Anybody familiar with www.straightdope.com?

[T Roosevelt]

A friend of mine passed it on to me, and it looks a little like snopes, though more indepth - haven't gone through it yet...

http://www.straightdope.com/

[MercutioATC]

1. Long live Uncle Cecil !!!

[qnr]

2. yeah, and a big portion of How Things Work n/t

[davidinalameda]

3. good site

my ex posts there

[XNASA]

4. Sure. It's been in the Chicago Reader for the last 25 years or so.

My buddy used to publish a column in his school paper called "The Doped Straight" which as you might guess, was a parody.

[Liberal Veteran]

5. Yep. I like them. Humorous and skeptical at the same time.

They've been around for a long time. Even as far back as the 80's they would have a column here and there in magazines.

My favorite:

"I was idly reading a Grape-Nuts package the other day and was struck by the fact that the ingredients seem to have nothing to do with either grapes or nuts. Reading the fine print, I see that it's really "grape nuts brand natural wheat & barley cereal," etc., but the type sizes jump around madly and any normally myopic person would just see the "grape nuts." So here are my questions: (1) Can I market my "100% Lean Beef brand desiccated corn husks" without getting in trouble with the consumer protection people, the FTC, et. al.? (I assume anything I do will get me in trouble with Ralph Nader.) (2) If I can't, how can the Post division of General Foods? (3) In any case, how did they come to call them Grape-Nuts? -- Winfield S., Chicago"

[RPM]

6. love the books

used to read them before the internet(s)

[Kire]

7. i get their daily email updates

it's very interesting stuff, most times