# Do you have a mental 'picture' of Dopers you haven't met? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 5, 2012, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-mental-picture-of-dopers-you-havent-met/617917 "2012-04-05T15:45:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Corcaigh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Corcaigh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corcaigh)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2012, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-mental-picture-of-dopers-you-havent-met/617917/21 "2012-04-07T13:07:17Z")
I stopped trying to picture other board users in my head after a similar thread cropped up on another board [years ago] and I apparently mortally insulted someone by saying I thought he was like Lisa Simpson. No I didn’t know he was male, and yes he did come across as an overachieving/over eager kid who had to be the first reply to any post, with full factual information with links and pics!! People are so touchy… ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2012, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-mental-picture-of-dopers-you-havent-met/617917/22 "2012-04-07T17:51:34Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > I can’t imagine what people must picture me as. John Oliver. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2012, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-mental-picture-of-dopers-you-havent-met/617917/23 "2012-04-07T17:55:04Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > I can’t imagine what people must picture me as. Oliver Cromwell in a Madonna\* outfit. \*the Like A Virgin Madonna ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2012, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-mental-picture-of-dopers-you-havent-met/617917/24 "2012-04-07T19:13:13Z")
I don’t really picture other Dopers, but you’ll all be happy to know that every one of you speaks with a Western Canadian accent in my head. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2012, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-mental-picture-of-dopers-you-havent-met/617917/25 "2012-04-07T19:32:28Z")
I always think of Bricker and Miller as dapper, 3-piece-suit wearing white guys, with gold/diamond tie pins and lovely hair. Shodan comes off as a middle aged guy who also dresses nicely and may be a few pounds overweight. Everytime I read/see Diamonds02 I think of my sister’s ex-girlfriend, kinda butch, short blondish hair, etc. Vinyl Turnip looks like a REALLY tall, very thin guy with short or balding hair. When I think of Una Persson I get an image of Uma Thurman in a lab coat. Starving Artist has a pencil thin mustache and a comb-over. OMG a black conservative looks like a kid I knew named Dexter. The list could probably go on but those are the ones I think of the most. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2012, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-mental-picture-of-dopers-you-havent-met/617917/26 "2012-04-07T20:36:49Z")
I don’t think my user name elicits many positive images let alone any that are accurate. That is one reason I picked it. ---
**Author:** ![DianaG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2012, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-mental-picture-of-dopers-you-havent-met/617917/27 "2012-04-07T21:41:08Z")
> [@Kozmik](#): > > I have a mental picture of Dopers having a mental picture of me having a mental picture of them having a mental picture of me. > > Just what it says. I didn’t before, but now I imagine Kozmik as John Malkovich. ---
**Author:** ![tim-n-va](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim-n-va/32/3001_2.png) [@tim-n-va](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tim-n-va)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2012, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-mental-picture-of-dopers-you-havent-met/617917/28 "2012-04-07T23:33:21Z")
Guinastasia makes me think of the opening scene in “Zack and Mira Make A Porno” - attractive female but wearing a Penguins jersey. ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2012, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-mental-picture-of-dopers-you-havent-met/617917/29 "2012-04-08T00:48:24Z")
[My image of PSXer](http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_loo0sxINBl1qjz1ugo1_500.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Michael63129](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3da27b/32.png) [@Michael63129](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael63129)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2012, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-mental-picture-of-dopers-you-havent-met/617917/30 "2012-04-08T03:13:50Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > I can’t imagine what people must picture me as. > > I have an image for Covered in Bees but it isn’t not pleasant as it is a person covered in bees which is like a nightmare for me. That’s [exactly what I think](http://www.cnngo.com/explorations/life/gallery-chinese-bee-man-most-attractive-242567) as well (see last picture). ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2012, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-mental-picture-of-dopers-you-havent-met/617917/31 "2012-04-08T05:07:14Z")
