# Excuse me, but do I look like Darth Vader? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 12, 2003, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/excuse-me-but-do-i-look-like-darth-vader/181244 "2003-06-12T00:30:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/excuse-me-but-do-i-look-like-darth-vader/181244/21 "2003-06-12T12:29:03Z")
Time for makeover, **Scylla**. Long hair, beard, sandals would be a nice touch. Sprinkle your conversation with the occassional “verily”. ---
**Author:** ![elf6c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c57346/32.png) [@elf6c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elf6c)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/excuse-me-but-do-i-look-like-darth-vader/181244/22 "2003-06-12T13:03:00Z")
Cool old veiny head, arm chopping off, blowing up planets Vader from the first 2 movies? The semi-redeemed, kills the Emperor version from ROTJ? Or the annoying “yippee I accidently blew up the ship, and love Jar Jar” one from the first prequel? Or the whiny annoying teenaged Vader from the second? So, which Vader we talking about? If they thought you were like the prequel Vader maybe that explains it. Do you have any floppy eared friends who talk in pseudo-Jamaican accents, with a bent for unfunny prat-falls by chance? Original Vader would have Forced choked that moron for even thinking of talking with him. Maybe you need your own floating torture drone to scare off the bigots? ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/excuse-me-but-do-i-look-like-darth-vader/181244/23 "2003-06-12T13:49:24Z")
Maybe you should dress in light colors and “happy” like oh… maybe Ricardo Montalbam? You could even go so far as to drive a Chrysler. ---
**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/excuse-me-but-do-i-look-like-darth-vader/181244/24 "2003-06-12T14:17:55Z")
Just read the Evil Overlord rules list, so you’ll know what to do. (Check Google; I believe it’s at [eviloverlord.com](http://eviloverlord.com). ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/excuse-me-but-do-i-look-like-darth-vader/181244/25 "2003-06-12T14:20:26Z")
Would it kill you to fricken smile? No. Not THAT smile. Wipe that evil smile off your face! ---
**Author:** ![Velma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/85e7bf/32.png) [@Velma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velma)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/excuse-me-but-do-i-look-like-darth-vader/181244/26 "2003-06-12T15:01:46Z")
I bet you have shifty eyes, don’t you? I can always tell the evil people by their shifty eyes. ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/excuse-me-but-do-i-look-like-darth-vader/181244/27 "2003-06-12T16:26:28Z")
If this is a semi serious question , I have some thoughts to offer up. I’m a white female working in the field of corrections. Now, since you know many of my views as a poster, you know (I think) that I’m a card carrying born again hippie, but in the professional world out here, you can’t really tell. One of the things I used to do when I was interviewing prospective employees is talk about the diversity of the population that we deal with, and ask how they deal with needing to communicate effectively with folks wiht whom they may have very little in common. and let me tell you there’ve been some amazing stories that can come out from folks who are also white. You can almost _see_ the ‘nudge nudge wink wink’. It’s creepy. My working theory is that racists try and find like minded folks. Being folks who make assumptions based on limited information and premises that aren’t supportable (ie, a racist would make assumptions about some one’s ethics, honesty, personality, based on the color of skin for example, so they’d likely also to make assumptions based on color of skin and relative position in life), they’d be looking **at** ‘white male, suit’ = some one powerful, obviously intelligent ('cause after all smart people have good jobs, good jobs = wears suits, therefore wearing suits = smart person), etc and anyone ‘intelligent’ would hold the same thoughts/feelings that they do. It’s scarey how many people think such thoughts as you had expressed to you, and find it perfectly acceptable to expound on them outside of a KKK meeting. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/excuse-me-but-do-i-look-like-darth-vader/181244/28 "2003-06-12T16:52:03Z")
It might be an appearance thing… I look kind of like what a stereotypical American redneck racist looks like…and I’ve had people make that assumption about me. One guy – total stranger! – asks, “Are you Jewish?” I said no. So he started telling Holocaust jokes… To his way of thinking, only Jews could possibly be offended… At work – at work, f’god’s sake! – a guy I didn’t know started telling racist jokes. He kept his voice low, which proves he knew he was taking a risk. But why me? Why assume I’m going to enjoy the jokes? Gotta be appearance. (Maybe I could get a big ACLU tattoo?) Trinopus ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/excuse-me-but-do-i-look-like-darth-vader/181244/29 "2003-06-12T17:42:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Scylla \* > **…and drive a black car…** I bet it’s not a Dodge Viper…😃 D&R ---
