# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2018, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-unca-cece/816894/21 "2018-06-28T21:13:52Z")
> [@](#): > > Its members are an exceptionally lively and devoted group. In a business where “stickiness” means you can get someone to spend 10 minutes on your site, we’ve had people who’ve spent hours every day for years. Decades. I feel a little awkward about it too. 🙂 Thanks for a great run, for setting us straight on so many things and for laying the groundwork for the great community that is here. ---
**Author:** ![capybara](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/capybara/32/202_2.png) [@capybara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capybara)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2018, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-unca-cece/816894/22 "2018-06-28T23:23:49Z")
Yes, thank you, Cece’. Hope you keep contributing to the betterment of the thinking world. ---
**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:** [June 28, 2018, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-unca-cece/816894/23 "2018-06-28T23:29:57Z")
The straight dope is something every human wants to hear. (Well if they are curious) I hope a way is found for the column can keep on. Books are a good way, but the regular installments are what keeps things fresh. It’s a sad day.☹ ETA, I am still a noob, I know a bunch ignorance that needs fighting! ---
**Author:** ![sudont](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@sudont](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sudont)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2018, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-unca-cece/816894/24 "2018-06-29T10:05:52Z")
I’m still in shock. The Straight Dope has been a part of my weekly ritual for so long, (early eighties?), that this is a little hard to accept. Who the hell thought that the Straight Dope was no longer needed? Ah, well, thanks for fighting the good fight, Cecil. It really is taking longer than anyone might’ve thought. So, I guess you won’t be getting around to that question I sent in a few years ago? ; ) ---
**Author:** ![whitetho](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whitetho/32/1059_2.png) [@whitetho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whitetho)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2018, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-unca-cece/816894/25 "2018-06-29T18:33:03Z")
I’m disappointed the series has ended with an unresolved cliff hanger. The last line of the last column reads: “In some quarters at least, it’s evidently reassuring to know there’s a snake-oil salesman in the White House.” Now we will never know the name of this mysterious White House occupant. ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2018, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-unca-cece/816894/26 "2018-07-01T13:33:28Z")
Yup yup. I discovered the Straight dope while taking a particularly boring IT class…the class computers were reasonably locked down (for the time), but I managed to install Opera, and the SDMB was a link there. What a long road it’s been! ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2018, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-unca-cece/816894/27 "2018-07-01T23:08:31Z")
Write that book. You know you want to. Thanks for the memories. ---
**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:** [July 1, 2018, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-unca-cece/816894/28 "2018-07-01T23:25:33Z")
> [@AHunter3](#): > > Write that book. You know you want to. Do a history of the SD and related things (like this board) and you can put me down for 5 copies. Release it around September so I can read one and reorder for Christmas and you could multiply that by 10. ---
**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-unca-cece/816894/29 "2018-07-02T01:25:18Z")
Wikipedia has updated! Written in Wiki-speak though .[It was announced after the column of June 27, 2018, that with the sale of ‘‘The Chicago Reader’’ being imminent, the column was being discontinued in its present form.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Straight_Dope) … which surprised me, give the grace with which many of the contributors write here, ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-unca-cece/816894/30 "2018-07-02T04:18:33Z")
Thank you, Cecil. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-unca-cece/816894/31 "2018-07-02T04:50:28Z")
> [@Melbourne](#): > > Wikipedia has updated! > > Written in Wiki-speak though > > .[It was announced after the column of June 27, 2018, that with the sale of ‘‘The Chicago Reader’’ being imminent, the column was being discontinued in its present form.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Straight_Dope) > > … which surprised me, give the grace with which many of the contributors write here, Now it just says ““The Straight Dope” was an online question-and-answer newspaper column published from 1973 to 2018 in the Chicago Reader and syndicated in eight newspapers in the United States.” ---
**Author:** ![Hussman32](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8baadc/32.png) [@Hussman32](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hussman32)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-unca-cece/816894/32 "2018-07-02T18:11:27Z")
Many thanks to Cecil, Ed, and Slug. Thanks to the SD Advisory Board staff. I’ve been reading religiously for 24, maybe 25 years, it will be hard to replace my Friday knowledge fix. Best wishes, and good luck. ---
**Author:** ![curious11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ac91a4/32.png) [@curious11](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curious11)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2018, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-unca-cece/816894/33 "2018-07-04T00:33:40Z")
Hey Cecil, Thanks for being a source of truth. I relied on the Straight Dope for facts and entertainment (Factortainment? Edutainment?) to help me through the day. I was shocked when I saw the end of the columns, however why should I be shocked? Did I somehow think that you would write until the end? Or you would download your brain to robot Cecil Adams? Still learning and adjusting. Now I’m seeing that all will end/change eventually. For example, Stan Lee can’t make cameos forever, evidence to the contrary aside. Still teaching me valuable life lessons. Thanks for all the Straight Dope! -Curious11 (My curiosity goes up to 11) p.s. One of my favorite columns was the true story on ethanol. ---
**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:** [July 4, 2018, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-unca-cece/816894/34 "2018-07-04T15:24:28Z")
^ You should know by now that Stan Lee is a cyborg and will have copyright control of his creations well into the 22nd century. And cameos galore. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Powers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Powers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Powers)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2018, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-unca-cece/816894/35 "2018-07-05T13:27:48Z")
> [@curious11](#): > > Did I somehow think that you would write until the end? Or you would download your brain to robot Cecil Adams? I’m pretty sure Cecil is immortal, like Santa Claus or Superman or The Phantom. Even if his column isn’t. Powers &8^] ---
**Author:** ![Powers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Powers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Powers)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2018, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-unca-cece/816894/36 "2018-07-05T13:29:54Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Now it just says ““The Straight Dope” was an online question-and-answer newspaper column published from 1973 to 2018 in the Chicago Reader and syndicated in eight newspapers in the United States.” That’s a slight modification of the lede that’s been present for quite some time (just changed the tense and added the ending date). The part quoted by **Melbourne** was added to the Newspapers section, but done improperly by the editor who did so. I just fixed it so it shows properly. Powers &8^] ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2018, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-unca-cece/816894/37 "2018-07-05T13:55:05Z")
Came to through the books. Found this place later. Much joy. ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2018, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-unca-cece/816894/38 "2018-07-05T13:58:00Z")
Did anyone ask “the folks at Sun-Times Media” to think? “Meddle” would be a more accurate term. Cecil isn’t just a man, he’s an institution. Somehow, that reality has gone right over their heads. I remember when “Oxygen” (Oprah) purchased “BreakupGirl” which, up to that time, was a thriving message board. Despite the fact that it was thriving, they decided that they had to meddle and change a bunch of things. “Why” will always remain a mystery. In any case, “BreakupGirl” was basically dead within a year. ---
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2018, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-unca-cece/816894/39 "2018-07-05T16:11:34Z")
I read about this in the newspaper in a [nice column by Colby Cosh](https://nationalpost.com/opinion/colby-coshs-salute-to-an-invisible-man-the-straight-dopes-cecil-adams-packs-it-in) Le sigh. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2018, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-unca-cece/816894/40 "2018-07-21T05:57:07Z")
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