Omar the Tentmaker, purveyor of fine dresses to women of a larger than average size since I was a kid.
Apologies in advance for the crude reference, but it is still the first thing that comes to mind when I hear Omar.
Second is Omar Shariff and his fine work in Lawrence of Arabia and Bridge columns in the newspaper.
The badass from “The Wire.”
A faction of cyborgs in Deus Ex: Invisible War, a game I’ve never played or seen. Bradley would probably be second, then Sharif, even though that’s not his real name.
As of Post # 100, here are the counts for those mentioned more than once:
Omar Little, The Wire (22)
Omar Sharif. (17)
Omar Khayyam (8)
“Omar the Tentmaker.” (7)
General Omar Bradley comin’! (5)
Omar Epps (3)
My favorite Omar: Vizquel. (3)
Omar and the Howlers (2)
Second was a cognate - the Caliph Umar. (2)
I still think it might be fun to categorize the one-mentions into some groups, but I haven’t figured out any meaningful groups yet. Any ideas for that?
Interesting. When I Google Omar, A listing for Omar Little appears at the top, while Sharif and Khayyam don’t even show up on the first page.
But when I Google “Omar Khayyam” it returns slightly more results than Googling “Omar Little”. And if I Google “Omar Khayyam” or “Omar the Tentmaker” (since they were the same guy) I get several times more results.
Which means… I don’t know what.
Little, no doubt.
As I’m rather a huge geek, and an animation fan, in specific, Omar, the (rather douchey) hero of Rock & Rule is the first that comes to mind.
‘Omar the Tentmaker’ is absolutely meaningless to me, as is Omar Little.
As a (lapsed) pilot and aviation fan, the VF-111 mascot really was the first ‘Omar’ to come to mind.
But the Tentmaker was the second. (Omar Khayyám was third, ann Sharif was fourth.)
A fraternity brother of mine from college.
Okay, friends and neighbors, here’s the collection (as of Post #109) of what I have been treating as “mentioned only once” in the order they were posted, and with ID info taken out.
If you can think of meaningful ways to group these so that similar responses can be counted as a group, please be my guest. In any case you can help proofread what I may have not counted in the summary at the top of the page (as of Post # 100).
markers above and below the selection.
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Sydney Omarr,
“Maybe the tiger ate his ass like Omar”
My friend Omar from high school.
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The Unsolved Mysteries episode with the teenage arsonist who taped his own work, with a whispered voiceover
that he no doubt thought was menacing but ended up sounding rather silly.
My THird Period grammar class, he sits on my left. Why?
Omar’s motorcycle parts.
The VF-111 mascot.
Omar Hakim, jazz fusion drummer supreme.
Minaya. But I’m a passionate Mets fan.
Panadería Omar, the neighborhood grocery market and bakery in my mom’s town.
Omar Gooding, Cuba’s brother and fellow thespian.
Omar Moreno – a fast-running but light- hitting centerfielder for the Pittsburgh Pirates in the late 1970s.
My ex-husband. That’s the ratbastard’s first name. Blech.
A wizard named Omar, from some story or other.
This song “Omar” which is inspired by Omar Sharif.
I think of me.
I was hoping that this thread might be about this guy: Omar
He’s the first thing that I thought of. He has a great voice.
Oops
then it was Omar Hassan from 24.
The Mosque of Omar in Jerusalem. I have no idea why.
Indeed
Omar the Snakeman, a local celebrity who eventually went to work for the Sheriff in Davidson County, I think.
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When I was in high school, one of the candies readily available from the school vending machine was M&Ms. One
day, I got a mutant M&M: small, bulbous, like two bits of chocolate cemented together with candy coating. My
best friend and I, with purest fifteen-year-old logic, decided to make a pet of this M&M. We got some tape and
assembled a little box out of notebook paper and put the candy inside and named him…
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This semi-stray cat my grandma kinda looked after. It was skittish until it got to know you a bit, and then it
was pretty cool. It didn’t like kids too much, and given the little hellions that lived around grandma’s
place, I can see why.
