well, considering i have only newly found the wonders that cecil’s mailbag holds, i have very little witty reading to compare this to. (unless you consider my husband’s strange notes on napkins that sometimes appear under the bathroom door…you know, light bathroom reading, nothing like this) But i have to say that several columns have given me a good laugh…mostly because of the little pictures (i love those). I mean, the whole dingoes thing had so many opportunities for a good laugh, and fairy penguins! Just the name in the same sentence as “maul” could produce a good afterthought from the ‘Master’ as you call him. But was there any aside in parentheses about the ironic nature of fairies mauling tourists, no…i think i will stick to looking at the good pictures and making up my own stories…
BTW…I would still like to kiss Cecil’s ass, my little paragraph is simply a newby’s unlearned response to first visits, I really do worship the Master…(aaayahrightchoo)
See? No matter what you do, there’s always somebody who doesn’t get the jokes.
As for the rest of you, I am merely trying to bring joy to my people. But all I get is, Cecil, you didn’t personally address ME, etc. So childish. Know that I love and cherish you all, even the most repulsive and icky among you. (Except RTFirefly. Even I got limits.)
Finally, to answer a question that has been raised several times, yes, I am truly am a nice guy and all-around beautiful human being. But don’t push it.
Though this thread has been fun and all, the ORIGINAL post was never answered by either of you.
My old article has recently been changed back to its original 1995 ZINGER reply (Where I was told I could not ask a question to save my soul – found here), at my request.
Little Ed said he did it cos that’s his job. According to the job description, an EDITOR will EDIT the words. His change to my article to actually made it LONGER than the ORIGINAL article.
And it became lame-assed.
And according to Ludovic, other articles have also gotten this PUSSYFICATION.
So, Cecil & Ed, what is up with the PUSSYFYING of the articles? Why have ZINGERS been taken out and replaced with IMPONDERABLES-like Politically Correct Crapola?
I personally think Cecil should tighten the reigns on Ed and make sure no one has gotten to him.
And you still all owe me big thanks. Cecil has now posted FOUR times thanks to my drawing him out. Why hasn’t my PayPal account been overloaded with duckets?
I am quoting the ORIGINALpost from Ludovic below so you don’t have to go a-scrollin’
Apply your mind to it, RT, and I’m sure all will come clear.
As for alleged lamification of past columns, please bring any instances of this to my attention. One is always happy for an excuse to slap Little Ed around; it helps unfog his brain.
Well, give credit where credits’ due. This started with Per’s criticism of your column on ‘Why do the bubbles in Guinness Stout float down? 26-May-2000 (here)’ and evolved to include recent books and online columns that seem to have changed from a sharp and witty Cecil, to a tame and all-encompasing Cecil.
Frumpy brings up an excellent example that others, including myself, have noticed in recent re-publications of columns you wrote years before.
It’s either a result of genuine mellowness on your part, or heavy re-wording on the part of your editors.
At least that’s what I had been thinking at the time and, apparently, others.
Unca Cecil, Drowsy from perhaps some Guinness Stout, said
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Sorry Cece, there’s nothing ALLEGED about it. Your original reply to me in 95 had a Zinger. The Book version – and up until yesterday, the Archives – has some lame-ass change that’s actually LONGER than the original reply.
As stated above, others have noticed (I ask those people to please cite examples). I would just like to know why. I’m glad mine is switched back, and I would also like it switched back in the book for its next printing, but I feel that’s probably asking too much.
But it’s not an ALLEGED incident. Why can’t you just own up to it?
I was trying to sugar coat it. Bluntly, clacker = anus. Cecil was insulting both me and those in this thread who have been arse-kissing by suggesting they might like to loosen me up around the date region.
Thank you for clearing that up, picmr. I was up all night cleaning the lipstick off my tuchus because SOME of us have reading comprehension difficulties.
Christ, if folks don’t bother to read a post from Cecil Bloody Adams properly, I shudder to think how little attention they pay MY deathless prose. Pearls before swine, pearls before swine.
Thanks for the info. We are, after all, trying to fight ignorance around here. And I knew I’d never hear Bob Costas explain it during his Olympic coverage.
I notice there’s a change in this week’s Classic column also. When I read it originally a few years back, I remember at the end of Cecil’s helpful recommendations he said, “Now that I’ve tried to help you in a man-to-man kind of a way, I feel obliged to point out that you’re out of your freaking skull.” Alas, that delicious line isn’t in the reprint.
