# Dear Cecil: **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 7, 2007, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-cecil/421865 "2007-10-07T18:34:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2007, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-cecil/421865/1 "2007-10-07T18:34:48Z")
While shaving in the morning I’ve noticed my cat jumping in to the bathtub and licking my bath soap. Irish Spring. She gets quite a buzz off the soap. Will this turn her green? Or worse yet, turn her Irish? :eek: Curious in Carolina ---
**Author:** ![brendon\_small](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brendon_small/32/17101_2.png) [@brendon\_small](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brendon_small)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2007, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-cecil/421865/2 "2007-10-07T19:22:59Z")
I want a turn! Dear Cecil: I like the Straight Dope. The boards are great, too. Brendon Small (sorry if that was pointless, but what forum is this? heh) ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2007, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-cecil/421865/3 "2007-10-07T20:38:34Z")
[QUOTE=Jake] While shaving in the morning I’ve noticed my cat jumping in to the bathtub and licking my bath soap. Irish Spring. She gets quite a buzz off the soap. Will this turn her green? Or worse yet, turn her Irish? :eek: Curious in Carolina [/QUOTE] Neither, but her ass will smell as fresh & clean as a leprechaun’s. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2007, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-cecil/421865/4 "2007-10-07T20:41:13Z")
Dear Cecil, I wear my Straight Dope t-shirt all over the place and have not observed any correlation in the amount of ignorance I encounter. Am I doing something wrong? **Mr Bus Guy** PS: Not even if use my Straight Dope coffee mug that morning, nothing seems to work. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2007, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-cecil/421865/5 "2007-10-07T20:54:00Z")
[QUOTE=Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor] Neither, but her ass will smell as fresh & clean as a leprechaun’s. 😃 [/QUOTE] What the hell were you doing that you know what a leprechaun’s butt smell likes? 😉 **Mr Bus Guy** : I have had some minor success with the coffee mug. I thought the [shirt was too butt ugly to buy](https://securesite.chireader.com/cgi-bin/dopestore/buystuff.bat#tshirt) or wear in public. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2007, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-cecil/421865/6 "2007-10-07T21:10:19Z")
[QUOTE=What Exit?] **Mr Bus Guy** : I have had some minor success with the coffee mug. I thought the [shirt was too butt ugly to buy](https://securesite.chireader.com/cgi-bin/dopestore/buystuff.bat#tshirt) or wear in public. 😃 [/QUOTE] I"ve got both the mug and the shirt. The mug gives me super powers to moderate the board. !!! The shirt, which I have worn to dopefest and around Akron, has hardly ever been remarked upon. It’s not truly “butt ugly” but it doesn’t seem to work. It’s truly taking longer than we thought. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![notthatagain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/22d042/32.png) [@notthatagain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notthatagain)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2007, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-cecil/421865/7 "2007-10-07T21:23:59Z")
Dear Cecil, I appreciate your resolve and tenacity in the fight against ignorance. It’s been what; 34 years now? You’ve employed the internet, books, T-Shirts and coffee cups. Excepting the great majority of subscribers, ignorance seems to be holding it’s own, and I believe the time has come for more _effective_ measures. May I suggest the “Ignoramus Termination Kit?” Rather than fighting ignorance itself, we’d do far better to eliminate (or more directly subjugate) the breeders and harborers of our great enemy ignorance. I’m sure you want results as badly as any of us, and I’m confident your “IT Kit” will be as entertaining as it is effective. I’ll be watching the catalog closely! Oh, and I really, **really** _need_ that pony for Christmas this year! ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2007, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-cecil/421865/8 "2007-10-07T23:05:30Z")
Dear Cecil: For the last six days, I have been followed, everywhere I go, by the R-101. The R-101 crashed in 1930. Can you loan me the SDSAB for use as human shields, for when disaster inevitably occurs? ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2007, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-cecil/421865/9 "2007-10-07T23:16:29Z")
[QUOTE=What Exit?] What the hell were you doing that you know what a leprechaun’s butt smell likes? 😉 [/QUOTE] Well, I found out where they hide that damn Crock O’ Gold™. But you need a chain-saw & a sump pump… ---
**Author:** ![Dragwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dragwyr/32/2855_2.png) [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2007, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-cecil/421865/10 "2007-10-08T00:20:07Z")
Dear Cecil, Lately I’ve had this strange urge to date Hillary Rodham Clinton. What should I do? Signed, Dragwyr P.S No. I’m NEITHER a Democrat nor a Republican ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2007, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-cecil/421865/11 "2007-10-08T00:55:35Z")
[QUOTE=Dragwyr] Dear Cecil, Lately I’ve had this strange urge to date Hillary Rodham Clinton. [/QUOTE] 1. How hard was _that?_ ---
**Author:** ![Scruloose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@Scruloose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scruloose)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2007, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-cecil/421865/12 "2007-10-08T01:31:40Z")
Dear Cecil: What’s up with the friggin’ Cubs? Signed, Depressed for yet another winter ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2007, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-cecil/421865/13 "2007-10-08T01:33:58Z")
[QUOTE=Scruloose] Dear Cecil: What’s up with the friggin’ Cubs? Signed, Depressed for yet another winter [/QUOTE] That’s an easy one: The same thing as every year for 100 years now. ---
**Author:** ![Kilvert\_s\_Pagan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@Kilvert\_s\_Pagan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilvert_s_Pagan)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2007, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-cecil/421865/14 "2007-10-08T02:36:33Z")
Dear Cecil: 21 years later, is the downy neck of a live goose still the best way to go? ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2007, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-cecil/421865/15 "2007-10-08T03:04:40Z")
Y’know, most of these aren’t half as weird as some of the stuff Cecil actually does get in his mailbag. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2007, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-cecil/421865/16 "2007-10-08T03:09:48Z")
Dear Cecil, I bought all the damn books multiple times. Now when do we get a new one? rapidly running out of bathroom reading material, MsWhatsit ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2007, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-cecil/421865/17 "2007-10-08T04:52:14Z")
[QUOTE=Scruloose] Dear Cecil: What’s up with the friggin’ Cubs? Signed, Depressed for yet another winter [/QUOTE] The phrase “lovable losers”? Note the second half of that. ---
**Author:** ![fluiddruid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fluiddruid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluiddruid)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2007, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-cecil/421865/18 "2007-10-08T05:36:33Z")
Dear Cecil: So, um, when do I get my paycheck? ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2007, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-cecil/421865/19 "2007-10-08T20:42:14Z")
[QUOTE=Jake] While shaving in the morning I’ve noticed my cat jumping in to the bathtub and licking my bath soap. Irish Spring. She gets quite a buzz off the soap. Will this turn her green? Or worse yet, turn her Irish? :eek: Curious in Carolina [/QUOTE] I once trained a cat to ring the doorbell when he wanted in, but I never could train one to shave in the morning. I salute you. ---
**Author:** ![Cheez\_Whia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d26b3c/32.png) [@Cheez\_Whia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheez_Whia)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2007, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-cecil/421865/20 "2007-10-08T21:04:05Z")
Dear Cecil, Why don’t you post more often? Regards, Your fans [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-cecil/421865.md?page=2)