Is Cecil Adams a real person, or a title for a group of people?

[Agent_Foxtrot]

I can tell you unequivocally that a man named Cecil Adams exists.

[Duckster]

This thread coming so close to the 10th anniversary makes the OP highly suspect. Caution should be taken.

Hmmm.

[Toucanna]

@Freddy_the_Pig

Only a fringe element of “existers” continue to raise this issue.

@Duckster

This thread coming so close to the 10th anniversary makes the OP highly suspect. Caution should be taken…

Would one of you like to prepare the special “Welcome, New Doper!” Kool-Aid[sup]TM[/sup] (wink, wink) or shall I?

[Una_Persson]

@srzss05

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=14234484#post14234484

That link just goes back to the same original post made in this thread. What does this mean, his post is his cite?

[Czarcasm]

If you really need to know the truth, read the spoiler below…but I trust you not to tell anyone else, o.k.?

Yes.

[Darth_Panda]

We just need to kidnap Ed Zotti, lock him in the closet and beat the hell out of him for a few weeks, and then see if the column still gets posted. If it does, we’ll need to analyze it for changes in writing style. Alright, go get your gear and round up the troops.

[Una_Persson]

@Darth_Panda

We just need to kidnap Ed Zotti, lock him in the closet and beat the hell out of him for a few weeks, and then see if the column still gets posted. If it does, we’ll need to analyze it for changes in writing style. Alright, go get your gear and round up the troops.

Just remember, you mess with Ed, you mess with me. And unlike Ed, I’m not bound by any conventions of morality, decency, or respect for fair play.

Ed, it looks like it’s time to roll out Project Arcturus. You head to the safe house, and I’ll round up some hard, pipe-swingin’ boyz to form a defensive perimeter around Cecil’s bungalow.

[Irishman]

@Morgenstern

You know that Dos Equus guy, the one with all the hot women in the beer commercials. You want to know who that’s suppose to be?

Dos Equus? The guy with 2 horses?

@Una_Persson

That link just goes back to the same original post made in this thread. What does this mean, his post is his cite?

He cited the statement. Yep, that’s where Oakminster made that statement. (It was a joke.)

Way back a decade ago, there was a thread where someone turned up a cite that “Cecil Adams” is a trademarked name of the Chicago Reader. I’m not going to bother trying to dig that up.

[Darth_Panda]

@Una_Persson

You head to the safe house, and I’ll round up some hard, pipe-swingin’ boyz to form a defensive perimeter around Cecil’s bungalow.

Hold on a second there - I don’t remember hearing about no bungalow.

eta: also, I don’t think you should be allowed to be uspest. It is for science after all.

[Czarcasm]

@Darth_Panda

Hold on a second there - I don’t remember hearing about no bungalow.

That’s right-and if you just keep on “not remembering” it, it’ll be better for all concerned.

[carnivorousplant]

@Una_Persson

Just remember, you mess with Ed, you mess with me. And unlike Ed, I’m not bound by any conventions of morality, decency, or respect for fair play.

Look Panda, you gotta think this Mississippi thing of mine.
When you think about doing something, consider, “Is this more or less safe than yelling racial slurs in a Mississippi bar?”
Think these things out, Pal.

[Cartooniverse]

@Una_Persson

You head to the safe house, and I’ll round up some hard, pipe-swingin’ boyz to form a defensive perimeter around Cecil’s bungalow.

Heh. Nicely wrought. Puts me in mind of…

" You and me? You and me? I’ll tell you about you and me. There IS no you and me. You get your sorry ass out of town, don’t stop in Champaign-Urbana, don’t hide away in Rockland. Your Chicago rights are revoked. Me, I’m gonna call in some heavy-swingin’ Dopers I know of who’ll get medieval on his ass. "

[Darth_Panda]

@carnivorousplant

Look Panda, you gotta think this Mississippi thing of mine.
When you think about doing something, consider, “Is this more or less safe than yelling racial slurs in a Mississippi bar?”
Think these things out, Pal.

And yet few typically think of Mississppi bars as fonts of wisdom…

[Darth_Panda]

@carnivorousplant

Look Panda, you gotta think this Mississippi thing of mine.
When you think about doing something, consider, “Is this more or less safe than yelling racial slurs in a Mississippi bar?”
Think these things out, Pal.

And yet few typically think of Mississppi bars as fonts of wisdom…

eta: Besides, I fear nothing. Or, at least I won’t when my army of Sith Panda are ready. Breeding them is proving more difficult than planned…

[aldiboronti]

I’m sorry, I think we’re going to need the birth certificate, Cecil. (And I do mean the long one!)

[Jake]

@Darth_Panda

There’s only one way to know for sure.

Nuke’im from orbit!? It’s the only way to be sure!
'Course it will only muss up uncle Cecil’s hair a little…

[Freddy_the_Pig]

@aldiboronti

I’m sorry, I think we’re going to need the birth certificate, Cecil. (And I do mean the long one!)

That would never satisfy the “existers”. They’d say, sure, that proves that he was born in (say) 1955, but not that he exists today. In the interim he might have died, disappeared, ascended into heaven, or fused his consciousness into a previously unknown cosmic neural network.

[TubaDiva]

@Una_Persson

Just remember, you mess with Ed, you mess with me. And unlike Ed, I’m not bound by any conventions of morality, decency, or respect for fair play.

Ed, it looks like it’s time to roll out Project Arcturus. You head to the safe house, and I’ll round up some hard, pipe-swingin’ boyz to form a defensive perimeter around Cecil’s bungalow.

In true Chicago style (no, I don’t mean dragged through the garden and covered with celery salt but that might happen later) let’s pick up all these miscreants.

We’ll need a soundproof room … and some Chicago phone books.

It’s tuneup time.

[Darth_Panda]

@TubaDiva

In true Chicago style (no, I don’t mean dragged through the garden and covered with celery salt but that might happen later) let’s pick up all these miscreants.

We’ll need a soundproof room … and some Chicago phone books.

It’s tuneup time.

I’d rather have the hotdog, if that’s cool.

[Jake]

@Freddy_the_Pig

That would never satisfy the “existers”. They’d say, sure, that proves that he was born in (say) 1955, but not that he exists today. In the interim he might have died, disappeared, ascended into heaven, or fused his consciousness into a previously unknown cosmic neural network.

Hm… Sounds good to me.