Cecil Adams is dead!
He’s been dead for nearly three years! :eek:
Nah, he just moved in with Elvis.
I must’ve misheard. I’d always thought his nickname was “Puke.”
I’d always pictured Cecil as looking older than that.
Slug needs to incorporate the walker into his renderings of Cecil. 
First it was Santa Claus, then it was the Easter Bunny. I could take it, because I was just a kid.
Please, stop with the Cecil-is-dead-or-never-really-existed stuff, okay?
I need to hold on to the one illusion I cherish as an adult.
Cecil Adams is dead!
…and I don’t feel so good myself.
:eek:
Cecil and I have the same birthday!
[sub](Although I’m considerably younger.)
Kaysee, Kennah, Kyler, Keely and Kelby.
I think I’m gonna keel over. Why doesn’t anyone call their kids “Kevin” or “Kim” any more?
And where’d they come up with those names… K-mart?
Or at least that’s what the ladies at the viewing said it looked like. 
===chanting===
Paul is dead, Paul is dead, Paul is dead, Paul is dead.
It’s been done.
Online confirmation. And hey, I found this under “Weird Earls,” so it’s SD’s own fault.
How eerie, that’s exactly how I pictured Cecil! It is indeed a sad day for the Straight Dope Message Board.
But wait! It might not be too late to save him! Come on boys and girls, we’ll need your help! If you believe in Cecil, clap your hands!
That’s as bad as (and damn similar to) the “KKK-mart” joke in Ogre’s Pit rant about Alabama.
How odd. The obituary only tells us that he may have been a decent basketball player in high school, went to church, and had lotsa kids. No mention of Straight Dope, Chicago, illuminati…
Gosh, whose going to break it to Ed?
Another great dynamic duo has broken up.
It’s akin to when Roy Clark left HeeHaw and went on his own. And there sat Buck Owens with his banjo, pickin’. But no one was grinning.
Are you accusing me of plaigarising a Margaret Cho joke?
Are you trying to start a fight at Cecil’s wake?!
[Kamandi hurls folding steel chair at Cerowyn]
Bring it on, Pal! You haven’t got your buddy Cecil to hide behind, now!!
For the record, I never read that thread or heard of that joke before your post. I can make up my own terrible K-Mart jokes, thenkyewverymuch.
I liked that pun (as well as the KKK-Mart one in the link you give), but then again this might just as well be my insane sense of humour.
I pray to Dog that if they ever write an obituary for me - after 95 years of life - they leave out state tournaments I was in (not even a win!) 70 years prior when I was still in high school. I would hope that would be one of the most minor things that ever happened to me in 95 years on this unpredictable planet. I really would like to be able to say much more about my time on the planet then to mention some unimportant kids game. Small town mentality really seems sad to me sometimes. If the highlight of your life was in high school, you missed out in my book.
But they sure do make some good toast and gravy in them small towns.
DaLovin’ Dj
Just for clarification, that’s “bad” as in oh-what-an-awful-joke-why-am-I-laughing-at-it.
Kamandi, I think you’re supposed to stand over there when you throw the chair, so that I can turn and catch it on my shoulder. And then I pick it up and swing it over my head…
(We might need one of the wrassilin’ fan Dopers to give us pointers.)