# Slate references Cecil. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [May 20, 2010, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slate-references-cecil/540162 "2010-05-20T18:39:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slate-references-cecil/540162/1 "2010-05-20T18:39:01Z")
The [column](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2189/did-vikings-really-wear-horns-on-their-helmets) in question. The [Slate](http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/browbeat/archive/2010/04/19/did-vikings-really-wear-horned-helmets.aspx?obref=obnetwork) piece. Did Vikings really wear horned helmet? ---
**Author:** ![Ed\_Zotti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/fbc32d/32.png) [@Ed\_Zotti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ed_Zotti)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slate-references-cecil/540162/2 "2010-05-20T19:44:26Z")
Cecil can take no credit - the exemplary piece in question was the work of **bibliophage**. I’m interested to see, though, that the Examiner people think of Cecil as their “arch-nemesis.” I’m not aware that the Master has had any run-ins with the Examiner, and wonder what leads them to think of him in this light. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slate-references-cecil/540162/3 "2010-05-20T19:47:10Z")
Professional jealosy? ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slate-references-cecil/540162/4 "2010-05-20T20:36:58Z")
Check out this Slate article from 2009: [What Is the Most Disloyal Dog Breed?](http://www.slate.com/id/2208111) > [@The Explainer](#): > > More than 30,000 votes came in by the time the polls had closed. Many of our astute readers also wrote in to say that some of the questions on the list had been answered elsewhere. Indeed, our top vote-getter—Why do cockroaches flip over on their backsides when they die?—was explained 25 years ago by \*\*the Explainer’s arch-nemesis, Cecil Adams. \*\* ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slate-references-cecil/540162/5 "2010-05-21T00:31:14Z")
Sounds to me like a high compliment, snarkily made–and would Cecil have it any other way? ---
**Author:** ![Floater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dc4da7/32.png) [@Floater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floater)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slate-references-cecil/540162/6 "2010-05-21T10:51:45Z")
An archaeologist friend once said “I’m sad to say it but apparently there is one find of a horned helmet in a viking age grave”. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slate-references-cecil/540162/7 "2010-05-21T16:00:48Z")
Seems to me the Explainer (not Examiner) is Slate magazine’s “answers” column. Cecil has a prodigious “answers” column, and many of the questions that Slate answers get comments “The Straight Dope answered this already.” Curses! ---
**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:** [May 21, 2010, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slate-references-cecil/540162/8 "2010-05-21T18:46:06Z")
Moved from CoCC to CoSR… Congrats, Bib! ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slate-references-cecil/540162/9 "2010-05-21T22:04:10Z")
> [@Ed\_Zotti](#): > > Cecil can take no credit - the exemplary piece in question was the work of **bibliophage**. I’m interested to see, though, that the Examiner people think of Cecil as their “arch-nemesis.” I’m not aware that the Master has had any run-ins with the Examiner, and wonder what leads them to think of him in this light. I think it’s probably the secret lair, costume w/cape, mini-Cecil, and hot assistant dressed like Catwoman.