# When was the last time Cecil answered a question posted in this forum? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 26, 2012, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-cecil-answered-a-question-posted-in-this-forum/629488 "2012-07-26T19:48:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2012, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-cecil-answered-a-question-posted-in-this-forum/629488/1 "2012-07-26T19:48:56Z")
The forum description: _Got a factual question for the Teeming Millions ( **and possibly Cecil** ) to consider? Post it here._ Has it happened often? Does anyone know the most recent example? ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2012, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-cecil-answered-a-question-posted-in-this-forum/629488/2 "2012-07-26T19:52:29Z")
I’ve been lurking here for over five years, and I don’t recall ever seeing Cecil show up. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2012, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-cecil-answered-a-question-posted-in-this-forum/629488/3 "2012-07-26T19:53:52Z")
I have been here for 12 years and it hasn’t happened since I joined. I hear next week is looking good though. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2012, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-cecil-answered-a-question-posted-in-this-forum/629488/4 "2012-07-26T19:58:06Z")
He used to post every now and then, on very rare occasions. At least someone using the username Cecil Adams did. I’m sure the name still exists if someone wants to go to the trouble of looking him up. It used to always cause a minor stir, with people posting just so they could say they posted in the same thread as him and put links in their sig and other '90s-era internet nonsense. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2012, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-cecil-answered-a-question-posted-in-this-forum/629488/5 "2012-07-26T20:01:06Z")
I’ve never seen Cecil answer questions here in GQ, but the questions Cecil answers in his column include some that get asked here on the SDMB. I don’t remember what the most recent example is, but [here’s one from last November](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/3021/is-there-a-god). Notice that the question is attributed to “_— Bldysabba, via the Straight Dope Message Board_.” ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2012, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-cecil-answered-a-question-posted-in-this-forum/629488/6 "2012-07-26T20:02:16Z")
I was wrong. He has posted a total of 92 times but most of those are in Comments on Cecil’s Columns. There are some very rare posts in other forums. The last GQ post was in 2005 for instance. You can search under user name ‘Cecil Adams’ yourself if you want to see them. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2012, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-cecil-answered-a-question-posted-in-this-forum/629488/7 "2012-07-26T20:02:59Z")
The Perfect Master’s last post: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=12009626#post12009626](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=12009626#post12009626) ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2012, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-cecil-answered-a-question-posted-in-this-forum/629488/8 "2012-07-26T20:04:09Z")
[2010.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=547948) ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2012, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-cecil-answered-a-question-posted-in-this-forum/629488/9 "2012-07-26T20:20:47Z")
I should have said: When was the last time Cecil answered a question originally posted in GQ **in his column**? **Thudlow Boink’s** example was what I was looking for, although I’m not sure the question was originally posted in this forum. ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2012, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-cecil-answered-a-question-posted-in-this-forum/629488/10 "2012-07-26T20:42:32Z")
This being the General Questions section for factual answers, you do of course know that there is not now, and never has been, an actual Cecil Adams? He is as real as Bugs Bunny, and only a little bit funnier. ---
**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:** [July 26, 2012, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-cecil-answered-a-question-posted-in-this-forum/629488/11 "2012-07-26T20:51:35Z")
[On April 20, 2012](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/3047/is-marijuana-stronger-than-it-used-to-be)(oh Cecil, you card!) he answered a question by Dinsdale [originally posted in GQ in 2007](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=405689), and zombified in March of 2012. ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2012, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-cecil-answered-a-question-posted-in-this-forum/629488/12 "2012-07-26T20:58:14Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > The Perfect Master’s last post: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=12009626#post12009626](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=12009626#post12009626) That looks like someone who has access to the “Cecil Adams” log-in posted under that user ID name inadvertently. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2012, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-cecil-answered-a-question-posted-in-this-forum/629488/13 "2012-07-26T21:02:36Z")
> [@guizot](#): > > That looks like someone who has access to the “Cecil Adams” log-in posted under that user ID name inadvertently. Yeah, I can’t image Cecil apologizing and being all polite-like. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![barbitu8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/839c29/32.png) [@barbitu8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/barbitu8)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2012, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-cecil-answered-a-question-posted-in-this-forum/629488/14 "2012-07-26T21:08:01Z")
Answering questions? No, but a “Cecil Adams” once welcomed every new member. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2012, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-cecil-answered-a-question-posted-in-this-forum/629488/15 "2012-07-26T21:10:18Z")
> [@Dallas\_Jones](#): > > This being the General Questions section for factual answers, you do of course know that there is not now, and never has been, an actual Cecil Adams? > > He is as real as Bugs Bunny, and only a little bit funnier. Sure, but it’s a harmless fiction. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-cecil-answered-a-question-posted-in-this-forum/629488/16 "2012-07-27T14:14:08Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > Sure, but it’s a harmless fiction. As Long as he doesn’t pretend to be a sexy quad.