# Life Size Cardboard Cutout -- Who Do You Want? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 14, 2016, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-size-cardboard-cutout-who-do-you-want/757346 "2016-06-14T14:25:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ASGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/838e76/32.png) [@ASGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2016, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-size-cardboard-cutout-who-do-you-want/757346/1 "2016-06-14T14:25:26Z")
About 10 years ago a local tavern I frequented was refurbishing and offered regular customers free “bar stuff” that they were going to throw away. I grabbed a life size cardboard cutout, in color, of Elvira, Mistress of the Dark in full costume and set it up just inside my front entry as a gag. Elvira is long gone but I sure wish I could get another. So the question is who would you want on _your_ life size cardboard cutout? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2016, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-size-cardboard-cutout-who-do-you-want/757346/2 "2016-06-14T14:48:08Z")
Galactus. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2016, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-size-cardboard-cutout-who-do-you-want/757346/3 "2016-06-14T14:50:45Z")
Chuck Norris. Even the cardboard cutout can repel a home invasion. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2016, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-size-cardboard-cutout-who-do-you-want/757346/4 "2016-06-14T15:06:55Z")
I’ve already got Dr. Evil and Frodo. That’ll do me. ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2016, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-size-cardboard-cutout-who-do-you-want/757346/5 "2016-06-14T15:07:19Z")
I had one of Rusty Wallace from back in his driving days. Gave it to a guy that claimed to be a huge Rusty fan. Found out later he used it for target practice. Apparently he found shooting at things that look lifelike to be more fun that bottles and cans. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2016, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-size-cardboard-cutout-who-do-you-want/757346/6 "2016-06-14T15:47:33Z")
I don’t know why but I am compelled to say “John Cleese.” ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2016, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-size-cardboard-cutout-who-do-you-want/757346/7 "2016-06-14T15:58:00Z")
I used to have one of Kathy Ireland, IIRC advertising for Budweiser. A mechanic friend of mine managed to get one of “The Most Interesting Man In The World” (aka TMIMITW) and regularly sends out snapchats of him and TMIMITW doing crazy things. It’s pretty hilarious. I’ve also made one of my wife and me that I had a lot of fun with. I think I’d like to have one of me. If it has to be a celebrity; I think you couldn’t go wrong with ‘The Dude’ from The Big Lebowski. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2016, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-size-cardboard-cutout-who-do-you-want/757346/8 "2016-06-14T15:58:52Z")
I’ve already got hobbits. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2016, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-size-cardboard-cutout-who-do-you-want/757346/9 "2016-06-14T15:58:53Z")
Harrison Ford in his Han Solo outfit. Always did like that scruffy-looking nerf-herder. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2016, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-size-cardboard-cutout-who-do-you-want/757346/10 "2016-06-14T16:55:28Z")
Richard Simmons ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2016, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-size-cardboard-cutout-who-do-you-want/757346/11 "2016-06-14T17:56:00Z")
Mikhail Gorbachev ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2016, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-size-cardboard-cutout-who-do-you-want/757346/12 "2016-06-14T17:56:29Z")
Tom Selleck, from his "Magnum, P.I. " days. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2016, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-size-cardboard-cutout-who-do-you-want/757346/13 "2016-06-14T18:01:39Z")
Mr. Spock. But it has to be the \*real \*Mr. Spock, none of that Zachary Quinto malarkey. ---
**Author:** ![MoonMoon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moonmoon/32/2959_2.png) [@MoonMoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MoonMoon)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2016, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-size-cardboard-cutout-who-do-you-want/757346/14 "2016-06-14T19:02:10Z")
Every time I think the strangest possible question has been posted on this site… ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2016, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-size-cardboard-cutout-who-do-you-want/757346/15 "2016-06-14T19:33:49Z")
When I was in high school in the early 80s, I worked at my father’s True Value hardware store. The store went out of business just before I graduated from high school; just before the store closed, I “rescued” a life-sized cutout of [Pat Summerall](http://theclassical.org/sites/default/files/MaddenNSummerall.jpg) (former NFL player, and, at that point, the lead NFL announcer on CBS), who was the spokesman for True Value stores. The cutout had him holding a “sign”, about 8x11, on which the store would post promotional flyers (such as for the “Value of the Month”). Pat went with me to college, as a very strange dorm-room decoration. We wound up sticking a wet-erase message board to his “sign”, for leaving messages to each other. He’s long gone now, and no, I don’t want him back. 🙂 Given a choice of any life-sized cutout today, I think I’d go with [Hayley Atwell](http://i.imgur.com/7yPdt3u.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2016, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-size-cardboard-cutout-who-do-you-want/757346/16 "2016-06-14T20:01:24Z")
> [@MoonMoon](#): > > Every time I think the strangest possible question has been posted on this site… It instantly winks out of existence and is replaced by an even stranger question. Peter Dinklage, no question. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2016, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-size-cardboard-cutout-who-do-you-want/757346/17 "2016-06-14T20:10:24Z")
I’d like Ant Man - when he got large! ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2016, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-size-cardboard-cutout-who-do-you-want/757346/18 "2016-06-14T20:25:08Z")
I have a Weeping Angel in my apartment. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2016, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-size-cardboard-cutout-who-do-you-want/757346/19 "2016-06-14T22:26:01Z")
I used to have two . . . Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable. ---
**Author:** ![GrizzRich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ba0ec/32.png) [@GrizzRich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrizzRich)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2016, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-size-cardboard-cutout-who-do-you-want/757346/20 "2016-06-14T22:31:02Z")
I would want two… One would be of Larry Fine and the other of Nigella Lawson. Obviously, for VASTLY different reasons. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-size-cardboard-cutout-who-do-you-want/757346.md?page=2)