There is no Cecil, is there?

[Anaamika]

@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!

[Polycarp]

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!

[Ponder_Stibbons]

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 …

[JeffB]

@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"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.

[Horatio_Hellpop]

Give me something to hold onto here: Is there a Slug Signorino?

[AncientHumanoid]

@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

[Ethilrist]

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.

[Greywolf73]

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.

[TubaDiva]

Asked, answered, degenerated into flirting.

Get a room already.

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