# Who IS he?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-he/17147
**Category:** Great Debates
**Created:** [December 29, 1999, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-he/17147 "1999-12-29T03:34:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)
#### Post date: [December 31, 1999, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-he/17147/21 "1999-12-31T02:48:00Z")
JBENZ wrote:
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> (slap) It’s i stupid, not 1!
And it’s also more readable if you put a space between the turn-off-italics UBB code brackets and the normal word following.
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### Author:  [@SoulFrost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SoulFrost)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2000, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-he/17147/22 "2000-01-02T10:12:00Z")
Didn’t Cecil write some of Shakespeare’s plays?
-David
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### Author:  [@Sake\_Samurai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sake_Samurai)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2000, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-he/17147/23 "2000-01-04T20:01:00Z")
Seriously, have NONE of the Chicago-area dopers taken a visit to the Chicago Reader armed with camera and trenchcoat and hidden behind a trash can or parking garage column to jump out and pinch Cecil to see if he’s real?
Show some initiative people!
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Hell is Other People.
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### Author:  [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2000, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-he/17147/24 "2000-01-04T20:13:00Z")
Oh, people have tried it. Their user names are gone. No one ever hears from them again. Examples include [This Message Edited By David B]
You see, [This Message Edited By David B] So that’s pretty much where we stand.
Hope that clears things up for you.
## [This Message Edited By David B]
Jesus saves… Gretzky grabs the rebound… He Scores!
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### Author:  [@Kepi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kepi)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2000, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-he/17147/25 "2000-01-04T20:41:00Z")
I once worked with a guy who claimed to have met Cecil at a party in Chicago. He told me what Cecil’s real name was, but I don’t remember. Hell, I don’t even remember the name of the guy I worked with!
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### Author:  [@WallyM7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WallyM7)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2000, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-he/17147/26 "2000-01-04T20:48:00Z")
I’ve seen Cecil naked.
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A seminar on time travel will be held two weeks ago.
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### Author:  [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2000, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-he/17147/27 "2000-01-04T20:50:00Z")
Wally, we don’t care what you were wearing when you saw him; what did he look like?
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Jesus saves… Gretzky grabs the rebound… He Scores!
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### Author:  [@David\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_B)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2000, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-he/17147/28 "2000-01-04T21:27:00Z")
Kepi said:
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> He told me what Cecil’s real name was, but I don’t remember. Hell, I don’t even remember the name of the guy I worked with!
Cool! The drugs we slipped you worked. I’ll have to note another success for the lab guys.
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### Author:  [@whitetho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whitetho)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2000, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-he/17147/29 "2000-01-04T21:33:00Z")
The part about Cecil walking around naked is consistent with what we know, but the reported appearance at a party seems a little far fetched to me.
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My dog says I’m too anthropomorphic.
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