# Cecil's true identity revealed **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 24, 2009, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecils-true-identity-revealed/507539 "2009-08-24T19:56:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Dragwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dragwyr/32/2855_2.png) [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecils-true-identity-revealed/507539/21 "2009-08-25T15:27:52Z")
> [@Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](#): > > Everybody knows Cecil was born when the ARPANET became self aware in 1973. That wasn’t Cecil, that was the Usenet Oracle (Now called the [Internet Oracle](http://cgi.cs.indiana.edu/~oracle/index.cgi)). ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecils-true-identity-revealed/507539/22 "2009-08-25T15:47:18Z")
> [@palindromemordnilap](#): > > And I almost wrote “him or her” in the post, but it was so ungainly. Doesn’t matter, you dissed the Twicks. You’re a dead man. Er, person. ---
**Author:** ![Agent\_Foxtrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecils-true-identity-revealed/507539/23 "2009-08-25T15:54:20Z")
You all are incorrect. Cecil Adams is the lovechild of The Most Interesting Man in the World and Stephen Hawking. I dare you to get **that** mental image out of your head today! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecils-true-identity-revealed/507539/24 "2009-08-25T19:24:38Z")
Frankly you’d have to be on drugs - **Mescal Acid** maybe - to believe some of the wilder claims about Cecil’s identity. Still, now there is plenty of Dope merchandise available, you could buy some neat **iMac Decals** to show your great taste in websites. Any more anagrams? Hmm, let me check in my **Medical Sac** … ---
**Author:** ![palindromemordnilap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/db5fbb/32.png) [@palindromemordnilap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/palindromemordnilap)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecils-true-identity-revealed/507539/25 "2009-08-25T19:47:39Z")
> [@Colophon](#): > > Frankly you’d have to be on drugs - **Mescal Acid** maybe - to believe some of the wilder claims about Cecil’s identity. > > Still, now there is plenty of Dope merchandise available, you could buy some neat **iMac Decals** to show your great taste in websites. > > Any more anagrams? Hmm, let me check in my **Medical Sac** … Love it. You do know the OP was not an anagram though, right? ---
**Author:** ![palindromemordnilap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/db5fbb/32.png) [@palindromemordnilap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/palindromemordnilap)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecils-true-identity-revealed/507539/26 "2009-08-25T19:49:54Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > You’re a dead man. Er, person. I prefer the term ‘Ovoid-American’. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecils-true-identity-revealed/507539/27 "2009-08-25T19:51:23Z")
> [@palindromemordnilap](#): > > Love it. You do know the OP was not an anagram though, right? Well, more of an anagramargana. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecils-true-identity-revealed/507539/28 "2009-08-25T19:52:54Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > _You’re_ Jimmy Hoffa? You heard me through all the concrete? I’m impressed! ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecils-true-identity-revealed/507539/29 "2009-08-25T21:16:11Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > You heard me through all the concrete? Well, it was a Union job, so there’s not all _that much_ concrete. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecils-true-identity-revealed/507539/30 "2009-08-26T02:14:43Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Well, it was a Union job, so there’s not all _that much_ concrete. I suppose, and what concrete there is is substandard, with approximately the same structural strength as burnt toast. But to be fair, really badly burnt toast. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecils-true-identity-revealed/507539/31 "2009-08-26T02:35:22Z")
> [@Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](#): > > Everybody knows Cecil was born when the ARPANET became self aware in 1973. No, no. Cecil was born April 31, 1939, owing to a clerical error. ---
**Author:** ![palindromemordnilap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/db5fbb/32.png) [@palindromemordnilap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/palindromemordnilap)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecils-true-identity-revealed/507539/32 "2009-08-26T19:46:35Z")
> [@Beware\_of\_Doug](#): > > No, no. Cecil was born April 31, 1939, owing to a clerical error. Are you gleaning this from a Birth Certificate or a Certificate of Live Birth? There’s a world of difference, you know. Speaking of the B.C. in question, it’s said that when you turn it upside down you can make out this odd equation: 7 1 \> 3 \> ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecils-true-identity-revealed/507539/33 "2009-08-26T20:06:09Z")
So he’s not the Stig, then? ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecils-true-identity-revealed/507539/34 "2009-08-27T02:35:46Z")
> [@palindromemordnilap](#): > > Are you gleaning this from a Birth Certificate or a Certificate of Live Birth? There’s a world of difference, you know. No, I’m saying he was actually _born_ due to a clerical error. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Weird\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@The\_Weird\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Weird_One)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecils-true-identity-revealed/507539/35 "2009-08-27T03:19:58Z")
To be fair, a lot of people don’t know how to properly apply a condom, especially clerics. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecils-true-identity-revealed/507539.md?page=1)