I’m sure this sort of poll has been done before, but it may have been awhile. I remember a few offhand, but could we have a roll call?
Also, this gives me an excuse to ask what I’ve been wondering forever: What happened to Joyce K.? The faithful column correspondent from Seattle who figured so prominently in the first book? She ought to be on this board!
Sadly, no, I’m not. However, I didn’t want your thread to fade with no responses (I’m also curious about Joyce K.), so I’ll mention that I’ve got several definitions in Ebert’s Little Pocket Movie Glossary or whatever it’s called.
Thanks for the bump, Cervaise!
I’m not either, of course… I seem to remember TubaDiva being in the third one, and probably Opalcat, and probably some other folks who are here on this board under different names.
Is this thread going to die a slow, sad, unpopular death?
I was - can you find me?
One who was mentioned often in the last two was Bermuda 999 (or something like that). I wonder what happened to that poster.
I’m mentioned, under my old AOL screen name, ottoplndrm. In the “What will be on your tombstone?” question in Triumph of the Straight Dope, I responded: “Windows has experienced a general protection error in module PHIL.EXE.”
Wasn’t whitetho in one, correcting Cecil? Or was that just a column that wasn’t in the books?
I was in the same thing as PLdennison/Otto
of “What will be on your tombstone” only I was
JA1166 at the time.
Cecil’s original, erroneous column was included in his latest book, Triumph of the Straight Dope (1999), so the correction column has only appeared in the newspapers. (The original column has never been posted online, by the way). I, of course have great hopes that the next book, should it ever appear, will immortalize the column my corrections inspired, should Uncle Cecil deem it worthy of inclusion.
However, the Straight Dope minions have told us that a new volume won’t be released until they sell off enough of the earlier ones. I grow impatient–perhaps picketing the Chicago Reader World Headquarters would speed things up. And it wouldn’t hurt if people bought a few wheelbarrows of books to help clear out the warehouses.
Phil, you misquoted yourself. It’s not a general protection error, it’s a “fatal exception error”. Much better in the original.
Shirley Ujest, you modest thing:
You started that thread! There’s glory for you.
whitetho: which column is it? Cecil was in error? :eek:
curwin: you’ll have to give us a hint, at least. You’re not in the index. 
Technically, as The World’s Smartest Human Being, Cecil doesn’t make mistakes, so it turned out to (somehow) be all Little Ed’s fault. In any event, the full details appear in: http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2
I’m not in the index, but I am in the archives…
matt_mcl is another one of those who corrected Cecil on a column that appears in a book, but after the book was published.
http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_352b.html
If they ever do another edition of More of The Straight Dope, he’ll probably get in.
I asked (and had answered) a question under my AOL screen name, yoshi1009. The question was, “How did the moon=green cheese myth start?” I’m not sure if it’s in one of the books, though.
I had a letter printed in “The Straight Dope Tells All”, which is the blue book. One of the crowning moments of my life when Cecil himself riduculed me in print. Wish I could put it on my resume…