# There is no Cecil, is there? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [September 22, 2004, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-no-cecil-is-there/265528 "2004-09-22T18:14:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2004, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-no-cecil-is-there/265528/41 "2004-09-23T17:25:10Z")
> [@Priceguy](#): > > I need some kind of combination of Cafe Society and the Pit to reply to this. So I won’t. Which is why I didn’t bother justifying it. 😃 > [@Ethlirist](#): > > Okay, where’s the line for guys with a crush on Elenia28? :o Stop it, you’re making me blush! ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2004, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-no-cecil-is-there/265528/42 "2004-09-23T18:28:28Z")
And from all this, we can conclude that Esther Pauline and Pauline Esther Lederer were not twins, but triplets, and that Cecil Adams is their evil twin brother! 😃 ---
**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:** [September 23, 2004, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-no-cecil-is-there/265528/43 "2004-09-23T18:45:36Z")
Ya know, **Polycarp** , you may be on to something. Or maybe he’s the “evil” Ann Landers from the Star Trek “Mirror” universe. Quick! Somebody draw a beard on a picture of Esther Pauline Lederer and see if it looks like Cecil … ---
**Author:** ![JeffB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeffb/32/188_2.png) [@JeffB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JeffB)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2004, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-no-cecil-is-there/265528/44 "2004-09-23T19:03:28Z")
> [@Assuming facts not in evidence](#): > > Sorry, I don’t buy it. Nobody was implying that before you, so the only reason you had to state it was because you erroneously thought that it had led me astray. As you unsubtly emphasize with “Appropriate username.” Point of fact, my username is obviously ironic, as I never say anything that’s not true. I may not be as smart as Cecil, but I am as reliable. As noted by C.K., I was not astray, there were indeed multiple editors. You are correct that you did not you did state that the the trademark registration was evidence that Cecil Adams is not a real person. I apologize for attributing that to you. Others, however, including in the [url="[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=236261](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=236261)"thread you linked, have made that explicit claim: > [@Revtim](#): > > Dunno about Zotti, but “Cecil Adams” is registered trademark, which means he’s a fictitious character. > > No, I don’t have a cite, but if you go to the US trademark website you can look it up. Since I’ve seen that argument before, I thought that was the reason you were mentioning the trademark. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2004, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-no-cecil-is-there/265528/45 "2004-09-23T19:31:45Z")
Give me something to hold onto here: Is there a Slug Signorino? ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2004, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-no-cecil-is-there/265528/46 "2004-09-23T19:44:15Z")
> [@Krokodil](#): > > Give me something to hold onto here: Is there a Slug Signorino? No. His artwork (or what is credited to him) always just appears out of nowhere onto a printing plate, sometimes (especially in recent months) it appears first as a TIFF, then as a Quark file, then as a film negative, finally as a plate. Sometimes there are also mysterious color keys appearing alongside it. This is quite obviously the work of God. ;j ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2004, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-no-cecil-is-there/265528/47 "2004-09-23T20:00:13Z")
Well, Slug has his own home page, and on it, there’s a graphic that says © by Slug Signorino, not © by Slug Signorino™. Hope that helps. ---
**Author:** ![Greywolf73](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d9b06d/32.png) [@Greywolf73](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greywolf73)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2004, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-no-cecil-is-there/265528/48 "2004-09-23T21:02:59Z")
I refuse to look at any of the evidence presented in this thread. Instead, I will still continue to think of Cecil Adams as a never-seen but very real person much like Maris on Frasier or Charlie of Charlie’s Angels. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2004, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-no-cecil-is-there/265528/49 "2004-09-23T23:46:43Z")
Asked, answered, degenerated into flirting. Get a room already. your humble TubaDiva Administrator Not here! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-no-cecil-is-there/265528.md?page=2)