# Before you do Cecil's Survey -READ THIS **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 1, 2000, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/before-you-do-cecils-survey-read-this/5715 "2000-04-01T12:45:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![RM\_Mentock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e274bd/32.png) [@RM\_Mentock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RM_Mentock)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2000, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/before-you-do-cecils-survey-read-this/5715/61 "2000-04-07T16:45:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by k2dave: > **well, just had to see it one more time, condemmed to the pit. Cecil, Ed, Slugo, and whoever is up there, you have managed to get this topic here and here it will die.** Condemned? Do you have a better place for it? Perhaps About This Message Board would have been appropriate–had not a couple drops of vitriol been injected. * * * rocks ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2000, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/before-you-do-cecils-survey-read-this/5715/62 "2000-04-07T19:40:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Who is John Galt? John Galt is a Scottish novelist of the early 19th Century. John Galt is a character in Ayn Rand’s _Atlas Shrugged_. John Galt is a comic book character also known as Grimjack. ---
**Author:** ![coosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@coosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coosa)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2000, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/before-you-do-cecils-survey-read-this/5715/63 "2000-04-07T22:25:00Z")
Actually, this started out over in Comments on Cecil’s Columns, and was doing fine (although maybe it should have been in MPSIMS), until Tom Dark started attacking Jill, for what appears to be no reason. I guess he’s too stupid to understand the difference between closing a thread and moving it to another forum. I vote that he be consigned to Jerkdom. * * * You’ve got a point there, brother - and one of these days I’m going to figure out what it is. - Cecil Adams ---
**Author:** ![G.B.H.Hornswoggler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c67d28/32.png) [@G.B.H.Hornswoggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G.B.H.Hornswoggler)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2001, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/before-you-do-cecils-survey-read-this/5715/64 "2001-02-12T14:49:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Otto \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > Who is John Galt? > > John Galt is a Scottish novelist of the early 19th Century. > > John Galt is a character in Ayn Rand’s _Atlas Shrugged_. > > John Galt is a comic book character also known as Grimjack. \*\* Sorry, Grimjack is actually John **Gaunt**. (Before he was James something-or-other, that is.) And if that isn’t the most useless bump in the world, I don’t know what is. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2001, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/before-you-do-cecils-survey-read-this/5715/65 "2001-02-12T15:02:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\*And if that isn’t the most useless bump in the world, I don’t know what is. \*\* Considering Otto hasn’t posted since May, I think I’ll second that. ---
**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:** [February 12, 2001, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/before-you-do-cecils-survey-read-this/5715/66 "2001-02-12T15:27:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by G.B.H. Hornswoggler \* > \*\*Sorry, Grimjack is actually John **Gaunt**. (Before he was James something-or-other, that is.) > \*\* James Twilley. I just finished rereading the entire run of Grimjack (except for those last four elusive issues that I can’t find anywhere, dammit) Fenris ---
**Author:** ![Geobabe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/geobabe/32/3908_2.png) [@Geobabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geobabe)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2001, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/before-you-do-cecils-survey-read-this/5715/67 "2001-02-12T16:21:46Z")
Oh, and in case anyone is feeling worried about this “survey,” this thread was started LAST APRIL. The survey is no longer active, and why someone felt the need to revive this thread after almost a year is beyond me. ---
**Author:** ![Alphagene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Alphagene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alphagene)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2001, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/before-you-do-cecils-survey-read-this/5715/68 "2001-02-12T16:25:04Z")
Yeah, I agree. If I wanted to watch people reanimate dead things, I’d play Diablo II. Hmm. Maybe I will. Anyway, since the OP refers to something that has passed on a loooong time ago, I’m closing this thread. May John Galt forgive me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/before-you-do-cecils-survey-read-this/5715.md?page=3)