# Pitting Cecil Adams - the putz!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-cecil-adams-the-putz/216318>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [December 1, 2003, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-cecil-adams-the-putz/216318 "2003-12-01T19:25:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
**Page:** 3

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**Author:** ![Ilsa\_Lund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a6a055/32.png) [@Ilsa\_Lund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ilsa_Lund)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2003, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-cecil-adams-the-putz/216318/41 "2003-12-01T21:24:14Z")

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> \*Originally posted by lissener \*  
> \*\*I have met the person who created the Cecil persona. That person is real; Cecil is not. \*\*

Not you too, lissener! Pray tell who this is.

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**Author:** ![Ilsa\_Lund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a6a055/32.png) [@Ilsa\_Lund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ilsa_Lund)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2003, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-cecil-adams-the-putz/216318/42 "2003-12-01T21:25:16Z")

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> \*Originally posted by PunditLisa \*  
> \*\*Ilsa, I implore you to stop now before you disappear under mysterious circumstances only to reappear to our master as a talking fish. \*\*

I am heavily armed.

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**Author:** ![Futile\_Gesture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f05b48/32.png) [@Futile\_Gesture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Futile_Gesture)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2003, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-cecil-adams-the-putz/216318/43 "2003-12-01T21:53:15Z")

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You do realise that everyone in this thread is going to get a visit from the SDMB Secret Police tonight?

With _mind_ probes.

I’ll start the retraction and “All Praise Cecil” thread in MPSIMS now, shall I?

See you all over there tomorrow. _Sharp_.

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**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2003, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-cecil-adams-the-putz/216318/44 "2003-12-01T21:55:23Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Ilsa\_Lund \*  
> \*\*Most fan clubs are AWARE OF WHETHER OR NOT THE HERO THEY WORSHIP IS A REAL. FUCKING. PERSON!
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> 's a joke anyway, man. \*\*

You know, I’ve said NO JOKE THREADS IN THE PIT often enough that I’m sure that everyone knows about it by now. So you’re going into timeout. You can write me in about a week and ask for your posting privileges to be restored.

Lynn  
For the Straight Dope

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**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2003, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-cecil-adams-the-putz/216318/45 "2003-12-01T21:55:36Z")

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I can never tell. But I used to work at Barbara’s Bookstore on Broadway, which was an occasional research stop for Cecil’s minion.

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**Author:** ![7\_up\_yours](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/7/919ad9/32.png) [@7\_up\_yours](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/7_up_yours)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2003, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-cecil-adams-the-putz/216318/46 "2003-12-01T21:56:36Z")

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> 's a joke anyway, man.

Lynn’s a little slow today, eh?

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