In the new Forum there’s some discussion about how come Ed gets a forum for his own book. I did a doubletake when I read this:
So, since 1973, when the column started… Hmm…
But reading the FAQ about CA for the main page, I find this at #14
Good heavens, man! If this should become common knowledge…
And the winner of this years “No Shit, Sherlock” Award goes to…
Well if Ed is Cecil then how do you explain the fact that googling “Perfect Master” yields no links to the website or this board? He is just covering his tracks, no need to be alarmed. Now I want you to think very carefully, have you told anyone else about this?
Maybe Ed was on the job, but didn’t keep Cecil properly pissed those first five years.
Sherlock Holmes you are. And this makes what difference, pray tell?
You’re hat and pipe are in the mail.
Dudes.
I know. It’s just that this is the first time I’ve seen any corraboration from someone officially linked to the board.
Well it’s news to me, if it makes you feel any better.
Also in the news: Einhorn is Finkle.
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Perhaps Charlie Chan would be a more appropriate detective.
But I don’t even understand this deduction. Tuba says Ed’s been here for 35 years, but really he has been here for 30 years. Cecilo has been here 5 years longer than Ed. And that proves that Ed is Cecil. How, exactly?
I’d say that TubaDiva isn’t perfect, any more than Ed is, but she’d probably kick my ass.
I was born in 1978, so by this reasoning I am Ed Zotti and Cecil Adams’ love child.
Love child…never meant to beeeeeee
I’d love to see the trophy for that.
Like this, but in gold on top of a metal and marble base.
What was Little Ed doing 'tween '73 and '78? If TD says he’s been along for the whole ride, and there were other editors before him…?
Really, it’s not about Ed being Cecil (which we all know), it’s about TubaDiva slipping up.
“What was Ed doing between '73 and '78?” is a question that makes the question of Jesus’ lost years seem utterly insignificant by comparison.
Don’t you get it?
That “slip-up,” the new forum, all of it… It’s all a plot to emphasize the fiction that Cecil Adams doesn’t exist!
It’s a conspiracy! Wake up, sheeple! Open your eyes! You’re next! I want to believe!
I have seen indication that Ed is not the original Cecil, he is just the long term Cecil. The cites above would seem to confirm this. Besides, it appears Cecil is a little bit of a group personality.
That proves that someone else was Cecil before Ed.