The Straight Dope

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The Straight Dope
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Web address www.straightdope.com
Commercial? Yes
Type of site
Reference pages
Registration Required only on forums
Owner The Chicago Reader / The Straight Dope Publishing
Created by Cecil Adams
Launched 1973
Alexa rank
4,651 (April 2014)[1]
Current status Active

"The Straight Dope" is an online question-and-answer newspaper column published in the Chicago Reader and syndicated in eight newspapers in the United States.[2]

Newspapers

The column derives its name from the American idiom meaning roughly "the true information; the full story"[3] and covers many subjects, including history, science, old wives' tales, urban legends, and inventions. The column appears under the tagline: "Fighting ignorance since 1973 (it's taking longer than we thought)." First published by the Reader in 1973, the column is written by Cecil Adams and illustrated by Slug Signorino.[4]

Books

To date, Adams has published five collections of his columns, and his "assistant" Ed Zotti has published a children's collection in the Adams style, Know It All.[5]

Television

In 1996, the A&E Network briefly aired a show based on the column called The Straight Dope, hosted and co-written by comedian Mike Lukas.[6] A podcast has also been released sporadically.[citation needed]

See also

References

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  2. Newspapers carrying The Straight Dope, 2013, fr/ The Straight Dope
  3. McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. P.652 © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc
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