# Cecil curiously absent? (Cecil weighs in) **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 27, 1999, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-curiously-absent-cecil-weighs-in/3639 "1999-08-27T19:07:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Patricinus\_Scriblerus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f07891/32.png) [@Patricinus\_Scriblerus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patricinus_Scriblerus)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 1999, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-curiously-absent-cecil-weighs-in/3639/1 "1999-08-27T19:07:00Z")
Maybe I am not reading the right threads but I dont see the name Cecil Adams pop up too much. Why? * * * You sound reasonable…it must be time to up my medication ---
**Author:** ![Mojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Mojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mojo)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 1999, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-curiously-absent-cecil-weighs-in/3639/2 "1999-08-27T19:11:00Z")
Its because he uses an alias. Search for posts by “loverock” instead 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![David\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/51bf81/32.png) [@David\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_B)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 1999, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-curiously-absent-cecil-weighs-in/3639/3 "1999-08-27T19:25:00Z")
Cecil is a busy man! You don’t get to be the smartest guy in the world by hanging around and chatting. He’s got research to do, ignorance to stamp out, butts to kick! ---
**Author:** ![Patricinus\_Scriblerus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f07891/32.png) [@Patricinus\_Scriblerus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patricinus_Scriblerus)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 1999, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-curiously-absent-cecil-weighs-in/3639/4 "1999-08-27T19:32:00Z")
Loverock hmmmm wasn’t he the “Spanish Flee” guy?? ROTFLMAO… _wiping away tears_ I printed that one out just so I can have a chuckle every now and again. As for him stamping out ignorance etc I would think that he would at least poke his head around every once in a while. Granted I have not been a regular on this page for a long time but I thought that in 3 or so months I would have seen him contribute more than once. * * * You sound reasonable…it must be time to up my medication ---
**Author:** ![David\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/51bf81/32.png) [@David\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_B)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 1999, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-curiously-absent-cecil-weighs-in/3639/5 "1999-08-27T20:35:00Z")
Off the top of my head, I know he contributed to the “Glass melding” thread here in General Questions. I also know he has responded to a few people in the part of the board devoted to comments on his columns. ---
**Author:** ![Hazel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e56c9b/32.png) [@Hazel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazel)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 1999, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-curiously-absent-cecil-weighs-in/3639/6 "1999-08-27T21:44:00Z")
I also have been wondering if he is reading these threads. It seems likely that the only way he could avoid the impulse to put in his 2 cents worth on some of these threads would be if he were not reading them at all. I am, I guess, judging by myself. When I read through a thread, I find that, more then half the time, I want to say something. I guess there’s no reason why he has to participate. I’m finding these threads interesting and enjoyable, even without The Great One. ---
**Author:** ![Nickrz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbce88/32.png) [@Nickrz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nickrz)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 1999, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-curiously-absent-cecil-weighs-in/3639/7 "1999-08-28T00:32:00Z")
> [@](#): > > It seems likely that the only way he could avoid the impulse to put in his 2 cents worth on some of these threads would be if he were not reading them at all You have to stay after school and write “Cecil is not impulsive.” 100 times. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 1999, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-curiously-absent-cecil-weighs-in/3639/8 "1999-08-28T19:01:00Z")
Ay Yi Yi! Our Unca Cecil has obviously been kidnapped by the Illuminati, due to his vast knowledge of the 17/23 correlation! Doubtless, he has been taken to a remote island fortress {female fort?} where he will be brainwashed until his vast store of cosmic wisdom is lost to us; or until he becomes a sniveling wretch like that Ed Zotti guy that Cecil salvaged from the rescue mission a few years back. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 1999, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-curiously-absent-cecil-weighs-in/3639/9 "1999-08-28T19:27:00Z")
I have it on good authority that Ed does not snivel . . . much. your humble TubaDiva ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 1999, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-curiously-absent-cecil-weighs-in/3639/10 "1999-08-29T13:52:00Z")
