# Gadhafi-Most unattractive world leader of all time? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 28, 2011, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gadhafi-most-unattractive-world-leader-of-all-time/587137 "2011-06-28T14:27:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2011, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gadhafi-most-unattractive-world-leader-of-all-time/587137/21 "2011-06-29T06:29:53Z")
> [@antonio107](#): > > Yeah, I heard a lot of old ladies talk about how handsome he was when he first took power. Age has caught up with him! Not only caught up with him but metaphorically sodomized him with a baton. ---
**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 29, 2011, 9:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gadhafi-most-unattractive-world-leader-of-all-time/587137/22 "2011-06-29T09:14:56Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Hmm. I think Jonathan Winters could’ve played him. I was thinking Walter Matthau. ---
**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 29, 2011, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gadhafi-most-unattractive-world-leader-of-all-time/587137/23 "2011-06-29T09:23:30Z")
> [@Terraplane](#): > > [King Charles II of Spain.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_II_of_Spain) My favorite part of that article: > [@](#): > > Joanna [the Mad] was two of Charles’ 16 great-great-great-grandmothers, six of his 32 great-great-great-great-grandmothers, and six of his 64 great-great-great-great-great-grandmothers. Jesus. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2011, 9:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gadhafi-most-unattractive-world-leader-of-all-time/587137/24 "2011-06-29T09:32:00Z")
I think we had a similar thread recently. Darned if I can find it though. [Here we are.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=604703&highlight=gaddafi) ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2011, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gadhafi-most-unattractive-world-leader-of-all-time/587137/25 "2011-06-29T10:25:25Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > [Robert “Piggy” Muldoon,](http://archives.govt.nz/gallery2/gallery/d/8315-2/The+Right+Honourable+Robert+Muldoon+in+the+Oval+Office_+24+July+1981+-+Official+Photograph_.jpg) New Zealand Prime Minister in the 1970s and 80s, wouldn’t have won any beauty contests. The scar on his cheek made him look like a Bond villain. Damn, he could play Blofeld… ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2011, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gadhafi-most-unattractive-world-leader-of-all-time/587137/26 "2011-06-29T12:49:02Z")
> [@TehBearJew](#): > > Manuel ‘Pineapple’ Noriega? Anyone? Agreed. Granted Gadhafi never had [Manuel Noriega](http://www.thepanamadigest.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/manuel-noriega.jpg)’s [super powers](http://bit.ly/jSWRuB)… ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2011, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gadhafi-most-unattractive-world-leader-of-all-time/587137/27 "2011-06-29T16:43:03Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > I think this says more about Seinfeld characters than anything else. DeGaulle was tall and imposing; the other two had homely faces but were not ugly. They had character and their faces showed it. > > Gadhafi (sp? who the hell knows), on the other hand, looks like he’s melting or something. Or maybe he used to have a picture in his attic. Anyway, probably the karmic results of an evil life. > Roddy Sorry, but I agree with the Seinfeld gang about Golda Meir. She was a severely unattractive woman. They’re wrong about DeGaulle and LBJ, however. Neither was especially ugly. Certainly not in the same league as the other people that have been mentioned. For my own contribution, how about Mikhail Gorbachev? That huge birthmark on his head made him the butt of many, many jokes. I wonder if Qadaffi might have been poisoned with dioxin or something like that, perhaps in a CIA attempt to assassinate him covertly. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc348/32.png) [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Flying_Dutchman)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2011, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gadhafi-most-unattractive-world-leader-of-all-time/587137/28 "2011-06-29T17:01:48Z")
Just wait till Elizabeth II dies. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2011, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gadhafi-most-unattractive-world-leader-of-all-time/587137/29 "2011-06-29T17:30:46Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > Plastic surgery. He looks like David Gest. I looked this guy up. [Wow.](http://www.google.com/search?complete=1&hl=en&biw=1400&bih=745&q=david%20gest&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi) Totally bizarre. He is in the “uncanny valley.” He looks like a human cartoon character. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2011, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gadhafi-most-unattractive-world-leader-of-all-time/587137/30 "2011-06-29T19:21:36Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > I think this says more about Seinfeld characters than anything else. DeGaulle was tall and imposing; the other two had homely faces but were not ugly. They had character and their faces showed it. > > Gadhafi (sp? who the hell knows), on the other hand, looks like he’s melting or something. Or maybe he used to have a picture in his attic. Anyway, probably the karmic results of an evil life. > Roddy Golda was ugly. ---
