# 99 signs Cecil is DEAD, DEAD, oh so very DEAD! (Happy Valentine's Day, btw) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 14, 2007, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/99-signs-cecil-is-dead-dead-oh-so-very-dead-happy-valentines-day-btw/392159 "2007-02-14T08:10:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2007, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/99-signs-cecil-is-dead-dead-oh-so-very-dead-happy-valentines-day-btw/392159/41 "2007-02-14T22:04:23Z")
[QUOTE=slortar] Soylent Green…IT’S MADE OF CECIL!!! _hands to face in horror_ [/QUOTE] MMM-mmm - chock-full of Cecil-y goodness! ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2007, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/99-signs-cecil-is-dead-dead-oh-so-very-dead-happy-valentines-day-btw/392159/42 "2007-02-14T22:10:51Z")
**Liberal** felt safe to come out of the shadows, now that Unca Cece has shuffled off his mortal coil. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2007, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/99-signs-cecil-is-dead-dead-oh-so-very-dead-happy-valentines-day-btw/392159/43 "2007-02-14T22:15:24Z")
Slug Signorino now portraying Cecil Adams as walrus - an ancient symbol of death - rather than turkey. Marilyn Vos Savant wearing OPD (“Officially Pronounced Dead”) patch in author’s photo of latest book. Cecil Adams frequently said he would never allow television series _ER_ to jump shark in his lifetime. Publishers offer no explanation for ongoing delays in publication of _Straight Dope VI: Cecil Goes to Monte Carlo_. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2007, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/99-signs-cecil-is-dead-dead-oh-so-very-dead-happy-valentines-day-btw/392159/44 "2007-02-14T22:16:00Z")
::thumps the Gospel of Cecil: the Straight Dope Book:: Y’all are going to Hell for this, y’know. . . :mad: “Blasphemy!!” I say. Tripler Believers rejoice! Cecil lives forever! [sub](in syndication)[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2007, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/99-signs-cecil-is-dead-dead-oh-so-very-dead-happy-valentines-day-btw/392159/45 "2007-02-14T22:19:42Z")
[QUOTE=slortar] And in related news, Slortar’s functionality virtually intact. Of course, now I have to answer the time-honored question of what to do with a hungry Cecil-zombie. [/QUOTE] This Sunday, on the Children’s Book Best Sellers list, the latest stop in the _If You Give A_ series, _If You Give A Hungry Cecil-Zombie A Brain_ will debut at Number 1. According to Google®, Cecil Adams now brings fewer hits than Edie Adams. Cecil seldom shows up on anybody’s Dead Pool entries. ---
**Author:** ![whitetho](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whitetho/32/1059_2.png) [@whitetho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whitetho)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2007, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/99-signs-cecil-is-dead-dead-oh-so-very-dead-happy-valentines-day-btw/392159/46 "2007-02-14T22:20:35Z")
Nonsense. He’s merely taking a long, but well earned, nap. “Cite?” you say? Well, in [What did people in the 1900s call the decade in which they lived?](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5_161.html) Uncle Cecil wrote: _Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going upstairs for a little nap. Wake me in 2010._ ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2007, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/99-signs-cecil-is-dead-dead-oh-so-very-dead-happy-valentines-day-btw/392159/47 "2007-02-14T22:23:58Z")
[QUOTE=AskNott] According to Google®, Cecil Adams now brings fewer hits than Edie Adams. [/QUOTE] Not yet, but the margin is [alarmingly](http://googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=cecil+adams&word2=edie+adams) narrow. ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2007, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/99-signs-cecil-is-dead-dead-oh-so-very-dead-happy-valentines-day-btw/392159/48 "2007-02-14T22:26:01Z")
Oh! I have slipped the [del]leather[/del] surly bonds of Earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth Of sun-split clouds, — and done a [del]couple[/del] hundred things You have not dreamed of — wheeled and soared and [del]fought ignorance[/del] swung. High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there, I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung [del]dung[/del] My eager craft through footless halls of air. . . . Up, up the long, delirious burning blue I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace Where never lark, or ever [del]albatross[/del] eagle flew — And, while with silent, [del]messed-up[/del] lifting mind I’ve trod The high untrespassed sanctity of space, Put out my hand, and touched the face of [del]Dog[/del] God. ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2007, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/99-signs-cecil-is-dead-dead-oh-so-very-dead-happy-valentines-day-btw/392159/49 "2007-02-14T22:42:26Z")
-Cecil Adams has not thrown his hat into the “Anna Nicole Smith’s baby is MINE” ring. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2007, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/99-signs-cecil-is-dead-dead-oh-so-very-dead-happy-valentines-day-btw/392159/50 "2007-02-14T22:49:14Z")
