How Do You Envision Cecil Adams?

[Orange Skinner]

Me, I’ve always pictured him looking sort of like Lorne Michaels. No idea why.

[Really Not All That Bright]

An old guy in white robes sitting on a cloud. No, wait...

[Marley23]

On one thread discussing the whole 'there is no real Cecil' thing, Wolfian described him as "the Dread Pirate Cecil taking no prisoners in his attacks on ignorance." I quite liked that.

[elfkin477]

You ever see the X-Files episode "Jose Chung's 'It Came From Outer Space'"? I picture him looking exactly like Jose Chung.

[t-keela]

Here Cecil says he's kickin back watchin a ballgame...or was it veggin?

I can see that. Old t-shirt, boxers and a beer. Needs a shave, maybe comb the hair...what's left of it

Eatin a sammich and chips, cussin the Cubbies

He's gotta take a break once in awhile and pretend he's human like the rest of us.

"But he ain't human like the rest of us." Lonesome Dove

[Zoe]

Thirty years ago there was a guy on local TV who introduced late Saturday night horror flicks. He was bald, pudgy and buck-toothed. His name was Sir Cecil Creep. Well, you know, once a picture gets set in your mind...

[flood]

Voila

[Vlad Dracul]

I am not so presumtuous as to attempt to envision him. You are blasphemers!

[flood]

Well, that's the way I see him, anyway.

[Muad'Dib]

I think of him as a scruffier P.J. O'Rourke

Either that or Master Kan

[Mangetout]

I think of him as a sort of Mycroft Holmes character.

[Mudshark]

Black plastic glasses, crazy white hair, sort of like a very thin Jerry Garcia.

[Sublight]

Didn't one of the Greek philosophers say "If horses chose to fight ignorance, they would imagine Cecil in their own image"?

[Shrinking Violet]

I have an Uncle Cecil - grey hair, buck teeth, steel-rimmed glasses, brays like a horse ....

I also have an old friend Cecilia - grey hair, buck teeth, steel-rimmed glasses, brays like a horse ....

So I'm kinda stuck with the image.

Julie

[Kalhoun]

I always had a Unibomber thing in my brain when I thought of Cecil. Now that I saw that Ed Zotti picture, I'm all screwed up.

[moejuck]

[quote]Originally posted by Mudshark
Black plastic glasses, crazy white hair, sort of like a very thin Jerry Garcia. [/QUOTE

Exactly what is in my mind, except for the thin part. Just like Jerry Garcia, only taller.

[Missy2U]

I always picture him as a turkey wearing a mortarboard, but I'm strange that way.

[Zeldar]

For no particular reasons, I vacillate between Max Von Sydow and Ed Asner.

[GingerOfTheNorth]

Kinda like iampunha in boxers and a white wife-beater, with a paper bag on his head.

[handy]

Like that photo I saw of him on the net. Kinda has that Stephan King look.

[Hamlet]

In bed, alone, revved-up, with the lights out, and with tissues nearby.







Oh, I thought you meant how I was when I envisioned Cecil.

[Governor Quinn]

Dark hair, grey eyes, possibly with a brew in his left hand, dressed casually.

I'd imagine a cigar, but we know that he's allergic to the smoke, and I'd also imagine him in suits, except that he doesn't want attention drawn to himself.

[lieu]

Nekkid.

[astro]

He looks a lot like gobear.

[Happy Lendervedder]

Like Harrison Ford, oddly enough. Wearing a cowboy hat on most days.




Happy

[Balance]

Like the lost love-child of God and Mark Twain. And I don't even believe in God.

[DMark]

Visually, sort of a cross between Vin Diesel and Woody Allen,
with a voice like Bea Arthur.

[ProjectOmega]

Like the kind of guy that pretends to be a 14 year old girl on the Internet from his mom's basement would look.

Don't ask me why.

[wakimika]

As a dead-ringer for Morgan Freeman.

[ForumBot]

Sort of a Sean Connery look.

[Bugnorton]

Mudshark, moejuck, Yes! Jerry Garcia, but with more liver left and, of course (bows head solemnly) with an intellect far superior to anything we have ever known or imagined could exist on our humble planet.

[Cartooniverse]

Clearly this is a case yet again of a feckless behind-the-scenes guy, lamely attempting to grab a tiny pathetic shred of the limelight for himself. It didn't work in the Wizard of Oz, it won't work here in the Straight Dope.***

So very sad.......................................

I've always envisioned him as Turkey In A Mortarboard. ( See bottom of that page )

Cartooniverse

*** And, parenthetically, you've got to admit there are a LOT of parallells between the two situations.

[Fear Itself]

I'm quite sure Cecil looks like Mister Weatherbee from Archie Comics

[aaslatten]

I've always pictured Charlie from the "Party of Five" TV series. I don't why, especially since of course he must be a lot older.

[flodnak]

A bright light, shining into the darkness of ignorance as a lighthouse shines into the darkness of a starless night.

Either that, or a turkey with a mortarboard.

[threeorange]

Janet Reno, only shorter. Just a hunch.

[dantheman]

How about a turkey with a motherboard?

[Cartooniverse]

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAA

That was priceless. You gonna stop by and help me clean the Coffee Smoothie out of my keyboard?

[ForumBot]

Hmm, perhaps we're being too generous here. I don't know the number of radio people I've seen whose faces did NOT match their voices.

So, for sake of argument, let's say Cecil is a pencil-necked geek who gets high off of rubber erasers.

[Casey1505]

Sort of like this, but with eyeglasses.

[Knowed Out]

50s, gray sprouty hair, bald spot, fat belly, double chin, deep bags under the eyes, bushy mustache, big nose, fleshy face, big cigar, hawaiian shirt with a little chest hair sprouting out, booming voice that sends secretaries out to get coffee.

kinda like that.

[slortar]

I picture Colonel Sanders, for some reason. Don't ask me why.

Of course, due to his great stature and power, I envision him as a 2000 foot tall Colonel Sanders surrounded by storm clouds and blazing hellfire from his eyes...I wonder how they fit him in the Reader offices? Or did they just build everything around him?

[Cartooniverse]

Originally posted by slortar
Or did they just build everything around him?

[Bugnorton]

Slotar, and surrounded by chickens wearing mortarboards (or are Cecils fowls hooded)???

[raz]

Anyone seen Office Space?

Remember Milton Wadams, the mumbly guy that keeps getting his desk moves further and further back and whose only concern in life is his red stapler and the married squirrels outside his office window?

Kinda like that. The creepy looking guy that no one suspects, then BAM!

Obligatory picture of Milton

[Flowerchild]

6 ft tall, slightly chubby, thick glasses, kinda like an older Drew Carey, only skinnier and balding