How now Dow Jones?

Cecil checks the market this week with classic columns about the 1929 market crash. And SD Staff Dex [The Straight Dope] How now Dow Jones? By [The Straight Dope]( • Issue #18 • [View online]( Cecil checks the market this week with classic columns about the 1929 market crash. And SD Staff Dex believes in The Tooth Fairy. Threadspotting The best of the Straight Dope Message Board  May 10, 2020: [Get your biscuits in the oven]( Straight Dope Classic: June 12, 2009 [Illustration by Slug Signorino] Illustration by Slug Signorino [Who made money during the 1929 stock market crash]( Dear Cecil:  I recently discovered your site/column, and after spending days and nights reading, I’m convinced you are indeed the world’s smartest person and so best qualified to answer my question: Who made money during the 1929 stock market crash? I know being so smart, you’re probably laughing all the way to the bank during this one.  — Bernard, currently in Accra, Ghana Cecil replies:  Can’t complain, but smart didn’t have much to do with it. Forget to invest in your retirement account: if you don’t bet, you can’t lose. You can’t beat a system like that. [Click here to keep reading](. Straight Dope Staff Report: July 20, 2004 [What’s the origin of the tooth fairy]( Dear Straight Dope:  My son just lost another tooth, and being ten, is old enough to understand that I am the “tooth fairy.” We’re wondering how this myth originated. We’ve done some searches on the Internet to no avail. Can you help? —  Diane Copeland SDStaff Dex replies: Teething rituals date back to ancient times. Most societies view teething as a rite of passage — the nursing baby becomes a chewing infant when teeth come in; the infant becomes a youngster when the baby teeth are lost and the permanent teeth arrive. As with any rite of passage, different societies have evolved their own rituals and superstitions.But this particular ritual may be only a century old.  [Click here to keep reading](. Straight Dope Classic: August 30, 2002 [After the 1929 stock market crash, did investors really jump out of windows]( Dear Cecil: Did investors really jump to their deaths when the stock market crashed in 1929? If so, was it just on Wall Street or all over the country? — Alex Baxter, Aurora, Illinois Cecil replies: Admit it, you want this to be true. You want to believe there was a time when ruined tycoons, brought low through their own foolishness and greed, would do the decent thing and commit suicide, in contrast to the modern practice of going before a congressional committee and taking the fifth. You want to think that if you’d walked down Wall Street on Black Thursday — October 24, 1929 — bankrupt plutocrats would have been falling out of the skies like rain. In short, you want to believe in a better world.  [Click here to keep reading](. Did you enjoy this issue? [The Straight Dope]( By [The Straight Dope]( Fighting ignorance since 1973. (It's taking longer than we thought.) [Tweet](    [Share]( If you don't want these updates anymore, please unsubscribe [here](. If you were forwarded this newsletter and you like it, you can subscribe [here](. Powered by [Revue](