**Author:** ![pbbth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f9ae1b/32.png) [@pbbth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pbbth)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2011, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gadhafi-most-unattractive-world-leader-of-all-time/587137/31 "2011-06-29T20:02:39Z")
> [@AK84](#): > > Life actually ran a feature on how [good he looked as a young man](http://www.life.com/gallery/56781/image/51400852#index/0). Yikes! This is just proof that people should marry for love and companionship and not looks. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2011, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gadhafi-most-unattractive-world-leader-of-all-time/587137/32 "2011-06-29T20:03:29Z")
> [@AK84](#): > > Life actually ran a feature on how [good he looked as a young man](http://www.life.com/gallery/56781/image/51400852#index/0). Holy shit. Time has been exceedingly unkind to him, especially in comparison to how he used to look! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc348/32.png) [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Flying_Dutchman)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2011, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gadhafi-most-unattractive-world-leader-of-all-time/587137/33 "2011-06-29T20:40:49Z")
> [@AK84](#): > > Life actually ran a feature on how [good he looked as a young man](http://www.life.com/gallery/56781/image/51400852#index/0). What’s up with the left handed handshake ? Not that there is anything wrong with that. ---
**Author:** ![Apollyon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/apollyon/32/4238_2.png) [@Apollyon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apollyon)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2011, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gadhafi-most-unattractive-world-leader-of-all-time/587137/34 "2011-06-30T00:51:53Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > [Robert “Piggy” Muldoon,](http://archives.govt.nz/gallery2/gallery/d/8315-2/The+Right+Honourable+Robert+Muldoon+in+the+Oval+Office_+24+July+1981+-+Official+Photograph_.jpg) New Zealand Prime Minister in the 1970s and 80s, wouldn’t have won any beauty contests. The scar on his cheek made him look like a Bond villain. Ah yes, Muldoon was the first person I thought of on seeing the thread title – he looked like someone had dressed a potato in a suit. 🙂 To be fair though, we’ve had a fair few PMs (and leaders of the oppostion) that wouldn’t have won any beauty contests – I think since the PMs / party leaders are selected by their parties (rather than being publically voted on directly) being photogenic isn’t as much a prized quality. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc348/32.png) [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Flying_Dutchman)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2011, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gadhafi-most-unattractive-world-leader-of-all-time/587137/35 "2011-06-30T01:13:45Z")
> [@Apollyon](#): > > Ah yes, Muldoon was the first person I thought of on seeing the thread title – he looked like someone had dressed a potato in a suit. 🙂 > > To be fair though, we’ve had a fair few PMs (and leaders of the oppostion) that wouldn’t have won any beauty contests – I think since the PMs / party leaders are selected by their parties (rather than being publically voted on directly) being photogenic isn’t as much a prized quality. I thought he was rather handsome for his age. Go figure. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2011, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gadhafi-most-unattractive-world-leader-of-all-time/587137/36 "2011-06-30T01:20:07Z")
> [@aruvqan](#): > > Damn, he could play Blofeld… He did once play a crime boss in a New Zealand kids TV show, called _Terry and the Gunrunners_. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2011, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gadhafi-most-unattractive-world-leader-of-all-time/587137/37 "2011-06-30T01:23:29Z")
> [@Apollyon](#): > > Ah yes, Muldoon was the first person I thought of on seeing the thread title – he looked like someone had dressed a potato in a suit. 🙂 No, no. It was [Jim Bolger](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Bolger#Trivia) who was the potato. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2011, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gadhafi-most-unattractive-world-leader-of-all-time/587137/38 "2011-06-30T03:05:56Z")
> [@TehBearJew](#): > > Manuel ‘Pineapple’ Noriega? Anyone? Agree. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2011, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gadhafi-most-unattractive-world-leader-of-all-time/587137/39 "2011-06-30T08:11:41Z")
[Brian “Biffo” Cowen](http://www.jamessweetman.com/img/Brian_Cowen.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2011, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gadhafi-most-unattractive-world-leader-of-all-time/587137/40 "2011-06-30T13:33:49Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > No, no. It was [Jim Bolger](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Bolger#Trivia) who was the potato. Huh. He looks unremarkable to me - simply average. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gadhafi-most-unattractive-world-leader-of-all-time/587137.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gadhafi-most-unattractive-world-leader-of-all-time/587137.md?page=3)