# Bad, bad, bad, Great, mighty and Powerful Oz..er..um I mean Cece? Knock,knock! You home? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 8, 2023, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-great-mighty-and-powerful-oz-er-um-i-mean-cece-knock-knock-you-home/986759 "2023-07-08T04:41:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2023, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-great-mighty-and-powerful-oz-er-um-i-mean-cece-knock-knock-you-home/986759/1 "2023-07-08T04:41:19Z")
Beck needs to know. If I came skipping down a yellow road, in a goofy dress and a couple losers and a flea bitten dog in tow, would you help me get home? Or could I just stay in Emera…wherever you are? Need answer fast. I may start skipping at any minute and the weather is iffy. (Oh, and I ain’t clicking no ruby slippers together. I ain’t got none. I have red converse tho’) ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2023, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-great-mighty-and-powerful-oz-er-um-i-mean-cece-knock-knock-you-home/986759/2 "2023-07-08T10:14:15Z")
It’s hard to make sneakers click. ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2023, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-great-mighty-and-powerful-oz-er-um-i-mean-cece-knock-knock-you-home/986759/3 "2023-07-08T12:15:34Z")
**Moderating** I’m not seeing a reference to a column or staff report here. Moving to MPSIMS. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2023, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-great-mighty-and-powerful-oz-er-um-i-mean-cece-knock-knock-you-home/986759/4 "2023-07-08T12:31:09Z")
Hah! Cecil will never find you here, my pretty! Or, your little dog, too! ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2023, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-great-mighty-and-powerful-oz-er-um-i-mean-cece-knock-knock-you-home/986759/5 "2023-07-08T12:39:42Z")
There’s no place like MPSIMS. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2023, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-great-mighty-and-powerful-oz-er-um-i-mean-cece-knock-knock-you-home/986759/6 "2023-07-08T12:53:17Z")
Glinda should have had a mortarboard. ---
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2023, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-great-mighty-and-powerful-oz-er-um-i-mean-cece-knock-knock-you-home/986759/7 "2023-07-08T12:53:18Z")
“Toto, I’ve got a feeling we’re not in Cecil’s Columns/Staff Reports anymore.” ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2023, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-great-mighty-and-powerful-oz-er-um-i-mean-cece-knock-knock-you-home/986759/8 "2023-07-08T13:21:17Z")
Pay no attention to the man behind the pseudonym. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2023, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-great-mighty-and-powerful-oz-er-um-i-mean-cece-knock-knock-you-home/986759/9 "2023-07-08T15:25:57Z")
Sorry, it was those dang flowers again. I was Poppy posting. ☺ ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2023, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-great-mighty-and-powerful-oz-er-um-i-mean-cece-knock-knock-you-home/986759/10 "2023-07-08T15:39:11Z")
There’s a joke about flying monkey poop here, but I got nothin’. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2023, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-great-mighty-and-powerful-oz-er-um-i-mean-cece-knock-knock-you-home/986759/11 "2023-07-08T15:54:39Z")
Funny. I had to force autocorrect to quit spelling poopy instead of Poppy. (That was a nightmare to type) ---
**Author:** ![InternetLegend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/internetlegend/32/13154_2.png) [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2023, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-great-mighty-and-powerful-oz-er-um-i-mean-cece-knock-knock-you-home/986759/12 "2023-07-08T16:56:15Z")
> [@snowthx](#): > > There’s no place like MPSIMS. You asked if you could be helped home, and here you are, at home with us! ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2023, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-great-mighty-and-powerful-oz-er-um-i-mean-cece-knock-knock-you-home/986759/13 "2023-07-08T19:08:13Z")
Pay no attention to that moderator behind the curtain! ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2023, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-great-mighty-and-powerful-oz-er-um-i-mean-cece-knock-knock-you-home/986759/14 "2023-07-08T19:23:15Z")
I am hoping that Beck isn’t suffering from Existential Blues: [Tom Stankus Existential Blues full version - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wI4X9GhNHr8) “Poppies, poppies, poppies, poppies…” ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2023, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-great-mighty-and-powerful-oz-er-um-i-mean-cece-knock-knock-you-home/986759/15 "2023-07-09T05:01:47Z")
Posey. Looks just like her, but with less… um… nevermind. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2023, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-great-mighty-and-powerful-oz-er-um-i-mean-cece-knock-knock-you-home/986759/16 "2023-07-09T17:54:05Z")
Ruby slippers? ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2023, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-great-mighty-and-powerful-oz-er-um-i-mean-cece-knock-knock-you-home/986759/17 "2023-07-09T23:33:46Z")
Ruby slippers. [![](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/811MYwBF7JL._UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg) ](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/811MYwBF7JL._UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2023, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-great-mighty-and-powerful-oz-er-um-i-mean-cece-knock-knock-you-home/986759/18 "2023-07-09T23:44:25Z")
But, Oz never did give nothing to the Tinman that he didn’t, didn’t already have. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2023, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-great-mighty-and-powerful-oz-er-um-i-mean-cece-knock-knock-you-home/986759/19 "2023-07-10T00:39:43Z")
Yeah, yeah. I have a heart. I need red shoes!! 😘 ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2023, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-great-mighty-and-powerful-oz-er-um-i-mean-cece-knock-knock-you-home/986759/20 "2023-07-10T02:15:45Z")
[I think Tom Hanks has one.](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089543/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_7_nm_1_q_man%2520with%2520one%2520red%2520shoe) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-great-mighty-and-powerful-oz-er-um-i-mean-cece-knock-knock-you-home/986759.md?page=2)