In episodes of “3rd Rock of The Sun”, during the final credits it says something about casting. The only name that is in smaller print than any others is none other than “Cecil Adams”.
Has anyone else seen this?
Sorry to break this news to you , Merc…
The name is Cecily Adams, casting director for 3rd Rock, and daughter of none other than…[annoying nasal voice] “would you believe” [/annoying nasal voice]…Don Adams? see here
Then again, what if Cecil IS the illegitimate love child of Maxwell “Smart”? :eek:
Ah yesss, it’s all falling into place now… 
Wow, I’ve been duped! We have all been duped! We now know that Cecil is a woman and goes by the name Cecily. Start looking in other places! This could have been easier than we thought.
In all seriousness, if Cecil’s name WAS a trademark, I think there’d be a little TM or something after his name when it appears on the books. And it doesn’t.
Don’t believe me? Look at any new V.C. Andrews book, which are all ghostwritten. There is a TM after her name.
V. C. Andrews is a ghost? Shite, I’ll never sell another book in good conscience again.
Oh, wait a minute. I don’t sell books anymore. I’m gonna get back to reading my stolen copy of The Oyster now.
I’m trying to read Cecil’s books backwards, figgering there might be a clue, but maybe backwards masking doesn’t work on the written word as for a recording.
Fer instance: if you read epoD thgiartS just as you see it, it could be Apothecary Arts, which sounds like like it might have some sinister meaning. Phonetically though, its more like Poed Tayrts, which don’t ring any bells.
Cecil Adams backwards phonetically is Smah Dah Lih Sees, which sounds like S’matta Ulysses? Kinda alludingly promising.
I don’t think I’m getting anywhere other than a whoppin’ headache. Perhaps someone with recording ability can tape the books read out loud, and then listen to 'em backwards. It’s gotta be in there somewhere…
Koo Koo Ka Choo.
No, it’s Smah Dah Lis Ses.
Coldy, ya twinkie, that ain’t what I got here in my Merriam Webster Hickfest edition! 
I thought Cecil was renovating Joel Achenbach’s abandoned “International Why Bunker”. Tearing out the shag carpet and knotty pine paneling, turning the dank pest-hole into THE meeting place of “those in the know”.
Perhaps I was mislead.
Smah Dah Lis Ses? Smell delicious???
[sub]this is just getting too wierd…[/sub]
There is no Dear Abby nor is there an Ann Landers. There are two women (who happen to be identical twins) who write the columns, but their actual birth names are different.
Besides, do you think that “Slug Signorino” is his real Name? Who the hell would name their kid “Slug”?
I’m sure countless numbers of people have since the first Straight Dope book came out. Ditto Cecil.
Ukulele Ike: So if you were in a plane crach in the Andes with Cecil and Ed, how’re you gonna know whom to eat?
By the by, I know who Cecil is and it’s
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Janet Jackson (or Michael same difference.)
So… if Cecil Adams is Eds trademarked name then… Cecil is a sock? :eek:
I know for a fact that Cecil Adams is the pseudonym of a real person.
As a matter of fact, I have airtight proof.
LaurAnge waves a ragged piece of paper with words scrawled across messily in pencil: “Cecil Adams is a real person”
See? No one can ever debunk THIS proof!
(I’m sorry, but I have the book in front of me.)
Biggest Secrets says, and I quote:
Believe it if you want, disregard it if you want, but Poundstone is a respectable author.
Yeah, the Poundstone quote has been brought up before. I believe the Cecil = Ed theory is occasionally referred to as the “Poundstonian Heresy”.
What’s “vade mecum” mean? Is that Latin for insufferably smart?
I think that Cecil probably does post here under another name. Imagine the pressure of posting under the name “Cecil”. You would have to double-check every fact and figure and, just generally, be really careful about what you said.
This would preclude recreational posting, when you are just posting an opinion to see what response it gets or asking a dumb question or tryin’ out a particular line of argument.
So I’m sure Cecil is here under another guise, although maybe he doesn’t have the time to be a constant presence.
You want my guess as to who he is?
CKDexter would be high on my list, just my impression from reading this thread. He seems to have knowledge of what Cecils mental and emotional state may or may not be.
No, no, CKDext is really Cary Grant!
Wait a minute…Cary Grant croaked years ago in Davenport, Iowa.
This cognitive dissonance stuff is just a pisser.