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Cecil Adams is an internet treasure. Before Reddit, his site was the main GOTO for interesting in depth answers to inane questions. One of my favourites is the

• adolph 3y ago
  My reaction to “internet treasure” was that I was reading SD in the Austin Chronicle before there was an Internet as we know it. I checked my recollection and found: Cecil Adams is the pseudonymous author of The Straight Dope, a popular question and answer column published in The Chicago Reader from 2 February 1973 to 2018. The true identity of Adams, whether a single individual or a group of authors, has remained secret. The Chicago Reader's 1986 trademark filing for the name "Cecil Adams" states that "Cecil Adams does not identify any particular individual but was devised as a fanciful name." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_Adams https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_Adams