CECIL HALL OF FAME
(established 2008)
Proud Cecil Wing:
Cecil Green, founder of Texas Instruments
Cecil Cooper, baseball great
Cecil John Rhodes, British empire builder
Cecil Chandler, reporter and founder of "Cecil's World"
Cecil Womack, gospel singer
Cecil Sharp, famous folk song collector/arranger and noted vegetarian
Cecil Dill, Legendary Manualist (who could ever forget Cecil's genre-creating 1933 performance which inspired this "New Wave" version decades later, which in turn led a "movement" into the classical realm).
Ashamed "Alternative Pronunciation" Cecil Wing:
Cecil Fielder, baseball great
Cecil B. DeMille, legendary director
Cecil B. Demented, insufferably bad film starring Johnny Depp
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Hungry for Cecil-inspired BBQ?
Cecil's Texas Style Bar*B*Q
Cecil's still serves BBQ the old fashion way, hand trimmed (no meat slicer allowed here) carved right before your eyes. Thick, thin, sliced or chopped it's your call. Vegetables homemade and freshly prepared each day. A real taste treat, passed down through generations.
Est. 1992
Cecil's Texas Style Bar-B-Q offers the highest quality of meats and vegetables on the market today. Since 1992, we have provided superior service to our customers.
Cecil-related personal advice by Dear Abby:
By Abigail Van Buren Wed Apr 23, 2008 7:58 PM ET
DEAR ABBY: I have been divorced for four years. About nine months ago, I met "Cecil," a wonderful man who was widowed three years ago. We have fallen in love.
The problem is his adult daughter, "Wanda." She told me she won't allow some "conniving woman" to get her hooks into her father. She says falling in love with me is an insult to her mother's memory. Wanda made it plain she feels I am with her father only because I'm after his money. Cecil is comfortable financially, although not wealthy.
Now that she's aware that we have become serious, Wanda has begun trying to instill guilt and shame in her father. This is exceedingly difficult for him because Wanda is his only child.
What his daughter fails to understand is that I am secure financially. My home is paid off. I have assets and investments, a comfortable income and a future pension. I would be proud to become Cecil's wife, but if he were to ask me to continue our relationship without marriage, I would stay with him. Furthermore, if he proposed and wanted a pre-nup, I would gladly sign one.
I stand ready to love not only him, but also Wanda, if she could only open her heart to me -- not as a replacement for her mother, but as a loving, caring friend. What she does not know is that her parents never had the happy marriage she thought they did. They stayed together largely because of her.
What do you advise? I don't want to have to walk away so Cecil won't have to lose his daughter. -- LOVES HIM FOR ALL THE RIGHT REASONS
DEAR LOVES HIM: Unless Cecil wants to spend the rest of his life alone in order to please Wanda, he has some serious thinking to do. He fulfilled his marriage vows and is entitled to a full life. He should make that clear to his daughter, who appears to have some growing up to do.
So stand your ground, and be prepared to lay all your cards on the table. I can't promise it will completely allay Wanda's concerns, but it might put some of them to rest. If that's not the case, then so be it.
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