# A Doper's Prayer **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 7, 2002, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dopers-prayer/117810 "2002-07-07T19:45:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Freyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freyr/32/5763_2.png) [@Freyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freyr)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2002, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dopers-prayer/117810/1 "2002-07-07T19:45:34Z")
(solemnly intoned) Our Cecil, who art in Chicago, hallowed be thy Name! Thy column come, to make ignorance undone, on earth as it is in the _Reader_. Give us this day our dose of humor and lead us not into ignorance but deliver us from the trolls, sockpuppets and driveby posters. For thine is the quip, the quote and meticulously researched answer. Amen! ---
**Author:** ![Siege](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@Siege](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siege)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dopers-prayer/117810/2 "2002-07-08T01:09:32Z")
Now I lay me down to sleep. I pray to Cecil my wits to keep. If I should die before I wake, Mods eon’t you fix my last mistake? ---
**Author:** ![donkeyoatey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47c2d/32.png) [@donkeyoatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/donkeyoatey)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dopers-prayer/117810/3 "2002-07-08T01:25:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by cjhoworth \* > \*\*Mods eon’t you fix my last mistake? \*\* 😛 😃 Can’t tell if that’s intentional, **cj** , but it’s pretty damn funny. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dopers-prayer/117810/4 "2002-07-08T01:42:25Z")
Now I lay me down to sleep The dopers best not make a peep And if the board should start to quake … . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Screw it. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dopers-prayer/117810/5 "2002-07-08T03:51:30Z")
[ul]_ **Cecil grant us grace fearlessly to contend against ignorance, and to make no peace with stupidity; and, that we may reverently use our reason, help us to employ it in the maintenance of knowledge among men and nations, to the glory of thy Trademarked Name; through The Straight Dope, our Board. Amen.** _[/ul]Somehow I think that the split infinitive is a little out-of-step with the spirit of the Dope, but I can’t bring myself to change it, so I’ll just do penance. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![donkeyoatey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47c2d/32.png) [@donkeyoatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/donkeyoatey)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dopers-prayer/117810/6 "2002-07-08T04:04:32Z")
Hail mod, full of wit, the Cecil is with thee. Blessed art thou among posters and blessed is the fruit of thy keyboard, edit. Holy mod, cleaner of board, pray for us posters, now and at the hour of submit. Amen. ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dopers-prayer/117810/7 "2002-07-08T12:10:46Z")
Wait, wait, wait… I’m confused… > [@](#): > > Our Cecil, who art in Chicago, hallowed be thy Name! So His name would be, what? **C\_\_\_\_l** then? How does one pronounce that? ---
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dopers-prayer/117810/8 "2002-07-08T12:33:48Z")
**I am the Lynn, thy Mod. Thou shalt have no other Mods before Me.** ---
**Author:** ![agentfroot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@agentfroot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/agentfroot)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dopers-prayer/117810/9 "2002-07-08T20:49:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by screech-owl \* > \*\ ***I am the Lynn, thy Mod. Thou shalt have no other Mods before Me.** \*\* heh this reminds me of an inside joke… GEGAN IS MOD!!! _blank, confused stares from other dopers_ erm… 'scuse me. now i lay me down to bed i pray that i won’t wake up dead if i post bad poetry i’ll go upstairs and make some tea. bleh… i tried… :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Horseflesh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horseflesh/32/7502_2.png) [@Horseflesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horseflesh)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dopers-prayer/117810/10 "2002-07-08T22:16:50Z")
O Great and Wonderful Cecil, please do something about the damn board hamsters. The last remaining hamster is 103 years old, has only one leg that isn’t gimp, and has advanced leprosy. Please cure his ills or buy him a companion. In Cecil’s name we trust, Amen.