# Ed Zotti **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 6, 2004, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-zotti/222965 "2004-01-06T06:21:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc348/32.png) [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Flying_Dutchman)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2004, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-zotti/222965/1 "2004-01-06T06:21:14Z")
I realize that there are not all that many people who know, but is Ed Zotti left handed? ---
**Author:** ![Dignan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f07891/32.png) [@Dignan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dignan)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2004, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-zotti/222965/2 "2004-01-06T06:33:06Z")
Trying to draw links between Zotti and Cecil, huh? If it is true that both are left handed, I’m sure it’s nothing more than a coincidence. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc348/32.png) [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Flying_Dutchman)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2004, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-zotti/222965/3 "2004-01-06T06:45:47Z")
Actually, I’m more interested in ruling out the possibility altogether and ending any further speculation. ---
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2004, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-zotti/222965/4 "2004-01-06T06:52:40Z")
Read the catcher thread didja? Maybe Ol’ Cece is really the smartest human bean and threw a curve ball 20 years ago that finally went across the plate. [http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1\_303b.html](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_303b.html) ---
**Author:** ![t-keela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a3d4f5/32.png) [@t-keela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/t-keela)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2004, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-zotti/222965/5 "2004-01-06T06:53:25Z")
I don’t have a link handy, but didn’t Ed state conclusively that he was NOT Cecil in a thread once upon a time? Besides, they’d have to be banned for being socks, wouldn’t they? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2004, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-zotti/222965/6 "2004-01-06T12:39:17Z")
Yes, Ed Zotti has a left hand. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2004, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-zotti/222965/7 "2004-01-06T13:16:20Z")
“I did not have sexual relations with that left hand.” --Ed Zotti 😃 ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2004, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-zotti/222965/8 "2004-01-06T13:24:08Z")
If Zotti isn’t Cecil, he’s a plagiarist. Large sections of Cecil’s columns are reprinted in Zotti’s [Know it All!](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0345362322/qid=1073395532//ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/104-2260106-7140736?v=glance&s=books&n=507846) ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2004, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-zotti/222965/9 "2004-01-06T14:14:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by RealityChuck \* > \*\*If Zotti isn’t Cecil, he’s a plagiarist. Large sections of Cecil’s columns are reprinted in Zotti’s [Know it All!](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0345362322/qid=1073395532//ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/104-2260106-7140736?v=glance&s=books&n=507846) \*\* mud-slinger! Heretic! Pigeon-Fancier! 😃 😉 😛 I keed! I keed! I keed wit chou! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2004, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-zotti/222965/10 "2004-01-06T16:00:35Z")
“Is Cecil Adams really Ed Zotti? It all depends on what your definition of ‘is’ is.” – W.J. Clinton, on one of the burning problems of our day. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2004, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-zotti/222965/11 "2004-01-06T16:36:22Z")
_I’m_ left-handed . . . Omigod, what if I’m Cecil and didn’t even know it? ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2004, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-zotti/222965/12 "2004-01-06T16:46:47Z")
If Ed Zotti is Cecil’s right hand man, could Eve be his left hand woman? ---
**Author:** ![Phlosphr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Phlosphr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlosphr)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2004, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-zotti/222965/13 "2004-01-06T17:01:59Z")
I was always under the impression that this was a moot point. I thought the story went like this: Ed had a terrible accident in 1972 with rendered him a veritable vegetable. His sister **Sybil** tried to nurse him back to no avail. Eventually, she recognized that Ed was trying to communicate by winking…1 wink equaled the letter A. 2 winks - B, 3 winks - C. etc…etc… What she could not have realized at the time was that it was really not Ed who was communicating but our lord **Cecil**. Ed kept his darkest secret of being a medium for the spirit world from everyone except his first true love **Sally** … Anyway to make a long story short…Ed finally emerges from his coma with the unique ability to answer any question succinctly. Worldly Knowledge he never knew he even possessed…with this knowledge he knew he was on an instant mission to cure the world of ignorance…and this is exactly what he set out to do! ---
**Author:** ![t-keela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a3d4f5/32.png) [@t-keela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/t-keela)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2004, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-zotti/222965/14 "2004-01-06T17:12:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bippy the Beardless \* > \*\*If Ed Zotti is Cecil’s right hand man, could Eve be his left hand woman? \*\* Is this another bible discrepancy? IIRC GOD created Adam and Eve to work the garden, NOT Ed and Eve. Unless there’s some connection between Ed and Eden? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2004, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-zotti/222965/15 "2004-01-06T17:25:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by t-keela \* > **I don’t have a link handy, but didn’t Ed state conclusively that he was NOT Cecil in a thread once upon a time?** Sure, but how many times did Clark Kent say, “Me? Superman? Wow, you sure have an active imagination, Lois.” ---
**Author:** ![t-keela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a3d4f5/32.png) [@t-keela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/t-keela)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2004, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-zotti/222965/16 "2004-01-06T17:27:14Z")
I don’t suppose Ed’s wife is named Lillith, is it? Maybe **Cecil** will finally pay us another visit and clear this mess up. He hasn’t been here in like an eternity. ☹ Another thought… Isn’t Ed like a nickname for an editor? and whoever knew any real person with the name Zotti? Maybe we’re going at this all wrong? ---
**Author:** ![t-keela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a3d4f5/32.png) [@t-keela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/t-keela)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2004, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-zotti/222965/17 "2004-01-06T17:30:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lord Ashtar \* > \*\*Sure, but how many times did Clark Kent say, “Me? Superman? Wow, you sure have an active imagination, Lois.” \*\* So you’re calling **Cecil** a liar? God’ll get ya for that **Ashtar** ---
**Author:** ![beajerry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@beajerry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beajerry)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2004, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-zotti/222965/18 "2004-01-06T17:36:23Z")
He’s left-handed when his right one is busy. ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2004, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-zotti/222965/19 "2004-01-06T17:48:20Z")
So **Cecil** is really superman, all becomes clear. Then **Eve** would be Louis Lane, and **Ed Zotti** would be the editor at the daily planet. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2004, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-zotti/222965/20 "2004-01-06T20:40:57Z")
Ed White? Perry Zotti? (A pernicious vintage, taciturn and surly, grown on the prairies under the Hawk. Goes well with roast goat.) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-zotti/222965.md?page=2)