# Cecil, the net is closing in! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 23, 2005, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-the-net-is-closing-in/309605 "2005-06-23T23:15:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2005, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-the-net-is-closing-in/309605/1 "2005-06-23T23:15:02Z")
So amongst all the other information we now know you have a brother with a very dimpled chin, and a large breasted wife who used to run marathons. Can’t be too long now till there is a knock on the door at 4am, and you are greeted by two burly dopers who will say: “Cecil Adams, I presume?” and your years of anonymity will be history. ---
**Author:** ![Harborwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Harborwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harborwolf)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2005, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-the-net-is-closing-in/309605/2 "2005-06-23T23:16:56Z")
And all these years we thought Cecils brother had a big breasted chin. I think the search will go better now. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2005, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-the-net-is-closing-in/309605/3 "2005-06-23T23:17:35Z")
And he’ll say, “No, I’m Ed Zotti.” ---
**Author:** ![JimSox5](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5a626/32.png) [@JimSox5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimSox5)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2005, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-the-net-is-closing-in/309605/4 "2005-06-23T23:18:49Z")
Well, at least we now we know for sure that Mrs. Adam’s is not his mother, as the FAQs said was a possibility. ---
**Author:** ![JimSox5](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5a626/32.png) [@JimSox5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimSox5)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2005, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-the-net-is-closing-in/309605/5 "2005-06-23T23:20:09Z")
Err. . .you know, Adams without an apostrophe, maybe. How I loathe thee, '. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2005, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-the-net-is-closing-in/309605/6 "2005-06-23T23:45:15Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > And he’ll say, “No, I’m Ed Zotti.” And no one will believe him, because two guys who both have large breasted wives who used to do marathons and who have dimple chinned brothers is too much of a co-incidence. Nope, his goose is cooked. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2005, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-the-net-is-closing-in/309605/7 "2005-06-24T00:18:32Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > And he’ll say, “No, I’m Ed Zotti.” Gah! Doesn’t anyone use spoiler boxes anymore? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2005, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-the-net-is-closing-in/309605/8 "2005-06-24T00:23:34Z")
> [@Princhester](#): > > And no one will believe him, because two guys who both have large breasted wives who used to do marathons and who have dimple chinned brothers is too much of a co-incidence. Nope, his goose is cooked. No, no. Get it right this time. His goose has the large breasts and his dimple-chinned wives used to do his two brothers, marathon style. No coincidence. Or so Ed Zotti told me. And I believe him. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2005, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-the-net-is-closing-in/309605/9 "2005-06-24T01:08:48Z")
> [@Harborwolf](#): > > And all these years we thought Cecils brother had a big breasted chin. Well, that makes the issue of shaving in the cleft a lot more interesting. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2005, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-the-net-is-closing-in/309605/10 "2005-06-24T03:46:20Z")
Ow! My chin! Man I hate using a dull razor! ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2005, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-the-net-is-closing-in/309605/11 "2005-06-24T04:17:54Z")
> [@Princhester](#): > > So amongst all the other information we now know you have a brother with a very dimpled chin, Named John Adams. Cecil’s other brothers are probably named Sam, Don, and Charles. ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2005, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-the-net-is-closing-in/309605/12 "2005-06-24T04:49:00Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Named John Adams. Cecil’s other brothers are probably named Sam, Don, and Charles. And then we have the info that Cecil is considered the intellectual one of the family. Thankfully, I mean what if he had a Mycroft-analogue tucked away somewhere? And I can’t get this song out of my head: They’re creepy and they’re kooky, Mysterious and spooky, They’re all together ooky, The Adams Family. DooDooDooDoot_click_click\* DooDooDooDoot_click_click\* DooDooDooDoot DooDooDooDoot DooDooDooDoot_click_click\* ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2005, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-the-net-is-closing-in/309605/13 "2005-06-24T05:10:39Z")
And! He looks like a rooster. Or a turkey. Or whatever it is that Slug always draws to represent Cecil. A short-sighted bird with a mortarboard. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2005, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-the-net-is-closing-in/309605/14 "2005-06-24T14:55:21Z")
I’ve always imagined him as looking like Uncle Fester… ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2005, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-the-net-is-closing-in/309605/15 "2005-06-24T15:36:14Z")
Or the Thing. ---
**Author:** ![Muad\_Dib](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/35a633/32.png) [@Muad\_Dib](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muad_Dib)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2005, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-the-net-is-closing-in/309605/16 "2005-06-24T15:38:38Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > And he’ll say, “No, I’m Ed Zotti.” Got hel you filth spreading slime. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2005, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-the-net-is-closing-in/309605/17 "2005-06-24T15:50:00Z")
> [@Anastasaeon](#): > > And! > > He looks like a rooster. Or a turkey. Or whatever it is that Slug always draws to represent Cecil. A short-sighted bird with a mortarboard. Definitely intended to a turkey, indicating both Slug’s personal opinion of The Master and erratic representational skilz. ---
**Author:** ![flood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbe5ce/32.png) [@flood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flood)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2005, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-the-net-is-closing-in/309605/18 "2005-06-24T19:34:21Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > And he’ll say, “No, I’m Ed Zotti.” [Link](http://www.ipass.net/whitetho/edcecil.htm) ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2005, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecil-the-net-is-closing-in/309605/19 "2005-06-24T20:41:52Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > And he’ll say, “No, I’m Ed Zotti.” That’d be just like **Cecil Adams** to dodge trouble by pinning it all on poor **Ed Zotti**.