# Let's name a hellebore for Unca Cece! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 17, 2006, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-name-a-hellebore-for-unca-cece/353025 "2006-04-17T17:04:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-name-a-hellebore-for-unca-cece/353025/61 "2006-04-19T16:53:38Z")
> [@Dung Beetle](#): > > I just want to know about it when we win. Seconded. When is the contest over, and will someone let us know if we won? ---
**Author:** ![moonstarssun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9bd4f/32.png) [@moonstarssun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moonstarssun)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-name-a-hellebore-for-unca-cece/353025/62 "2006-04-19T16:56:06Z")
I voted. I’m considering whether to sue for partial custody of the plant… ---
**Author:** ![The\_Weird\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@The\_Weird\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Weird_One)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-name-a-hellebore-for-unca-cece/353025/63 "2006-04-19T16:56:19Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > Not very. A well established clump might be 10 or 12 inches across, and 6 or 8 inches high. Oh, so it would work as a potted plant then? Great! I’d hate to have to leave my Cecil Adams behind next time I move. ---
**Author:** ![nd\_n8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/439d5e/32.png) [@nd\_n8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nd_n8)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-name-a-hellebore-for-unca-cece/353025/64 "2006-04-19T17:15:33Z")
Nice hellebore, count me in… > [@](#): > > This contest will run in perpetuity as we will be continually adding new plants. It will end for each particular plant when that plant becomes available for sale and we choose a name. I’m sure that there are a few bugs and some things that we haven’t thought out in detail I don’t know if we all get a free hellebore but I’m ok with just participating as long as I don’t get the bugs. or the things they haven’t thought out in detail 😃 ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-name-a-hellebore-for-unca-cece/353025/65 "2006-04-19T17:16:04Z")
One vote submitted for each member of my household with computer privileges on our ISP, plus one from my g-mail account, and one from my work site. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-name-a-hellebore-for-unca-cece/353025/66 "2006-04-19T17:47:21Z")
I voted! Whee! ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Means\_Go](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cc9497/32.png) [@Green\_Means\_Go](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Means_Go)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2006, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-name-a-hellebore-for-unca-cece/353025/67 "2006-04-20T01:13:10Z")
Voted. Very cool flower! ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2006, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-name-a-hellebore-for-unca-cece/353025/68 "2006-04-20T01:47:07Z")
> [@detop](#): > > Done, and shouldn’t we name 2002-098 Ed Zotti ? Rats - I don’t see an 098 for any prefix year. Wanna nominate a different one? I kind of like 2002-115 (green flower) but then I’m strange 🙂 Oh, and I too voted for Unca Cecil (well, “Cecil Adams”). ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2006, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-name-a-hellebore-for-unca-cece/353025/69 "2006-04-20T03:19:07Z")
We need bumper stickers “I stuffed the ballot box for Unca Cece!” ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2006, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-name-a-hellebore-for-unca-cece/353025/70 "2006-04-20T03:23:53Z")
Did my patriotic duty for Unca Cece. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![wheelie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b4bc9f/32.png) [@wheelie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wheelie)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2006, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-name-a-hellebore-for-unca-cece/353025/71 "2006-04-20T03:57:43Z")
Done. And done again. And again. Since the SDMB is Chicago based, I voted for everyone I know who’s currently dead. 😉 I like elections and pizza Chicago-style; big and messy. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2006, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-name-a-hellebore-for-unca-cece/353025/72 "2006-04-20T04:36:33Z")
Done. And if we don’t get one, I’ll buy one from somewheres. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2006, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-name-a-hellebore-for-unca-cece/353025/73 "2006-04-20T04:51:29Z")
> [@Hoopy Frood](#): > > Done. > > And I think **twickster** ’s going to owe us if he’s the only one who gets the plant. If nothing else, he owes us seeds, within one year. ---
**Author:** ![scotandrsn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2006, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-name-a-hellebore-for-unca-cece/353025/74 "2006-04-20T05:56:16Z")
> [@Marlitharn](#): > > Does that mean we’ll all get a 4" Cecil Adams? Or just **twickster**? How will the **twickster** be delivered? Will it be only 4"? ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2006, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-name-a-hellebore-for-unca-cece/353025/75 "2006-04-20T10:23:20Z")
> [@scotandrsn](#): > > How will the **twickster** be delivered? Will it be only 4"? I’m trying to think of any single body part of mine that would fit in a 4" pot. My elbow, maybe? Here’s a letter I just wrote to our new pal Barry: > [@twickster](#): > > Hi Barry – > > I’m the rascal who spearheaded the current effort to totally stuff the ballot box on the very lovely 2002-097. If you note a couple of thousand votes for naming it Cecil Adams – well, that’s us. > > We’re all denizens of an online message board associated with the Straight Dope, a series of books and syndicated articles by the World’s Smartest Human, Cecil Adams. On the message boards, we discuss all matters, great and small, factual and highly speculative. We’re an active community who very much think of ourselves as a community, and we regard Cecil Adams as our spiritual father – well, our spiritual uncle, actually, we call him “Unca Cece” amongst ourselves. > > I work in the marketing end of the gardening biz, and when I came across a reference to your contest, I immediately checked it out – and since you welcome ballot box stuffing, I decided to organize a campaign to get one of your hellebores named for Cecil Adams. Here is a link to the item I posted, followed by discussion by my fellow Dopers (sic). > > As you can see, enthusiasm runs high – as does confusion. I’m guessing we don’t all get freebies, but the prose is a bit unclear on that point. > > More importantly, from our point of view – when will you go ahead and name the hellebore the Cecil Adams? And when can we start buying massive numbers of them from you to honor Unca Cece in our gardens? > > I’ll be happy to pass along any information you can provide. > > Regards, > > [twicks’s real name] (Note: I provided links to the Home Page, the Message Board home page, and this thread) I’ll let y’all know if I hear anything back. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2006, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-name-a-hellebore-for-unca-cece/353025/76 "2006-04-20T12:11:39Z")
Oh yeah. That oughta do it. 'scuse me, I gotta run out and check my mail. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2006, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-name-a-hellebore-for-unca-cece/353025/77 "2006-04-20T13:08:39Z")
Okay, just got off the phone with Barry, who seems like a great person. He’s from Philly, so we had to get our respective neighborhood credentials straightened out – then he had to take another call, and I’m headed into a pair of meetings. So I won’t have answers till this afternoon – but I am On The Job. ---
**Author:** ![BlackNGold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@BlackNGold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlackNGold)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2006, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-name-a-hellebore-for-unca-cece/353025/78 "2006-04-20T13:22:45Z")
Voted. FTR, you only need to fill out the email address and “Cecil Adams” to have yor vote recorded. ---
**Author:** ![\_Deep\_F\_ied](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/7cd45c/32.png) [@\_Deep\_F\_ied](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_Deep_F_ied)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2006, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-name-a-hellebore-for-unca-cece/353025/79 "2006-04-20T18:01:05Z")
This is so cool! Chalk up another vote for good ol’ Unca Cece. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2006, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-name-a-hellebore-for-unca-cece/353025/80 "2006-04-20T18:12:50Z")
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