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Title: Straight Dope Message Board - Your direct line to thousands of the smartest, hippest people on the planet, plus a few total dipsticks.

Description: Fighting Ignorance Since 1973

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IP: 184.105.99.106

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creation_date: 1995-12-23T05:00:00Z

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Whois Raw Data

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            Domain Name: STRAIGHTDOPE.COM
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Technical SEO

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Response Code

200

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Character Encoding

Page: utf-8, Header: utf-8

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Page Size

341975 bytes

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