# What brought you here?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-brought-you-here/46304
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [December 19, 2000, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-brought-you-here/46304 "2000-12-19T06:06:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@thinksnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thinksnow)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2000, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-brought-you-here/46304/1 "2000-12-19T06:06:53Z")
For me, it was a link posted by the misanthropic bitch.
How about you, how’d **you** get here?
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### Author:  [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2000, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-brought-you-here/46304/2 "2000-12-19T06:12:02Z")
hmmm… your link didn’t work for me…
But what brought me here? A LOT of free time on my hands, and a low threshold for boredom! 🙂
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### Author:  [@mega\_the\_roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mega_the_roo)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2000, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-brought-you-here/46304/3 "2000-12-19T06:13:14Z")
Kilgore Trout told me about it after he did a search trying to figure out what those white spots on his fingernails were all about…
Heheh.
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### Author:  [@Gunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gunslinger)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2000, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-brought-you-here/46304/4 "2000-12-19T06:15:45Z")
I used to watch the TV show on A&E. When I got online, I typed [http://www.straightdope.com](http://www.straightdope.com) on a whim. I read the columns for a few weeks before getting on the boards. IIRC, it was the “whispering on submarines” thread that made me decide to register.
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### Author:  [@zyzzyva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zyzzyva)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2000, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-brought-you-here/46304/5 "2000-12-19T06:17:23Z")
It’s all Rasa’s fault.
Of course, she’ll disagree and say it’s all my fault that she’s here in the first place. But she’s wrong. It’s her fault.
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### Author:  [@Tisme](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tisme)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2000, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-brought-you-here/46304/6 "2000-12-19T06:22:23Z")
Your link spat the dummy.
As to what brought me here - It was my computer. 😃
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### Author:  [@Rasa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rasa)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2000, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-brought-you-here/46304/7 "2000-12-19T06:23:24Z")
I disagree. It’s all zyzz’s fault.
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### Author:  [@Sasquatch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sasquatch)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2000, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-brought-you-here/46304/8 "2000-12-19T06:24:25Z")
I honestly can’t remember. I think I just stumbled across it.
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### Author:  [@oldscratch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oldscratch)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2000, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-brought-you-here/46304/9 "2000-12-19T06:38:26Z")
I blame Rasa too. It’s all her fault.
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### Author:  [@Rasa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rasa)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2000, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-brought-you-here/46304/10 "2000-12-19T06:44:04Z")
I take full responsibility for ya, scratchie. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Anniz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anniz)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2000, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-brought-you-here/46304/11 "2000-12-19T07:25:35Z")
A friend from another message board
was looking for a new place to be on,
her name is Sherry and she called herself sortawicked here,
she was only her for a little while.
But, anyway, she told me about this place
and I’m still here.
I have her to thanks for so much
since I found **Montfort** here
and of course I have already done that.
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### Author:  [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2000, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-brought-you-here/46304/12 "2000-12-19T07:27:31Z")
The article on the caloric content of sperm brought me to the books/articles, and the thread on the seti@home project got me to join.
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### Author:  [@Iblis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iblis)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2000, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-brought-you-here/46304/13 "2000-12-19T07:29:20Z")
my friend sent me a link, so i read the forums for a few days… then i decided to register
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### Author:  [@2nd\_Law](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2nd_Law)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2000, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-brought-you-here/46304/14 "2000-12-19T07:33:16Z")
I found my way to the boards from the Chicago Reader website, which I had been using and still do use for things like apartment hunting, movies reviews and schedules, and restaurant reviews.
When I noticed the link to The Straight Dope, I was psyched because I got turned onto Uncle Cecil when I was an undergrad, and when the first Straight Dope book came out I sent it to all my relatives for Xmas. After reading the columns in the archives, I clicked on the mesage board link to see what it was, and I was hooked. After lurking for a couple of months, I registered to throw in my occasional comment.
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### Author:  [@Silo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silo)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2000, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-brought-you-here/46304/15 "2000-12-19T07:44:33Z")
I found the site while browsing through AOL’s content. I recognized “Straight dope” immediately as I’d bought one of Cecil’s books bearing that title years ago. So I clicked on a link which took me to [http://www.straightdope.com](http://www.straightdope.com) and spent a few weeks sifting through the online columns (I think I read all of them). After a few weeks of visiting the site here and there, I wondered: “what’s this “message boards” hyperlink I keep seeing?”
So I clicked it and…
here I am! Wooo!
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### Author:  [@My\_Sister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/My_Sister)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2000, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-brought-you-here/46304/16 "2000-12-19T07:54:57Z")
My SO and the other couple we hang with were posting from a coffee shop.
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### Author:  [@tisiphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tisiphone)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2000, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-brought-you-here/46304/17 "2000-12-19T08:02:17Z")
I think I got here through [www.snopes.com](http://www.snopes.com) a couple years ago, but until a few months ago, I looked at the boards maybe once or twice. I did, however, faithfully follow the Great One’s sagacious word every Monday, and was peeved when the new column was late.
However,I visited in time for the original evil nazi groundhogs thread with Scylla, which really got me intrigued. The thread doesn’t seem to be out there anymore - the second thread is, but I don’t see the first, or I’d have linked to it.
I’ve been lurking on 'n off since. 😃
Tisiphone
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### Author:  [@fierra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fierra)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2000, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-brought-you-here/46304/18 "2000-12-19T11:08:22Z")
I was bored at work & did a websearch on yahoo on the word bored…this took me to [http://www.bored.com](http://www.bored.com) which had lots of interesting links, including one for the columns.
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### Author:  [@BornDodgy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BornDodgy)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2000, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-brought-you-here/46304/19 "2000-12-19T11:29:49Z")
I came from SAAN aka Smile and Act Nice…
(loony is the name)
dogy
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### Author:  [@pezpunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pezpunk)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2000, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-brought-you-here/46304/20 "2000-12-19T13:20:33Z")
I used to read Cecil’s article in a local paper. When I saw that he had books out, I went and read every one available. The next obvious step was to check out the website.
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