# Is Cecil .... ulp.... dead?

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [March 25, 2005, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cecil-ulp-dead/296215 "2005-03-25T15:55:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![TwoTrouts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a9adbd/32.png) [@TwoTrouts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwoTrouts)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cecil-ulp-dead/296215/1 "2005-03-25T15:55:10Z")

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[Link](http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gonetotexas/East-TX-cemeteries/salem/adamscecil.jpg)

He was much older than I thought!

Try to explain away this one, Ed!

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**Author:** ![Flander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Flander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flander)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cecil-ulp-dead/296215/2 "2005-03-25T16:00:10Z")

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I would have thought he would have built a huge pyramid tomb or something. But we all know he’s not dead.

His spark was passed to Ultra Magnus as documented in the film _Transformers: The Movie_.

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**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cecil-ulp-dead/296215/3 "2005-03-25T16:00:37Z")

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What’s the middle initial stand for?

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**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cecil-ulp-dead/296215/4 "2005-03-25T16:04:08Z")

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This may have come up once or twice before …

[Holy crap! Cecil Adams being pursued by Toronto police!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=259936&highlight=Cecil+Dead)  
[Poundstone, Zotti, and Adams](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=162778&highlight=Cecil+Dead)  
[Is Cecil Adams a real person?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=75222)  
[Cecil Adams; is he living or dead?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=240510&highlight=Cecil+Dead)

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**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cecil-ulp-dead/296215/5 "2005-03-25T16:07:56Z")

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We’ve covered this. We decided that during the day he was mild-mannered **Ed Zotti** , SDMB administrator. But whenever ignorance raises it’s head, he transforms into…

Cecil Adams  
Squasher of Ignorance, Defender of Skeptisism

Only problem is that he won’t admit it. But they’ve never been photographed together. That’s got to count for something.

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**Author:** ![Flander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Flander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flander)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cecil-ulp-dead/296215/6 "2005-03-25T16:39:05Z")

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> [@FairyChatMom](#):
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> What’s the middle initial stand for?

Cee.