The Font Of All Wisdom hath been naysaid by a snotty cephalopod.
How very strange.
So … he’s related? Or no?
Not that this is crystal clear, but I believe the allegation is that Master Cecil is like unto a marmot, and the challenger feels kin to squid. So any relationship would be quite distant.
Uh, yeah, strange is a good word.
Huh.
I notice two things. First, he basically admires the Master (as who wouldn’t?), writing: “I had grown to think of myself and Cecil as spiritual frères d’plume together walking that thin razor-wire over the self-aggrandizing abyss,” etc. Second, he claims to have become estranged from Cecil as a result of anti-squid sentiments in TSD. Turning to the cited column, we find it was a staff report written (quite capably, I might add) by John Corrado, not Cecil. So there appears to be some confusion. Perhaps a lot of confusion. I think I’ll leave it at that.
I know a good recipe for fried calamari if it comes to it…
Both bilaterians, but estranged into protostomes and deuterostomes for something approaching 600 million years. The marmots (and humans) are more closely related to sea cucumbers than to squids.
I’m going to go ahead and assume this is intentionally ironic.
And by the way, Squid Boy, it’s Dear Abby.
Le Sigh! Everyone is jealous of our Cecil!
Time for Cecil to unleash his dreaded admonishment: “Hush, cretin.”
To include Dear Abby in with the likes of Master Cecil! I call sacrilege!