# Thank you, Unca Cece **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [June 28, 2018, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-unca-cece/816894 "2018-06-28T03:55:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2018, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-unca-cece/816894/1 "2018-06-28T03:55:36Z")
Rough week. Thanks, Cecil. Thanks, Ed. Love you both like mad. You brightened an often shitty adolescence and adulthood. And still do. As was the fashion of the day, link to column: [A note from Cecil Adams about The Straight Dope - The Straight Dope](https://www.straightdope.com/a-note-from-cecil-adams-about-the-straight-dope/) ---
**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:** [June 28, 2018, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-unca-cece/816894/2 "2018-06-28T04:50:07Z")
Endorsed. When I found the Dope (research on the origin of the term “missionary position”), I spent 3 days reading every column I could find. Then I spent several weeks (months?) cautiously observing the natives in action on the SDMB before i finally joined. Thank you for expanding my knowledge in new ways, and introducing me to some wonderful folks. I hope good things lie ahead for you. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2018, 9:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-unca-cece/816894/3 "2018-06-28T09:14:40Z")
QFT. ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2018, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-unca-cece/816894/4 "2018-06-28T10:36:15Z")
Fourthed. This has been home and hangout to me for a long time and made me more social. ---
**Author:** ![SCSimmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e495f1/32.png) [@SCSimmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCSimmons)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2018, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-unca-cece/816894/5 "2018-06-28T12:12:54Z")
Going to miss your weekly dose of fact in an increasingly fact-averse world, good sir. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2018, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-unca-cece/816894/6 "2018-06-28T12:21:31Z")
I guess I was lucky to get my [Fatberg Apocalypse](https://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/9131/is-the-fatberg-apocalypse-upon-us/) question answered before the end. Maybe it will make the new book??? ---
**Author:** ![Balthisar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/balthisar/32/2825_2.png) [@Balthisar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balthisar)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2018, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-unca-cece/816894/7 "2018-06-28T12:43:58Z")
So long, and thanks for all the fish! And, yes! Please do another book! ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2018, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-unca-cece/816894/8 "2018-06-28T12:45:03Z")
Well, crap. I wish you the best in whatever new adventure you take on. Thanks for all those great columns. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2018, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-unca-cece/816894/9 "2018-06-28T12:58:57Z")
I found the books first(used book store). When we moved to Aptos, I found the local alternative newspaper carried the column. With our first computer, the first thing I searched for was the Straight Dope. Which was how I got sucked into this place. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2018, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-unca-cece/816894/10 "2018-06-28T15:17:52Z")
Been a fan since discovering the column in 1980 in the Baltimore _City Paper_. It’s been fun. Thanx, Unca Cecil. ---
**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2018, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-unca-cece/816894/11 "2018-06-28T16:24:11Z")
Thanks for the great run. I discovered the column back in the 80s in the _Los Angeles Reader._ Every week I’d start off by flipping to the letters page for\* Life In Hell\*, then back to Page 2 for _The Straight Dope_. (After the \*Reader _folded,_ LA Weekly \*stuck you in the back with the escort ads, but the \*Reader \*put you right up front).I remember cutting out the original gerbil stuffing column and pinning it to the corkboard on my dorm room door. I lost count of the number of parties I “entertained” by dramatically reading that one aloud. Bought the books in the 90s. Found the website in the late 90s, lurked for a while, finally joined in 2001 and my first post generated a response of “bite me”. Good times. ---
**Author:** ![BobBitchin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7ea924/32.png) [@BobBitchin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobBitchin)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2018, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-unca-cece/816894/12 "2018-06-28T16:40:05Z")
🆒Oh, far out man. Did that old dude say he was gonna write a book about us? What if it doesn’t write back?😃 Seriously, I found this place by searching for skeptics and the like. I’ll be sorry to see the column go. Long Live the SDMB. ---
**Author:** ![CapnPitt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/edb3f5/32.png) [@CapnPitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CapnPitt)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2018, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-unca-cece/816894/13 "2018-06-28T16:58:18Z")
Thank you so much for all the years of entertainment and education. ---
**Author:** ![Lancia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lancia/32/17174_2.png) [@Lancia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lancia)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2018, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-unca-cece/816894/14 "2018-06-28T17:11:57Z")
I just wrote about the impact the Dope has had on me [here](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=21051903&postcount=53) Thank you, Cecil, for the years of entertainment, enlightenment, and laughs. From the bottom of my heart, thank you. ---
**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2018, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-unca-cece/816894/15 "2018-06-28T17:53:55Z")
I never did see the column in the papers here but The Board has become my refuge from the madness of the interwebs and the stultifying masses. I read many of your articles online, Uncle C, and they never failed to entertain and inform; I’m sad to see them go. Thanks for all the fish, and I wish you great joy now and in the future! ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2018, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-unca-cece/816894/16 "2018-06-28T18:41:49Z")
First the Kennedy retirement, now this; this has been a terrible week for public intelligence. Thank you, Cecil, for making me laugh out loud in the middle of a used bookstore in 1986, when I came across the first _Straight Dope_ book and spent the next hour shifting from foot to foot as I stood in the aisle reading it through. Later, when I got my first computer and could get on line, what do you think the first thing I looked for was? Porn, of course. But the very next thing was the Dope, where I discovered the SDMB. I’ve been here, off and on, ever since. So thank you, Unca Cecil, Little Ed, and Slug - thank you from the bottom of my heart. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2018, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-unca-cece/816894/17 "2018-06-28T19:05:41Z")
Another who found the books long before I knew the internet existed. As much a part of my life as any of the great words written, it will live forever and be a part of me until I die. ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2018, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-unca-cece/816894/18 "2018-06-28T20:12:56Z")
It’s been a blast. Now it’s a blast from the past. A valiant attempt to fight ignorance, although as we all know the war against ignorance can never be won. It’s been fun trying though. Most of all I’ll miss Cecil’s acerbic wit. No one could put down fools with such style. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_the\_Turtle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_the_turtle/32/2926_2.png) [@Fear\_the\_Turtle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_the_Turtle)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2018, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-unca-cece/816894/19 "2018-06-28T20:45:40Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > Been a fan since discovering the column in 1980 in the Baltimore _City Paper_. It’s been fun. Thanx, Unca Cecil. Same here, except it was closer to '86. Thanks for al the hard work! ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2018, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-unca-cece/816894/20 "2018-06-28T21:03:11Z")
I feel like a latecomer here. I found the 'Dope online only [checks calendar] _ **eighteen years ago?!** _ Man, time does fly. Anyway, thanks Cecil. It was fun and enlightening. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-unca-cece/816894.md?page=2)