# Omar **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 3, 2010, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omar/545415 "2010-07-03T12:16:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Crawlspace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Crawlspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crawlspace)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2010, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omar/545415/61 "2010-07-05T06:00:40Z")
Omar Devon Little, 29 there abouts, a rip and run man from B’more. ---
**Author:** ![willthekittensurvive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/91b2a8/32.png) [@willthekittensurvive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/willthekittensurvive)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2010, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omar/545415/62 "2010-07-05T10:42:23Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > Without looking any further, before seeing what others may have said, what’s the first thing to pop into your mind when you think of “Omar”? the wire ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2010, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omar/545415/63 "2010-07-05T11:07:48Z")
Omar Little of _The Wire_ ---
**Author:** ![Springtime\_for\_Spacers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Springtime\_for\_Spacers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Springtime_for_Spacers)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2010, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omar/545415/64 "2010-07-05T11:09:55Z")
> [@Peanut\_Gallery](#): > > Omar Little,_The Wire_ Yep, me too, followed by Omar Khayam. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2010, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omar/545415/65 "2010-07-05T12:12:02Z")
Omar the Tentmaker/“Omar’s Tent and Awnings” I was also going to say Rageh Omar but it turns out he’s actually [Rageh Omaar](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rageh_Omaar). ---
**Author:** ![Anonymous\_Coward](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/94ad74/32.png) [@Anonymous\_Coward](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anonymous_Coward)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2010, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omar/545415/66 "2010-07-05T12:20:43Z")
Tentmaker! ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2010, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omar/545415/67 "2010-07-05T15:10:15Z")
Okay. As of post # 66, here are the ones that have been mentioned more than once: Omar Little, The Wire (16) Omar Sharif. (11) Omar Khayyam (8) “Omar the Tentmaker.” (6) General Omar Bradley comin’! (3) Omar Epps (3) Omar and the Howlers (2) ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2010, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omar/545415/68 "2010-07-05T15:22:29Z")
> [@digs](#): > > Omar the Tentmaker. I went to High School with him back in the 70’s. > > Of course, in Wauwatosa, he went by the name Richard. But we all knew he was Omar. Tosa West, or Tosa East? I went to West. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Swords\_to\_Plowshares](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Swords\_to\_Plowshares](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swords_to_Plowshares)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2010, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omar/545415/69 "2010-07-05T16:03:26Z")
Put me down for Omar Sharif. ---
**Author:** ![SecondJudith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@SecondJudith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SecondJudith)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2010, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omar/545415/70 "2010-07-05T19:27:51Z")
First, Omar the caliph, the one whose daughter was one of Muhammed’s wives. Second, Omar Little from The Wire. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2010, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omar/545415/71 "2010-07-06T01:42:24Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > Tosa West, or Tosa East? > > I went to West. > > Regards, > Shodan Wait-- I’ve made fun of Shodan and his “Regards…” line for so long… and now I find out we’re _both_ from the _same_ town?? Yikes! **(Next week, I discover that Rand Rover was my paperboy in the 80s and Carol Stream is in my mom’s book club!).** But I went to East. Though some of your classmates probably knew “Omar the Tentmaker”… especially if you palled around with that kid named Judson\*… \*wild wacky guy who went on to be… I’m not kidding here… a minister at a drive-in church. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2010, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omar/545415/72 "2010-07-06T10:17:08Z")
Sharif. Now if you will excuse me, I have to go book my room at the Retirement House… ---
**Author:** ![GoodOmens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@GoodOmens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GoodOmens)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2010, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omar/545415/73 "2010-07-06T10:29:10Z")
The sound of whistled “The Farmer in the Dell” on a dark city street, of course. What else could it be? ---
**Author:** ![ministryman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@ministryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ministryman)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2010, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omar/545415/74 "2010-07-06T16:19:36Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > Without looking any further, before seeing what others may have said, what’s the first thing to pop into your mind when you think of “Omar”? Jim Omar from Spider Robinson’s “Callahan” series. ---
**Author:** ![lawoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@lawoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawoot)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2010, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omar/545415/75 "2010-07-06T17:51:02Z")
Sharif ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2010, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omar/545415/76 "2010-07-06T18:29:16Z")
We’re in the middle of season four of _The Wire_, so I thought of Omar Little with his shotgun and his scar. ---
**Author:** ![DChord568](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@DChord568](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DChord568)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2010, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omar/545415/77 "2010-07-06T18:38:10Z")
I’m amazed that, while a couple of other stray baseball players have been brought up, not one poster has named the greatest ballplayer in the history of the game to bear the name Omar: Omar Vizquel. Apparently I’m one of the few sorry Cleveland Indians fans here. While Vizquel has played for other teams (and is still active at the age of 43), he spent his glory years with Cleveland. While Ozzie Smith gets all the ink, I believe an objective comparison would demonstrate that Vizquel is the greatest-fielding shortstop in the history of the game. His clutch hitting is another unappreciated aspect of Vizquel’s game. So Vizquel is definitely my immediate response if someone says “Omar.” Big deal in my household, not only for his play, but because my at-the-time teenage daughter had a big crush on him. She knew very little of baseball, but used to hurry into the room when he came to bat. “Oh, he’s so CUTE!” We tease her about that to this day. ---
**Author:** ![DChord568](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@DChord568](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DChord568)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2010, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omar/545415/78 "2010-07-06T18:54:30Z")
And now for the second-place winner in this poll for me: Years and years ago, long before they could obtain all the porn they could ever want with one click of the mouse, the horny adolescents of a bygone era had to rely on the dumb luck of somehow obtaining “dirty books” – those cheap paperbacks carried by certain stores. Probably initially acquired via shoplifting (I have to confess that I once did this myself) or perhaps raiding older brothers’ closets, they were furtively passed around by friends. The specifics of the ones I read have faded from memory – all except for one, which must have been my favorite. I still recall the title – _Slave of Lust_ – and can still picture the cover. The premise had something to do with a beautiful but sexually uptight secretary who somehow falls into the hands of a less-than-ethical psychiatrist. This guy hypnotizes her, planting a suggestion that when the name “Omar” is whispered to her, she will immediately turn into a wanton, sex-craving maniac…but of course, will have no memory of her activities once she exits the hypnotic state. Needless to say, the psychiatrist uses this scheme for his own benefit, and has his way with her at each session – graphically described, of course. And yet somehow, he’s portrayed as not really having evil intent (this was the mid-1960s, after all). He actually falls in love with this girl, and in the end he confesses his scheme to her. But as she has been “cured” of her hang-ups by his tender ministrations, they end up living happily ever after together! I guess the book must have had a powerful effect on me, because this is the second thing I think of at the mention of the name “Omar” – even though it’s probably been a good 45 years since I’ve laid eyes on it! ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2010, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omar/545415/79 "2010-07-06T20:26:27Z")
> [@DChord568](#): > > I’m amazed that, while a couple of other stray baseball players have been brought up, not one poster has named the greatest ballplayer in the history of the game to bear the name Omar: Omar Vizquel. See Posts #32 and #57. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Woo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7c8e57/32.png) [@Dr.Woo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Woo)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2010, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omar/545415/80 "2010-07-06T22:27:53Z")
Heh. I think of my very Irish father, whose middle name was Omar. Not Brendan or Declan or Brian, but Omar. Weird-o-rama. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omar/545415.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omar/545415.md?page=5)