· A note from Cecil Adams about The Straight Dope. By Cecil Adams J. Filed under. · The Straight dope: by Cecil Adams. Mundane Pointless Stuff I Must Share (MPSIMS) Miss_Magic8ball Janu, pm #1. Well, I was at school today, doing an exam. After I was done failing it, I went to the library to pick up some light reading. Right next to the Faust that I had came looking for, there was a book. The Straight Dope books are some of the best trivia books out there today - they cover all sorts of odds and ends from animals, media, sports to other abnormal oddities. Cecil Adams began his quest for truth in by accepting letters from the Teeming Millions (as he calls his readers) at the Chicago Reader and his been answering bizzare trivia questions ever since.4/5(26).
The Straight Dope was the brainchild of Cecil Adams, self-described as "the world's most intelligent human being." With the skill of a reference librarian and a brilliantly sarcastic writing style, "Unca Cece" answers these questions about every imaginable subject, from the sublime to the (extremely) ridiculous. Cecil Adams. Born:? Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Columnist Nationality: United States Executive summary: The Straight Dope Cecil Adams is the author of "The Straight Dope", a weekly newspaper column he has been writing since Cecil Adams Straight Dope books are some of the best trivia books out there bar none. While you may not get the answers to the specific questions you are asking you will find answers to things you always wanted to know but never really thought to ask www.doorway.ru Adams has been writing his column for the Chicago Reader since and has been asked every random trivia questions under the sun.
Cecil Adams has tackled these questions and more in his outspoken, uncompromising, and always entertaining weekly newspaper column, The Straight Dope. Now the best of these questions and answers--from the profound to the ridiculous--are collected in book form so that you can know a little about a lot. Schrödinger’s Cat: The Straight Dope. by Cecil Adams. Dear Cecil: you’re my final hope Of finding out the true Straight Dope, For I’ve been reading of Schrödinger’s cat, But none of my cats are at all like that. This unusual animal (so it is said) Is simultaneously alive and dead! What I don’t understand is just why he. Meeting a future life partner through The Straight Dope has long since ceased to be a novelty. The SDMB is a raucous, wildly entertaining house party that has kept users coming back for 22 years – “like caramel-covered crack,” as one user once put it. People participate not out of civic duty, but because it’s fun.
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