# Suggestion for another NEW forum **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [September 25, 2001, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-for-another-new-forum/83767 "2001-09-25T19:37:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![caircair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/91b2a8/32.png) [@caircair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caircair)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2001, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-for-another-new-forum/83767/1 "2001-09-25T19:37:09Z")
Why not a recipe forum? Call it “Good Eats” or something like that. I’ve noticed quite a few people mentioning or posting recipes, but there doesn’t seem to be a single place where we dopers could share our favorites. Whaddya say, Ed? Moderators? Cecil? Set up the new forum and I promise I’ll include the recipe for the best Chinese BBQ Pork ever made. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2001, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-for-another-new-forum/83767/2 "2001-09-25T20:48:07Z")
For that matter, I was thinking that if we have a forum dedicated to something so broad as the arts (I love the Cafe, by the way), shouldn’t we also have a forum didicated to **Sports** – a pretty broad topic if there ever was one. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2001, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-for-another-new-forum/83767/3 "2001-09-25T20:49:43Z")
… or spelling? ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_H](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a5b964/32.png) [@Bill\_H](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_H)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2001, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-for-another-new-forum/83767/4 "2001-09-25T21:04:52Z")
I was thinking I would really enjoy reading a Left-Handed Pig Farmer forum. Is that out of the question? ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2001, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-for-another-new-forum/83767/5 "2001-09-25T21:34:34Z")
mmmm, fooooood ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2001, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-for-another-new-forum/83767/6 "2001-09-25T22:01:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bill H. \* > \*\*I was thinking I would really enjoy reading a Left-Handed Pig Farmer forum. Is that out of the question? \*\* [Bloom County]Not until we get one for mulatto touch-typists.[/Bloom County] ---
**Author:** ![caircair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/91b2a8/32.png) [@caircair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caircair)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2001, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-for-another-new-forum/83767/7 "2001-09-25T22:39:19Z")
BRAVO Anthracite! ---
**Author:** ![Oncle\_Biere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8baadc/32.png) [@Oncle\_Biere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oncle_Biere)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2001, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-for-another-new-forum/83767/8 "2001-09-25T22:56:56Z")
I have to believe there are already formums specializing in recipes. Also sports. But you should ask on a regular Farmer forum about left-handed pigs. As I recall, they are treated much like right-handed pigs, but are kept on the other side of the barn, so they don’t get sun in their eyes. ---
**Author:** ![D18](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@D18](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D18)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2001, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-for-another-new-forum/83767/9 "2001-09-26T00:23:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bill H. \* > \*\*I was thinking I would really enjoy reading a Left-Handed Pig Farmer forum. Is that out of the question? \*\* Maybe it’s not the pigs **hands** we need a forum on: > [@](#): > > _Much remains to be learned about pig reproductive physiology. For instance, it’s unclear whether the male pig, in the midst of his amatory labors, employs a clockwise or a counterclockwise rotation. It may be that pigs come in both versions, as with right- and left-handed humans. We can only guess at the life of heartache and misery that must await the little Porky equipped with a left-handed tool in a world of right-handed Petunias._ Wait a minute. Oh I get it, it’s left-handed **farmers** you’re interested in. Never mind. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2001, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-for-another-new-forum/83767/10 "2001-09-26T01:43:02Z")
I believe that Uke and Euty have laid claim to recipe threads in their forum. Cooking is an art. ---
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2001, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-for-another-new-forum/83767/11 "2001-09-26T07:26:02Z")
In another similar thread a while back, I suggested an “Ask the \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_” forum. We get a lot of those threads every once in a while, and since we have many qualified people in many fields on this board, it would be a central place to find them all. Sort of a self-styled expert forum, with a good dose of YMMV on the “expert” part, just to be on the safe side. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2001, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-for-another-new-forum/83767/12 "2001-09-26T16:48:50Z")
Like **Chronos** said. **Plnnr** asked if he could go ahead and do one on pies, as he considered cooking to be an art, and I wished him Godspeed. So far, **Euty** hasn’t contradicted any of us. ---
**Author:** ![AM\_PM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@AM\_PM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AM_PM)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2001, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-for-another-new-forum/83767/13 "2001-09-26T18:04:49Z")
The topic of new forums was broached just last week [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=29582](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=29582) > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TubaDiva \* > \*\*It’s nice to hear all these varied opinions, this board truly is what our users make it. > > We take all suggestions seriously and implement the ones we think are most useful. > > One of the great things about The Straight Dope is all the places and things generated in Cecil’s wake; there’s something somewhere for most every taste. You can choose what you like and leave the rest and that’s cool too. > > Most of all, we are what we are and pretty much we’re happy with that. > > If you’re not happy with it, well, you’ve got other places to check out and happy trails to you. > > your humble TubaDiva > Administrator \*\* ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2001, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-for-another-new-forum/83767/14 "2001-09-26T20:38:55Z")
Dijon Warlock, we already have an “Ask the \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ forum”. It’s called “General Questions”. Though some time ago every other thread in MPSIMS was titled “Ask the \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_”, with something like “left-handed pencil twister” as the blank filler. But that was a joke that got old. ---
**Author:** ![beyondblender](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/45deac/32.png) [@beyondblender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beyondblender)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2001, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-for-another-new-forum/83767/15 "2001-09-26T21:33:47Z")
You need a forum for the kind of thing Cecil writes about, but not insisting it be based on his column. Or, to put it another way, loosen up the rules on Cecil’s column. The General Questions column is primarily things Cecil would never touch.