# Ed Zotti **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 18, 2000, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-zotti/14004 "2000-02-18T01:23:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2000, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-zotti/14004/1 "2000-02-18T01:23:00Z")
I wish to give tribute to the person that adds that extra umph for Cecil. The great graphic artist known as Ed Zotti, whose amusing drawing’s have added that extra touch to all his columns. I have read the Straight Dope for the last twenty years, and expect that extra special graphic with the column. Ed and Cecil go hand in hand for this great column. Solute! * * * I’m only your wildest fear, from the corners of your darkest thoughts. ---
**Author:** ![Yue\_Han](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/eada6e/32.png) [@Yue\_Han](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yue_Han)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2000, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-zotti/14004/2 "2000-02-18T01:29:00Z")
No, no, no. Ed Zotti is Cecil’s _editor_. (And scapegoat when anything goes wrong. And, according to certain heretics, alterego) The artist the inestimable Slug Signiori. (I _think_ I spelled it right) –John * * * Wo de qianzi shi Zhongwende. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2000, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-zotti/14004/3 "2000-02-18T01:30:00Z")
[http://www.straightdope.com/faq/slugfaq.html](http://www.straightdope.com/faq/slugfaq.html) ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2000, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-zotti/14004/4 "2000-02-18T01:39:00Z")
As Glida Radner would put it never mind. Slug Signiori sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2000, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-zotti/14004/5 "2000-02-18T15:57:00Z")
Just bumping this up to the top. Because it occurred to me that by doing so, I could mortify Phobia, Zotti, AND Slug in one easy swoop. Hey, you’re welcome. * * * Uke ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2000, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-zotti/14004/6 "2000-02-18T16:13:00Z")
'Eh, Signori e signore, the man’s surname is **Signorino**. Just to mortify **everybody!** ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2000, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-zotti/14004/7 "2000-02-18T16:14:00Z")
Although that would make a fascinating new conspiricy theory – what if Ed Zotti is really the same person as Slug Signorino!? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Milossarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Milossarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Milossarian)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2000, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-zotti/14004/8 "2000-02-18T16:15:00Z")
Uh, why don’t we all just forget this compliment ever happened. * * * “You should tell the truth, expose the lies and live in the moment.” - Bill Hicks ---
**Author:** ![neuro-trash\_grrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3ab097/32.png) [@neuro-trash\_grrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neuro-trash_grrrl)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2000, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-zotti/14004/9 "2000-02-18T17:26:00Z")
I could forget about it, but why? Some things can never be lived down. This is going to haunt Yue Han for a long time, mark my words. What? Phobia was the OP and not Yue Han? Oh… * * * An infinite number of rednecks in an infinite number of pickup trucks shooting an infinite number of shotguns at an infinite number of road signs will eventually produce all the world’s great works of literature in Braille. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2000, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-zotti/14004/10 "2000-02-18T19:21:00Z")
Now why would someone ressucitate this thread, when you have Phobia pleading, nay [begging](http://www.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum4/HTML/005208.html), for us to ignore it? Word of the day: perversity: obstination in opposing what is right, reasonable, or accepted * * * Official winner of [Bricker Challenge #5](http://www.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum4/HTML/004959.html). ---
**Author:** ![StrTrkr777](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@StrTrkr777](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StrTrkr777)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2000, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-zotti/14004/11 "2000-02-18T19:57:00Z")
Would you guys leave Phobia alone. I mean with a name like Phobia, you know that he/she must have some major phobia, like being afraid of screwing up and everybody seeing it. Let us just let this die the death that it deserves and remember it no more. Jeffery ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2000, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-zotti/14004/12 "2000-02-18T21:44:00Z")
I couldn’t care less. On the other hand if my post name was say “Omniscient” it might matter. neuro-trash grrrl I love your signature quote every time I see it. * * * I’m only your wildest fear, from the corners of your darkest thoughts. ---
**Author:** ![tbea925](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dc4da7/32.png) [@tbea925](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tbea925)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2000, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-zotti/14004/13 "2000-02-19T02:11:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by StrTrkr777: > \*\*with a name like Phobia, you know that he/she must have some major phobia, like being afraid of screwing up and everybody seeing it. > \*\* ## But what if his/her phobia is that they would be ignored in life and nobody knows they exist? This sig not Y2K compliant. Happy 1900. ---
**Author:** ![Poto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ab992/32.png) [@Poto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poto)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2000, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-zotti/14004/14 "2000-02-19T02:16:00Z")
[more about Slug S](http://www.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/005411.html) ---
**Author:** ![Sweet\_Basil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4bbf92/32.png) [@Sweet\_Basil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sweet_Basil)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2000, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-zotti/14004/15 "2000-02-19T23:39:00Z")
Actually, the truth is that none of them exist. Slug, Ed, and Cecil are all just figments of our collective imagination. Sweet Basil ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2000, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-zotti/14004/16 "2000-02-20T21:44:00Z")
Well, if Phobia’s pleading, okay. Let’s just let the whole thing drop. OH hell, I seem to have thrust the thread to the top again. * * * Uke ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2000, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-zotti/14004/17 "2000-02-21T01:44:00Z")
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