As a semi-professional mall Santa ------------ damn betcha!
I am not totally making light; I seriously come down on the side that wants/needs an Unca Cecil.
The texts he signs are very well written, and he seems to be much less snarky than in the past, which is a big plus for a message board.
While I disagree with the OP and like having a masthead, those are not great analogies. Ozzy and Lemmy were real people.
Cecil is a real person or persons. Or do you think a computer generates the column content?
It’s a Russian iron car.
Are you referring to John Michael Osbourne and Ian Fraser Kilmister?
So when was the last time actually Uncle Cecil came down from his mountain top and mingled with us on the SDMB?
Apparently, November 21st, 2013.
Why are you talking about Ozzy in the past tense? Long live Ozzy!
but it’s 99% of the people smarter than me. It’s a self-selected few, but it’s choice. (See Tracy v. Hepburn.)
Exactly. Forget him.
Besides, I’m smarter. If I’m not, let him come out of hiding and challenge me to a lobe-off!
A special barbecue for heretics/Cecil profaners.
Yep.
This answer is so good that Cecil himself coulda writ it.
Spoken as one of the (self-appointed and self-regulating) GQ 40. Membership: If you have to ask, you’re not worthy. 
South Park: Pat Robertson needs money for an interstellar space ship to bring the glory of Jesus to the godless aliens.
Also, neither Cecil nor Santa is real
I’ll bet you’re fun at a party.
OP doesn’t know “it’s” from “its”.
Cecil’s work is not done here.
It’s still taking longer than we thought.
That’s unimportant if just a few of that 40 give answers you’d be hard put to find anywhere else. It may be true that the majority of the 40 give answers they found on Google. The fact that at least a dozen or so don’t makes this board worthwhile.
And to the OP, Cecil is the reason for the board’s existence, the spirit of the place. Yes, it could exist without him, just as Christmas could exist without Santa. It just wouldn’t be half as much fun.
You have got to be fucking kidding me!! Nobody knew that!