# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2012, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-mental-picture-of-dopers-you-havent-met/617917/41 "2012-04-08T15:16:31Z")
I look a little like [this](http://www.google.com/imgres?q=Sean+Astin+speedo&um=1&hl=en&rlz=1R2ADSA_enUS399&biw=1600&bih=591&tbm=isch&tbnid=dCN3DKMswzpiOM:&imgrefurl=http://playfreebird.tumblr.com/post/10874222327/stuntman-mike-morganfreeman&docid=eIsIT1A-XFJ9qM&imgurl=http://i1036.photobucket.com/albums/a449/thefoolonahill/speeeedo.jpg&w=325&h=473&ei=Q6uBT6iNF4WV0QG30KWUCA&zoom=1&iact=rc&dur=188&sig=107588209205297871326&page=1&tbnh=114&tbnw=78&start=0&ndsp=36&ved=1t:429,r:40,s:0,i:89&tx=42&ty=51) With a little less hair, but a little better looking, (I think). ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2012, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-mental-picture-of-dopers-you-havent-met/617917/42 "2012-04-08T15:24:25Z")
> [@tim-n-va](#): > > Guinastasia makes me think of the opening scene in “Zack and Mira Make A Porno” - attractive female but wearing a Penguins jersey. Guin posted a picture at one stage and she is a knockout. I see **Kambucta** in jeans, ten gallon hat and swearing loudly at dogs. ---
**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2012, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-mental-picture-of-dopers-you-havent-met/617917/43 "2012-04-08T16:00:13Z")
> [@Stelios](#): > > 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: I don’t really think about what these people look like, but I know I have a different take than you on most of them. Just goes to show. ---
**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, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-mental-picture-of-dopers-you-havent-met/617917/44 "2012-04-08T16:17:14Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > 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?” 😃 Everyone on the boards here basically sounds just like me in my head (even the people from places where I know they would have an accent). 🙂 > [@AClockworkMelon](#): > > 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.\ Wow, that’s uncanny! 😃 ---
**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, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-mental-picture-of-dopers-you-havent-met/617917/45 "2012-04-08T18:10:51Z")
I have about 340 hand-crafted sock puppets for just about everyone I run into on this board. I don each one on my hands and act them out with different voices as I read through threads. Everyone has buttons for eyes. I think it’s ruining my marriage. ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2012, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-mental-picture-of-dopers-you-havent-met/617917/46 "2012-04-08T19:43:48Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > When I think of Una Persson I get an image of Uma Thurman in a lab coat. Someone else said that once..it’s a flattering image, to be certain. The problem is, Uma is about 6 inches taller than me. ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2012, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-mental-picture-of-dopers-you-havent-met/617917/47 "2012-04-08T19:55:48Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > [This is how I picture a meeting of the mods (including the ladies).](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/KZjmCgPe-60/0.jpg) 🙂 Now that one is going to stick in my head!😃 ---
**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, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-mental-picture-of-dopers-you-havent-met/617917/48 "2012-04-08T21:23:59Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > I have about 340 hand-crafted sock puppets for just about everyone I run into on this board. I don each one on my hands and act them out with different voices as I read through threads. Everyone has buttons for eyes. LOL ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2012, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-mental-picture-of-dopers-you-havent-met/617917/49 "2012-04-08T21:45:47Z")
**Skald** is Wilt Chamberlain in _Conan the Destroyer_. (I’m not sure what my mental picture of him is, though…) 😃 And I’d be both thankful and horrified to find out if or what _I_ “look like,” to everyone else. ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2012, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-mental-picture-of-dopers-you-havent-met/617917/50 "2012-04-08T21:55:20Z")
I picture pretty much everyone as a [disembodied internet brain.](http://images.wikia.com/en.futurama/images/5/5e/BrainSpawn.png) ---
**Author:** ![BTEzra04](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9f8e36/32.png) [@BTEzra04](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BTEzra04)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2012, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-mental-picture-of-dopers-you-havent-met/617917/51 "2012-04-09T01:01:19Z")
I tend to picture most of the female posters as in their thirties or so, I guess. No real specifics though. I see the mods as powerful overseers. Well, at least as pictures of authority. And the guys…well, hm. I kinda “hear” Chefguy as someone with a deep voice, no clue why. I think of most guys as in their thirties or forties too. A few of us that I’ve read are around college age (Malleus comes to mind) I put in their twenties. Why? No clue. Just the “voice” I hear in posts, maybe. ---
