# Doesn't this picture of Saddam look like Screech? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 1, 2004, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doesnt-this-picture-of-saddam-look-like-screech/253087 "2004-07-01T18:09:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![caphis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19adc/32.png) [@caphis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caphis)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2004, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doesnt-this-picture-of-saddam-look-like-screech/253087/1 "2004-07-01T18:09:15Z")
Maybe it’s just me, but [this picture](http://i.cnn.net/cnn/2004/WORLD/meast/07/01/iraq.saddam/top.saddam.points.ap.jpg) of Saddam looks oddly like Screech from _Saved By The Bell_. It’s the pointing upwards with the goofy eye bugging thing, I think. I can’t find a similar picture of Screech outside of memory, though, for comparison. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2004, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doesnt-this-picture-of-saddam-look-like-screech/253087/2 "2004-07-01T18:38:04Z")
\*\*Pizza Guy: \*\* Who ordered the double cheese and sausage? **Saddam:** Uh, here dude! ---
**Author:** ![js\_africanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@js\_africanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/js_africanus)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2004, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doesnt-this-picture-of-saddam-look-like-screech/253087/3 "2004-07-01T18:42:11Z")
Or maybe Tommy Chong. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2004, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doesnt-this-picture-of-saddam-look-like-screech/253087/4 "2004-07-01T18:43:56Z")
"Let’s compare boogers… Saddam? ---
**Author:** ![tanookie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/48db29/32.png) [@tanookie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanookie)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2004, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doesnt-this-picture-of-saddam-look-like-screech/253087/5 "2004-07-01T20:02:29Z")
Sadaam without the beard could pass for my father’s twin. I get freaked every time I see him on the news! Yuck ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2004, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doesnt-this-picture-of-saddam-look-like-screech/253087/6 "2004-07-01T20:25:06Z")
I’ll counter with [Bob Vila.](http://www.alligator.org/edit/issues/00-fall/001110/villa10.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![BraheSilver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@BraheSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BraheSilver)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2004, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doesnt-this-picture-of-saddam-look-like-screech/253087/7 "2004-07-01T21:20:13Z")
I was going to say Dennis Miller. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2004, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doesnt-this-picture-of-saddam-look-like-screech/253087/8 "2004-07-01T23:24:09Z")
> [@BraheSilver](#): > > I was going to say Dennis Miller. I was looking at that picture thinking, “Damn, he really looks like somebody there, but who?” You nailed it exactly. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2004, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doesnt-this-picture-of-saddam-look-like-screech/253087/9 "2004-07-02T03:22:14Z")
“All rightful leaders of sovereign nations, throw one finger in the air! Not so fast Saddam…” ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2004, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doesnt-this-picture-of-saddam-look-like-screech/253087/10 "2004-07-02T03:39:40Z")
> [@tanookie](#): > > Sadaam without the beard could pass for my father’s twin. I get freaked every time I see him on the news! > > Yuck Mine too, kind of! Without the beard, but with a moustache in desperate need of a trim. And longer hair. I was going to say he looks like Walter Matthau in that pose. Kind of. ---
**Author:** ![caphis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19adc/32.png) [@caphis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caphis)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2004, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doesnt-this-picture-of-saddam-look-like-screech/253087/11 "2004-07-02T04:02:07Z")
Indeed… mundane AND pointless. But nonetheless amusing 😃