# Cecil, you fricking idiot!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-you-fricking-idiot/32065>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 5, 2000, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-you-fricking-idiot/32065 "2000-09-05T06:55:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![DeathLlama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f07891/32.png) [@DeathLlama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeathLlama)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2000, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-you-fricking-idiot/32065/1 "2000-09-05T06:55:28Z")

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When the hell are you going to close down this message board and let us all get back to our lives??? Can’t you see how bad for the country this is?

We’re productive people. We’re smart people. But your fun little message board here is more addictive than heroin (and I have the scientific studies to prove it). We’re spending all this time posting and reading, posting and reading. We’re _wasting_ our lives and our potential here, man. Is that what you’re shooting for? Is _that_ what you want?

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**Author:** ![Talkinsquirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f6c823/32.png) [@Talkinsquirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Talkinsquirrel)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2000, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-you-fricking-idiot/32065/2 "2000-09-05T07:16:10Z")

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Think about it. If everyone of intelligence gets addicted to this board then Cecil’s claim of being the smartest human alive can not be denied.

The man is a genius.

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**Author:** ![MysterEcks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f475e1/32.png) [@MysterEcks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysterEcks)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2000, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-you-fricking-idiot/32065/3 "2000-09-05T07:41:19Z")

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Divide and conquer–classic strategy. Mesmerize the peons with television, get the smarter ones with stuff like the SDMB…and by the time we realize what’s going on, he’s His Majesty Cecil I of the Imperial States of America.

'Course, the alternative would seem to be Dubya or Algore, so maybe this isn’t such a bad thing.

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**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2000, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-you-fricking-idiot/32065/4 "2000-09-05T11:08:21Z")

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Actually, what Cecil really wants is for you to buy the [damn books](https://securesite.chireader.com/cgi-bin/dopestore/buystuff.bat). He cares not about your so-called life.