# Dopers appearing in literature/art? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 23, 2005, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-appearing-in-literature-art/309504 "2005-06-23T06:21:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2005, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-appearing-in-literature-art/309504/61 "2005-06-24T21:49:44Z")
Well, I would consider it literature - from the Vampire Chronicles, \*\*‘Queen Tonya \*\* of the Damned’. ---
**Author:** ![CapnPitt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/edb3f5/32.png) [@CapnPitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CapnPitt)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2005, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-appearing-in-literature-art/309504/62 "2005-06-25T00:36:59Z")
You might have read about me in the Poe masterwork _ **The CapnPitt and the Pendulum** _. ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Tonya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/4491bb/32.png) [@Queen\_Tonya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Tonya)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2005, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-appearing-in-literature-art/309504/63 "2005-06-25T04:22:18Z")
😃 How can we forget _Confessions of a **Dangerosa** Mind_? I don’t know how in the world one finds time to cook when you’re busy being related to _The Fabulous **Baker** Boys_ or taking part in _The Josephine **Baker** Story_. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Mad\_Hermit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5ac83/32.png) [@The\_Mad\_Hermit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mad_Hermit)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2005, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-appearing-in-literature-art/309504/64 "2005-06-25T10:33:10Z")
There was the terrorist movie, The **Siege.** The Tv show with Faith Ford and Kelly Ripa: **Hopefool and Faithfool.** Why hasn’t the show jumped the shark yet? The Patron Saint of Jumping is on the show, after all. **Weirddave Science,** anyone? Surprise! You’re on **CandidGamera!** …ran out of ideas for now… ---
**Author:** ![Hung\_Mung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2005, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-appearing-in-literature-art/309504/65 "2005-06-25T14:55:15Z")
**Zoe** is a main character in a popular online [comic](http://store.sluggy.com/detailed-autumnzoe.html)! ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2005, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-appearing-in-literature-art/309504/66 "2005-06-25T14:57:35Z")
Vincent Price once starred in the movies the Abominable Dr. Matrix and Dr. Matrix Returns. ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2005, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-appearing-in-literature-art/309504/67 "2005-06-25T14:58:45Z")
> [@The Mad Hermit](#): > > Surprise! You’re on **CandidGamera!** [Hedley Lamarr] _Kinky._ [/Hedley Lamarr] ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2005, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-appearing-in-literature-art/309504/68 "2005-06-25T15:38:17Z")
There was the acclaimed Civil War mini-series from the mid 80s – “ **Knorf** and South” And a historical novel, [“ **Shodan** at Little Big Horn”](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0803262183/qid=1119714605/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-1783364-1619332?v=glance&s=books) ---
**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:** [June 25, 2005, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-appearing-in-literature-art/309504/69 "2005-06-25T15:47:21Z")
Manos - the **Handy** of Fate ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2005, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-appearing-in-literature-art/309504/70 "2005-06-25T18:36:26Z")
I myself was the subject of a popular sitcom- _The Misadventures of Sheriff **mobo85** _. And, of course, who can forget ex-Warner animators Bob Clampett’s tribute to the big guy himself, _Beany and **Cecil Adams** _? ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2005, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-appearing-in-literature-art/309504/71 "2005-06-25T22:08:02Z")
I **Zev Steinhart** in San Francisco ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2005, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-appearing-in-literature-art/309504/72 "2005-06-26T06:41:54Z")
“Hush litle baby, don’t say a word, Papa’s **Guinastasia** mockingbird” “If **Ukulele Ike** Like Ika-lele you, and we-kalele both the same I lak-a-say, This very day, I lak-a change your name” (I had more, but the Memebers List is disabled so I can’t spell check screen names) …Slithy Tove for Christmas, if only in my dreams. ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2005, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-appearing-in-literature-art/309504/73 "2005-06-26T23:27:44Z")
> [@Slithy Tove](#): > > “Hush litle baby, don’t say a word, > Papa’s **Guinastasia** mockingbird” Oooh, that’s pretty creative – I like it. (And it also has **Mockingbird** in it, even though you didn’t bold it – so two Dopers at once). * * * “ **msmith537** Goes To Washington” ---
**Author:** ![Hometownboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5e9695/32.png) [@Hometownboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hometownboy)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2005, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-appearing-in-literature-art/309504/74 "2005-06-27T06:01:19Z")
A little judicious fishing on the IMDB leads us to the 1939 blockbuster written by the immortal Ed Sullivan himself and starring Ed and Eve Arden, Big Town Czarcasm The mind boggles. ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2005, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-appearing-in-literature-art/309504/75 "2005-06-27T21:14:07Z")
“ **Dogzilla** vs. Mothra” – a classic Japanese film. ---
**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:** [June 28, 2005, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-appearing-in-literature-art/309504/76 "2005-06-28T02:04:18Z")
> [@Monstre](#): > > “ **Dogzilla** vs. Mothra” – a classic Japanese film. What about that other Japanese classic, “ **Dogzilla** vs. The Smog **Monstre** ”? ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2005, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-appearing-in-literature-art/309504/77 "2005-06-28T02:12:27Z")
That movie was very loosely based on my expierences working the Ice Station at Hardee’s. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2005, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-appearing-in-literature-art/309504/78 "2005-06-28T02:15:33Z")
Ahem… ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2005, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-appearing-in-literature-art/309504/79 "2005-06-28T03:24:26Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > Ahem… Oh, of course! There’s a famous nursery rhyme about you! **Clothahump** ty Dumpty sat on the wall. **Clothahump** ty Dumpty had a great fall… ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2005, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-appearing-in-literature-art/309504/80 "2005-06-28T12:10:15Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > That movie was very loosely based on my expierences working the Ice Station at Hardee’s. That movie, Ice Station Zebra, was about YOU? Wow! ::Pregnant pause:: YOU BASTARD! ::Attempts to render bodily harm to Zebra.:: That! Movie! Was! One! Of! The! Most! Depressing! Things! I! Have! Ever! Seen! Damn You! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-appearing-in-literature-art/309504.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-appearing-in-literature-art/309504.md?page=5)