# Weird Earl's **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [June 24, 2012, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-earls/626118 "2012-06-24T02:06:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Nametag](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nametag/32/406_2.png) [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2012, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-earls/626118/1 "2012-06-24T02:06:36Z")
While catching up on Weird Earl’s Archive of Web Curiosities, I visited a headliner from not too long ago, the “Automatic Flatterer.” I entered a fake name, as is my wont – this time, I chose a variant on my habitual _nom de guerre_, to wit: “Tag.” I was automatically flattered: “What a beautiful name Tag.” It’s pitiful, really, how easily I’m amused. I never see people talk about their experiences with Weird Earl’s; why is that? ---
**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:** [June 24, 2012, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-earls/626118/2 "2012-06-24T02:15:05Z")
> [@](#): > > I never see people talk about their experiences with Weird Earl’s; why is that? Possibly because it’s now buried so far down on the front page that most people don’t notice it. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2012, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-earls/626118/3 "2012-06-24T02:51:33Z")
Most Weird Earl’s stuff is not really interactive like that. But I for one always check it out. ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2012, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-earls/626118/4 "2012-06-25T16:19:39Z")
I have a problem with Weird Earl’s body odor. You’d think he could take a shower once a week. ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2012, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-earls/626118/5 "2012-06-25T16:27:25Z")
Ok now I’m really confused. Not knowing who this Weird Earl person was, I went a-googlin’. Led me right back here, it did. [http://www.straightdope.com/weirdearls/](http://www.straightdope.com/weirdearls/) It’s just a long list of links to assorted threads. Headliners, you might say. But who is Earl? ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2012, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-earls/626118/6 "2012-06-25T16:28:54Z")
Since it’s on the front page it doesn’t really lead back to here. We don’t have a “Weird Earl” forum or anything like that. BTW, I could use some new material, both for Weird Earl and Threadspottings. If you see something suitable for any category, please send your nomination to [TubaDiva@straightdope.com](mailto:TubaDiva@straightdope.com). Do it today! ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2012, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-earls/626118/7 "2012-06-25T16:30:09Z")
Nobody talks about Earl, they just roll their eyes. 😃 (It’s actually a corruption of “Weird URL.” Goes back to our earliest days, when all this was new and amazing.) ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2012, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-earls/626118/8 "2012-06-26T03:52:47Z")
I get it now, although I never ever heard anyone say URL as “Earl”. That, combined with the apostrophe mistake in the OP led me to think that Earl was an actual, living, breathing, thinking, feeling, caring, albeit weird person. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2012, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-earls/626118/9 "2012-06-26T04:21:20Z")
Sure, like Cecil Adams. Earl’s his weirder cousin. (Everybody’s got one.)