# Who's been in the Straight Dope books? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 28, 2002, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-been-in-the-straight-dope-books/125893 "2002-08-28T03:32:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Briny\_Deep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/briny_deep/32/17188_2.png) [@Briny\_Deep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Briny_Deep)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2002, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-been-in-the-straight-dope-books/125893/1 "2002-08-28T03:32:55Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2002, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-been-in-the-straight-dope-books/125893/2 "2002-08-28T19:53:41Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Briny\_Deep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/briny_deep/32/17188_2.png) [@Briny\_Deep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Briny_Deep)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2002, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-been-in-the-straight-dope-books/125893/3 "2002-08-28T20:35:59Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![curwin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@curwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curwin)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2002, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-been-in-the-straight-dope-books/125893/4 "2002-08-29T20:06:39Z")
I was - can you find me? ---
**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:** [August 30, 2002, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-been-in-the-straight-dope-books/125893/5 "2002-08-30T00:39:45Z")
One who was mentioned often in the last two was Bermuda 999 (or something like that). I wonder what happened to that poster. ---
**Author:** ![pldennison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc29f/32.png) [@pldennison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pldennison)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2002, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-been-in-the-straight-dope-books/125893/6 "2002-08-30T14:32:41Z")
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.” ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2002, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-been-in-the-straight-dope-books/125893/7 "2002-08-30T14:35:22Z")
Wasn’t **whitetho** in one, correcting Cecil? Or was that just a column that wasn’t in the books? ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2002, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-been-in-the-straight-dope-books/125893/8 "2002-08-30T14:38:06Z")
I was in the same thing as PLdennison/Otto of “What will be on your tombstone” only I was JA1166 at the time. ---
**Author:** ![whitetho](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whitetho/32/1059_2.png) [@whitetho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whitetho)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2002, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-been-in-the-straight-dope-books/125893/9 "2002-08-30T22:02:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dantheman \* > \*\*Wasn’t **whitetho** in one, correcting Cecil? Or was that just a column that wasn’t in the books? \*\* 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. ---
**Author:** ![Briny\_Deep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/briny_deep/32/17188_2.png) [@Briny\_Deep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Briny_Deep)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2002, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-been-in-the-straight-dope-books/125893/10 "2002-08-31T02:06:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by pldennison \* > \*\*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.” \*\* 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: > [@](#): > > I was in the same thing as PLdennison/Otto > of “What will be on your tombstone” only I was > JA1166 at the time. 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. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![whitetho](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whitetho/32/1059_2.png) [@whitetho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whitetho)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2002, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-been-in-the-straight-dope-books/125893/11 "2002-08-31T09:38:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by masonite \* > \*\*whitetho: which column is it? Cecil was in error? :eek: \*\* 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](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2) ---
**Author:** ![curwin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@curwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curwin)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2002, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-been-in-the-straight-dope-books/125893/12 "2002-08-31T19:57:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by masonite \* > **curwin** : you’ll have to give us a hint, at least. You’re not in the index. 😉 \*\* I’m not in the index, but I am in the archives… ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Lao](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2bfe46/32.png) [@Dr.Lao](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Lao)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2002, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-been-in-the-straight-dope-books/125893/13 "2002-08-31T20:15:49Z")
**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](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. ---
**Author:** ![Cleophus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e57/32.png) [@Cleophus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cleophus)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2002, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-been-in-the-straight-dope-books/125893/14 "2002-09-01T16:19:45Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Llama\_Llogophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2002, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-been-in-the-straight-dope-books/125893/15 "2002-09-01T23:04:41Z")
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…