# Colibri Slighted!?!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colibri-slighted/67806
**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports
**Created:** [June 6, 2001, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colibri-slighted/67806 "2001-06-06T15:01:40Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@Billdo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billdo)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2001, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colibri-slighted/67806/1 "2001-06-06T15:01:40Z")
In today’s Staff Report, [Why do vultures circle dead stuff?](http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mvulture.html), the listed author is “Guest contributor George Angehr,” known to us on the SDMB as Colibri.
However, in Cecil’s December 15 column on [Caterpillar Sex](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/001215.html), Cecil penned the following:
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> To cope with the rapid advance of human knowledge, we’ve been staffing up here at the Straight Dope, and one of the people I’ve been talking to is a fellow named George Angehr. George is an ornithologist with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama, which is all well and good, but I wanted to find out if he really had what it takes for membership on the Straight Dope Science Advisory Board. So I asked him to review the above question and got this response:
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> I think this question is worthy of Cecil as it: (1) comes from a questioner who is obviously dumber than a box of rocks, thus offering ample opportunities for ridicule; (2) features a question so incredibly ignorant that the Teeming Millions will instantly feel smug, thinking they know what the answer is; and (3) allows Cecil to puncture their bubble and explicate learnedly about such fascinating topics as paedomorphosis, neoteny, the repulsive axolotl, and why humans are like baby chimpanzees.
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> George, I thought, you’ve got the job.
Why, after Cecil himself has appointed him to full membership on the Straight Dope Science Advisory Board, has George been slighted in this egregious manner? Will this cause him to get upset and take his birds and go back to Panama? Worse, will this cause him to leave nasty tropical bugs in Little Ed’s bed, infecting him with some incurable disease.
Come on, people, we can’t let this happen to our Colibri!
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### Author:  [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2001, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colibri-slighted/67806/2 "2001-06-06T16:58:46Z")
**Colibri** has a jeep IIRC. _ **FatherCecil** _? :eek:
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### Author:  [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2001, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colibri-slighted/67806/3 "2001-06-07T05:36:38Z")
Word just came down the pipeline that with this report, he’s become a full member.
[Edited by C K Dexter Haven on 06-08-2001 at 07:43 AM]
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### Author:  [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2001, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colibri-slighted/67806/4 "2001-06-08T12:49:00Z")
Bildo, while your compassion for Colibri is commendable, you needn’t worry. His next Staff Report will indeed bear the title “staff”, with all the benefits and responsibilities accrued thereto and hereinunder, forthwith.
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### Author:  [@RiverRunner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RiverRunner)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2001, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colibri-slighted/67806/5 "2001-06-08T15:05:42Z")
_His next Staff Report will indeed bear the title “staff”, with all the benefits and responsibilities accrued thereto and hereinunder, forthwith._
. . . and hereby, whynot, and overthere.
All of which, added together with $1.00, will buy a cup of coffee. Or about 1/5 a cup if you’re at Starbucks.
RR
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### Author:  [@Montfort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montfort)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2001, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colibri-slighted/67806/6 "2001-06-08T22:54:57Z")
But does he get the SD Coffee Mug to put said cup of coffee in?
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### Author:  [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2001, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colibri-slighted/67806/7 "2001-06-09T03:31:28Z")
A mighty swell mealworm container that mug’ll be, Colibri. Fine congratulations; may the buzzards hover o’er and not upon ye!
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### Author:  [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2001, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colibri-slighted/67806/8 "2001-06-10T17:20:49Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Billdo \*
> \*\*Why, after Cecil himself has appointed him to full membership on the Straight Dope Science Advisory Board, has George been slighted in this egregious manner?
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Thank you for your concern, **Billdo** , but the wheels of Cecildom grind slowly (although they grind exceedingly small).
First, there was lots of paperwork to fill out. Then the security check. The urinalysis and blood test. A small amount of plastic surgery. (I didn’t need my left pinky anyway). And a few discreetly placed tattoos (the one on the inside of the upper lip being particularly painful). These things take time.
I have also been informed there is a secret initiation ritual yet to come, which will be performed _without the aid of vaseline._ :eek:
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> \*Originally posted by Billdo \*
> **Will this cause him to get upset and take his birds and go back to Panama?**
Nope, I never left. I’m still in Panama.
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> _Originally posted by Montfort_
> **But does he get the SD Coffee Mug to put said cup of coffee in?**
That’s what they tell me, but since **Coldfire** still periodically complains about not having received his yet, I ain’t holding my breath.
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### Author:  [@JillGat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JillGat)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2001, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colibri-slighted/67806/9 "2001-06-11T07:08:44Z")
[[That’s what they tell me, but since Coldfire still periodically complains about not having received his yet, I ain’t holding my breath.]]
Gaudere, either. I have two of them. La, la, la, la, la.
Jill
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### Author:  [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2001, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colibri-slighted/67806/10 "2001-06-11T12:34:01Z")
There goes Jill, mugging again.
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### Author:  [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2001, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colibri-slighted/67806/11 "2001-06-11T23:32:58Z")
😕 Jill has two Gauderes?