# 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:** 1\ **Showing post:** 229
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2021, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-cecil-where-are-you-beckdawrek-summons-you/915969/229 "2021-06-11T17:46:40Z")
Here’s to being free! la la la la la la la, Cecil’s back! Here’s to you and me! la la la la la la la, Cecil’s back! Here’s to flying high! > [@A modest proposal for the Straight Dope](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-modest-proposal-for-the-straight-dope/944055): > > (Second try. Little Ed, who I rely on to digitally transcribe these messages from the original parchment, stupidly posted the first attempt as though it emanated from himself.) After a hiatus of almost three years, your columnist is thinking about resuming weekly publication of the Straight Dope column. There are three reasons for this: (a) Little Ed’s attempt to short GameStop didn’t work out as well as hoped, leaving the retirement account sadly depleted; (b) global ignorance, alas, hasn’t no… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-cecil-where-are-you-beckdawrek-summons-you/915969)._