# Two columns this week? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [June 15, 2001, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-columns-this-week/68935 "2001-06-15T14:39:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Montfort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Montfort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montfort)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2001, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-columns-this-week/68935/1 "2001-06-15T14:39:21Z")
Last night, as I do every Thursday, I read _The Washington City Paper_, starting with the Straight Dope column in the back pages. The column was pertaining to Presidential intelligence and drunkeness (it’s not on the site, so no link). Then, this morning, I got the latest SD e-mail, pointing me to the present column [about prions](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/010615.html). Did something strange happen (the City Paper got next week’s column a week early?), or are there now two columns a week: one for the web, and one for print? ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2001, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-columns-this-week/68935/2 "2001-06-15T17:04:11Z")
Next week’s online column obviously isn’t online yet, but Slug’s illustration is, if you know where to look. [http://www.straightdope.com/art/2001/010622.gif](http://www.straightdope.com/art/2001/010622.gif) It doesn’t really look like George W. to me, but with Slug, anything is possible. ---
**Author:** ![minty\_green](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@minty\_green](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minty_green)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2001, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-columns-this-week/68935/3 "2001-06-15T18:52:24Z")
Nah, that’s deinitely Dubya in the illustration. Remember, he was a cheerleader at Yale. FWIW, we got the prions column down here in the Austin rag. ---
**Author:** ![JillGat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc29f/32.png) [@JillGat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JillGat)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2001, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-columns-this-week/68935/4 "2001-06-16T03:23:36Z")
Prions should have preceded the Presidents column. Maybe the paper screwed up? They get the columns in advance and they are dated for when they should appear. ---
**Author:** ![Montfort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Montfort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montfort)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2001, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-columns-this-week/68935/5 "2001-06-16T06:08:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by JillGat \* > \*\*Prions should have preceded the Presidents column. Maybe the paper screwed up? They get the columns in advance and they are dated for when they should appear. \*\* That’s probably what happened. Although, not only is DC an hour before of Chicago, it seems that we’ve managed to get a week ahead of you now. 🙂 Thanks for the explanation. I’m curious to see what we’ll get next week. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2001, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-columns-this-week/68935/6 "2001-06-18T23:01:44Z")
JillGat, maybe you and UncleBeer need to rub heads together and come to a consensus. [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=74482](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=74482) ---
**Author:** ![Montfort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Montfort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montfort)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2001, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-columns-this-week/68935/7 "2001-06-22T18:50:13Z")
Just an update: We got the prions column this week in DC.