Do y’all picture me like [This?](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/ca/Master_Shake.png/200px-Master_Shake.png) ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2012, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-mental-picture-of-dopers-you-havent-met/617917/32 "2012-04-08T05:13:14Z")
[This is how I picture a meeting of the mods (including the ladies).](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/KZjmCgPe-60/0.jpg) 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2012, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-mental-picture-of-dopers-you-havent-met/617917/33 "2012-04-08T05:13:29Z")
I’m not going to say who, but I’ve made some kind of random connection between a doper and a guy who looks like Chevy Chase (now, like on Community) wearing yachting clothes. There’s no reason behind it, just one of those things. ---
**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:** [April 8, 2012, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-mental-picture-of-dopers-you-havent-met/617917/34 "2012-04-08T05:44:21Z")
I’ve always pictured **cmyk** as [this.](http://generic.pixmac.com/4/stock-photos-unknown-generic-man-with-blank-empty-anonymous-face-11991316.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2012, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-mental-picture-of-dopers-you-havent-met/617917/35 "2012-04-08T05:50:36Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > I don’t really picture other Dopers, but you’ll all be happy to know that every one of you speaks with a Western Canadian accent in my head. 🙂 What is that? I live in western Canada, but I’m unsure how a “western Canadian” accent differs from that which I’ve heard in Montana, Colorado, Washington, and (for that matter) Illinois. “Giddy-up, eh?” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2012, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-mental-picture-of-dopers-you-havent-met/617917/36 "2012-04-08T09:30:16Z")
> [@Shakes](#): > > Do y’all picture me like [This?](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/ca/Master_Shake.png/200px-Master_Shake.png) Nah **Shakes**. Here is your [hair](http://savoryseduction.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/operation-early-resized2.png) and your voice is, well, shaky. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Stelios](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@Stelios](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stelios)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2012, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-mental-picture-of-dopers-you-havent-met/617917/37 "2012-04-08T11:32:38Z")
For me: **Jack Batty** looks like Mitch Hedberg. **Chefguy** looks like Chef Boyardee. **Miller** looks like Michael Corleone. **Jonathan Chance** looks like John Rhys Davies from Sliders (anyone remember that?). **Shodan** looks like John Cassavetes. **Starving Artist** looks like Marty Feldman. **Bricker** looks like Dapper Dan. **Flying Dutchman** looks like Doc Brown from Back To The Future. **Boyo Jim** looks like Jim Belushi circa Blues Brothers, 1980. **living\_in\_hell** looks like the head goth kid from South Park. **drewtwo99** looks like Vincent Vega. **Rand Rover** looks like Ed O’Neill as he is in Modern Family. FYI - I, apparently, bear more than a passing resemblance to Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe, even down to the little scar on the forehead. I do not approve :mad: ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2012, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-mental-picture-of-dopers-you-havent-met/617917/38 "2012-04-08T11:48:33Z")
I had/have mental images for just about four people on here: 1.) **Cat Whisperer** - When I learned she was a middle-aged Canadian woman I pictured [Laura Linney](http://blogs.sltrib.com/tv/uploaded_images/laura-758234.jpg). Not sure why. 2.) **MeanOldLady** - I pictured a mean, old white lady until I learned she was black. When I eventually did see a picture of her it was about what I expected. 3.) **Diogenes the Cynic** - It was a long time until I saw a picture of him and he looks exactly as I expected him to. 4.) **DiosaBellissima** - I don’t know what she really looks like but in some thread someone said that we both have awesome hair. Ever since then I’ve imagined her as a woman with an outrageously-awesome pompadour and I’m desperate to not have this mental image ruined for me. That’s about it. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2012, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-mental-picture-of-dopers-you-havent-met/617917/39 "2012-04-08T11:57:34Z")
I don’t necessarily see Dopers as clones of celebrities, but I know the mental images I form are always wrong. On the other hand, once I actually meet folks for real, I usually find that their usernames fit. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2012, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-mental-picture-of-dopers-you-havent-met/617917/40 "2012-04-08T15:03:56Z")
Whatever it is, I’m sure I’m handsome and have a great chin. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-mental-picture-of-dopers-you-havent-met/617917.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-mental-picture-of-dopers-you-havent-met/617917.md?page=3)