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3 unusual facts about Cecil Adams


Jennifer Toth

A widely read question & answer column, Cecil Adams's The Straight Dope, devoted two columns to the Mole People dispute.

Life net

Researcher Cecil Adams has concluded that the life net was no longer used after 1983, and writes that they are not mentioned in current training manuals for firefighters.

Storm glass

Cecil Adams performed informal experiments with a storm glass and found that the success of prediction was no better than random probability.


The Straight Dope

First published by the Reader in 1973, the column is written by Cecil Adams and illustrated by Slug Signorino.


see also

Salt Lake City Weekly

It also carries syndicated columns "News Quirks" by Roland Sweet and the Straight Dope, by Chicago-based Cecil Adams, Free Will Astrology and comics such as Tom Tomorrow's This Modern World, and Keith Knight's K Chronicles.