# Where are you Cecil Adams? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 8, 2000, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you-cecil-adams/24961 "2000-07-08T17:23:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![SqrlCub](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SqrlCub](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SqrlCub)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2000, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you-cecil-adams/24961/61 "2000-07-12T19:51:32Z")
Shut up Cecil Troll. The real Cecil Adams doesn’t have an underscore in his name and was registered long before you. Also, since he is the smartest human being in the world he would have never forgotten his password or log in name. Now, GO AWAY! Sqrl ---
**Author:** ![SqrlCub](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SqrlCub](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SqrlCub)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2000, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you-cecil-adams/24961/62 "2000-07-12T19:53:11Z")
A response time of 5 minutes. Wow, that is pretty fast even if I do say so myself. Oh, I believe Uncle Beer mentioned that there was a Cecil clone a while back but that one was banned pretty quickly. I bet UncleBeer will be in here shortly to clear away the newest troll tripe. HUGS! Sqrl ---
**Author:** ![KimKatt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ac91a4/32.png) [@KimKatt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KimKatt)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2000, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you-cecil-adams/24961/63 "2000-07-12T19:53:40Z")
You think you can show up impersonating Cecil, not hurl out a single insult, and have people believe that you are the true SDMB god? Puh-lease. ---
**Author:** ![SqrlCub](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SqrlCub](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SqrlCub)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2000, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you-cecil-adams/24961/64 "2000-07-12T19:55:05Z")
One other thing, I know Cecil Adams’s email address isn’t [jo768@hotmail.com](mailto:jo768@hotmail.com) like it says in your profile. ---
**Author:** ![winky99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/71c47a/32.png) [@winky99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/winky99)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2000, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you-cecil-adams/24961/65 "2000-07-12T20:00:38Z")
::sitting in lotus position with eyes closed and chanting:: I believe in Cecil…I believe in Cecil…I believe in Cecil…Donuts…Don- I mean, I believe in Cecil… ---
**Author:** ![Lucretia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/13edae/32.png) [@Lucretia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucretia)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2000, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you-cecil-adams/24961/66 "2000-07-12T21:16:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by FreakFreely \* > \*\*Maybe it’s like waiting for the bus, he won’t show up until we all light a cigarette. \*\* No, no, he’s like Santa and the Easter Bunny, he won’t come until we all go to sleep. And because I am also kicking myself for not posting in the other “conjure Cecil” thread… May I just say what an honor and privilege it is to post on a board dedicated to you, Mr. Adams. Sir. ---
**Author:** ![tshirts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@tshirts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tshirts)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2000, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you-cecil-adams/24961/67 "2000-07-22T17:29:33Z")
He’s never been away this long before. ---
**Author:** ![silent\_rob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@silent\_rob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silent_rob)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2000, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you-cecil-adams/24961/68 "2000-07-23T05:24:55Z")
Out of curiosity, who was the 19th person to be welcomed? I’ve read the OT, and I thought he had only welcomed 18 people. When did he welcome the 19th? ---
**Author:** ![tshirts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@tshirts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tshirts)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2000, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you-cecil-adams/24961/69 "2000-07-23T06:00:32Z")
Cecil was in the Old Testament? I thought he was just in the new one. ---
**Author:** ![Talkinsquirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f6c823/32.png) [@Talkinsquirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Talkinsquirrel)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2000, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you-cecil-adams/24961/70 "2000-07-23T06:01:33Z")
[Any takers on wheter aha will get Cecil to welcome him?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=23611) > [@](#): > > - Originally quoted by Cecil Adams \* > Hi, Amy. Welcome to the Straight Dope. Let’s see, who else is here … Shayna! Grace! So nice to have you. Yes, I am busy, but I thought I’d take a quick break. Veb, Odie, pepper! Don’t be shy, glad you could make it! I see squirrel, B\_Line, june, dave and David, Cristi, inky, ultress, tshirtz–that name rings a bell somehow–Nixon, apple … my, crowded here tonight, isn’t it? Oops, almost forgot Samurai, Iswote … did I miss anybody? ::: peers into murk::: Amy, Shayna, Grace, Veb, Odie, pepperland girl, Me :D, Bline (who is now whammo), june, dave, and david, Cristy (who is now persophenoe (sp?), Inky, Ultress, tshirtz, nixon, apple, samurai, and iswote makes ninteen. Oh and hoo ha… I \*\* still \*\* don’t know who that is… ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2000, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you-cecil-adams/24961/71 "2000-07-23T08:15:14Z")
