# How do you picture Cecil and Ed?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-picture-cecil-and-ed/8727
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [September 30, 1999, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-picture-cecil-and-ed/8727 "1999-09-30T02:10:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@timmar68](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/timmar68)
#### Post date: [September 30, 1999, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-picture-cecil-and-ed/8727/1 "1999-09-30T02:10:00Z")
I imagine Cecil to be about 5’11, have short medium brown hair, and a mustache. And don’t ask me why, but I picture Ed as one of the guys in the old Bartel & James Wine cooler commercials (sorry, Ed!).
What do you think they look like?
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MaryAnn
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### Author:  [@Diane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diane)
#### Post date: [September 30, 1999, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-picture-cecil-and-ed/8727/2 "1999-09-30T02:19:00Z")
There was a picture of Ed floating around back on the old board. Maybe it’s on the TM Homepage? He looked to be somewhere in his early 40’s, dark hair, not a bad looking guy really.
My guess would be that Cecil looks quite similar. 😉
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KITTEN
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### Author:  [@Louie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Louie)
#### Post date: [September 30, 1999, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-picture-cecil-and-ed/8727/3 "1999-09-30T03:22:00Z")
Ed Zotti…
[http://www.ipass.net/~whitetho/edcecil.jpg](http://www.ipass.net/~whitetho/edcecil.jpg)
And before you jump to any conclusions about that picture, read the site where I got the pic :
[Cecil Adams vs. Ed Zotti](http://www.ipass.net/~whitetho/edcecil.htm)
BTW: I found it in the FAQ’s.
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### Author:  [@BenDover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BenDover)
#### Post date: [September 30, 1999, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-picture-cecil-and-ed/8727/4 "1999-09-30T03:27:00Z")
So, is Ed the one in the red shirt?
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### Author:  [@Cessandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cessandra)
#### Post date: [October 1, 1999, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-picture-cecil-and-ed/8727/5 "1999-10-01T01:50:00Z")
I’ve always imagined Cecil to look like the guy who answered the questions for him on the TV show on A&E. IIRC, he was a tallish, bald white guy.
Ed looks just like I’d imagined him.
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Cessandra
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### Author:  [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)
#### Post date: [October 1, 1999, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-picture-cecil-and-ed/8727/6 "1999-10-01T04:19:00Z")
How do I picture them?
Naked. In a tub of whipped cream.
That’s them, not me in the tub. Ah well, maybe I would if I was gay…
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### Author:  [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)
#### Post date: [October 1, 1999, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-picture-cecil-and-ed/8727/7 "1999-10-01T04:48:00Z")
I always thought that Cecil would look like Mr. Weatherbee from the “Archie” comic books…
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TT
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Doubt those who find it.” --Andre Gide
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### Author:  [@Carl\_Berry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carl_Berry)
#### Post date: [October 2, 1999, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-picture-cecil-and-ed/8727/8 "1999-10-02T00:57:00Z")
On the ceiling of the Sistine(sp?) Chapel in the Vatican, I remember seeing a man with a white beard & a flowing white robe, reaching out to touch some naked guy with a really small appendage. Could these guys be…
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Zymurgist
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### Author:  [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)
#### Post date: [October 2, 1999, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-picture-cecil-and-ed/8727/9 "1999-10-02T02:09:00Z")
Okay, I’m trying to brain-cleanse myself from mundane photographs and Slug-isms…
Cecil Adams? Distaff offspring of bright but inbred Yankees. Middle height, stooped, thinning hair, rumpled clothes; resembles kin back in Boston, but his eccentricites are too idiocyncratic for the poor but proud family that gardened for Cotton Mather to fund research on fur-lined stocks.
Ed? Funky regular Joe, excepting a mind like HAL (including amok fugue states); mixes a genial human facade, plentiful hormones, low cunning and high intellectualism to deceive the unwary; the average-looking, quiet guy who wins all the bar bets and leaves, smiling.
Gotta love schizophrenia on this scale.
Veb
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### Author:  [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)
#### Post date: [October 2, 1999, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-picture-cecil-and-ed/8727/10 "1999-10-02T02:59:00Z")
No offense to anyone but if that is Ed/CA then Marilyn is better looking.
But on the other hand he much better looking thank Abby or Ann Landers 🙂
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### Author:  [@Louie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Louie)
#### Post date: [October 2, 1999, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-picture-cecil-and-ed/8727/11 "1999-10-02T07:07:00Z")
No no, both pictures are of Ed, not Cecil. The picture on the left was a “fake” picture of Cecil.
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### Author:  [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)
#### Post date: [October 2, 1999, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-picture-cecil-and-ed/8727/12 "1999-10-02T13:04:00Z")
Head, torso, limbs. Maybe some hair, a couple of eyes. Arse. Feet. That kind of deal.
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