You read that thread topic correctly sir. Who needs you Cecil? Want me to put it on the Jumbo Tron in Times Square on a continuous loop?
I have enjoyed this board so far without a welcome word from you; I suppose that I can just go on enjoying it.
No doubt my past posts, have revealed that I am feeling a bit frustrated, so let me hand you a little reminder.
I am not totally without support on this board. I have made many friends in the short time I have been here. So let me ask you sir….
How would you feel about a boycott? What would happen then? Without the input of my friends and myself, this board would be as rickety as a Shanghai whorehouse during a freak windstorm.
I bet that conjures up some scary images doesn’t it sir? That boycott of Disney by the Southern Baptists a while back comes to my mind. Michael Eisner is probably eating Old Roy now instead of breakfast steak. (You know they grind up truck tires and put in that stuff for filler don’t you? That’s why Michael has that funny look on his face during his interviews)
But you could prevent this ugliness. Just post me a hello between now and Tuesday midnight.
A word of caution… After that day and hour with no word from you sir, the picket signs could be thicker than flies on a dead possum’s ass, road killed on an Oklahoma highway on a hot mid-August afternoon.
I have actually seen that and it wasn’t pretty.
Posts like, DON”T USE SDMB! and SDMB IS UNFAIR! could pop up. Ugly words…I know ….doesn’t seem too appetizing does it?
Please don’t take this as a threat from me, because I would never stoop so low as to threaten my Captain but it has taken on a life of its own and could be out of both of our hands after Tuesday.
I think you want to go back to sucking up. Do a lot of it, and soon, and you may avert the thunderbolts from the clear blue sky that are about to hit you.
aha - Hello. How are you. You may find this hard to believe but Cecil Adams himself has authorized me to welcome you to this board. Yes, that’s right. You can consider yourself welcomed by the great one himself.
And that’s not all. He has asked me to give you this present. It’s a nicely tailored jacket. It should fit you perfectly. I know the sleeves seem a bit long and white may not be your best color. All we ask is that you try it on. If you don’t like it we’ll try to find you a better one. Here, just slip it on…
What?? No, no. This isn’t a trick. Why are you looking at me like that??
And not for nothing, Aha, but this is getting real old real quick. As amusing as it might be, I’m going to ask you to find another schtick. A couple of threads are fine; this many on the same freakin’ subject borderline on harrassment. This is the last one I’m going to allow on this subject.
aha, aha, aha. This is really sad. The threat approach was great up until that last line. *My god what have I just typed… * You may have had him, but you lost him at the end.
You’ve got to follow thru. If you play the threat card, then bet the farm on it. Don’t wimp out at the end. The guy’s a freaking genius. When you wimp out like that at the end, he knows you are just jerking him around. It’s just a hollow threat.
You’ve started some really good approaches, but you seem to show a lack of conviction. The puppy thing started good then ended up with butt washing. You never followed up on the bribery thing by raising the stakes. I’m sure the ass-kissing is making points but it doesn’t seem to be able to put it over the top.
You don’t have that much time left. You need to use every approach and push them to the limit. That’s your best shot.
This is just my opinion, but you need to decide if you are really commited to this.
Seriously, aha, you have to realize that Cecil can never give in. If he does relent and appear at your command, then he’ll be constantly pestered with posters (poster pesters?) pestering him to please appear, pretty pretty please.
aha - would you just stop all this and send The Man a big check? That’s how I got my “Cecil Loves Me” car air freshener. (It’s not very good, though - it smells like brains.)
Well this will be my last post on this subject. I was having so much fun that I probably took it a bit too far.
For that I humbly apologize. I only had one more post to go anyway and it was a nice one.
Thanks guys for all your fun comments. And to Euty and all the mods here I hope I didn’t cause you too much distress if so I heartly apologize for that too!
I may still get that greeting from Cecil. Cross your fingers all!
Don’t despair, aha, it was a lot of fun and you can rightly claim the distinction of luring Cecil himself out of seclusion. You must feel like Linus if he’d left the old gourd patch for one tiny second for a call of nature and The Great Pumpkin appeard–to Lucy, Schroeder, PigPen, Peppermint Patty and Snoopy.
Well, maybe not Snoopy, after your “I’ll shoot this dog” post.
So some of us totally underserving, doubting cynics reaped the reward for your faith. And Cecil DOES know who you are! Think not for a moment his hilarious group greeting wasn’t done in the finest spirit of pure mischief and perversity.
So look at it this way, you set up The Man himself for a great joke.
Wow and now I will know for sure in the future who YOU are TVeblen…you must be one terrific person in real life.
Thanks so much! And to think I was feeling let down there for a moment. Not anymore!!
I looked at getting Cecil to say hello to me as a mischevious and fun challenge. I hope it gave the board a small shot in the arm.
And maybe he did recognize me by not recognizing me in his post to the others. That make any sense?
