# Another question for the owners/adminstrators of this board: Replacement Cecil **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [March 29, 2002, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-question-for-the-owners-adminstrators-of-this-board-replacement-cecil/100730 "2002-03-29T12:33:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Lisa\_Ann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bc79bd/32.png) [@Lisa\_Ann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lisa_Ann)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2002, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-question-for-the-owners-adminstrators-of-this-board-replacement-cecil/100730/181 "2002-05-03T21:13:42Z")
It’s right there in front of you! Jeez! Where is **Fenris**? Do I have to run this place all by myself?! I mean, he should be checking in real soon. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2002, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-question-for-the-owners-adminstrators-of-this-board-replacement-cecil/100730/182 "2002-05-03T22:03:24Z")
**Lisa Ann, _please_** feed the hamsters before the board goes down again! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2002, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-question-for-the-owners-adminstrators-of-this-board-replacement-cecil/100730/183 "2002-05-03T22:09:11Z")
**feed** the hamsters? _ **feed** _ the hamsters? why, why, you’re Brilliant, **Poly**!!! ---
**Author:** ![Lisa\_Ann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bc79bd/32.png) [@Lisa\_Ann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lisa_Ann)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2002, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-question-for-the-owners-adminstrators-of-this-board-replacement-cecil/100730/184 "2002-05-03T23:42:16Z")
I’ve been giving them leftover test cakes, but they keep throwing up. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2002, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-question-for-the-owners-adminstrators-of-this-board-replacement-cecil/100730/185 "2002-05-03T23:50:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lisa Ann \* > \*\*Where is **Fenris**? Do I have to run this place all by myself?! I mean, he should be checking in real soon. 🙂 \*\* **Fenris** vanished a good two weeks ago. His last post was April 19th. ---
**Author:** ![Lisa\_Ann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bc79bd/32.png) [@Lisa\_Ann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lisa_Ann)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2002, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-question-for-the-owners-adminstrators-of-this-board-replacement-cecil/100730/186 "2002-05-03T23:53:38Z")
He’ll be back any time now. Yup. ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2002, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-question-for-the-owners-adminstrators-of-this-board-replacement-cecil/100730/187 "2002-05-04T00:02:51Z")
there are times when real life and/or other issues may mean some one doesn’t post for a while, but he didn’t ‘vanish’. (stopping self before she gets into a cleaning product punfest) ---
**Author:** ![leechbabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@leechbabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leechbabe)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2002, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-question-for-the-owners-adminstrators-of-this-board-replacement-cecil/100730/188 "2002-05-04T10:21:24Z")
**Leechbabe** arrives late as usual but wishes to offer her services to Cecil II if and when he returns. What can I offer??? Hmmm well I’m good at sucking so perhaps I could be the cleaning lady and start vacuuming - just look at this mess. Honestly it’s called a rubbish bin for a reason people! ---
**Author:** ![Atreyu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@Atreyu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atreyu)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2002, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-question-for-the-owners-adminstrators-of-this-board-replacement-cecil/100730/189 "2002-05-04T13:03:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Arwen \* > \*\*and to top it off, that sneaky **Arnold** and **Atreyu** escaped from the Crack Assassins! > \*\* Wasn’t so hard. All I had to do was bribe the Assassins’ source of crack to…ah…forget a few deliveries. While your boys were in painful withdrawal, **Arnold** and I simply sauntered on out of their grip. Really, **Arwen** , if you’re going to be serious about this, you _must_ get better help. In the meantime, my training of the hamster double-agents continues…MUWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2002, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-question-for-the-owners-adminstrators-of-this-board-replacement-cecil/100730/190 "2002-05-05T16:11:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by wring \* > \*\*there are times when real life and/or other issues may mean some one doesn’t post for a while, but he didn’t > ‘vanish’. (stopping self before she gets into a cleaning product punfest) \*\* What is this “real life” of which you speak? The SDMB entity known as **Fenris** has indeed vanished. I suspect he was “disappeared” for his blasphemous impertinence. ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2002, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-question-for-the-owners-adminstrators-of-this-board-replacement-cecil/100730/191 "2002-05-05T18:01:56Z")
don’t look now, but [he’s back](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=113412)😃 ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2002, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-question-for-the-owners-adminstrators-of-this-board-replacement-cecil/100730/192 "2002-05-05T19:32:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by wring \* > \*\*don’t look now, but [he’s back](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=113412)😃 \*\* Yes, I saw that shortly after I posted. He will probably claim to have been off doing something in “real life,” when actually he was chained in a basement somewhere, only having escaped by bribing the guards with chocolate. ---
