# 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:** 9
**Author:** ![Arwen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7c8e57/32.png) [@Arwen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arwen)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2002, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-question-for-the-owners-adminstrators-of-this-board-replacement-cecil/100730/161 "2002-04-26T23:22:47Z")
Hey, a double post-spaced 5 min apart! And I only hit submit once! Wicked cool! ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2002, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-question-for-the-owners-adminstrators-of-this-board-replacement-cecil/100730/162 "2002-04-26T23:27:17Z")
those hamsters have been drugged. it’s all part of the plot. ---
**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:** [April 26, 2002, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-question-for-the-owners-adminstrators-of-this-board-replacement-cecil/100730/163 "2002-04-26T23:30:54Z")
I’ve made plane reservations and a point of rendevous, **Arwen**. After all, what is a receptionist for? I’ll e-mail you the instructions along with the secret password. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2002, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-question-for-the-owners-adminstrators-of-this-board-replacement-cecil/100730/164 "2002-04-27T17:37:14Z")
Actually, the hamsters have been organized by Evil Pink Laborites suborned by News of the Weird in a takeover attempt of Straight Dope Worldwide Enterprises, Inc. (E. Zotti, Executive Vice President and C.O.O.). Part of the problem, however, is that some of the gerbils from the BBQ Pit have been giving out leaks regarding what people being flamed have been told to do with them – and the hamsters want in on the action! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2002, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-question-for-the-owners-adminstrators-of-this-board-replacement-cecil/100730/165 "2002-04-27T20:42:58Z")
the hamsters want in on the gerbils action? well, that certainly makes sense since… Gerbils \*\*have \*\* been known for gettin’ some tail… ---
**Author:** ![Arwen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7c8e57/32.png) [@Arwen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arwen)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2002, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-question-for-the-owners-adminstrators-of-this-board-replacement-cecil/100730/166 "2002-04-29T02:08:20Z")
**Lisa Ann** Thanks. You have been very helpful-a wonderful receptionist. The rendezvous point looks ideal. Now I will await the appointed day for the meeting of our Crack Team Of Assassins (as opposed to the Team Of Crack Assassins). ---
**Author:** ![Arwen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7c8e57/32.png) [@Arwen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arwen)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2002, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-question-for-the-owners-adminstrators-of-this-board-replacement-cecil/100730/167 "2002-04-30T18:24:15Z")
It seems that I booked the “Crack Assassins” by accident… ---
**Author:** ![Exgineer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Exgineer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exgineer)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2002, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-question-for-the-owners-adminstrators-of-this-board-replacement-cecil/100730/168 "2002-04-30T19:47:35Z")
Heh, heh, heh… **Arwen** is going to lure **Atreyu** to Mexico, and then… HEY. I wanna go to Mexico! Or Aruba. Any old place that’s warm and sunny. This isn’t fair. I’ve been Loyally Minioning for **Cecil II** for weeks now, and what do I get? I get to try to stop the Hamster-Gerbil Unionizing Movement, answer to **Polycarp** about staffing issues, and duck Ed Zotti and Jerry Davis. IT’S NOT FAIR! Humph. Have fun in Mexico, **Arwen**. ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2002, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-question-for-the-owners-adminstrators-of-this-board-replacement-cecil/100730/169 "2002-04-30T21:49:06Z")
**Exgineer** don’ t know why **you’re** complaining, after all, we opted for the soft faux fur restraints for you. ---
**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:** [April 30, 2002, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-question-for-the-owners-adminstrators-of-this-board-replacement-cecil/100730/170 "2002-04-30T22:24:03Z")
**Exgineer** , was would be the purpose for your trip, Cecil II-wise? Can you justify the expense? I’ll get back to you if it is deemed necessary. ---
**Author:** ![Exgineer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Exgineer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exgineer)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2002, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-question-for-the-owners-adminstrators-of-this-board-replacement-cecil/100730/171 "2002-04-30T23:14:47Z")
Uhmmm… Well **Lisa Ann** , I was going to check on the pre-import prices on mexican soft faux fur restraints. It’s all work related, honestly. **Fenris** , **Cecil II** will approve the voucher, and **Polycarp** can verify my employment in the New Order. Please refer any other questions to **wring** while I’m gone. No, wait. I need to take her with me as a Quality Control Specialist. You know how it is. Just ask **Arwen** or **Polycarp** , unless they want to come too. Ahhh, ta heck wid it. We’re all out of the office for a few days. ---
**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 1, 2002, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-question-for-the-owners-adminstrators-of-this-board-replacement-cecil/100730/172 "2002-05-01T21:12:54Z")
🙂 Don’t forget your passport! I’ll hold the fort down. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2002, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-question-for-the-owners-adminstrators-of-this-board-replacement-cecil/100730/173 "2002-05-01T21:51:34Z")
Mexico? ::: looks longingly at postcard from Cancun sent by rich friend ::: We **really** need to investigate the degree of ignorance that needs to be combatted South of the Border, **Exgineer** – and to determine if a simul-translation of the boards into Spanish is effective in cost-benefit terms. ::: deposits 10 lb. of Godiva chocolates in mailbox marked **Tubadiva** to throw her off our track ::: Let the hamsters fend for themselves! Vayamos!!! ---