Hmpf. I posted this yesterday, but it doesn’t seem to have appeared (another of my posts suffered similarly.) From time to time, the Straight Dope Staff browbeats Ed, and Ed pushes Cecil into reading and commenting on a few posts. But it’s an uphill struggle, mainly because Cecil doesn’t get paid for this online stuff. He is hesistant to waste his time and energy thinking about things that he doesn’t get paid for. I know, I know, it’s a character flaw, but it’s not his only such. Hence, he doesn’t want to “waste” time on the boards… wading through irrelevant posts, through wrong answers put forth by well-meaning folk, through joke answers put forth by … umm… whoever might be warped enough to do that, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Patricinus\_Scriblerus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f07891/32.png) [@Patricinus\_Scriblerus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patricinus_Scriblerus)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 1999, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-curiously-absent-cecil-weighs-in/3639/11 "1999-08-29T19:22:00Z")
I’ll tell ya what you get Cecil to poke hi head in and toss in this $0.02 and I will personally mail him a crisp $1.00 bill (It’s the only American money that I have… I could send him some Canadian money but that is awfully close to worthless) Just let me know where to send the cash. * * * You sound reasonable…it must be time to up my medication ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 1999, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-curiously-absent-cecil-weighs-in/3639/12 "1999-08-30T20:25:00Z")
Cecil posted today in the column about Gin and Tonic, in the forum dedicated to comments about his columns: [http://www.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/000193.html](http://www.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/000193.html) Send your dollar to Cecil Adams, c/o the Chicago Reader, 11 E. Illinois Street Chicago, IL 60611 USA. Cecil will also accept Canadian money despite its low value. ---
**Author:** ![Cecil\_Adams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cecil\_Adams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cecil_Adams)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 1999, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-curiously-absent-cecil-weighs-in/3639/13 "1999-09-29T00:52:00Z")
So, where’s my buck? ---
**Author:** ![omniscientnot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a5b964/32.png) [@omniscientnot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/omniscientnot)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 1999, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-curiously-absent-cecil-weighs-in/3639/14 "1999-09-29T01:43:00Z")
Probably sent it through Canadian mail 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Whammo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8dc957/32.png) [@Whammo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whammo)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 1999, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-curiously-absent-cecil-weighs-in/3639/15 "1999-09-29T02:04:00Z")
unca CeCe!!! May I bow to your greatness!! I have never seen your beauty (as a side note i just asked my girlfriend how to spell “beauty” and she said f-u-c-k-y-o-u I am not positive but she may be thinking that I am talking to an internet floozy) first hand and I am greatly honored… I have had my questions of your reality over the years but this helps my case of the paranoias… 🙂 you do great work… keep it up… love it! * * * The wisest man I ever knew taught me something I never forgot. And although I never forgot it, I never quite memorized it either. So what I’m left with is the memory of having learned something very wise that I can’t quite remember. -George Carlin ---
**Author:** ![Whammo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8dc957/32.png) [@Whammo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whammo)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 1999, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-curiously-absent-cecil-weighs-in/3639/16 "1999-09-29T02:12:00Z")
Cecil, ``` If I send you a dollar will you send me an autographed picture of Ed Zotti with your name on it?? *grin* :D ``` * * * The wisest man I ever knew taught me something I never forgot. And although I never forgot it, I never quite memorized it either. So what I’m left with is the memory of having learned something very wise that I can’t quite remember. -George Carlin ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 1999, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-curiously-absent-cecil-weighs-in/3639/17 "1999-09-29T23:57:00Z")
## \You escaped ! Praise God (or whoever)\ We have met the enemy, and He is Us.–Walt Kelly ---
**Author:** ![Nickrz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbce88/32.png) [@Nickrz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nickrz)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 1999, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-curiously-absent-cecil-weighs-in/3639/18 "1999-10-01T00:30:00Z")
Ed must have sniveled up a storm… ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 1999, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-curiously-absent-cecil-weighs-in/3639/19 "1999-10-01T04:36:00Z")
Reminds me of a story I heard about an autograph seeker writing to a famous author. He wrote something like “Dear Mr. \_\_\_\_\_\_, I have written to you several times seeking your autograph and yet you have never replied. Now, I have just read in the newspaper that you are paid $5 for every word you write. In return for the enclosed five dollar bill, could you please send me one word?” The author sent the letter back to the autograph hound with one word scribbled at the bottom: “THANKS”. DHR ---
**Author:** ![PatrickM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7feea3/32.png) [@PatrickM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickM)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 1999, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-curiously-absent-cecil-weighs-in/3639/20 "1999-10-01T13:18:00Z")
Mention Cecil’s name and he appears. So how come Cindy Crawford hasn’t posted anything lately? 🙂 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-curiously-absent-cecil-weighs-in/3639.md?page=2)