From the trademarks website search…
Dead? :eek:
Are you ambushing poor old schplebordnik?? 
I… I’m speechless. Somehow, reading the SD will never be the same.
Oh dear. This is bad. Santa, tooth fairy, Easter Bunny. . . Cecil?
Honey, don’t believe everything you read on the internet.
His post in this thread made me think he was a Cubs fan, else why watch them? 
I prefer Wolfian’s take on this, that of the “Dread Pirate Cecil”. I.e., yes, the is a “Cecil Adams”, although today’s Cecil isn’t the only Cecil that’s ever been. As one Cecil retires the next Dread Pirate Cecil takes his place, always striking Terror into the bowels of the Ignorant. Sure, we know the truth, but we’ll always keep up appearances to keep the unwashed masses on the path of Knowledge. At least until they reach Enlightenment which, as has been stated elsewhere, is taking a lot longer than originally thought!
Yes, Virginia, there is a Cecil. Your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except what they see in legal briefs. They think that nothing can be which is not proven through cites. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men’s or children’s, are little, except for Cecil’s. In this great universe of ours, man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.
Not believe in Cecil! You might as well believe in fairies. You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the arguments on SDMB to catch Cecil, but even if you did not see Cecil flaming the ignorant, what would that prove? Nobody sees Cecil, but that is no sign that there is no Cecil. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but someone will still write a GD attempting to prove that they are there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world, but with Cecil we can safely dismiss that which we cannot prove. Except for his own existence, of course.
No Cecil! Thank God! he lives and lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay 10 times 10,000 years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of logicians.
(sniff, sniff)
Oh, how could I ever have doubted? I believe, I believe!
Wait a minute … my name’s not Virginia!
Just another way of saying the tradmark is expired/abandoned.
Go to http://www.uspto.gov/main/trademarks.htm
and then search for 73631921 (serial number)
I’ve decided to ask Cecil himself. I’ll post the reply if I get one.
He’s well endowed. Or so he claims.:dubious:
cite?
I can’t find it in the archive, Ruby, so we’ll have to do this the old-fashioned way:
Adams, Cecil, More of the Straight Dope, New York: Ballantine Books, 1988, 220-221.
BTW: From the introduction of this book, it looks like Mrs. Adams’s first name may be Mary.
So…
What you’re saying is that Cecil is just like Betty Crocker?
I wonder what his cupcakes taste like…
Propably adequate to the taste buds and fairly logical.
Well dayam. I was hoping for photos.
We know that Cecil isn’t Batman. (cite)
The only fitting reply here is a quote from my spiritual adviser, the Right Reverend Billy C. Wirtz, pastor of The First House of Polyester Worship. . .
“Oh ye of little faith . . . and questionable personal hygiene.”
your humble TubaDiva
From my email:
Dex, thanks for such a prompt reply!
PS I think Cecil Adams could kick someone in the nuts ten times better then Batman ever could.