# What if The Straight Dope is really a cult? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 19, 2012, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-straight-dope-is-really-a-cult/644499 "2012-12-19T07:55:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-straight-dope-is-really-a-cult/644499/41 "2012-12-20T02:02:26Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > \is in reality the #2 guy.\ Heh - you said “#2.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-straight-dope-is-really-a-cult/644499/42 "2012-12-20T02:17:15Z")
> [@bump](#): > > Nice. That was the first thing I thought of too. The OP’s a Replicant! Everyone, get him! ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-straight-dope-is-really-a-cult/644499/43 "2012-12-20T03:12:13Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > Well, there’s a reason people who are banned are _never seen again…_ I remember when people used to complain about the hamsters that powered the Dope servers - now that banning is more frequent, you don’t see those complaints. The servers seem to be better powered… Coincidence, I think not. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-straight-dope-is-really-a-cult/644499/44 "2012-12-20T13:41:08Z")
Cult? Nonsense! Now I’ll have to ritually purify my computer by submerging it in a mixture of tomato juice and semen as Cecil instructed or else it will be infected by the gremlins of doubt! Thanks a LOT! ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-straight-dope-is-really-a-cult/644499/45 "2012-12-20T13:52:05Z")
“We place no reliance on virgin or pidgeon. Our method is science, our aim is religion” – The rules of the Great Debates forum. Or Aleister Crowley. I always get those two mixed up. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-straight-dope-is-really-a-cult/644499/46 "2012-12-20T14:12:35Z")
sung to the tune of “eleanor rigby” something i’ve kind of always wanted to do _\__ aleister crowley staying with his wife in a house that they rent by the nile drunk all the while look at him writing taking dictation from aiwass as he has been told lunch getting cold all thelema’s people doing what they will all thelema’s people of love they take their fill grady mcmurtry filling his pipe with the leftover hash from the mass stoned off his ass somewhere in Berkeley fanning the flame of an Order that nobody knows watch as it grows all thelema’s people doing what they will all thelema’s people of love they take their fill ah, look at all thelema’s people ah, look at all thelema’s people aleister crowley dancing and dining alone at his own greater feast, farewell, great beast; grady mcmurtry claiming his caliphate powers to run OTO on with the show all thelema’s people doing what they will all thelema’s people of love they take their fill _(not mine, found it on teh interwebs [aleister crowley: journalunknown — LiveJournal](http://journalunknown.livejournal.com/2190.html) )_ ---
**Author:** ![Cats\_pajamas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cdc98d/32.png) [@Cats\_pajamas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cats_pajamas)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-straight-dope-is-really-a-cult/644499/47 "2012-12-20T15:11:45Z")
**Please take notice** that this thread is about the possibility of The Straight Dope being a cult, not what can possibly happen when one suddenly stops taking Prozac. > [@DrFidelius](#): > > sung to the tune of “eleanor rigby” > something i’ve kind of always wanted to do _\__ > > aleister crowley > staying with his wife in a house that they rent by the nile > drunk all the while > look at him writing > taking dictation from aiwass as he has been told > lunch getting cold > > all thelema’s people > doing what they will > all thelema’s people > of love they take their fill > > grady mcmurtry > filling his pipe with the leftover hash from the mass > stoned off his ass > somewhere in Berkeley > fanning the flame of an Order that nobody knows > watch as it grows > > all thelema’s people > doing what they will > all thelema’s people > of love they take their fill > > ah, look at all thelema’s people > ah, look at all thelema’s people > > aleister crowley > dancing and dining alone at his own greater feast, > farewell, great beast; > grady mcmurtry > claiming his caliphate powers to run OTO > on with the show > > all thelema’s people > doing what they will > all thelema’s people > of love they take their fill > > _(not mine, found it on teh interwebs [aleister crowley: journalunknown — LiveJournal](http://journalunknown.livejournal.com/2190.html) )_ ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-straight-dope-is-really-a-cult/644499/48 "2012-12-20T15:27:53Z")
Why U no like sing-along? ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-straight-dope-is-really-a-cult/644499/49 "2012-12-20T17:46:35Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > Well, there’s a reason people who are banned are _never seen again…_ If only… ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-straight-dope-is-really-a-cult/644499/50 "2012-12-20T18:12:14Z")
> [@Cats\_pajamas](#): > > **Please take notice** that this thread is about the possibility of The Straight Dope being a cult, not what can possibly happen when one suddenly stops taking Prozac. U mad bro? ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-straight-dope-is-really-a-cult/644499/51 "2012-12-20T18:17:28Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > Fine. But I’m not shaving my head. Fine. Now pass the Kool-aide. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-the-straight-dope-is-really-a-cult/644499.md?page=2)