Unca Cecil

[C_K_Dexter_Haven]

Cecil doesn’t post often for a couple of reasons:
(1) Yeah, he is somewhat lazy and doesn’t like to do work unless he’s paid for it. He’s only paid for his weekly column, and that’s what he does.
(2) He’s always been a trifle anti-social. Well, OK, more than a trifle. “Chatting” on a Message Board is just not an activity that would appeal to him.

Having said that, his loyal staff keep trying to bug him to do more… if only to read the forum where people say wonderful things about his columns.
On Carl Barks: Who’s richer, Bill Gates or Scrooge McDuck?

[DSYoungEsq]

@C K Dexter Haven

Having said that, his loyal staff keep trying to bug him to do more… if only to read the forum where people say wonderful things about his columns.

<blink> No wonder he never comes here, then. He got tired of the paucity of admirative and/or congratulatory exposition. :eek:

[descamisado]

@Nametag

Not naked, but close to it, I think – doesn’t Scrooge, like Donald, go bottomless?

I am reminded of an old cartoon – from MAD magazine, I think – in which Donald duck rants to Daisy about how great figures from science and history had been ridiculed as he has been ridiculed: “Why am I not compared to these men of vision?” “For one thing, none of them was a talking duck walking around bare-assed in a sailor suit.”

Exactly. I love the animated characters who wear a bowtie or something and nothing else.

[Exapno_Mapcase]

@Nametag

Not naked, but close to it, I think – doesn’t Scrooge, like Donald, go bottomless?

He didn’t go bottomless.

He always wore spats.

[aldiboronti]

Cecil seems to be becoming more uncommunicative as the years go by. It’s rather worrying, given the example of Howard Hughes.

Ed and the senior staff aren’t Mormons by any chance, are they?

[Sapo]

@Nametag

Not naked, but close to it, I think – doesn’t Scrooge, like Donald, go bottomless?

I am reminded of an old cartoon – from MAD magazine, I think – in which Donald duck rants to Daisy about how great figures from science and history had been ridiculed as he has been ridiculed: “Why am I not compared to these men of vision?” “For one thing, none of them was a talking duck walking around bare-assed in a sailor suit.”

Except when he comes out of the shower. Then he wraps a towel around himself. This leads me to the theory that what we see as his bare bottom is really a bare-bottom-duck suit.

[DocCathode]

@Sapo

Except when he comes out of the shower. Then he wraps a towel around himself. This leads me to the theory that what we see as his bare bottom is really a bare-bottom-duck suit.

The Disney folks have explained the towel. He does it so the floor doesn’t get wet.

[Colibri]

@DocCathode

The Disney folks have explained the towel. He does it so the floor doesn’t get wet.

Now they have to explain why a duck would care about the floor being wet. Also, what the point of taking a shower is at all, since water rolls right off his back.

[DocCathode]

@Colibri

Now they have to explain why a duck would care about the floor being wet.

Wet floors get mildew. Would Donald want to live in a house full of mold and mildew?

[EddyTeddyFreddy]

@5-4-Fighting

Iampuhna(sp.?)

Close.

[Skywatcher]

@C K Dexter Haven

Cecil doesn’t post often for a couple of reasons:
(1) Yeah, he is somewhat lazy and doesn’t like to do work unless he’s paid for it. He’s only paid for his weekly column, and that’s what he does.
(2) He’s always been a trifle anti-social. Well, OK, more than a trifle. “Chatting” on a Message Board is just not an activity that would appeal to him.

And (3) He has a reputation for not being particularly fond of computers.

[Mike_Fun]

I thought it was because he’s not a real person but rather a nom de plume.

[DocCathode]

@Mike Fun

I thought it was because he’s not a real person but rather a nom de plume.

That’s a lie created to fool the public. Unca Cecil is as real as you or I.

[Mike_Fun]

So much for fighting ignorance, huh?

If

Unca Cecil is as real as you or I.

then I’m even more confused since you’re responding to my nom de plume and I’m reasonably certain you’re using one, too.

[Skywatcher]

@Mike Fun

So much for fighting ignorance, huh?

If

Unca Cecil is as real as you or I.

then I’m even more confused since you’re responding to my nom de plume and I’m reasonably certain you’re using one, too.

There’s a real person behind Mike Fun unless you’re a bot. Same with Cecil Adams–those columns don’t write themselves.

[Baron_Greenback]

@aldiboronti

Cecil seems to be becoming more uncommunicative as the years go by. It’s rather worrying, given the example of Howard Hughes.

Perhaps he’s building an unfeasibly large wooden aeroplane out on that big lake near Chicago? With his untamed twisty fingernails and his obsession with capturing a perfect image of Giraffe’s perfect chest?

[Sapo]

@Colibri

Now they have to explain why a duck would care about the floor being wet. Also, what the point of taking a shower is at all, since water rolls right off his back.

He does use soap, that should take care of the problem of water rolling off his back