# Dorian Gray is...

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dorian-gray-is/533046>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 19, 2010, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dorian-gray-is/533046 "2010-03-19T18:57:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2010, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dorian-gray-is/533046/41 "2010-03-23T01:36:26Z")

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> [@halfliquid](#):
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> Weren’t those stone tablets heavy to carry around?

He had tablets? All we had were our fingers and dirt.

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**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2010, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dorian-gray-is/533046/42 "2010-03-23T02:28:52Z")

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> [@Autolycus](#):
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> Some kind of cologne, or maybe a sexual act.

It’s a little early in the year to be posting your Christmas list 😛

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**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2010, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dorian-gray-is/533046/43 "2010-03-23T02:51:50Z")

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Here I thought it was a variety of mustard.

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**Author:** ![tallcoldone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9a140/32.png) [@tallcoldone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tallcoldone)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2010, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dorian-gray-is/533046/44 "2010-03-23T16:50:28Z")

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The name was familiar to me from a Styx lyric - Sing for the Day:

“…Each night by the stage you appear as you are  
The ever intangible child  
Ageless and timeless as Dorian Grey  
Oh Hannah I know that it’s you and you’re leading me on…”

[http://www.styxnet.com/styxlyrics/sftd.htm](http://www.styxnet.com/styxlyrics/sftd.htm)

If I were to go on Jeopardy, the literature categories would be my undoing.

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