# Is this really Cecil? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [May 31, 2000, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-really-cecil/20972 "2000-05-31T03:01:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2000, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-really-cecil/20972/21 "2000-06-07T19:49:47Z")
Why does the OP make me flash on “Paul is dead”? Shall we check out the covers of all the Straight Dope books to see whether Cecil is barefoot on any of them? ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2000, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-really-cecil/20972/22 "2000-06-07T19:56:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > However, Cecil does not participate in popular culture. \*\* To cite the response in the Classic SD column “Would a Glass of Water in Space Freeze or Boil?”: “Christ Almighty, Barry, you’re asking for a short course in thermodynamics. Don’t you guys want to know about Neil Sedaka anymore?” So who composes the _Neil Sedaka_ columns? Lemme know quick, I got a powerful need for knowledge in this area. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2000, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-really-cecil/20972/23 "2000-06-07T20:42:56Z")
Ukelele Ike, while Cecil doesn’t participate in pop culture, that does not keep him from getting asked questions about it from the teeming millions. Thus he may be aware of some passing elements of pop culture from innundation, rather than his own desire to learn it. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2000, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-really-cecil/20972/24 "2000-06-07T21:59:17Z")
Dunno, man. Sure sounds to _me_ like a wistful cry from the heart of a man pining to get away from the research lab and back to his own little private heaven of Sedaka records. ---
**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:** [June 8, 2000, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-really-cecil/20972/25 "2000-06-08T12:07:08Z")
I am honoured to be considered Ed or Cecil’s secret identity, but the fact is that Lois has seen us together. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2000, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-really-cecil/20972/26 "2000-06-08T15:50:07Z")
Ukulele Ike, I’m sure that it’s a mere oversight on your part that you didn’t post a link. Cecil’s column can be found on-line at this link: [Would a glass of water in space freeze or boil?](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_127.html) ---
**Author:** ![G.B.H.Hornswoggler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c67d28/32.png) [@G.B.H.Hornswoggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G.B.H.Hornswoggler)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2000, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-really-cecil/20972/27 "2000-06-14T17:06:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > I am honoured to be considered Ed or Cecil’s secret identity, but the fact is that Lois has seen us together. > \*\* So Cecil has Superman robots, too! (Or did he get Pete Ross to dress up in the costume this time?) Hey, does this make Little Ed Jimmy Olsen? And, more to the point, who’s Lois? (Tuba? My mental image of her just added a big helping of va-va-voom.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-really-cecil/20972.md?page=1)