**Author:** ![g8rguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7cd45c/32.png) [@g8rguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/g8rguy)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/excuse-me-but-do-i-look-like-darth-vader/181244/30 "2003-06-12T18:02:30Z")
**Honey** , you are evil. So evil, in fact, that you almost are a match for **Scylla**. I like it! ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/excuse-me-but-do-i-look-like-darth-vader/181244/31 "2003-06-12T19:45:11Z")
I was in a restaurant in Lake Charles (Louisiana) with a local businessman. We were ready to order and he was calling the balck waiter everything in the book, right to his face. I wanted to crawl under the table! When he saw the look on my face he was like, “What? What do you call “them” where you come from?” I told him I would have said, “Sir, we are ready to order” and he had a look on his face much like what I imagine I had on mine. I just couldn’t beleive somebody would say that sort of thing in a public place. Without a pointy white hat covering his face at least. ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/excuse-me-but-do-i-look-like-darth-vader/181244/32 "2003-06-12T19:50:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by g8rguy \* > \*\ ***Honey** , you are evil. So evil, in fact, that you almost are a match for **Scylla**. I like it! \*\* Wadda ya mean _almost_…I park MY viper in handicapped spots and I pull the tails off newts. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/excuse-me-but-do-i-look-like-darth-vader/181244/33 "2003-06-12T23:44:23Z")
Newt Gingrich? Can I watch? Can I help? Do you videotape? ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/excuse-me-but-do-i-look-like-darth-vader/181244/34 "2003-06-12T23:54:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Gorgon Heap \* > \*\ ***Shibb** > > Errr? Do you mean under _no_ uncertain terms and that you are _not_ in their club? > > I hope so. > > \*\* Yikes! In no uncertain terms not only _not_ in their club… Another reason why one should never post before their first cup of coffee. Not only did I miss a key word, but that’s some damned awkward sentence construction. ---
**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:** [June 13, 2003, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/excuse-me-but-do-i-look-like-darth-vader/181244/35 "2003-06-13T00:25:01Z")
Darth Vader? More like Dark Helmet, if you ask me. Darth Vader would never get spooked by a remote controlled blimp. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2003, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/excuse-me-but-do-i-look-like-darth-vader/181244/36 "2003-06-13T00:26:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by elucidator \* > \*\*Newt Gingrich? Can I watch? Can I help? Do you videotape? \*\* No Newt is good Newt! ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2003, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/excuse-me-but-do-i-look-like-darth-vader/181244/37 "2003-06-13T00:55:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by elucidator \* > \*\*Newt Gingrich? Can I watch? Can I help? Do you videotape? \*\* :eek: Newt Gingrinch has a tail?.. Figures. ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2003, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/excuse-me-but-do-i-look-like-darth-vader/181244/38 "2003-06-13T01:15:22Z")
I just figured it out. Scylla is _really_ Stewie from the Family Guy. He grew up, his head went to normal proportions, and his sartorial sense went beyond Garanimals. It just makes _sense_. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2003, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/excuse-me-but-do-i-look-like-darth-vader/181244/39 "2003-06-13T04:02:17Z")
I build model planes, and one of them is a Messerschmitt Bf-109, it´s a WWII german plane, and of course, to keep the paint scheme it has a couple swasticas… I never fly it anymore I´m completely disgusted at the ocassional, “Hi there!, nice plane… _wink-wink_ you know what I like most? _wink-wink_” and they point to the swastica. I had devoloped a nice dagger-eyes look that kept them from saying anything more. Racist ain`t got a clue when they should keep their mouths shout; but a cold look usually does the trick. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2003, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/excuse-me-but-do-i-look-like-darth-vader/181244/40 "2003-06-13T13:12:22Z")
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