Somebody got him with a 1920’s Style Death Ray. ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2007, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/99-signs-cecil-is-dead-dead-oh-so-very-dead-happy-valentines-day-btw/392159/51 "2007-02-14T23:58:23Z")
Jet planes on treadmills are no longer able to become airborne. Cornflakes are no longer manufactured by General Mills. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2007, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/99-signs-cecil-is-dead-dead-oh-so-very-dead-happy-valentines-day-btw/392159/52 "2007-02-15T00:00:22Z")
I’m pretty sure what I hit on that dark road was a deer. Reasonably sure… ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2007, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/99-signs-cecil-is-dead-dead-oh-so-very-dead-happy-valentines-day-btw/392159/53 "2007-02-15T01:26:48Z")
He’s undercover in Baltimore trying to figure out just what in the hell is up with those folk. ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2007, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/99-signs-cecil-is-dead-dead-oh-so-very-dead-happy-valentines-day-btw/392159/54 "2007-02-15T02:47:55Z")
I was supposed to meet Cecil at the 2006 Midwestern Death Ray Fanciers Convention in Indianapolis. When I went to the hotel lobby to meet him, he was not there, and the only signs of his presence was that school friend of his who became a Chicago detective and a pigeon coop. When I called his house a week later to ask why he didn’t show, Dr. Bergen Evans picked up the phone and said rude things to me. As for the sign- the letter I received back (after some cajoling) explaining his absence was obviously by someone who was right-handed. ---
**Author:** ![GrizzRich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ba0ec/32.png) [@GrizzRich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrizzRich)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2007, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/99-signs-cecil-is-dead-dead-oh-so-very-dead-happy-valentines-day-btw/392159/55 "2007-02-15T03:55:55Z")
He hasn’t been seen since he got his 18"DHIBJD ---
**Author:** ![Peanuthead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peanuthead/32/360_2.png) [@Peanuthead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanuthead)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2007, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/99-signs-cecil-is-dead-dead-oh-so-very-dead-happy-valentines-day-btw/392159/56 "2007-02-15T08:57:52Z")
I’m afraid it’s true: [http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en\_GB&word1=Cecil+Adams&word2=Grim+Reaper](http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=Cecil+Adams&word2=Grim+Reaper) ---
**Author:** ![lawoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@lawoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawoot)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2007, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/99-signs-cecil-is-dead-dead-oh-so-very-dead-happy-valentines-day-btw/392159/57 "2007-02-15T14:06:01Z")
Actually, Cecil died saving us all, by sacrificing himself to Vulcan to stop the latest eruption of [Mount St. Helens](http://www.uncoveror.com/volcano.htm). Unfortunately, as he wasn’t a virgin it was only a temporary fix. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2007, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/99-signs-cecil-is-dead-dead-oh-so-very-dead-happy-valentines-day-btw/392159/58 "2007-02-15T14:11:40Z")
So how many Celebrity Deathpool Points? Did anybody have him? ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2007, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/99-signs-cecil-is-dead-dead-oh-so-very-dead-happy-valentines-day-btw/392159/59 "2007-02-15T14:14:49Z")
[QUOTE=Lemur866] Jet planes on treadmills are no longer able to become airborne. Cornflakes are no longer manufactured by General Mills. [/QUOTE] **Doug** , who has been ootsy-cutesying over other people’s cats since who laid the rails, finally [has](http://farm1.static.flickr.com/127/380704285_b7640fc8cc.jpg) [one](http://farm1.static.flickr.com/156/380707006_14658f9587.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Quiddity\_Glomfuster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/c4cdca/32.png) [@Quiddity\_Glomfuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quiddity_Glomfuster)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2007, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/99-signs-cecil-is-dead-dead-oh-so-very-dead-happy-valentines-day-btw/392159/60 "2007-02-15T14:54:38Z")
[QUOTE=Beware of Doug] **Doug** , who has been ootsy-cutesying over other people’s cats since who laid the rails, finally [has](http://farm1.static.flickr.com/127/380704285_b7640fc8cc.jpg) [one](http://farm1.static.flickr.com/156/380707006_14658f9587.jpg). [/QUOTE] Hijack to say that is one purty kitty there. [/hijack] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/99-signs-cecil-is-dead-dead-oh-so-very-dead-happy-valentines-day-btw/392159.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/99-signs-cecil-is-dead-dead-oh-so-very-dead-happy-valentines-day-btw/392159.md?page=4)