# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2005, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-appearing-in-literature-art/309504/81 "2005-06-28T13:58:12Z")
Although he hasn’t been seen in a while, there’s alway **Northern Dancer in the Dark**. I mean, if you want to talk depressing movies… ---
**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 28, 2005, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-appearing-in-literature-art/309504/82 "2005-06-28T16:26:35Z")
Which reminds me of \* **JayJay** Dancer, Your Life Is Calling.\* ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-appearing-in-literature-art/309504/83 "2005-06-29T16:30:36Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Oh, and anyone remember that Charles Bronson stinker, _The Evil that **mhendo** _? And wasn’t he also featured in a Percy Bysshe Shelley poem, “Ozy **mhendo** as” ? Or was that “Ozy **Manda Jo** ”…? ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-appearing-in-literature-art/309504/84 "2005-06-30T04:31:24Z")
> [@Monstre](#): > > 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… Nooo…not quite. Read Alan Dean Foster’s Spellsinger novel series. I feature prominently in it. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-appearing-in-literature-art/309504/85 "2005-06-30T04:38:47Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > Nooo…not quite. > > Read Alan Dean Foster’s Spellsinger novel series. I feature prominently in it. And he’s about as much of a grump as his namesake… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-appearing-in-literature-art/309504/86 "2005-06-30T04:48:11Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > And he’s about as much of a grump as his namesake… Clothagrump? 😃 I searched that book on Amazon, **Cloth**. So you’re a wizard turtle?? (or so it appears from one of the reviews). ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-appearing-in-literature-art/309504/87 "2005-06-30T15:19:40Z")
> [@Monstre](#): > > Clothagrump? 😃 > > I searched that book on Amazon, **Cloth**. So you’re a wizard turtle?? (or so it appears from one of the reviews). Yes. And I’m over 300 years old, which is why I’m wise and understanding, and sometimes not so willing to put up with whippersnapper nonsense. Grumpy, my aged shelled ass. I’ll show you grumpy. 😃 ---
**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 30, 2005, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-appearing-in-literature-art/309504/88 "2005-06-30T17:49:09Z")
Turtle meat is a tasty treat! ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Carnage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/max_carnage/32/12775_2.png) [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-appearing-in-literature-art/309504/89 "2005-06-30T18:05:44Z")
> [@Portia](#): > > And the Helen Hunt/Bill Pullman movie, **Twickster**. [nitpick]Bill PAXTON…poor guy gets no respect[/nitpick] ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Carnage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/max_carnage/32/12775_2.png) [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-appearing-in-literature-art/309504/90 "2005-06-30T18:12:37Z")
Seems as if you could find the name **Alice\_In\_Wonderland** in some book or movie, but I’m drawing a blank right now. Tooting my own horn… **Max Carnage** Knowledge. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-appearing-in-literature-art/309504/91 "2005-06-30T18:21:53Z")
> [@Muad'Dib](#): > > _cough_ You too, huh? ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-appearing-in-literature-art/309504/92 "2005-06-30T23:31:38Z")
> [@Max Carnage](#): > > [nitpick]Bill PAXTON…poor guy gets no respect[/nitpick] Game over, man! Game over! * * * “ **The Tooth** Towers” – J.R.R. Tolkien And in movies… “An American Were **wolfstu** in London” ---
**Author:** ![Atreyu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@Atreyu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atreyu)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-appearing-in-literature-art/309504/93 "2005-07-01T04:26:42Z")
**Tuckerfan** : The Man and His Dream. ---
**Author:** ![Indyellen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/indyellen/32/4176_2.png) [@Indyellen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indyellen)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-appearing-in-literature-art/309504/94 "2005-07-01T14:12:00Z")
> [@want2know](#): > > How about **Indyellen** Jones and the Last Crusade? Well there’s always _I **want2know** What You Did Last Summer_, as well as the sequel _I Still **want2know** What You Did Last Summer_. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Indyellen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/indyellen/32/4176_2.png) [@Indyellen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indyellen)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-appearing-in-literature-art/309504/95 "2005-07-01T14:15:45Z")
I almost forgot the well-known American Christmas carol, “ **silver1** Bells”. “Ring-a-ling, Hear them ring…” ---
**Author:** ![Arwin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/51bf81/32.png) [@Arwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arwin)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-appearing-in-literature-art/309504/96 "2005-07-01T15:01:58Z")
I like to watch my personal favorite Australian dance movie **Maastricht** ly Ballroom over and over again. 😃 Of course, I humbly add that I myself wrote most of D **arwin** ’s Origin of the Species. :o ---
**Author:** ![choie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/choie/32/7829_2.png) [@choie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/choie)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-appearing-in-literature-art/309504/97 "2005-07-01T15:32:27Z")
Ooh, there’s that opera Beethoven wrote about his dentist, **DrFidelius**. And who can forget the adorable A.A. Milne story **Piglet Meets a Clothahump**? ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-appearing-in-literature-art/309504/98 "2005-07-01T16:33:18Z")
> [@Max Carnage](#): > > Seems as if you could find the name **Alice\_In\_Wonderland** in some book or movie, but I’m drawing a blank right now. Well, there’s “Alice\_In\_Wonderland Doesn’t Live Here Anymore”, or “Go Ask Alice\_In\_Wonderland”… ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2005, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-appearing-in-literature-art/309504/99 "2005-07-02T14:30:17Z")
> [@choie](#): > > Ooh, there’s that opera Beethoven wrote about his dentist, **DrFidelius**. > > And who can forget the adorable A.A. Milne story **Piglet Meets a Clothahump**? That was someone I dated a long time ago… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Moe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moe/32/2972_2.png) [@Moe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moe)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2005, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-appearing-in-literature-art/309504/100 "2005-07-02T17:03:36Z")
Well, my buddy might be less-than-proud of his involvement in **Amos and AndyPolley** but I figured given this thread I may as well mention it. Also, there was **Throw Saramamalana From the Train**. And I was fortunate enough to be asked to lay some guitar tracks down for **Moe Better Blues** [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-appearing-in-literature-art/309504.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-appearing-in-literature-art/309504.md?page=6)