# What brought you to the Straight Dope? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 10, 2011, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-brought-you-to-the-straight-dope/599138 "2011-10-10T02:06:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Bookkeeper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bookkeeper/32/281_2.png) [@Bookkeeper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bookkeeper)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2011, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-brought-you-to-the-straight-dope/599138/81 "2011-11-01T18:01:37Z")
Came to the Straight Dope from a “Best Internet Sites” link, and after reading back through the columns archives, clicked on an-impossible-to-pass-up Threadspotting link to “Evil Nazi Groundhogs”. Joined up soon after, when I wanted to post to one of the threads I was reading. And have just realized that was 10 years ago this past Sunday. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2011, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-brought-you-to-the-straight-dope/599138/82 "2011-11-01T18:13:31Z")
> [@Stoid](#): > > May I give you a digital hug? We could digitally make out. Then all the guys can digitally chuckle like Beavis and Butthead. ---
**Author:** ![WorkInProgress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@WorkInProgress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WorkInProgress)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2011, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-brought-you-to-the-straight-dope/599138/83 "2011-11-01T20:50:55Z")
I heard someone who was supposed to be Cecil on The Allan Handelman Show. I think one of the topics was “why does tin foil in your mouth make your teeth feel funny.” ---
**Author:** ![all1966](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@all1966](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/all1966)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2011, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-brought-you-to-the-straight-dope/599138/84 "2011-11-01T20:53:28Z")
I’m new to the Straight Dope this year - was trying to find out who the heck Alvin Tostig was and why Bernie Taupin thought he needed to end up in a lyric. Then I learned all about the warm smell of colitas, and well, it was just too fun to leave… ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2011, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-brought-you-to-the-straight-dope/599138/85 "2011-11-02T01:51:58Z")
I was a regular reader of Cecil’s column in a local alternative paper (the Montreal Mirror). Until it wasn’t there any more. Eventually, I googled The Straight Dope hoping to find his column online and, mirabile dictu, I did! ---
**Author:** ![skdo23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@skdo23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/skdo23)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2012, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-brought-you-to-the-straight-dope/599138/86 "2012-03-30T18:10:02Z")
There was an article in the Sunday local paper about those laced together sneakers that you sometimes see dangling from power/telephone lines, along with various explanations/legends about why people toss them up there. The article cited one of Cecil’s columns that answered a reader’s question about the subject, so I decided to check out the main SD website and, after poking around a bit, discovered the SDMB as well. Since then, I’ve often inadvertently come across the SDMB while Googling stuff. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2012, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-brought-you-to-the-straight-dope/599138/87 "2012-03-30T18:24:53Z")
Googling led me to the columns, which I read for a few months before ever discovering the board. When I did, I joined and the community has regretted it ever since. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-brought-you-to-the-straight-dope/599138.md?page=4)