# Poor Cecil, the Reader has sold you out! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [September 30, 2006, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poor-cecil-the-reader-has-sold-you-out/374701 "2006-09-30T04:00:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2006, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poor-cecil-the-reader-has-sold-you-out/374701/1 "2006-09-30T04:00:48Z")
[http://www.straightdope.com/columns/060929.html](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/060929.html) The current ad in your most recent column is for–alas!–a chiropractic college that has also started teaching acupuncture, herbal medicine, and many of the other crackpotic medical arts! Oh, the shame of it! ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2006, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poor-cecil-the-reader-has-sold-you-out/374701/2 "2006-09-30T16:19:48Z")
On the other hand, if it came from Cecil, it must be good. I think I’ll enroll. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2006, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poor-cecil-the-reader-has-sold-you-out/374701/3 "2006-09-30T20:23:29Z")
Absolutely. I just enrolled myself. I think I’ve found a purpose in life. Thanks Cecil Adams! ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2006, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poor-cecil-the-reader-has-sold-you-out/374701/4 "2006-09-30T21:22:33Z")
Will bloodletting be taught? It could be helpful for patients who are bewitched by bad humors. ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2006, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poor-cecil-the-reader-has-sold-you-out/374701/5 "2006-10-01T14:04:03Z")
The READER is willing to accept money for ads from almost anything (you ever browsed through a copy of the Chicago edition?) … Cecil has no say in the ads, one way or 'tother. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2006, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poor-cecil-the-reader-has-sold-you-out/374701/6 "2006-10-01T19:46:07Z")
[QUOTE=C K Dexter Haven] The READER is willing to accept money for ads from almost anything (you ever browsed through a copy of the Chicago edition?) … Cecil has no say in the ads, one way or 'tother. [/QUOTE] Which just proves the saying, “Money talks,…” ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2006, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poor-cecil-the-reader-has-sold-you-out/374701/7 "2006-10-01T22:44:31Z")
Dearest **dropzone,** The word “crackpotic” is new to me, and apparently new to Merriam-Webster’s web site. If you coined it yourself, I tip my hat to you for it. If not, please tell us where you found it. This is where I describe some gesture of respect or sycophancy (sicko-fancy?) and back away, muttering platitudes. Hoo, boy! How’s that for cryptic? 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![cerberus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cerberus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cerberus)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2006, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poor-cecil-the-reader-has-sold-you-out/374701/8 "2006-10-01T23:58:47Z")
I like _Chiroquacktic_, myself. ---
**Author:** ![John\_W.Kennedy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_w.kennedy/32/1031_2.png) [@John\_W.Kennedy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_W.Kennedy)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2006, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poor-cecil-the-reader-has-sold-you-out/374701/9 "2006-10-02T00:44:25Z")
Anyone who went to Brown knows that the word is “psychoceramic”. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2006, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poor-cecil-the-reader-has-sold-you-out/374701/10 "2006-10-02T14:51:18Z")
\*Mr Burns: Otto, you went to Brown, didn’t you? Otto: Yeah. Almost made tenure, too.\* Crackpotic is my own and is intended to be more general than chiroquacktic.