I’m afraid I have no idea if this is a commonly asked question - something tells me it must be but I have not seen it. Does anyone know what Cecil looks like? Is there a picture of him on the web anywhere?
If you don’t know what he looks like already - what do you imagine he looks like?
I think of him as 50ish with graying hair, a little unkept. Sort of a (um…no offense here)…sloppy dresser with his pants needing to be tugged up. Definitely not someone who comes to work in Armani with his Coach briefcase. More like a guy who comes to work in his jeans or khakis. Glasses probably - maybe contacts. Not always very clean shaven. How far off am I?
To my knowledge Cecil has never been photographed and there is a really good reason for this (he’s really a lot of people).
However…
This site ( http://www.ipass.net/~whitetho/edcecil.htm ) suggests Cecil looks remarkably like Ed Zotti. Of course, any fool can see the difference. Cecil only comes in black & white while Ed exists in color.
Oh c’mon. Does it really matter? My imagination was mightily fired up by the series of “Tom Swift, Jr.” books that I got ahold of as a wee lad. They were penned by one “Victor Appleton, II”. Prolific fellah-except that there is no Victor Appleton, II. They were written by a bunch of authors, following a common thread <sic>.
I don’t care if Cecil exists or not. The cerebral pyrotechnics engendered by his writings are proof enough that if he’s not a single entity, then the idea of a Cecil is just what we all wish for, and need.
( If THAT level of asskissing doesn’t get me the post of assistant special purveyor of Data to TubaDiva, NOTHING WILL !!! ).
With humility by the bushel, and a sig line that is finally perfectly matched to the posting, I remain…
So newbie here waltzes right in, asks point blank what Cecil looks like, and gets seven (7) replies in a couple of hours while my post in MPSIMS on a strangely similar subject
still awaits the first reply/comment a few days later. DISCRIMINATION, I say. Pure and blatant. I intend to lodge a formal protest shortly. Seniority has its privileges. Or so I thought!!
Just to clarify a little, Cecil doesn’t really look like a turkey in a mortarboard. The nose and the neck do suggest a turkey, but the haircut that inspired Slug to draw the mortarboard has been gone for at least a decade. (Mostly because the hair used for that haircut has been gone for almost that long.)
Sorry to disappoint, but Cecil looks like that guy whom you don’t want to sit next to on the bus.
The childern know. I wish I had been back in school the day he quacked like a duck, to see if duck quacks echoed. These childern actually saw Cecil and didn’t know they were looking upon the King in beggers robes. Ok, he probaly wore normal clothes. Can we track down these childern and get a description.
It seems the days where he did the weird experiments himself are gone. Like the silver spoon in the bottle to keep the fizz in champain.
I still chuckle when I imagine Cecil quacking in the school yard like a duck.
