Creative Loafing employee: Do you want to be introduced to Cecil?

[Green_Cymbeline]

I got the following message on Facebook today from a guy who works at Creative Loafing, which owns the Straight Dope. I’m assuming he contacted me because I am the creator of a Facebook group Straight Dopers. Here’s his message:

Subject: the straight dope
From: [CL guy]
February 2 at 5:42pm

Hey [nyctea],

My name is [CL guy], I am the Sr. Director of Interactive at Creative Loafing, the organization that owns the SD. I work out of the City Paper office here in DC, obviously you know the dope is mainly housed out of Chicago.

I was wondering if you wanted me to introduce you to Cecil? We have been trying to get him to engage in more social networking sites as of recent.

Let me know if you are interested.

Thanks
[CL guy]

I have no idea what he meant by “introduce” me to Cecil. To be honest, I hardly ever read the SD column, I’m just here for the message board. Anyway I took this opportunity to put in a plug for some improvements to the SDMB. What do y’all think this is all about, anyway?

My response:

From: [nyctea]
Today at 12:15am

Hi [CL guy],

I’m not exactly sure I understand what you mean when you say “introduce” me to Cecil. Does he have a Facebook profile? If so, he should join the Straight Dopers Facebook group and say hello to everyone. Or, get him to participate on the Straight Dope Message Board. And it would be really awesome if you could get your company to invest more in the infrastructure of the SDMB. We’ve been waiting a long time for some improvements

~[nyctea]

[stucky]

I think they are trying to find a girl for Cecil. He sits alone in his 2 room apartment with his 3 cats and has very little social networking.

[stucky]

P.S.

Does this mean CL guy is Cecils pimp?

[Randy_Seltzer]

You should totally take him up on it: I met Cecil once, and it changed my life. As it turns out, he’s over eight feet tall, his wrists are as thick as a grown man’s thigh, his vocal range covers seven octaves, and he eats only lightly poached former Secretaries-General of the United Nations. He taught me how to love, but I know now that I’ll never love again.

[DMark]

Quite a few years ago, Cecil actually did show up and posted on a thread in the SDMB.

Never heard from him again.

I always wondered why he has never posted since.

I think it would be cool for him to stop by at least once a year and host a thread for a day. After all, we are his army, trying to help him fight ignorance - you would think he might at least want to stop by and review/entertain his troops every once in awhile.

[DMark]

My deepest apologies to Cecil: I stand corrected.
It appears Cecil has indeed been here on the boards more often than I realized.

Sorry.

Guess I just missed some of those nuggets of wisdom as they were being passed.

[stucky]

DMark…You will hereby receive 30 demerits for introducing non-factual information to this thread. Tread lightly.

[NineToTheSky]

@DMark

My deepest apologies to Cecil: I stand corrected.
It appears Cecil has indeed been here on the boards more often than I realized.

Sorry.

Guess I just missed some of those nuggets of wisdom as they were being passed.

Your link doesn’t work.

[leander]

Sounds like a silly marketing initiative. Hopefully they’ll start coming up with a few more creative ways to get the old guy out there.

[ivan_astikov]

@NineToTheSky

Your link doesn’t work.

Apparently, neither does Cecil’s “Submit reply” button!

[Harmonious_Discord]

Cecil doesn’t like to interact on social networking sites. :eek:

Imagine that and try to be surprised.:smack:

[Freddy_the_Pig]

I saw a show on PBS where people got “presented” to the Queen at a garden party. I guess this is sort of the same thing.

[ShibbOleth]

Have you accepted Cecil Adams as your lord and savior?

Nah, I didn’t think so

[Mahna_Mahna]

Cecil Adams on Facebook? Next thing you know, Polkaroo’s gonna have a page too.

These are strange times indeed.

(Besides, hasn’t Cecil been too busy fixing up his house and plugging his new book to waste time on social networking sites?)

[pravnik]

Are you sure he meant Cecil Adams? Maybe “Cecil” is his pet name for something.

[freckafree]

@Randy_Seltzer

You should totally take him up on it: I met Cecil once, and it changed my life. As it turns out, he’s over eight feet tall, his wrists are as thick as a grown man’s thigh, his vocal range covers seven octaves, and he eats only lightly poached former Secretaries-General of the United Nations. He taught me how to love, but I know now that I’ll never love again.

Awesome! Sounds like this guy! (Warning – YouTube video w/ some NSFW lyrics.)

[Uosdwis_R.Dewoh]

@Randy_Seltzer

As it turns out, he’s over eight feet tall, his wrists are as thick as a grown man’s thigh, his vocal range covers seven octaves, and he eats only lightly poached former Secretaries-General of the United Nations.

Interesting. It seem that everybody’s vision of Cecil differs. When I saw him, he was the biggest man in the world, and he was covered in gold. 14 karat gold!

All hail king Cecil!