# How Do You Envision Cecil Adams?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-envision-cecil-adams/192839
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [August 4, 2003, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-envision-cecil-adams/192839 "2003-08-04T05:30:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Orange\_Skinner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orange_Skinner)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2003, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-envision-cecil-adams/192839/1 "2003-08-04T05:30:53Z")
Me, I’ve always pictured him looking sort of like Lorne Michaels. No idea why.
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### Author:  [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2003, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-envision-cecil-adams/192839/2 "2003-08-04T05:35:18Z")
An old guy in white robes sitting on a cloud. No, wait…
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### Author:  [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2003, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-envision-cecil-adams/192839/3 "2003-08-04T05:42:41Z")
On one thread discussing the whole ‘there is no real Cecil’ thing, **Wolfian** described him as “the Dread Pirate Cecil taking no prisoners in his attacks on ignorance.” I quite liked that.
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### Author:  [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2003, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-envision-cecil-adams/192839/4 "2003-08-04T06:06:21Z")
You ever see the X-Files episode “Jose Chung’s ‘It Came From Outer Space’”? I picture him looking exactly like [Jose Chung.](http://xfphotos.fredfarm.com/season3/jcfos/cap003.jpg)
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### Author:  [@t-keela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/t-keela)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2003, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-envision-cecil-adams/192839/5 "2003-08-04T06:08:26Z")
[Here Cecil says he’s kickin back watchin a ballgame…or was it veggin?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=202020&goto=newpost)
I can see that. Old t-shirt, boxers and a beer. Needs a shave, maybe comb the hair…what’s left of it 😃
Eatin a sammich and chips, cussin the Cubbies 😉
He’s gotta take a break once in awhile and pretend he’s human like the rest of us.
“But he ain’t human like the rest of us.” _Lonesome Dove_
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### Author:  [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2003, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-envision-cecil-adams/192839/6 "2003-08-04T06:51:38Z")
Thirty years ago there was a guy on local TV who introduced late Saturday night horror flicks. He was bald, pudgy and buck-toothed. His name was Sir Cecil Creep. Well, you know, once a picture gets set in your mind…
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### Author:  [@flood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flood)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2003, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-envision-cecil-adams/192839/7 "2003-08-04T06:53:24Z")
[Voila](http://www.ipass.net/whitetho/edcecil.htm)
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### Author:  [@Vlad\_Dracul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vlad_Dracul)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2003, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-envision-cecil-adams/192839/8 "2003-08-04T07:03:01Z")
I am not so presumtuous as to attempt to envision him. You are blasphemers!
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### Author:  [@flood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flood)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2003, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-envision-cecil-adams/192839/9 "2003-08-04T07:04:37Z")
Well, that’s the way I see him, anyway.
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### Author:  [@Muad\_Dib](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muad_Dib)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2003, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-envision-cecil-adams/192839/10 "2003-08-04T07:14:27Z")
I think of him as a scruffier [P.J. O’Rourke](http://www.utexas.edu/cola/images/temp/orourke.gif)
Either that or [Master Kan](http://www.mikeross.com/images/kf161.jpg)
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### Author:  [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2003, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-envision-cecil-adams/192839/11 "2003-08-04T09:49:58Z")
I think of him as a sort of Mycroft Holmes character.
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### Author:  [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2003, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-envision-cecil-adams/192839/12 "2003-08-04T10:42:18Z")
Black plastic glasses, crazy white hair, sort of like a very thin Jerry Garcia.
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### Author:  [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2003, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-envision-cecil-adams/192839/13 "2003-08-04T12:19:33Z")
Didn’t one of the Greek philosophers say “If horses chose to fight ignorance, they would imagine Cecil in their own image”?
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### Author:  [@Shrinking\_Violet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shrinking_Violet)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2003, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-envision-cecil-adams/192839/14 "2003-08-04T12:54:56Z")
I have an Uncle Cecil - grey hair, buck teeth, steel-rimmed glasses, brays like a horse …
I also have an old friend Cecilia - grey hair, buck teeth, steel-rimmed glasses, brays like a horse …
So I’m kinda stuck with the image. :dubious:
Julie
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### Author:  [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2003, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-envision-cecil-adams/192839/15 "2003-08-04T12:57:36Z")
I always had a Unibomber thing in my brain when I thought of Cecil. Now that I saw that Ed Zotti picture, I’m all screwed up.
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### Author:  [@moejuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moejuck)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2003, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-envision-cecil-adams/192839/16 "2003-08-04T13:16:06Z")
[QUOTE]
\*Originally posted by Mudshark \*
\*\*Black plastic glasses, crazy white hair, sort of like a very thin Jerry Garcia. \*\*[/QUOTE
Exactly what is in my mind, except for the thin part. Just like Jerry Garcia, only taller.
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### Author:  [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2003, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-envision-cecil-adams/192839/17 "2003-08-04T15:48:53Z")
I always picture him as a turkey wearing a mortarboard, but I’m strange that way.
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### Author:  [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2003, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-envision-cecil-adams/192839/18 "2003-08-04T15:54:34Z")
For no particular reasons, I vacillate between Max Von Sydow and Ed Asner.
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### Author:  [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2003, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-envision-cecil-adams/192839/19 "2003-08-04T16:08:38Z")
Kinda like **iampunha** in boxers and a white wife-beater, with a paper bag on his head.
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### Author:  [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2003, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-envision-cecil-adams/192839/20 "2003-08-04T17:29:59Z")
Like that photo I saw of him on the net. Kinda has that Stephan King look.
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