# In Praise of Average Average Dopers! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 21, 2002, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-average-average-dopers/137921 "2002-11-21T13:24:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Mullinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@Mullinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mullinator)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2002, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-average-average-dopers/137921/21 "2002-11-21T17:47:50Z")
Based on numbers found [here.](http://www.nba.com/features/survey2002_height.html) The averages for an NBA player are 6’7.4", 225.4 pounds, and 27.34 years old. I am 6’9", 235, and 27 years old. It may be a small and specific subset, but I am average. ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2002, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-average-average-dopers/137921/22 "2002-11-21T18:35:34Z")
I’m 5’10" and 160-ish (and male, in case there’s some n00b who didn’t know that). I’m a 21-year-old highschool student with a GPA of around 2 (let’s be generous) going to Local University. One of my parents works outside the home and the other stayed home to raise four kids and the accompanying dogs. Every summer for several years we went on a one- or two-week vacation. While in high school I played, among other things, baseball and football. I lettered twice. I took all the typical classes and was in productions of some sort. I have brown hair. Based on _that_, I am essentially Joe Normal. But oh, the things that doesn’t tell about me:) ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2002, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-average-average-dopers/137921/23 "2002-11-22T00:01:02Z")
I’m pretty average looking… nothing exceptionally pretty about me (unless you count just my eyes) but the whole body thing… well I am taller than the average female… at least the ones I usually see, as I am 6’1 and weigh around 200lbs (mostly muscle) The height won’t exclude me will it? Oh and _Ginger_ the BMI is messed I think, at least for certain people because according to it I border on morbidly obese. I am not even CLOSE to that (heck I’ve been losing weight lately _notches her belt in again_) ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2002, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-average-average-dopers/137921/24 "2002-11-22T00:05:11Z")
I’m short, but average weight for my height. Average looks, average job, average kids, average pretty much everything. Woohoo! Go average! ---
**Author:** ![poohpah\_chalupa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/91b2a8/32.png) [@poohpah\_chalupa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/poohpah_chalupa)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2002, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-average-average-dopers/137921/25 "2002-11-22T00:10:39Z")
::looks around:: uhh, is there any place for us…sub-average people? Sub-average looks, sub-average smarts, etc. Do we need to start our own thread? ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2002, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-average-average-dopers/137921/26 "2002-11-22T00:32:53Z")
I’m 6’2", 185 lbs… ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2002, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-average-average-dopers/137921/27 "2002-11-22T00:51:41Z")
> [@](#): > > We all live ordinary average lives > With average kids > And average wives > We all go bowling at the bowling lanes > Drink a few beers > Bowl a few frames > We’re just ordinary average guys > Ordinary average guys Heh. Someone had to say it. . . Tripler “Pick up the dog doo, hope that it’s hard. . .” ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2002, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-average-average-dopers/137921/28 "2002-11-22T01:12:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Persephone \* > Average looks, … Persephone, you are hot. Anyone who tells you otherwise is … well, not selling something, but misinformed. ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2002, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-average-average-dopers/137921/29 "2002-11-22T01:55:02Z")
I am…uh…_above_ average in weight [sub]I always have been an over achiever![sub] but average just about everywhere else. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2002, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-average-average-dopers/137921/30 "2002-11-22T02:05:45Z")
Dear Penthouse Forum, I never thought this would happen to me! I was walking down the street, and I saw this average woman! And since I’m average myself . . . ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2002, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-average-average-dopers/137921/31 "2002-11-22T02:06:43Z")
I’m utterly gorgeous, but I have an Average Family. We’re a happy family We’re a happy family We’re a happy family Me mom and daddy Sitting here in Queens Eating refried beans We’re in all magazines Gulpin’ down thorazines We ain’t got no friends Our troubles never end No christmas cards to send Daddy likes men ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2002, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-average-average-dopers/137921/32 "2002-11-22T06:25:42Z")
Slightly above average height. On the overweight side of healthy (which in the US is average). Average face. Average job. Average apartment. Average car. Yep. Go me. ---
**Author:** ![Lux\_Fiat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bc79bd/32.png) [@Lux\_Fiat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lux_Fiat)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2002, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-average-average-dopers/137921/33 "2002-11-22T06:37:24Z")
I am extremely average as far as clothes go. All the dress shirts are in my size, and I have precisely no trouble finding pants that fit. Shoes, either. Physically, I am utterly average. And then I open my mouth to speak. And I get looks, as Bill Hicks has said, like a dog that’s been shown a card trick. Averageness out the window. ---
**Author:** ![Creaky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e68b1a/32.png) [@Creaky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Creaky)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2002, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-average-average-dopers/137921/34 "2002-11-22T07:08:07Z")
Average intelligintz. ---
**Author:** ![aenea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c68b51/32.png) [@aenea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aenea)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2002, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-average-average-dopers/137921/35 "2002-11-22T14:36:26Z")
Hamma, I call Bullshit You are way way way above average, AND you know it! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2002, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-average-average-dopers/137921/36 "2002-11-22T14:44:09Z")
Don’t call Hama “Bullshit”. She will be sad. Besides which, she’s not just average in her temper, and she’ll kick your ass! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Tygr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df788c/32.png) [@Tygr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tygr)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2002, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-average-average-dopers/137921/37 "2002-11-22T14:54:10Z")
Awright, [sub](hurls glove to the ground)[/sub] just _WHO_ has been telling **Hama** she’s average?!? T’aint so, McGee. -Tygr, “too pretty to be ugly” ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Cynical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee59a6/32.png) [@Mr.Cynical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Cynical)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2002, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-average-average-dopers/137921/38 "2002-11-22T14:56:15Z")
I like you average people, but not to any great length or anything. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-average-average-dopers/137921.md?page=1)