# Cecil Adams is dead! No, really he is! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 21, 2002, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-adams-is-dead-no-really-he-is/99378 "2002-03-21T18:36:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MagicalSilverKey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@MagicalSilverKey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MagicalSilverKey)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2002, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-adams-is-dead-no-really-he-is/99378/1 "2002-03-21T18:36:50Z")
Cecil Adams is dead! He’s been dead for nearly three years! :eek: [See for yourself](http://www.rootsweb.com/~txcrosby/crosbyton/a/adams_cecil.htm) ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2002, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-adams-is-dead-no-really-he-is/99378/2 "2002-03-21T18:40:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by MagicalSilverKey \* > \*\*Cecil Adams is dead! > \*\* Nah, he just moved in with Elvis. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2002, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-adams-is-dead-no-really-he-is/99378/3 "2002-03-21T18:46:09Z")
I must’ve misheard. I’d always thought his nickname was “Puke.” ---
**Author:** ![mouthbreather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2002, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-adams-is-dead-no-really-he-is/99378/4 "2002-03-21T19:55:53Z")
I’d always pictured Cecil as looking older than that. ---
**Author:** ![MagicalSilverKey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@MagicalSilverKey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MagicalSilverKey)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2002, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-adams-is-dead-no-really-he-is/99378/5 "2002-03-21T20:10:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by mouthbreather \* > \*\*I’d always pictured Cecil as looking older than that. \*\* Slug needs to incorporate the walker into his renderings of Cecil. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Exgineer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Exgineer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exgineer)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2002, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-adams-is-dead-no-really-he-is/99378/6 "2002-03-21T20:21:26Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![sidle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee59a6/32.png) [@sidle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sidle)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2002, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-adams-is-dead-no-really-he-is/99378/7 "2002-03-21T20:26:38Z")
**Cecil Adams is dead!** …and I don’t feel so good myself. ---
**Author:** ![Kamandi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5daacb/32.png) [@Kamandi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamandi)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2002, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-adams-is-dead-no-really-he-is/99378/8 "2002-03-21T23:47:39Z")
:eek: Cecil and I have the same birthday! [sub](Although I’m considerably younger.) ---
**Author:** ![Kamandi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5daacb/32.png) [@Kamandi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamandi)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2002, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-adams-is-dead-no-really-he-is/99378/9 "2002-03-21T23:57:50Z")
> [@](#): > > Survivors include …[snip]… five great grandchildren, Kaysee Brooke Adams, Kennah Raye Adams, Kyler Bryant Adams, Keely Adams and Kelby Phillips. 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? ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2002, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-adams-is-dead-no-really-he-is/99378/10 "2002-03-22T00:36:41Z")
Or at least that’s what the ladies at the viewing said it looked like. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2002, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-adams-is-dead-no-really-he-is/99378/11 "2002-03-22T02:18:36Z")
===chanting=== **Paul is dead, Paul is dead, Paul is dead, Paul is dead**. It’s been done. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![ResIpsaLoquitor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b3f665/32.png) [@ResIpsaLoquitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ResIpsaLoquitor)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2002, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-adams-is-dead-no-really-he-is/99378/12 "2002-03-22T02:25:06Z")
[http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gsr&GSfn=cecil&GSmn=&GSln=adams&GSbyrel=all&GSby=&GSdyrel=all&GSdy=&GSst=0&GSob=n](http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gsr&GSfn=cecil&GSmn=&GSln=adams&GSbyrel=all&GSby=&GSdyrel=all&GSdy=&GSst=0&GSob=n) Online confirmation. And hey, I found this under “Weird Earls,” so it’s SD’s own fault. ---
**Author:** ![abel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2acd7d/32.png) [@abel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/abel)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2002, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-adams-is-dead-no-really-he-is/99378/13 "2002-03-22T02:40:05Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![Cerowyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/82dd89/32.png) [@Cerowyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cerowyn)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2002, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-adams-is-dead-no-really-he-is/99378/14 "2002-03-22T04:06:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kamandi \* > \*\*And where’d they come up with those names… K-mart? \*\* That’s as bad as (and **damn** similar to) the “KKK-mart” joke in [Ogre’s Pit rant](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=104922) about Alabama. ---
**Author:** ![kuroashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e9a140/32.png) [@kuroashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kuroashi)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2002, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-adams-is-dead-no-really-he-is/99378/15 "2002-03-22T04:10:13Z")
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… ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2002, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-adams-is-dead-no-really-he-is/99378/16 "2002-03-22T13:18:21Z")
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. 😭 ---
**Author:** ![Kamandi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5daacb/32.png) [@Kamandi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamandi)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2002, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-adams-is-dead-no-really-he-is/99378/17 "2002-03-22T18:20:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cerowyn \* > \*\*That’s as bad as (and **damn** similar to) the “KKK-mart” joke in [Ogre’s Pit rant](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=104922) about Alabama. \*\* 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. ---
**Author:** ![Schnitte](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/schnitte/32/9033_2.png) [@Schnitte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Schnitte)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2002, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-adams-is-dead-no-really-he-is/99378/18 "2002-03-22T18:27:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cerowyn \* > \*\*That’s as bad as (and **damn** similar to) the “KKK-mart” joke in [Ogre’s Pit rant](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=104922) about Alabama. \*\* _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. ---
**Author:** ![dalovindj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/65b543/32.png) [@dalovindj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalovindj)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2002, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-adams-is-dead-no-really-he-is/99378/19 "2002-03-22T19:08:21Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Cerowyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/82dd89/32.png) [@Cerowyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cerowyn)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2002, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-adams-is-dead-no-really-he-is/99378/20 "2002-03-22T19:11:04Z")
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.)