# Is there a Cecil Adams? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 15, 2002, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-cecil-adams/142961 "2002-12-15T22:21:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2002, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-cecil-adams/142961/41 "2002-12-25T08:19:01Z")
Has anybody ever seen Cecil Adams and Stephen Hawking in the same room? I rest my case. ---
**Author:** ![MannyL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@MannyL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MannyL)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2002, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-cecil-adams/142961/42 "2002-12-25T15:41:02Z")
All I want for Christmas/Chanukah/Kwanaza is Cecil ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2002, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-cecil-adams/142961/43 "2002-12-25T16:12:20Z")
A search of the phone book shows a few of them in that area… ---
**Author:** ![Jake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2002, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-cecil-adams/142961/44 "2002-12-25T17:41:00Z")
DMark: :eek: ---
**Author:** ![japatlgt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df705f/32.png) [@japatlgt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/japatlgt)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2002, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-cecil-adams/142961/45 "2002-12-25T18:22:50Z")
Yes, but he got BANNED for being a homer. :smokin ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2002, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-cecil-adams/142961/46 "2002-12-26T02:24:23Z")
:: sigh :: Cecil really enjoys these debates about whether he exists, he gets a big kick out of them and thus Staff are not supposed to comment in them. Don’t take our lack of response as having any meaning per se. Cecil wants his anonymity preserved. He has this notion that if photos were made public, he’d be swarmed by fans every time he went to the grocery store, and have his clothes ripped off. I think this is delusional, but he’s the Boss and he’s an eccentric genius. I have said before, if Descartes could just barely prove his own existence to himself, how in the world would Cecil prove his existence to you? Even if he wanted to do so, what kind of proof would not be challengable? A photo? I just saw a movie (TWO TOWERS) where the best acting performance was given by a computer-generated image. Trust me. Cecil exists. Cecil’s writings are perfect (he told us so, and he wouldn’t lie.) ---
**Author:** ![Epistaxis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ebca7d/32.png) [@Epistaxis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Epistaxis)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2002, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-cecil-adams/142961/47 "2002-12-26T07:25:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Pythagras \* > \*\*That site’s cool! > > A little dark humor: > > [http://adolf.hitler.youaremyfriend.com/](http://adolf.hitler.youaremyfriend.com/) \*\* I LOVE this site! I think it’s the music. Inspiring. Makes me feel good that I have friends. ---
**Author:** ![aahala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e4f/32.png) [@aahala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aahala)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2002, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-cecil-adams/142961/48 "2002-12-26T15:56:56Z")
Here at the Institute I’ve been working to prove the “Adams Existence Conjecture”. If I ever get out of the institution, I may be able to do it. ---
**Author:** ![Meatros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2002, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-cecil-adams/142961/49 "2002-12-26T16:09:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Hastur \* > \*\*And there is no Virginia. > > ☹ \*\* There is too a Virginia-I live in it:D ---
**Author:** ![Meatros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2002, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-cecil-adams/142961/50 "2002-12-26T16:11:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by japatlgt \* > \*\*Yes, but he got BANNED for being a homer. :smokin \*\* This just made me think. What would happen if the “perfect master” got banned? Could the mods do that?😃 ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2002, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-cecil-adams/142961/51 "2002-12-26T16:34:19Z")
Nope. Here are some possible photos of the perfect master, notice they look so much alike? 🙂 Kind of look like Stephen King too. page 147 February 1995 American Libraries magazine. page 15 September 1995 Parenting magazine ---
**Author:** ![Poto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ab992/32.png) [@Poto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poto)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2002, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-cecil-adams/142961/52 "2002-12-26T18:16:13Z")
Its been a few years, but in a related story, a board member had actually met the reclusive Slug. I don’t feel like searching, but the thread could still be somewhere. Search Cecil and Slug together? I’ve sort of given up sending questions to Cecil, as someone stole my question. Sorry, they scooped me, the Cracker Barrel antiques on the wall question. ---
**Author:** ![Poto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ab992/32.png) [@Poto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poto)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2002, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-cecil-adams/142961/53 "2002-12-26T18:20:58Z")
The closest thing on Slug [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=75738&highlight=Cecil+Slug](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=75738&highlight=Cecil+Slug) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-cecil-adams/142961.md?page=2)