# Cecil Adams, you are my friend. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 8, 2002, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-adams-you-are-my-friend/141335 "2002-12-08T18:44:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Meatros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-adams-you-are-my-friend/141335/41 "2002-12-10T12:26:00Z")
You know, I don’t believe Cecil actually exists. The entity that is called “Cecil Adams” is actually a robot, who has an incredibly advanced A.I. system. The technology would’ve revolutionized the 70’s, but it was lost, as the incredibly brilliant Cecil machine realized that there could be only one. In the early 80’s, A.I. Cecil went from one computer programming building to another, slicing through motherboards, to ensure that he only had the power to understand the universe. Not to worry though, Cecil, much like Connor McCloud, is good and wishes to share his/it’s knowledge, with the rest of mankind. Had one of the other A.I. beings been allowed to have been created, evil would rain supreme and we would all be ignorant cave dwelling idiots who believe that the moon is made of cheese and that their is no third “gry” word… Okay, I’ll stop rambling now and I’ll slink off into a corner while the rest of you throw rocks at me… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Marlitharn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-adams-you-are-my-friend/141335/42 "2002-12-10T12:28:59Z")
My birthday is on the 20th. I will give my firstborn son for a “Happy Birthday” from the Perfect One. If I can find him. I think he’s in his room, but I daren’t go in there without a compass and a machete. ---
**Author:** ![welby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@welby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/welby)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-adams-you-are-my-friend/141335/43 "2002-12-10T13:05:25Z")
If Cecil shows I promise to stop touching myself. ---
**Author:** ![Lucretia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/13edae/32.png) [@Lucretia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucretia)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-adams-you-are-my-friend/141335/44 "2002-12-10T13:07:23Z")
My birthday is on the 29th. I think it would be a wonderful compensation to all us near-christmas babies that always got short-changed on presents to have the the **GREAT CECIL** himself come greet us. That would make it all better. ---
**Author:** ![Lockz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Lockz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lockz)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-adams-you-are-my-friend/141335/45 "2002-12-10T13:11:00Z")
My birthday’s January 8th. Do you think we can get **Cecil** to actually wish us all a happy birthday? Even though he probably won’t do it individually, maybe we can hope for a blanket statement? And maybe if we all wish, he’ll come here and post! Who am I kidding? He’ll never show. He doesn’t know me. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![elf6c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c57346/32.png) [@elf6c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elf6c)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-adams-you-are-my-friend/141335/46 "2002-12-10T14:07:56Z")
Wow, that is some powerful sucking up. Of course, that is not how it works. I imagine every poster but the OP will get welcomed personally. That’s why he is the perfect master. Besides, if he rewarded such efforts the board would quickly degenerate into endless suck-up threads. ---
**Author:** ![Rug\_Burn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a87d85/32.png) [@Rug\_Burn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rug_Burn)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-adams-you-are-my-friend/141335/47 "2002-12-10T14:46:28Z")
What a bunch of pathetic losers… Um, Hi Cecil. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-adams-you-are-my-friend/141335/48 "2002-12-10T15:07:19Z")
My birthday isn’t coming up anytime soon but ya know…I still haven’t been welcomed to the boards…:eek:! ---
**Author:** ![Super\_Gnat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@Super\_Gnat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Super_Gnat)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-adams-you-are-my-friend/141335/49 "2002-12-10T17:50:55Z")
I’ll be 18 on December 13th, and no present would mean as much to me as an official welcome from Cecil himself. I beg of you, Cecil, celebrate my coming-of-age with me. I’ll be ever so grateful ;). ---
**Author:** ![Odieman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a87d85/32.png) [@Odieman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odieman)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-adams-you-are-my-friend/141335/50 "2002-12-10T18:26:17Z")
Well it’s only a chosen few that can claim that honour 😃 :shows sig and flees from the thread: ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-adams-you-are-my-friend/141335/51 "2002-12-10T18:44:02Z")
Wow, with this many replies, I thought for sure Cecil had already posted here. But I’ve always maintained that Cecil should be begging for _me_ to acknowlege _him_. ---
**Author:** ![AbsolutelyStark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/278dde/32.png) [@AbsolutelyStark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AbsolutelyStark)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-adams-you-are-my-friend/141335/52 "2002-12-10T23:35:39Z")
Why would he beg when you just did it for free? ---
**Author:** ![Kricket](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f14d63/32.png) [@Kricket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kricket)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-adams-you-are-my-friend/141335/53 "2002-12-12T20:25:46Z")
Alright Odieman, that’s it, out of this thread! 😉 You should be ashamed of yourself! Now you take you little hiney upstairs to your room right now mister and think about your attitude. You may come back when you feel you can say your sorry for rubbing it in the rest of our faces. Don’t make me count to three! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-adams-you-are-my-friend/141335.md?page=2)