“With all deliberate speed”, Unca Cece’s promised update – brilliant as usual – finally appears in this week’s column, Why do U.S. radio call letters start with W in the east and K in the west (revisited)? I happily withdraw my earlier posted tirade.
Cecil took approximately 780 days to produce this “reply in full soon” – i.e. 336 days longer than the Iranian hostage crisis (although 120 fewer than the siege of Leningrad). In contrast, he needed but 31 days to get Lee’s brassière-sizing update into print. Not that I’m jealous – this just shows Unca Cece has his priorities straight. (By the way, Cecil hopefully should have gotten his sawbuck by now, unless of course the letter was, you know, waylaid in the mailroom or something). I’d also like to point out an error in my own post – I claimed “infested with lice”; as Cecil pointed out, it was actually “weevils in the Linotype”. I stand corrected and shall strive to be more accurate in the future.
All Hail Cecil! etc. etc.