# A note from Cecil Adams about The Straight Dope
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-from-cecil-adams-about-the-straight-dope/816891
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**Created:** [June 28, 2018, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-from-cecil-adams-about-the-straight-dope/816891 "2018-06-28T03:20:42Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2018, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-from-cecil-adams-about-the-straight-dope/816891/21 "2018-06-28T07:18:09Z")
Maybe they’ll just have a daily column he did say they haven’t decided anything … although a q does that mean the new owner of the reader didn’t want the dope?
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### Author:  [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2018, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-from-cecil-adams-about-the-straight-dope/816891/22 "2018-06-28T07:20:00Z")
\*Regards,
Cecil Adams\*?
You don’t think - - naaahhh, couldn’t be.
It really _couldn’t_, could it?
☹
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### Author:  [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2018, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-from-cecil-adams-about-the-straight-dope/816891/23 "2018-06-28T07:35:49Z")
My my my, how the time has flown.
Where else am I ever gonna learn the proper method of construction for a goat cannon?
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### Author:  [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2018, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-from-cecil-adams-about-the-straight-dope/816891/24 "2018-06-28T08:20:19Z")
> [@Colibri](#):
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> I understand that Slug is being sent to a farm upstate.
Isn’t that great? He’ll get to run around and sketch all day with all the other happy artists! My mom told me that.
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### Author:  [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2018, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-from-cecil-adams-about-the-straight-dope/816891/25 "2018-06-28T08:25:43Z")
> [@Cartooniverse](#):
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> I bought my first Straight Dope book in The Coliseum Book Store on W. 57th St in NYC.
> Musta been about…1987. I stood in the aisle laughing.
> Hard.
> Loudly.
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> I’m damned sad to see this day arrive.
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> Cecil and Slug.
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> Timeless…
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> Sent from my SM-N910V using Tapatalk
I got mine at a used book store in Tokyo sometime in either 1992 or 1993. The rest of my experience was the same as yours. Except, of coure, I’m sending this from a laptop.
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### Author:  [@HurricaneDitka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HurricaneDitka)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2018, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-from-cecil-adams-about-the-straight-dope/816891/26 "2018-06-28T08:36:22Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#):
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> \*Regards,
>
> Cecil Adams\*?
>
> You don’t think - - naaahhh, couldn’t be.
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> It really _couldn’t_, could it?
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> ☹
I doubt it, but it would be absolutely _EPIC_
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### Author:  [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2018, 9:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-from-cecil-adams-about-the-straight-dope/816891/27 "2018-06-28T09:35:25Z")
Thanks for everything, Ed! Good luck on the next book.
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### Author:  [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2018, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-from-cecil-adams-about-the-straight-dope/816891/28 "2018-06-28T10:07:02Z")
A source of amusement and knowledge that became the seed for this great little community — tracing also where we looked for new and different things, from the free weeklies to the Web. These decades of Straigt Dope were an achievement to look back on proudly, and it had been a delight to have read and to have contributed to the column.
Good work, Ed. For sure would be picking up an eventual Complete Works of Cecil Adams.
JRD, citizen of the Dope.
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### Author:  [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2018, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-from-cecil-adams-about-the-straight-dope/816891/29 "2018-06-28T10:30:19Z")
45 years is a damn good run - thanks, I still re-read the treebooks, and I’m glad to know this forum will remain.
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### Author:  [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2018, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-from-cecil-adams-about-the-straight-dope/816891/30 "2018-06-28T12:52:12Z")
Great run and I’ll definitely miss the new columns. I’m extremely happy that the SDMB will live on, though.
Now that the run is done, can we get a definitive answer to the question of Cecil’s singular existence? **Ed** and **Cecil** are different users on this board, and it’s already known that Ed wasn’t around at the beginning of the column. Plus, they had different columns on the website for a while. And, they have very different writing styles (IMO).
So, **Ed** , **Cecil** , mods, someone – has Cecil Adams been the same person (left-handed Catholic, right?) from the beginning? And, please, I’m not interested in any speculation, no evidence one way or the other. As Joe Friday said, just the facts, ma’am.
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### Author:  [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2018, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-from-cecil-adams-about-the-straight-dope/816891/31 "2018-06-28T13:19:21Z")
I’m doing my Sad Dance.
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### Author:  [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2018, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-from-cecil-adams-about-the-straight-dope/816891/32 "2018-06-28T13:33:10Z")
> [@RitterSport](#):
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> So, **Ed** , **Cecil** , mods, someone – has Cecil Adams been the same person (left-handed Catholic, right?) from the beginning?
Uncovering the first Cecil Adams
[ ](https://vimeo.com/133916143)
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### Author:  [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2018, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-from-cecil-adams-about-the-straight-dope/816891/33 "2018-06-28T13:43:39Z")
> [@engineer\_comp\_geek](#):
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> Uncovering the first Cecil Adams
> [EXCLUSIVE: Uncovering the first Cecil Adams on Vimeo](https://vimeo.com/133916143)
Grrr. I can’t see that where I am. What does it say?
You’ve been a mod for a while – who have you met?
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### Author:  [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2018, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-from-cecil-adams-about-the-straight-dope/816891/34 "2018-06-28T14:00:50Z")
It’s an interview with Mike Lenehan, the first Cecil, relating how he was asked by his boss to start a Q&A column along the lines of one in a Phoenix paper called Owen’s Need to Know.
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### Author:  [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2018, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-from-cecil-adams-about-the-straight-dope/816891/35 "2018-06-28T14:16:09Z")
> [@RitterSport](#):
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> Grrr. I can’t see that where I am. What does it say?
>
> You’ve been a mod for a while – who have you met?
I’m not ECG, God knows, but I’ll chime in. I’ve had dinner with Ed one-on-one a few years ago. Never met Cecil, though.
I’ve met many Dopers, including a few mods. An interesting bunch.
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### Author:  [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2018, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-from-cecil-adams-about-the-straight-dope/816891/36 "2018-06-28T14:21:33Z")
A second for almost every post above. This is one of those days when my life changes; the question becomes for the good or bad. Forty-five years from now contact a spiritualist and ask me. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2018, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-from-cecil-adams-about-the-straight-dope/816891/37 "2018-06-28T14:21:47Z")
As for me?
Got the book from my mom in 1987. Read it through and through and enjoyed reading columns to my college friends. Kept up with the column through the Washington City Paper while I lived there.
Found the site in 1999 and read things endlessly while at work. Registered in April 2000, just a few weeks before my first child was born. I recall seeing JillGat and Esprix - the first Dopers I truly noticed - and saying to myself, “They’ve got like 600 posts. How do they ever find the time?”
I’ve hosted epic Dopefest parties and attended others. Put out the call a few times when travelling for business and had dopers answer the call to go to dinner. Just last summer I hosted a few for an eclipse party.
Community. It’s what sustains us.
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### Author:  [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2018, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-from-cecil-adams-about-the-straight-dope/816891/38 "2018-06-28T14:31:37Z")
I _knew_ Cecil Adams was secretly a justice of the Supreme Court.
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### Author:  [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2018, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-from-cecil-adams-about-the-straight-dope/816891/39 "2018-06-28T14:52:45Z")
The ignorant have won.
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2018, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-from-cecil-adams-about-the-straight-dope/816891/40 "2018-06-28T15:10:30Z")
When I asked **Dexter** a while back if there would be any more books, this wasn’t what I had in mind.
Do you know how many copies of these books I’ve worn out? No, really, I’m asking, my memory’s failing.
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