous?
It’s a satire piece made to resemble an actual press release in which the Chicago Reader staff announce the closing of the message board partly because it’s cheaper, but mostly because most of the questions asked of the Straight Dope these days could have been answered with a very simple Google search.
