Ya know I am sure that this has to have come up in the message boards a hundred times by now but I don’t really care I want to say it again. Back about 3yrs ago or whatever when Cecil’s knowledge used to be available by book on line I spent many a night hours on end reading Q after Q after Q so I think I have read a pretty fair amount of Cecil’s written knowledge anyways. Now here is my problem, is it just me or is Cecil either straight word for word repeating his old shit or giving it a little rehash that I could care less about anyways. I mean before we got a new original Q once a week on Monday and 90% of the time it wasn’t a rehash. Now there is a new one every day and I rarely see an “actual new” one. Now maybe I am just missing some pattern that a new one still only comes out once a week and the rest is just cut and pasted garbage I guess I dunno. But the other thing is the few new stuff I do see… is stupid, boring, and I could care less. I remember reading about Mountain Dew shrinking nuts, Daredevil missions of sleeping in a sealed closet with a fan to prove how stupid people are, why does diet pop sink and regular not(maybe viceversa i forget), and what is the best way to get rid of a dead body? Seriously guys I can’t be the only one being straight up dissapointed with Cecil or maybe just MAYBE there is a conspiracy covering up the death of Cecil and his witicism and we are forced to deal with poor copycats. I dunno what you think?
All you have to do is stand in front of a mirror and chant: “Unca Cecil, Unca Cecil, Unca Cecil…”
Then, you will see the face of Cecil Adams who will tell you in a very obscene but literate way, what you misspelled in your post, and how to make love to yourself.
Well, at least you still have some care.
You are missing something. There is a new Question each week which corresponds to Slug’s illustration on the home page.
The others are “classics” (often relating to current evens, seasons, etc.) and Questions answered by the Advisory Board.
So, you’re still getting a new question each week, and more.
I will agree that a lot of the newer questions aren’t that great, but once you answer “Why is Shit Brown?”, “How Many Calories in the Male Ejaculate?”, and “Will I get Electrocuted if I Piss on the Third Rail?”, well, there’s not a lot room to go anywhere but down.
There is a pattern.
Read this news item: www.straightdope.com/news.html
New Cecil columns appear on Friday.
Shit. Why don’t you sign up for the damned e-mail list, Quizzy? You can get the new column delivered right to your flippin’ inbox each and every Friday, you ninny.
“Cecil??? What is wrong with you? Are you dead?”
No, he’s not dead now. But he might have a heart attack out of exasperation that the battle against ignrorance will never be won.
You see, it turns out that there are people who have been a member of this message board for over a year and still haven’t learned basic pattern-recognition skills.