Oh, here we go again… You people _want_ to draw Unca Cece’s eye? The same curmudgeonly, horny Brain who’s so tired of fighting ignorance that his most kindly utterance is, “Quiet, rodent”? Sure he’s crabby and funky. Read the books, people! Flattery turns his stomach, but his sense of humor is sufficiently sideways to permit sneaky nods where mischief will do most good. So tedious dweebs like **whitetho** agitate for attention. “If you don’t answer _me, me, me_ you don’t exist, so there, pffft!” They’re deliberate irritants who are as rude as they are boring. The gimlet gaze can be lured, but not demanded–and beware what you ask for. Nah, I picture Cecil more along the lines of Jack Nicholson in “Witches of Eastwick”, only with infinitely greater intelligence and subtlety. Cecil Adams, scion of an inbred but respected New England family, forced by nameless excess to flee to the The City Of Big Shoulders, finds relucatant aides, an audience and even an attendant artist. (The Slug Marble Sculpture: pigeons roost on unlikely appendages, onlookers flee in horror/helpless laughter.) No, somewhere on Rush Street there resides a brilliant misanthrope, clad in madras shorts (with suspiciously animated zipper), sandals and socially relevant Tshirt. He strews grungy scraps of paper with arcane jottings, dispenses kindness to street people if no one if looking and mentally undresses stray female tourists and yuppies, much to their enjoyment and his. If this isn’t true, I don’t wanna know differently. Veb ---
**Author:** ![tshirts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@tshirts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tshirts)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2000, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you-cecil-adams/24961/72 "2000-07-27T02:29:09Z")
You make him sound like “Comic Book Guy - voice by Hank Azaria” on The Simpsons. ---
**Author:** ![tshirts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@tshirts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tshirts)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2001, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you-cecil-adams/24961/73 "2001-01-20T07:10:17Z")
I’m going to boost this thread because of a few new threads appearing about Cecil recently. I think this one, having Ed’s comments, makes a good read. ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2001, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you-cecil-adams/24961/74 "2001-01-20T07:24:23Z")
I was just thinking about posting a “Where are you, tshirts?” thread. Peace, mangeorge ---
**Author:** ![tshirts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@tshirts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tshirts)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2001, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you-cecil-adams/24961/75 "2001-01-20T07:31:37Z")
Aww. Now you’re going to embarass me, comparing me to The Master ::shy nervous shuffling twisting my hat in my hands pose:: ---
**Author:** ![Morrison\_s\_Lament](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Morrison\_s\_Lament](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morrison_s_Lament)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2001, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you-cecil-adams/24961/76 "2001-01-20T07:49:54Z")
When I was back there at Straight Dope school, there were people there who put forth the proposition; that you can PETITION the Lord with prayer! PETITION… U-N-K-A’ C-E-C-I-L… W-I-T-H P-R-A-Y-E-R!!! ## YOU CANNOT PETITION UNKA’ CECIL WITH PRAYER!!! I guess the same goes for posts to the message board. So there, let’s leave him alone and he shall come when he thinks best 😉 — G. Raven ---
**Author:** ![tshirts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@tshirts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tshirts)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2001, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you-cecil-adams/24961/77 "2001-01-20T10:37:59Z")
He has yet to post in the current millenium! Three months, eight days, and counting. But **his title** seems to have changed since I last saw it. Have a look: \*\* [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?postid=805214#post805214](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?postid=805214#post805214) \*\* ---
**Author:** ![Clucky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@Clucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clucky)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2001, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you-cecil-adams/24961/78 "2001-01-20T12:49:28Z")
I am going on the record by saying I do NOT want to be welcomed by Cecil. I have my reasons. ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2001, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you-cecil-adams/24961/79 "2001-01-20T13:44:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Clucky \* > \*\*I am going on the record by saying I do NOT want to be welcomed by Cecil. > > I have my reasons. > > \*\* That’ll show him! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![choosybeggar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@choosybeggar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/choosybeggar)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2001, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you-cecil-adams/24961/80 "2001-01-20T13:45:00Z")
Hey guys, Been reading this thread with my amazing, adorable, brilliant, wonderful 4 year old son on my lap. Half way through (he can READ!!!), he started asking me,“Who is Cecil?” and “Why won’t he come back when all these people want him?” My son then got upset, to the point of tears, saying, “Cecil is a Mr Smellypants!” repeatedly. Well, Cec, the glove is down. Appear, or remain a Mr Smellypants in the collective psyche of our nation’s youth. CB [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you-cecil-adams/24961.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you-cecil-adams/24961.md?page=5)