# 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:  [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2003, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-envision-cecil-adams/192839/21 "2003-08-04T17:40:46Z")
In bed, alone, revved-up, with the lights out, and with tissues nearby.
Oh, I thought you meant how I was when I envisioned Cecil.
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### Author:  [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2003, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-envision-cecil-adams/192839/22 "2003-08-04T19:19:26Z")
Dark hair, grey eyes, possibly with a brew in his left hand, dressed casually.
I’d imagine a cigar, but we know that he’s allergic to the smoke, and I’d also imagine him in suits, except that he doesn’t want attention drawn to himself.
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### Author:  [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2003, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-envision-cecil-adams/192839/23 "2003-08-04T19:59:14Z")
Nekkid.
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### Author:  [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2003, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-envision-cecil-adams/192839/24 "2003-08-04T20:25:46Z")
He looks a lot like gobear.
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### Author:  [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2003, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-envision-cecil-adams/192839/25 "2003-08-04T20:52:05Z")
Like Harrison Ford, oddly enough. Wearing a cowboy hat on most days.
Happy
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### Author:  [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2003, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-envision-cecil-adams/192839/26 "2003-08-04T21:54:37Z")
Like the lost love-child of God and Mark Twain. And I don’t even believe in God. 🙂
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### Author:  [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2003, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-envision-cecil-adams/192839/27 "2003-08-04T22:57:29Z")
Visually, sort of a cross between Vin Diesel and Woody Allen,
with a voice like Bea Arthur.
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### Author:  [@ProjectOmega](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ProjectOmega)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2003, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-envision-cecil-adams/192839/28 "2003-08-04T23:29:31Z")
Like the kind of guy that pretends to be a 14 year old girl on the Internet from his mom’s basement would look.
Don’t ask me why.
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### Author:  [@wakimika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wakimika)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2003, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-envision-cecil-adams/192839/29 "2003-08-04T23:56:14Z")
As a dead-ringer for Morgan Freeman.
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### Author:  [@ForumBot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ForumBot)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2003, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-envision-cecil-adams/192839/30 "2003-08-05T01:24:56Z")
Sort of a Sean Connery look.
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### Author:  [@Bugnorton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bugnorton)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2003, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-envision-cecil-adams/192839/31 "2003-08-05T02:17:43Z")
**Mudshark** , **moejuck** , Yes! Jerry Garcia, but with more liver left and, of course (bows head solemnly) with an intellect far superior to anything we have ever known or imagined could exist on our humble planet.
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### Author:  [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2003, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-envision-cecil-adams/192839/32 "2003-08-05T02:18:15Z")
Clearly this is a case yet again of a feckless behind-the-scenes guy, lamely attempting to grab a tiny pathetic shred of the limelight for himself. It didn’t work in the Wizard of Oz, it won’t work here in the Straight Dope.\*\*\*
So very sad… 😃 😃 😃
I’ve always envisioned him as [Turkey In A Mortarboard](http://www.straightdope.com/faq/slugfaq.html). ( See bottom of that page )
Cartooniverse
\*\*\* And, parenthetically, you’ve got to admit there are a LOT of parallells between the two situations. 😛
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### Author:  [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2003, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-envision-cecil-adams/192839/33 "2003-08-05T02:45:43Z")
I’m quite sure Cecil looks like [Mister Weatherbee from Archie Comics](http://www.saigan.com/kidscorner/comics/archie.htm)
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### Author:  [@aaslatten](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aaslatten)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2003, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-envision-cecil-adams/192839/34 "2003-08-05T03:41:39Z")
I’ve always pictured Charlie from the “Party of Five” TV series. I don’t why, especially since of course he must be a lot older.
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### Author:  [@flodnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flodnak)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2003, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-envision-cecil-adams/192839/35 "2003-08-05T07:33:05Z")
A bright light, shining into the darkness of ignorance as a lighthouse shines into the darkness of a starless night.
Either that, or a turkey with a mortarboard.
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### Author:  [@threeorange](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/threeorange)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2003, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-envision-cecil-adams/192839/36 "2003-08-05T14:07:52Z")
Janet Reno, only shorter. Just a hunch.
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### Author:  [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2003, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-envision-cecil-adams/192839/37 "2003-08-05T14:11:17Z")
How about a turkey with a motherboard?
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### Author:  [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2003, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-envision-cecil-adams/192839/38 "2003-08-05T15:01:25Z")
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAA
That was priceless. You gonna stop by and help me clean the Coffee Smoothie out of my keyboard? 😃
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### Author:  [@ForumBot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ForumBot)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2003, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-envision-cecil-adams/192839/39 "2003-08-05T15:12:27Z")
Hmm, perhaps we’re being too generous here. I don’t know the number of radio people I’ve seen whose faces did NOT match their voices.
So, for sake of argument, let’s say Cecil is a pencil-necked geek who gets high off of rubber erasers.
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### Author:  [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2003, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-envision-cecil-adams/192839/40 "2003-08-05T15:37:25Z")
[Sort of like this](http://www.si.edu/archives/thisday/may/36627-b.jpg), but with eyeglasses.
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