# Cecil's column

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecils-column/1324>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [April 9, 2000, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecils-column/1324 "2000-04-09T01:29:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![debonairhead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@debonairhead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/debonairhead)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2000, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecils-column/1324/1 "2000-04-09T01:29:00Z")

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I’ve started reading Cecil’s column. I’m surprised I didn’t venture there before repeating questions about whether he exists.

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**Author:** ![ralphredan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f4b2a3/32.png) [@ralphredan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralphredan)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2000, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecils-column/1324/2 "2000-04-09T14:22:00Z")

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I missed that column. What’s the link?

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2000, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecils-column/1324/3 "2000-04-10T05:05:00Z")

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Hey, somebody’s ride is here!

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“Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast!” - the White Queen

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**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2000, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecils-column/1324/4 "2000-04-09T19:07:00Z")

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Cecil exists! He writes the column.

Of course, if he didn’t, we have to make him up. (Good thing we’re saved from that.)

You might as well doubt your own existence! (Which has yet to be proven, I should add.) 🙂

your humble TubaDiva  
I believe.

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**Author:** ![PUNdit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3da27b/32.png) [@PUNdit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PUNdit)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2000, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecils-column/1324/5 "2000-04-10T03:14:00Z")

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Originally posted by TubaDiva:

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> Of course, if he didn’t, we have to make him up. (Good thing we’re saved from that.)

## We have to make them up? Did you just out yourself?

“You can be smart or pleasant. For years I was smart.  
I recommend pleasant.”  
Elwood P. Dowd

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**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2000, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecils-column/1324/6 "2000-04-10T04:12:00Z")

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Oh, for a misspelled word!

It’s a good thing Cecil exists, or else we’d have to make him up.

I can only speak for myself, but life is better with Cecil in it. Don’t you agree?

your humble TubaDiva