The Straight Dope
is a popular question-and-answer newspaper column published in the
Chicago Reader,
syndicated in thirty newspapers in the
United
States
and Canada
, as well as
being available and archived at the Straight Dope website -
straightdope.com.
Newspapers
The column derives its name from the American
idiom meaning roughly "the honest truth" 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.
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.
Adams has also published several collections of material from the
column into paperback books.
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.
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