Merry Christmas @Cecil_Adams
I will say Beck that you’re one determined person. I wish you luck in your quest. 
Unless Cecil wanted to stop writing columns, I’d imagine he might be too annoyed to stick around.
Perhaps we will be visited by the Cecil Ghost of Message Boards Past!
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.
But …it’s me ‘ol’ pitiful beck’ asking.
::::batting eyelashes::::(over moist, almost crying eyes)
Most likely
Oh, for shame!
Me Too!
"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
“God answers all prayers. Sometimes, the answer is ‘No’.” — some rabbi, quoted by Kirk Douglas.
Spock said…“The good of the many outweighs the good of the few, or one”
I don’t hold with that.
Rabbis have better and more practical answers than (Rev.?) Risin.
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.
Hey, Carni* I’m down with that.
I’ll build the kudzu man. You procure the Mississippians.
*nickname
Just so you can Burn Him Down, like that thing in the Nevada Desert?
We can find half a dozen passed out in Helena early Sunday mornings.
Cecil cannot be invoked by something like spray painting “Cecil rules!” on a highway sign.
That’s too, you know, subtle.
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.
Kudzu pom-poms.