# Cecil in disguise? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 14, 2002, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-in-disguise/142786 "2002-12-14T21:33:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Spoc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Spoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoc)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-in-disguise/142786/1 "2002-12-14T21:33:30Z")
What do you think the chances are that Cecil has a secret screen name or two on this board, so that He can move amongst us, tweak us, play with us, interact with us undetected? Kinda like the message board equivalent of celebrity dark glasses and a paste-on beard. The citizens of Dope Town are as a whole very witty and bright, of course, but I find certain ones whose writing is so consistently, “professionally,” hysterically funny/creative/unique, that I wonder…Who might he be??? (Of course, I’m sure there ARE plenty of professional writers and humorists residing here, or should-bes.) Yay or nay; whaddaya think? And if yay, WHO would you name as Possibly Cecil? Even if you know for a fact that person isn’t/couldn’t be Him, play anyway. Who here slays you enough to be put in that class? \*Disclaimer: Cecil, I do not mean to be blasphemous. I apologize if my insinuation that you would ever have idle/vacuous enough moments to find toying with us mere humans a good or entertaining use of your time is offensive. After all, it’s not like we can tell you anything you don’t already know. Excuse us; man has a way, facilitated by the limits of earthly understanding, of attributing human-like characteristics to its God. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/2bfe46/32.png) [@Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xavier)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-in-disguise/142786/2 "2002-12-14T21:55:09Z")
He’d have to have rectangular ballbags… Give up yet? ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-in-disguise/142786/3 "2002-12-14T21:57:01Z")
You guys got me. It’s me. I dumb down a lot so people won’t notice. I even make intentional spelling erors. ---
**Author:** ![Early\_Out](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Early\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Early_Out)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-in-disguise/142786/4 "2002-12-14T22:28:37Z")
Oh. my. God. Are you (gasp!) speculating that The Great Master might be guilty of (dare I even type the word?) _ **sockpuppetry** _? :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-in-disguise/142786/5 "2002-12-14T23:26:17Z")
_coughcough_Zotti_coughcough_ ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-in-disguise/142786/6 "2002-12-14T23:30:46Z")
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain! ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2002, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-in-disguise/142786/7 "2002-12-15T00:11:07Z")
_Cecil in disguise… with glasses_ ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2002, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-in-disguise/142786/8 "2002-12-15T00:17:38Z")
[evil heretic] Hah! Everyone knows that Cecil doesn’t really exist! [/evil heretic] 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Jake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2002, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-in-disguise/142786/9 "2002-12-15T00:25:11Z")
My God man! Does Santa Clause exist? Cecil exists in the minds of (most) of the posters here. We need him whether he exists or not. At least I do. Hey Cese! How about a response? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Shade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@Shade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shade)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2002, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-in-disguise/142786/10 "2002-12-15T01:25:37Z")
No, I don’t have any sock-puppets. Honest. But I could if I wanted to - only teeming millions are banned from that. ---
**Author:** ![Shade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@Shade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shade)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2002, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-in-disguise/142786/11 "2002-12-15T01:27:13Z")
:smack: Well, not many 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2002, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-in-disguise/142786/12 "2002-12-15T08:13:25Z")
> [@](#): > > What do you think the chances are that Cecil has a secret screen name or two on this board Zero. Zip. Nada. Goose egg. Cecil’s ego would not ALLOW him to hide behind another name. It’s just that posting more often on the message board would require him to, you know, INTERACT with people, and he can only do so much of that. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2002, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-in-disguise/142786/13 "2002-12-15T08:25:34Z")
“I’m Sparta…uh… Cecil!” ---
**Author:** ![Ryan\_Liam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ryan_liam/32/3965_2.png) [@Ryan\_Liam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ryan_Liam)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2002, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-in-disguise/142786/14 "2002-12-15T10:17:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by mnemosyne \* > _coughcoughZotticoughcough_ \*\* Well, ED (if thats your real name) you gonna stand up and tell us the truth?🙂 (Guys, is it Ed Zotti?) ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2002, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-in-disguise/142786/15 "2002-12-15T17:02:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ryan\_Liam \* > \*\*Well, ED (if thats your real name) you gonna stand up and tell us the truth?🙂 > (Guys, is it Ed Zotti?) \*\* Ed is Cecil’s friend sort of like Jimmy Olsen was Superman’s friend and called on him for assistance with the plaintive “Zee-Zee-Zee” of his ultrasonic watch, although Ed uses a cellular phone that has a great plan with lots of minutes. Cecil is mysterious and vague flitting into and out of lives like an ethereal wisp on the edge of consciousness. Cecil is not a discrete entity but a smear of probabilities. Cecil is as real as a two by four upside your head. Cecil is you and Cecil is me. Cecil is in all of us. Cecil is the disease _and_ the cure and there is nothing OTC that can cure him, just bed rest and lots of fluids, preferably an ice cold Sam Adams Wheat. ---
**Author:** ![Ryan\_Liam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ryan_liam/32/3965_2.png) [@Ryan\_Liam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ryan_Liam)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2002, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-in-disguise/142786/16 "2002-12-15T18:31:28Z")
Oh, like Cecil is mother, Cecil is Father. ---
**Author:** ![Blackeyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f6c823/32.png) [@Blackeyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackeyes)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2002, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-in-disguise/142786/17 "2002-12-15T20:31:46Z")
Cecil is… truth, man. ---
**Author:** ![l1I235](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@l1I235](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/l1I235)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2002, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-in-disguise/142786/18 "2002-12-15T20:46:12Z")
Cecil is tobacco? Oh, I had too! ---
**Author:** ![DarrenS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@DarrenS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarrenS)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2002, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-in-disguise/142786/19 "2002-12-15T21:08:02Z")
“S’il n’existait pas, il aurait fallu l’inventer.” -If he didn’t exist, we’d have had to invent him. ---
**Author:** ![Ryan\_Liam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ryan_liam/32/3965_2.png) [@Ryan\_Liam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ryan_Liam)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2002, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-in-disguise/142786/20 "2002-12-15T21:11:25Z")
I don’t know why,why, but Cecil loves to see me cry… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-in-disguise/142786.md?page=2)