**Author:** ![Sudden\_Kestrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Sudden\_Kestrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sudden_Kestrel)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2012, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-mental-picture-of-dopers-you-havent-met/617917/52 "2012-04-09T01:47:51Z")
> [@Shakes](#): > > Do y’all picture me like [This?](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/ca/Master_Shake.png/200px-Master_Shake.png) I picture you as a skinny guy who hangs around in a pool hall in the 1920s, wearing a pin-striped suit and a fedora. You got your nickname from playing craps. I imagine your friends saying, “You want in, you gotta talk to **Shakes** , see?” ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2012, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-mental-picture-of-dopers-you-havent-met/617917/53 "2012-04-09T01:52:44Z")
> [@Ephemera](#): > > **pulykamell** is [Andrew Zimmern](http://www.millsentertainment.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/zimmern.jpg). Hah! [Here’s the real me.](http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/1583_52526883776_503153776_1115157_4606_n.jpg) That’s actually not all _that_ far off the mark. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2012, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-mental-picture-of-dopers-you-havent-met/617917/54 "2012-04-09T02:04:16Z")
The odd thing is, I swear, yesterday a random dude in the supermarket came up to me with his girlfriend, asked me if I knew how to cook. I said yes. He said he liked to watch Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern, and showed me a pack of mixed frozen seafood (calamari, crab, shrimp, whoknowswhatelse) and asked me how to cook it, Asian-style. (I gave him a basic oyster sauce-type stir fry recipe.) So, apparently, even random strangers can feel the Andrew Zimmern vibe coming off me… ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2012, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-mental-picture-of-dopers-you-havent-met/617917/55 "2012-04-10T04:04:22Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > …Shodan comes off as a middle aged guy who also dresses nicely and may be a few pounds overweight. Ummm, I’m betting 99 44/100% of The Dope “may be a few pounds overweight”… (Y’all look like a bunch nerds, in _my_ brain. All’ya.) ---
**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 11, 2012, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-mental-picture-of-dopers-you-havent-met/617917/56 "2012-04-11T05:18:24Z")
> [@Ranchoth](#): > > **Skald** is Wilt Chamberlain in _Conan the Destroyer_. > > (I’m not sure what my mental picture of him is, though…) > > 😃 > > And I’d be both thankful and horrified to find out if or what _I_ “look like,” to everyone else. In all seriousness. Your name evokes the Star Wars [Rancor](http://images.wikia.com/starwars/images/6/6c/Rancor.jpg) for me. So, like that, just more… civil? You’re welcome. ---
**Author:** ![Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleeps_With_Butterflies)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2012, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-mental-picture-of-dopers-you-havent-met/617917/57 "2012-04-11T05:26:15Z")
> [@Shakes](#): > > Do y’all picture me like [This?](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/ca/Master_Shake.png/200px-Master_Shake.png) I will from now on, for sure. ---
**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 11, 2012, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-mental-picture-of-dopers-you-havent-met/617917/58 "2012-04-11T05:32:25Z")
> [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](#): > > I will from now on, for sure. Why did I hear you say that in [Carl’s](http://0.tqn.com/d/animatedtv/1/0/y/Q/athfcarl.jpg) voice? Maybe this is a bad idea. ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2012, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-mental-picture-of-dopers-you-havent-met/617917/59 "2012-04-11T06:58:45Z")
Since I found the Photo Gallery I sometimes “go see if I can see 'em.” They look like regular people. The ones I have to imagine are much more esoteric. ---
**Author:** ![Rich\_G7subs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85e7bf/32.png) [@Rich\_G7subs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rich_G7subs)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2012, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-mental-picture-of-dopers-you-havent-met/617917/60 "2012-04-12T16:53:39Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > I don’t think my user name elicits many positive images let alone any that are accurate. That is one reason I picked it. That name conjures the image of Austin Powers…well…to me anyways.. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-mental-picture-of-dopers-you-havent-met/617917.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-mental-picture-of-dopers-you-havent-met/617917.md?page=4)