**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 1, 2002, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-question-for-the-owners-adminstrators-of-this-board-replacement-cecil/100730/174 "2002-05-01T23:02:45Z")
I, too, have a fondness for fine chocolates. Dark is preferable. ---
**Author:** ![Arwen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7c8e57/32.png) [@Arwen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arwen)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2002, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-question-for-the-owners-adminstrators-of-this-board-replacement-cecil/100730/175 "2002-05-02T14:22:44Z")
Hurry on down, guys, Mexico is GREAT! ¡olé! ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2002, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-question-for-the-owners-adminstrators-of-this-board-replacement-cecil/100730/176 "2002-05-02T17:39:25Z")
I read this thing, and I can only shake my head in wonderment. Do you really think Cecil will go gently into that good night? Do you think he wants an apprentice or a surrogate? I guess the screenname **Fenris** is a misnoner. Any self-respecting wolf knows that the way you get ahead is to defeat/destroy the alpha-leader. Likewise you can’t toady your way into the Cecil position. You must rise up, destroy him and take over by force. Law of the jungle. Read your Kipling, Pup. To date I know of only one poster who has gotten anything looking like a concession or a retraction out of Cecil (as well as his longest post.) Doubtless that poster will be forever immortalized in the next SD book. But, I wouldn’t want to say who that is. Clearly that person is the only one with a shot at replacing Cecil. ::blushing with false modesty:: ---
**Author:** ![whitetho](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whitetho/32/1059_2.png) [@whitetho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whitetho)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2002, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-question-for-the-owners-adminstrators-of-this-board-replacement-cecil/100730/177 "2002-05-02T20:09:54Z")
> [@](#): > > To date I know of only one poster who has gotten anything looking like a concession or a retraction out of Cecil. “None so blind as those that will not see”. You are hardly alone. I, for one, got a retraction from Uncle Cecil in my posting of [Cecil’s Lousy Call Letter Answer](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2). Even better, that led to a full-fledged _Straight Dope_ column, [Why do U.S. radio call letters start with W in the east and K in the west (revisited)?](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/010504.html)\* based completely on my webpage\*, which Unca Cece kindly mentioned and graciously called “admirable”. (I particularly liked Slug’s illustration for this column, and am thinking of having it tatooed on my arm some day, as a momento). So, where’s _your_ Cecil-column? [sound of crickets] You might also be interested to know that the only “unofficial link” included in the [_Straight Dope_ FAQ page](http://www.straightdope.com/faq/) is a little something which I wrote. All Hail Cecil! So, I think I could be described as someone with whom Cecil is well pleased. Yet I wouldn’t think for a moment I could take Cecil’s illustrious place, and would hope that the Teeming Millions would rise up in rebellion were I foolish enough to try. > [@](#): > > Clearly that person is the only one with a shot at replacing Cecil. Well, dream on. Although perhaps the _Reader_ has a Chief Bottle Washer position open for which you are qualified… ---
**Author:** ![Exgineer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Exgineer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exgineer)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2002, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-question-for-the-owners-adminstrators-of-this-board-replacement-cecil/100730/178 "2002-05-02T23:57:48Z")
So, I guess I have to take **Scylla** ’s post, along with **whitetho** ’s, and put them in the file labeled “Sour Grapes,” aannndd… flush it. Heh. We can’t hear you, because **Fenris, Cecil II** loves us, and cares for us, and sent us to Mexico. Hey, **Polycarp** , I heard that there’s a lot of ignorance to be fought in the Bahamas, too. Maybe we should swing by on the way back? ---
**Author:** ![Arwen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7c8e57/32.png) [@Arwen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arwen)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2002, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-question-for-the-owners-adminstrators-of-this-board-replacement-cecil/100730/179 "2002-05-03T19:58:04Z")
**Scylla** and **whitetho** are dissenting, **Exgineer** , **wring** , and **Polycarp** won’t return from their business trip, and **Lisa Ann** is aiding and abetting their escape…the Basement Dwellers haven’t been properly fed in a week… and to top it off, that sneaky **Arnold** and **Atreyu** escaped from the Crack Assassins! I think that we need to see the Fearless LeaderTron back in here to regel the ranks… Or maybe some new hamsters. Everything is always the hamsters’ fault. ---
**Author:** ![stargazer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb8c5e/32.png) [@stargazer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stargazer)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2002, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-question-for-the-owners-adminstrators-of-this-board-replacement-cecil/100730/180 "2002-05-03T20:09:37Z")
[runs in with big, warm, dark, fluffy, frosted chocolate cake] sorry for the delay – had to build the kitchen, don’cha know. [strutting]with m’own two hands, thankyouverymuch. [/strutting] here’s the test cake, up for grabs. Anyway, meals will be more regular from now on. Anyone have any food allergies? Requests? Anything you absolutely positively won’t eat? Hey, **Lisa Ann**? Where’s your inbox? I have this _small_ invoice for the kitchen that needs to be paid… and I need a purchase order for a box of hairnets, since **The Great Fenris** said I must. Tho they’ll cover up my pretty red hair. But, if he says so… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-question-for-the-owners-adminstrators-of-this-board-replacement-cecil/100730.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-question-for-the-owners-adminstrators-of-this-board-replacement-cecil/100730.md?page=10)