# Cecil Adams **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 25, 2005, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-adams/327766 "2005-10-25T03:19:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-adams/327766/61 "2005-10-27T01:48:40Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > … while idolizing a person who doesn’t exist just for childish entertainment! May I have a **cite** as to “childish entertainment” being the reason he doesn’t exist? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-adams/327766/62 "2005-10-27T01:49:33Z")
> [@roger thornhill](#): > > I can imagine **Doopliss** sitting back there now enjoying the fruits of his whooshing. While I sit back and enjoy the fruits of mine. 😉 (Note the subtle but _artistic_ use of quotes.) ---
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-adams/327766/63 "2005-10-27T01:58:37Z")
> [@Anastasaeon](#): > > While I sit back and enjoy the fruits of mine. 😉 (Note the subtle but _artistic_ use of quotes.) ::hijack:: Oh, heavens! I knew _you_ were whooshing. That’s why I removed your name from your quote according to established board practice. :end hijack:: Now, back on topic, before a mod comes in and chastises us. Will Ed Zotti come into this thread to cite the WSJ article? ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-adams/327766/64 "2005-10-27T02:43:43Z")
Would an imaginary person have [99 little-known facts](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=333927&highlight=Cecil+Adams) published about him? Of course not. ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-adams/327766/65 "2005-10-27T02:56:51Z")
> [@roger thornhill](#): > > ::hijack:: > Oh, heavens! I knew _you_ were whooshing. That’s why I removed your name from your quote according to established board practice. > :end hijack:: Well Og, I think we can start a thread where we can sit around a whooosh each other all day long! Zing! No, zing! No, wait, _zing_! Nut uh, zing! /hijack 😃 ---
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-adams/327766/66 "2005-10-27T03:14:06Z")
> [@Happy Lendervedder](#): > > Would an imaginary person have [99 little-known facts](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=333927&highlight=Cecil+Adams) published about him? You should put health warnigns out before linkign to stuff like that. Thank goodness I was only drinking sparkling water at the time, otherwise the company’ll be charging me for another keyboard. **Hugh Jass** (that name had me in hysterics by itself) had me spinning in my chair with this one: “Has kicked the following people in the nuts right after saying that he would never kick them in the nuts: Spiro Agnew, Ivan Lendl, D.L. Hughley, _Ed Zotti_, and Ari Onassis.” Juxtaposing his alter ego with all those other losers! Pure frigging genius!! ---
**Author:** ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-adams/327766/67 "2005-10-27T14:19:09Z")
> [@Doopliss](#): > > Thank you for the serious answers. > > I have started to suspect that this is _not_ a spam forum that people use to write nonsence posts while idolyzing a person who doesn’t exist just for childish entertainment. There is no God but Og, and Cecil is his prophet. The mods are like apostles. We humble Dopers are the spam of Og. Og speaks to us through the columns of Cecil and through the miracle of the GoogleAds. Many – yeah, I say many – are the Dopers who have petitioned Og in their posts and received His answer through a GoogleAd. It’s no coincidence that “Google” = “Og” backwards + “Og” forwards (also “Go Og”) + “LE”, which stands for Limited Edition or Luxury Edition, I’m not sure which. Perhaps both, as Og is a great multi-tasker. On your knees, oh newbie seeker of knowledge and reviler of ignorance. Fork hence thy $14.95 and join us in enlightenment. ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-adams/327766/68 "2005-10-27T15:51:45Z")
Doesn’t witnessing belong in GD? 😛 And I am _so_ disappointed no one followed up on my Spartacus-esque “I am Cecil Adams” post … ---
**Author:** ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-adams/327766/69 "2005-10-27T16:02:55Z")
> [@Ponder Stibbons](#): > > Doesn’t witnessing belong in GD? 😛 > > And I am _so_ disappointed no one followed up on my Spartacus-esque “I am Cecil Adams” post … Following much prayer and meditation, I believe it is the will of Og, and that of his apostles, that my post remain in MPSIMS. And Og says to tell you that your “I am Cecil Adams” post was brilliant. He is greatly pleased with thee. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-adams/327766/70 "2005-10-27T16:04:44Z")
> [@Anastasaeon](#): > > Well Og, I think we can start a thread where we can sit around a whooosh each other all day long! It’s been done. I’m sure someone has a link. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-adams/327766.md?page=3)