# Who will replace Cecil Adams when he is dead?

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**Created:** [December 17, 2011, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-replace-cecil-adams-when-he-is-dead/606557 "2011-12-17T19:15:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2011, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-replace-cecil-adams-when-he-is-dead/606557/21 "2011-12-18T08:22:40Z")

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> [@Oakminster](#):
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> When Ed Zotti dies, retires, or otherwise ceases to use the “Cecil Adams” pseudonym, if Creative Loafing or whoever buys the company next stills exists and wishes to continue the gimmick, some other person will write the column under the same “Cecil Adams” byline.

Aw. Look, I get the desire to tell people, I do. But there’s so much fun in giving hints and letting them figure it out for themselves.

I would have said that Cecil is the smartest man in the world so he’ll never die, at least as long as Creative Loafing wills it. And then I’d mention that he’d already had two other almost deaths, when each of his former editors left.

I think people get the idea that the fun is in hiding, when it’s really in helping people become smart enough to see the truth on their own.

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**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2011, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-replace-cecil-adams-when-he-is-dead/606557/22 "2011-12-18T09:06:35Z")

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He’ll upload himself into the SDMB and achieve electronic immortality.  
On the downside, that’s gonna really hurt board performance.

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**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2011, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-replace-cecil-adams-when-he-is-dead/606557/23 "2011-12-18T13:09:58Z")

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I’m assuming he already wrote all of the answers that he needs for the column to last indefinitely, he’s just waiting for the questions. I see no reason that the staff couldn’t do that for him after his eventual demise.

It could be happening right now!

:eek::eek::eek:

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**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2011, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-replace-cecil-adams-when-he-is-dead/606557/24 "2011-12-18T18:52:58Z")

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I think it’s clear Cecil is an immortal human from the far future and has achieved time travel, only by way of information transfer; not physical presence. He amuses himself by answering our silly questions in a way we might be amused to answer some of the questions our ancestors had. Of couse, he’s careful not to give up any information we have yet to discover as it might have devistating consequences in his own time.

He’s also only 12 years old.

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