Thanks, FCM, for putting that picture of Unca Cece in my head…
I’m joining you all here in vigil for Cecil… even if hes nekkid rolling in cash… he could still grab a keyboard and write us a short hey… or not you know he is the perfect master…lights candle, gets out guitar
When I signed up I thought I was going to be the only one and Cecil would write me a personal thank you note. 
I see that isn’t going to happen so I’m trying my luck here.
Paging Cecil!!!
Feh. Cecil already welcomed me back before all this Charter Member falderal (by scolding me for a response to one of his columns; my very first post ever) so I have no need for his greeting now.
Don’t have much to say, but I’ll sing a little song for you:
“Cecil, people who meet Cecil, are the luckiest people in the world…”
Please don’t hurt me
I want in on this! Without the column and these boards, I don’t know how I would have survived the past few unemployed months…I surely would have died of boredom!
Hi Cecil!
Thank goodness I got here in time. He’s probably on his way right now!
What if we stood in front of a mirror, in a darkened room, and said his name three times?
He would reach through the mirror and eat your brains. Bwahahahaha. Oh wait, wrong legend. He would read your post and laugh at the thought of you standing in a darkened room chanting “Cecil, Ceeeecil, CEEEEECIL”. Hell I’m laughing just thinking about it.
I’ll bet he’s read this thread from the beginning, mocking us mere mortals for thinking he would come down to our level. Damn yous Cecil, answer us!!
You know what? I’ll bet Cecil is too scared to come in here…
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yep, utterly terrified…
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Ah, hell.
Naw, Fairychat’s got the “straight dope”, as it were.
He’s rollin’ around nekkid in our money.
Well, there you go…he’s simply ashamed of his body.
Cecil, we promise we won’t laugh! Anyway, back-hair is a sign of virility!
A greeting from Cecil? Heck, I’m surprised he didn’t insist on droit du seigneur for whichever of our newly minted memberships would be most… let’s say amusing for him to post under before we got the chance.
Yes, I know droit du seigneur is somewhat overstated as a historical reality. I just figured referring to Cecil as Our Lord wouldn’t hurt my chances in getting a shout-out.
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Heck, I’m surprised he didn’t insist on droit du seigneur
The supposed right of a feudal lord to have sexual relations with a vassal’s bride on her wedding night.
Holy shit.
I think he gave up cow-towing to the masses for Lent.
Ha!
You know, until you said that, I didn’t even catch the “we promise that as long as you remain a subscriber, you’ll be able to renew annually for 50% of whatever the regular rate is at the time,” in Ed’s announcement. I didn’t need a whole lot of convincing, so I didn’t read very far past “Your five-year free-trial period is about to expire.”
Holy crap! What a deal!
And do pur laine Doper kids have to wait the full thirteen years, for real? Aren’t Doper children progeny liable to be keyboard progidies, kind of like Mozart? I’m expecting pediatric pedants, who can hold their own in GD from the age of six. Get on it!
Can I just say I’ll never be appearing an “I need to be noticed by the Master” thread again?
I didn’t know that towing cows was such a lucrative business…
Evidently it isn’t, if Cecil’s frolicking nekkid in the dough…
It is rather tricky to make money cow-towing. First 100 miles are always free, you see?