# 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:** 7
**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:** [August 6, 2020, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-cecil-where-are-you-beckdawrek-summons-you/915969/121 "2020-08-06T15:25:15Z")
Now wait a minute. Here you are, begging Cecil for an audience, and yet professing your love for Andy Griffith? ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2020, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-cecil-where-are-you-beckdawrek-summons-you/915969/122 "2020-08-06T15:52:16Z")
This reminds me of the time back in 1992 when Cecil and I were attending the Barcelona games. It was the night after Shannon Miller won the bronze medal on the balance beam. We were eating dinner late in a small seafood place in the Gothic Quarter, when Cecil, who had the audacity to be carrying around one of those early brick phones, gets a call. It was Betsey Wright, close aide to Bill Clinton. She said that Bill, who had just accepted the Democratic nomination a week or so before, was wanting to decompress before making the final kick towards the election, and was inviting Cecil to meet up with him and a few other people at Greg Norman’s place in Florida. Cecil, politely declined and we drank grappa for the next several hours. ---
**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:** [August 6, 2020, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-cecil-where-are-you-beckdawrek-summons-you/915969/123 "2020-08-06T16:02:43Z")
@omar_little, give your old buddy a call. Tell him this Arky girl wants him to come home. Carni\*- I have a big heart. Lots of loves to give!! \*nickname ---
**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:** [August 6, 2020, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-cecil-where-are-you-beckdawrek-summons-you/915969/124 "2020-08-06T18:12:05Z")
> [@Omar\_Little](#): > > Cecil, politely declined and we drank grappa for the next several hours. Yeah, and called me to bail you guys out the next morning. I remember it well. ---
**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:** [August 6, 2020, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-cecil-where-are-you-beckdawrek-summons-you/915969/125 "2020-08-06T19:48:20Z")
There was no mention of Mr. Griffith. ---
**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:** [August 6, 2020, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-cecil-where-are-you-beckdawrek-summons-you/915969/126 "2020-08-06T19:50:46Z")
RSVP. @discobot fortune ---
**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:** [August 6, 2020, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-cecil-where-are-you-beckdawrek-summons-you/915969/127 "2020-08-06T19:50:47Z")
> 🔮 Reply hazy, try again ---
**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:** [August 6, 2020, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-cecil-where-are-you-beckdawrek-summons-you/915969/128 "2020-08-06T20:01:12Z")
Yes. You are. ---
**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:** [August 6, 2020, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-cecil-where-are-you-beckdawrek-summons-you/915969/129 "2020-08-06T20:17:50Z")
Trying again. @discobot fortune ---
**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:** [August 6, 2020, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-cecil-where-are-you-beckdawrek-summons-you/915969/130 "2020-08-06T20:17:51Z")
> 🔮 Without a doubt ---
**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:** [August 6, 2020, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-cecil-where-are-you-beckdawrek-summons-you/915969/131 "2020-08-06T20:18:06Z")
Yeah. Baby. ---
**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2020, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-cecil-where-are-you-beckdawrek-summons-you/915969/132 "2020-08-06T23:00:45Z")
@carnivorousplant > [@](#): > > Just checking on the ages of my fellow MMPers. I heard it in Junior High. I remember two others. His retelling of the [opera Carmen](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roaLX_UGFEE) and his explanation of [football](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfMEC58rhRc) ---
**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2020, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-cecil-where-are-you-beckdawrek-summons-you/915969/133 "2020-08-06T23:06:26Z")
from carni’s original quote: Andy Griffith’s explanain of [Romeo and Juliet](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eR7cNratdek) ---
**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:** [August 6, 2020, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-cecil-where-are-you-beckdawrek-summons-you/915969/134 "2020-08-06T23:35:28Z")
“Nip it in the bud” _Barney Fife_ 😁 This thread is about @Cecil_Adams. ---
**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:** [August 9, 2020, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-cecil-where-are-you-beckdawrek-summons-you/915969/135 "2020-08-09T04:06:52Z")
I just where Ol’@Cecil_Adams is tonight? I wonder if he’s thinking about the Dope? Or maybe in conference with world leaders about the Pandemic. Ah, he’s probably wasted on some back road drinkin’ moonshine. Hey, I need to take a ride to the end of my road. BBL. ---
**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:** [August 10, 2020, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-cecil-where-are-you-beckdawrek-summons-you/915969/136 "2020-08-10T03:04:40Z")
I forgot the ‘wonder’ Just like me to screw up in this way. Well, crap. Now I’m depressed. I need a cheerful greeting …ah, NM. I haz a sad😔 ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2020, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-cecil-where-are-you-beckdawrek-summons-you/915969/137 "2020-08-10T04:32:13Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > I need a cheerful greeting … _Cheer up, good friend Beck_ _Just say “what the heck,” and be a_ _Doper believer, 'cause you’re an_ _Important Wrek._ ---
**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:** [August 10, 2020, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-cecil-where-are-you-beckdawrek-summons-you/915969/138 "2020-08-10T04:42:23Z")
I’m a Wrek, alright. 😲 ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2020, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-cecil-where-are-you-beckdawrek-summons-you/915969/139 "2020-08-10T21:03:37Z")
Just remember, there’s a little of Cecil in all of us! 😄 😁 😄 😁 ---
**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:** [August 10, 2020, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-cecil-where-are-you-beckdawrek-summons-you/915969/140 "2020-08-10T22:30:59Z")
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