# Oh, Cecil. Where are you? Beckdawrek summons you **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 22, 2020, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-cecil-where-are-you-beckdawrek-summons-you/915969 "2020-07-22T01:41:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2020, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-cecil-where-are-you-beckdawrek-summons-you/915969/181 "2020-12-22T07:18:21Z")
Merry Christmas @Cecil_Adams ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2020, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-cecil-where-are-you-beckdawrek-summons-you/915969/182 "2020-12-31T20:44:28Z")
I will say **Beck** that you’re one determined person. I wish you luck in your quest. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2020, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-cecil-where-are-you-beckdawrek-summons-you/915969/183 "2020-12-31T21:58:42Z")
Unless Cecil wanted to stop writing columns, I’d imagine he might be too annoyed to stick around. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2020, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-cecil-where-are-you-beckdawrek-summons-you/915969/184 "2020-12-31T22:13:21Z")
Perhaps we will be visited by the Cecil Ghost of Message Boards Past! ---
**Author:** ![nelliebly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nelliebly/32/5422_2.png) [@nelliebly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nelliebly)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2020, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-cecil-where-are-you-beckdawrek-summons-you/915969/185 "2020-12-31T23:34:52Z")
People, people, people. You think you can summon the Great and Magical Oz by entreaty? Puh-lease. If he responded to that, he’d be pulled in here all the time. Then come the invitations to birthdays and Bar Mitzvahs, the honors (“You _have_ to come to the annual Fraternal Order of Wombats banquet! We’re giving you the highly coveted Millard Fillmore Award!”), the prom invitations from angst-ridden teens. It’d never stop. Nope. Mere appeals to sympathy will not work on the great one. You need the broom of the Wicked Witch of the West or at least a curious scottie dog and a field of opium poppies. Even then, don’t count on anything. And pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2021, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-cecil-where-are-you-beckdawrek-summons-you/915969/186 "2021-01-01T18:31:23Z")
But …it’s me ‘ol’ pitiful beck’ asking. ::::batting eyelashes::::(over moist, almost crying eyes) ---
**Author:** ![discobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/discobot/32/570_2.png) [@discobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/discobot)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2021, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-cecil-where-are-you-beckdawrek-summons-you/915969/187 "2021-01-01T18:41:38Z")
> 🔮 Most likely ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2021, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-cecil-where-are-you-beckdawrek-summons-you/915969/188 "2021-01-01T18:44:30Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/gBzJGckMYO4/hqdefault.jpg "Porky Pig Cartoon Ending "That's All Folks!"") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBzJGckMYO4) ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2021, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-cecil-where-are-you-beckdawrek-summons-you/915969/189 "2021-01-02T14:24:14Z")
Oh, for shame! ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2021, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-cecil-where-are-you-beckdawrek-summons-you/915969/190 "2021-01-02T18:24:14Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > I will say **Beck** that you’re one determined person. I wish you luck in your quest. 🙂 Me Too! > [@nelliebly](#): > > You think you can summon the Great and Magical Oz by entreaty? _"When I was back there in seminary school_ _There was a person there_ _Who put forth the proposition_ _That you can petition the Lord with prayer._ _Petition the lord with prayer._ _Petition the lord with prayer._ _ **YOU CANNOT PETITION THE LORD WITH PRAYER!!!** :_ -M. Risin ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2021, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-cecil-where-are-you-beckdawrek-summons-you/915969/191 "2021-01-02T18:37:37Z")
“God answers all prayers. Sometimes, the answer is ‘No’.” — some rabbi, quoted by Kirk Douglas. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2021, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-cecil-where-are-you-beckdawrek-summons-you/915969/192 "2021-01-02T22:15:23Z")
Spock said…“The good of the many outweighs the good of the few, or one” I don’t hold with that. 😋 ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2021, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-cecil-where-are-you-beckdawrek-summons-you/915969/193 "2021-01-03T00:19:25Z")
Rabbis have better and more practical answers than (Rev.?) Risin. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2021, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-cecil-where-are-you-beckdawrek-summons-you/915969/194 "2021-01-03T00:20:50Z")
Beck, Perhaps we could have a ceremony to invoke the presence of Cecil. Burn some big wicker or Kudzu men, and sacrifice a few Mississippians. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2021, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-cecil-where-are-you-beckdawrek-summons-you/915969/195 "2021-01-03T02:52:30Z")
Hey, Carni\* I’m down with that. I’ll build the kudzu man. You procure the Mississippians. \*nickname ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2021, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-cecil-where-are-you-beckdawrek-summons-you/915969/196 "2021-01-03T02:58:48Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > I’ll build the kudzu man. Just so you can Burn Him Down, like that thing in the Nevada Desert? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2021, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-cecil-where-are-you-beckdawrek-summons-you/915969/197 "2021-01-03T12:13:51Z")
We can find half a dozen passed out in Helena early Sunday mornings. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2021, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-cecil-where-are-you-beckdawrek-summons-you/915969/198 "2021-01-03T12:16:27Z")
Cecil cannot be invoked by something like spray painting “Cecil rules!” on a highway sign. That’s too, you know, subtle. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2021, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-cecil-where-are-you-beckdawrek-summons-you/915969/199 "2021-01-03T17:02:03Z")
The ladies of the Dope could make up a cheer squad. Do you think @Ed_Zotti would record us cheering and shaking our ‘pom-poms’ and forward it to Cecil? He couldn’t resist. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2021, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-cecil-where-are-you-beckdawrek-summons-you/915969/200 "2021-01-03T17:27:53Z")
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