# That's MY Question Cecil Answered This Week! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [March 14, 2000, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-my-question-cecil-answered-this-week/856 "2000-03-14T00:08:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jab1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee7513/32.png) [@jab1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jab1)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2000, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-my-question-cecil-answered-this-week/856/1 "2000-03-14T00:08:00Z")
[www.straightdope.com/columns/000310.htm](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/000310.htm) 😃 😃 😃 😃 😃 😃 And now you know why I changed my sig line! I knew more than two weeks ago that Cecil would answer my question because **JillGat** let me know and she emailed me a copy of the finished column. I HAVE REACHED THE INNER CIRCLE! * * * When all else fails, ask Cecil. ---
**Author:** ![PUNdit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3da27b/32.png) [@PUNdit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PUNdit)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2000, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-my-question-cecil-answered-this-week/856/2 "2000-03-14T00:30:00Z")
Hey Jab that’s great. But when I click your link I get a 404. Have you been censored already? * * * “You can be smart or pleasant. For years I was smart. I recommend pleasant.” Elwood P. Dowd ---
**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2000, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-my-question-cecil-answered-this-week/856/3 "2000-03-14T00:34:00Z")
The link is: [http://www.straightdope.com/columns/000310.html](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/000310.html) Congratulations 🙂 BTW, which one is yours, Japanese soldiers or jeep? * * * “I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it,” Jack Handy [The Kat House](http://members.aol.com/gr8kat1/KatGen/home.htm) [Join the FSH Muscular Dystrophy Webring](http://members.aol.com/gr8kat1/KatGen/fshwebring.htm) ---
**Author:** ![jab1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee7513/32.png) [@jab1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jab1)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2000, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-my-question-cecil-answered-this-week/856/4 "2000-03-14T00:52:00Z")
The Japanese soldiers. I had a vague memory about seeing them surrender long after the war was over, but I couldn’t be sure if it was a real event or an episode of some TV series. My apologies, **PUNdit**. All I did wrong was leave off the “l” in “html.” * * * When all else fails, ask Cecil. ---
**Author:** ![Ursa\_Major](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/a88e57/32.png) [@Ursa\_Major](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ursa_Major)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2000, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-my-question-cecil-answered-this-week/856/5 "2000-03-14T02:24:00Z")
I swear to God that I saw a documentary on Japan’s “stay-behind soldiers”, over the weekend on the History Channel, but I can’t find a lising for it on their homepage or in the TV guide. Assuming I’m not imagining things, this show stated that Onoda and a private who returned from an island in Indonesia were the last to be discovered. Cecil says he has definite knowledge of a soldier who surrendered in the Philippines in 1980. Who was he and why didn’t the show mention him? Also, I wonder how many of these soldiers were really abiding by the Bushido code. Sounds like a pretty good alibi for a deserter shacking up with a Guamanian or Filipino girlfriend. ---
**Author:** ![RM\_Mentock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e274bd/32.png) [@RM\_Mentock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RM_Mentock)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2000, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-my-question-cecil-answered-this-week/856/6 "2000-03-14T17:46:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Ursa Major: > **Cecil says he has definite knowledge of a soldier who surrendered in the Philippines in 1980. Who was he and why didn’t the show mention him?** Cecil furnished a link to a [weblist](http://www.wanpela.com/holdouts/list.html) of holdouts. The 1980 holdout is listed as Fumio Nakahira. * * * rocks ---
**Author:** ![Jois](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ea666f/32.png) [@Jois](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jois)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2000, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-my-question-cecil-answered-this-week/856/7 "2000-03-15T02:03:00Z")
Yea! to Jab1! Good idea! But I truly miss seeing your old logo - it was the best, give Cecil a few weeks of glory and change back to the fish! * * * Are you driving with your eyes open or are you using The Force? - A. Foley ---
**Author:** ![Trion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Trion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trion)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2000, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-my-question-cecil-answered-this-week/856/8 "2000-03-15T12:15:00Z")
Congrats Jab. I’m still trying to break into that circle myself. Not long ago I submitted a question to the master that I thought was worthy of his brilliance only to haw his assistant e-mail me back that he was currently researching it. In other words, while my question was worthy and not yet answered, someone else had beat me to it. _Sigh_ Oh well, maybe I’ll get a “simalarly from…” credit. -Paul L. ---
**Author:** ![Trion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Trion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trion)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2000, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-my-question-cecil-answered-this-week/856/9 "2000-03-15T12:17:00Z")
Yikes. Looks like I can’t even spell “have”. No wonder… -Paul L. ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2000, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-my-question-cecil-answered-this-week/856/10 "2000-03-16T01:53:00Z")
So “jab” = Jack A. Biggs, then? -andros- ---
**Author:** ![jab1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee7513/32.png) [@jab1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jab1)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2000, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-my-question-cecil-answered-this-week/856/11 "2000-03-16T19:29:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by andros: > \*\*So “jab” = Jack A. Biggs, then? > > -andros-\*\* Yup. Middle name is Autry, as in Gene Autry. It was also my father’s name. My grandparents liked Gene Autry. ---
**Author:** ![RM\_Mentock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e274bd/32.png) [@RM\_Mentock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RM_Mentock)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2000, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-my-question-cecil-answered-this-week/856/12 "2000-03-16T20:11:00Z")
So you’re jab II? * * * [rocks](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/991203.html) ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2000, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-my-question-cecil-answered-this-week/856/13 "2000-03-17T01:06:00Z")
The Chandler wobble, huh? Sheesh! by comparison, the Coriolis force is _People_ magazine material. Seriously: congrats, rocks! ---
**Author:** ![RM\_Mentock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e274bd/32.png) [@RM\_Mentock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RM_Mentock)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2000, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-my-question-cecil-answered-this-week/856/14 "2000-03-17T16:40:00Z")
RTFirefly Thanks. I can appreciate jab1’s OP. What kind of mathematician are you? * * * rocks ---
**Author:** ![jab1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee7513/32.png) [@jab1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jab1)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2000, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-my-question-cecil-answered-this-week/856/15 "2000-03-18T06:23:00Z")
Uhhhhh, guys… My question is the one for March 10, about Japanese soldiers. Methinks thou art responding to the March 17 question, which is not yet online, and which I have not yet even _read,_ let alone _asked_. And didn’t Cecil already answer a question about the Chandler wobble? Is this an update? I have only a vague understanding of the Coriolis effect. It’s what makes hurricanes rotate counter-clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere, right? Go to the third post, the one by **Gr8Kat** , and click on the link provided. My question is the first of the two Cecil answered _last week_, not this week. **RM Mentock** : I am Jab Jr. (I was and still am called “Jay” by all my relatives. It’s better than “Junior!”) * * * When all else fails, ask Cecil. ---
**Author:** ![jab1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee7513/32.png) [@jab1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jab1)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2000, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-my-question-cecil-answered-this-week/856/16 "2000-03-18T06:27:00Z")
Oh, geez, I’m such an idiot. I just now clicked on the “rocks” link. **Mentock** asked about the wobble. And **Firefly** was asking YOU what kind of mathematician you are! I haven’t had enough caffeine yet… * * * When all else fails, ask Cecil. ---
**Author:** ![jab1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee7513/32.png) [@jab1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jab1)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2000, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-my-question-cecil-answered-this-week/856/17 "2000-03-20T21:10:00Z")
And now my question is in the Archive. Fame IS fleeting, isn’t it? And now, I FINALLY got it: **Mentock** asked **Firefly** , “what kind of mathematician are you?” Some days, my learning curve _declines_. * * * When all else fails, ask Cecil.