I have been reading Straightdope books for over ten years now (we don’t get Cecil Adams’ actual column where I live, though). And one thing has always puzzled me. In the Slug Signorino cartoons that often accompany Cecil Adams’ Q&A, Adams is often portrayed as a tall bird with a professor’s cap on. I could be wrong, but it seems pretty obvious the bird is meant to be Adams. Here is an example of what I am talking about. Here is another.
Clearly there is some joke here that I (and probably others) am missing. But what is the joke? Does anyone know?
For that matter, if Slug ever actually drew a person, we’d probably get suspicious and send the Chicago police over to find out who kindapped him, and what happened to the real slug. As long as he sticks to overeducated Thanksgiving dinners and four-headed fucking grandmas, though, we know he’s OK.
