# Crock and Cecil **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 28, 2005, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crock-and-cecil/305927 "2005-05-28T22:09:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2005, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crock-and-cecil/305927/1 "2005-05-28T22:09:09Z")
[www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/crock/about.htm](http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/crock/about.htm) BWAH-HA-HA-HA-HA! (erm, it’s the Friday, May 13, 2005 cartoon) ---
**Author:** ![Shalmanese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shalmanese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shalmanese)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2005, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crock-and-cecil/305927/2 "2005-05-29T01:00:48Z")
I dont get it. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2005, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crock-and-cecil/305927/3 "2005-05-29T01:20:08Z")
Cecil Adams? The Straight Dope guy? Okay, sorry, I just busted out laughing when I saw it – The SDMB was already going to be my next stop after I finished reading my comics – and thought I’d share. ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2005, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crock-and-cecil/305927/4 "2005-05-29T01:22:04Z")
I read the three previous cartoons. You could cut out the nine panels and shuffle them up and place three randon ones together and they’d make just as much sense and be just as funny as the originals. I thought the idea of cartoons were to be funny? ---
**Author:** ![Dark\_Side\_of\_the\_Floyd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bb73d2/32.png) [@Dark\_Side\_of\_the\_Floyd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dark_Side_of_the_Floyd)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2005, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crock-and-cecil/305927/5 "2005-05-29T02:03:30Z")
The thing is, that hospital gowns are open in the back. So, breakdancing would reveal… things. I suppose the “Cecil Adams” thing was a coincedence. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2005, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crock-and-cecil/305927/6 "2005-05-29T05:46:20Z")
It’s the Saturday, May 14, 2005 strip, not the Friday, May 13, 2005 one. Is the name “Cecil Adams” merely coincidence? Does this comic normally use names that have never been introduced in the strip before? The strip isn’t particularly funny, but then it never is. ---
**Author:** ![Uvula\_Donor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e19adc/32.png) [@Uvula\_Donor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uvula_Donor)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2005, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crock-and-cecil/305927/7 "2005-05-29T13:36:59Z")
Well, **I** nearly split a gut yawning - I mean, laughing. No, wait, I was right the first time. But thanks for the link. My local paper cancelled _Crock_ years ago, and I had forgotten why. ---
**Author:** ![Marlitharn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2005, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crock-and-cecil/305927/8 "2005-05-29T18:44:47Z")
Well, I’M amused at the idea of Unca Cecil breakdancing in a hospital gown. Slug should draw a picture of it for the new T-shirts. He could call it, “Stupidity, I wave my naughty parts at you.” ---
**Author:** ![BMax](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bmax/32/4267_2.png) [@BMax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMax)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2005, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crock-and-cecil/305927/9 "2005-05-29T20:46:53Z")
> [@Marlitharn](#): > > Well, I’M amused at the idea of Unca Cecil breakdancing in a hospital gown. Slug should draw a picture of it for the new T-shirts. He could call it, “Stupidity, I wave my naughty parts at you.” I’m sure you meant _ignorance_, but stupidity fits. ---
**Author:** ![Marlitharn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2005, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crock-and-cecil/305927/10 "2005-05-29T23:52:33Z")
> [@BMax](#): > > I’m sure you meant _ignorance_, but stupidity fits. :smack: See what happens when I try to be clever? ---
**Author:** ![pope\_hentai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@pope\_hentai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pope_hentai)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2005, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crock-and-cecil/305927/11 "2005-05-31T20:55:51Z")
> [@Lamar Mundane](#): > > I read the three previous cartoons. You could cut out the nine panels and shuffle them up and place three randon ones together and they’d make just as much sense and be just as funny as the originals. > > I thought the idea of cartoons were to be funny? somewhere there is a website that actually does that with garfield comics. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2005, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crock-and-cecil/305927/12 "2005-06-01T02:17:48Z")
I get “Content Currently Unavailable” for every date. ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2005, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crock-and-cecil/305927/13 "2005-06-01T02:54:44Z")
Consider yourself lucky.