**Author:** ![Exgineer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Exgineer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exgineer)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2002, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-question-for-the-owners-adminstrators-of-this-board-replacement-cecil/100730/193 "2002-05-06T01:35:49Z")
Okay, I’m back early.\* Waitaminute… NOBODY FED THE HAMSTERS? What is wrong with you people? Geezoos Kristos, all you had to do was drop some pellets in the chute, change the shredded paper in the tray, and grease the wheel. Is that so hard? Dangit, Jerry is gonna kill me. I don’t even want to think about what **Fenris** is going to say when he finally checks in again. Man, I am so dead. \*[sub]I missed the plane, because I’m a :wally[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Arwen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7c8e57/32.png) [@Arwen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arwen)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-question-for-the-owners-adminstrators-of-this-board-replacement-cecil/100730/194 "2002-05-07T16:35:34Z")
_ahem_ I think we can keep **Jerry** off your back for awhile with a tour of the Basement Labyrinth, at least until you can get those hamsters up and running again (blame the blip on Atreyu’s unionization), but you’ve gotta hurry! I don’t think we have to worry about **Fenris** coming back before we get everything back together…I think he’s already uber-busy with his duties! He’s been jet-setting around, representing **Cecil** , and doesn’t have time to check in too often anymore. We’ll have plenty of time to get everything back in order… [sub]I hope…[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-question-for-the-owners-adminstrators-of-this-board-replacement-cecil/100730/195 "2002-05-07T18:30:27Z")
You know, it’s typical. Get somebody recognized as famous and honored in his own time, and what does he do but vanish. Look at how seldom **Cecil Adams** posts, and once **Fenris** became **Cecil II** , he’s all but vanished from the boards. (I’d get into historical examples, but somebody’d say the thread belonged in Great Debates.) Typical… ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2002, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-question-for-the-owners-adminstrators-of-this-board-replacement-cecil/100730/196 "2002-05-08T12:58:14Z")
Hey, **Poly**! That hurts. I’ve been off consoldating my power in my bid for Replacement Cecil, and ye of little faith just assume I’ve left? I expected better of you ☹ Fenris, hurt. Deeply hurt. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![leechbabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@leechbabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leechbabe)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2002, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-question-for-the-owners-adminstrators-of-this-board-replacement-cecil/100730/197 "2002-05-09T03:04:04Z")
Oh poor Fenris / Cecil II, let Leechbabe kiss your ouchy better 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Lisa\_Ann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bc79bd/32.png) [@Lisa\_Ann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lisa_Ann)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2002, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-question-for-the-owners-adminstrators-of-this-board-replacement-cecil/100730/198 "2002-05-09T16:16:39Z")
Master! Welcome home! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Exgineer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Exgineer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exgineer)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2002, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-question-for-the-owners-adminstrators-of-this-board-replacement-cecil/100730/199 "2002-05-10T03:13:44Z")
Nice to see you again **Fenris** , I mean **Cecil II** , sir. Everything is fine around here. Yup. Just fine. No problems. Just ignore the mess in the basement. **Lisa Ann** and **Polycarp** forgot to coordinate the clean-up crew with the garbage removal. Yup. It was them. I had nothing to do with it. So, how do you like the new, young, energetic hamsters? They were my idea, you know. I’ve been doing a good job, I swear. **Exgineer** - Loyally Minioning for **Fenris, Cecil II** Since Sometime Last Month. It Seems To Be Taking Forever. ---
**Author:** ![leechbabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@leechbabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leechbabe)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2002, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-question-for-the-owners-adminstrators-of-this-board-replacement-cecil/100730/200 "2002-05-10T03:36:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Exgineer \* > Just ignore the mess in the basement. **Lisa Ann** and **Polycarp** forgot to coordinate the clean-up crew with the garbage removal. Yup. It was them. I had nothing to do with it. T’wasn’t the humble cleaning ladies fault honest, I did my best but the hamsters that got replaced have organised a sit-in in the basement. Seem’s they want a better severance package and they are gonna continue to cause havoc until they get it. **Leechbabe** who is happy to serve **Fenris** aka **Cecil II** in any capacity needed - even if it means cleaning the toilets! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-question-for-the-owners-adminstrators-of-this-board-replacement-cecil/100730.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-question-for-the-owners-adminstrators-of-this-board-replacement-cecil/100730.md?page=11)