But the little fuckers knew to stay off grandma’s property, so Omar would just laze on her front porch of an
afternoon, catching rays and relaxing, accepting the occasional ear rub. He did let grandma put a flea collar
on him.
He’d disappear entirely in the winter, so we figured he may have actually belonged to someone, or had wandered
into someone’s life (and home) for the winter. But come spring he’d turn back up again, and hang around the
neighborhood all summer and fall.
I onced asked my grandma, “Why Omar?” She just said, “He looks like an Omar to me.”
She moved close to us in the spring of '83, and tried to coax Omar into coming with her (pet carrier, or just
Didn’t peek; how many mentions did Ikea wire racks get?
I was also going to say Rageh Omar but it turns out he’s actually Rageh Omaar.
Jim Omar from Spider Robinson’s “Callahan” series.
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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.
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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
A dude I know named Omar.
I guess I’m a terrible person, because first thing I thought was ‘terrorist.’ At least the second thing I
thought of was some sheikh or caliphate.
Jamie Farr as “The Shiek” in Cannonball Run
Omar (ben Sadek), one of the travel companions of Kara ben Nemsi in the Orient cycle (of Karl May), trying to
avenge his murdered father.
German link
Second, Omar Khayyam…
…Ravenhurst.
An acquaintence’s spoiled-rotten son.
For some reason, also, Akbar & Jeff.
I might as well ask in this thread, is/was the name Omar common in the US? It strikes me as a tad strange that
a US General of his generation was called Omar Bradley. Any story behind him name, was it a family name?
A faction of cyborgs in Deus Ex: Invisible War, a game I’ve never played or seen. Bradley would probably be
second, then Sharif, even though that’s not his real name.
As I’m rather a huge geek, and an animation fan, in specific, Omar, the (rather douchey) hero of Rock & Rule
is the first that comes to mind.
A fraternity brother of mine from college.
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An illustration of baseball players I made for a work project. I had to blacken the hair on one of them and rename him Omar to make it more racially diverse.
Sharif.
Teh country next to Yemer. 
Omar Sharif? Omar Epps? I dunno. Seriously, it’s a name. I wondered if Omar was a new show.
I assume that enough time has passed so that this summary of this thread can be presented without causing too much of an uproar.
If you’d like to add observations that relate to the Omar Little character on The Wire please consider posting them in “THE WIRE”: Your Favorite Characters from: OMAR since the summary is all about Omar Little’s popularity among The Wire fans.
As soon as I post this I will provide a link to this post in that thread for easy access to the summary, so that comments and reactions can be part of that thread.
If there are issues with the summary as far as this thread goes, here’s the place for that.
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#1 07-03-2010, 07:16 AM
Zeldar
Omar
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”?
#5 07-03-2010, 08:12 AM
An Gadaí
Guest Join Date: Mar 2007
General Omar Bradley comin’!
#16 07-03-2010, 09:28 AM
Peanut Gallery
Omar Little,The Wire
#21 07-03-2010, 11:51 AM
AuntiePam
“Omar comin’”.
Before The Wire I might have thought of Omar Sharif or Omar Khayam.
Michael K. Williams has a major role in Boardwalk Empire, the new HBO series.
#28 07-03-2010, 12:31 PM
descamisado
Of course as soon as I saw the username/thread title, I thought of Omar Little (just didn’t post). I wanted to finish my Noo-Pote first.
There’s also Omar Gooding, Cuba’s brother and fellow thespian.
#34 07-03-2010, 03:19 PM
Drain Bead
Quote:
Originally Posted by Peanut Gallery
Omar Little,The Wire
Ditto, and I only really watched the first season.
#37 07-03-2010, 08:11 PM
koeeoaddi
My favorite character in The Wire.
#38 07-03-2010, 08:26 PM
drm
Omar Little for me too.
#41 07-03-2010, 09:20 PM
Bob Ducca
First, “The Wire.”
Second, Sharif.
#43 07-03-2010, 11:01 PM
Tamerlane
Omar Little.
Second was a cognate - the Caliph Umar.
#44 07-03-2010, 11:09 PM
wmulax93
Omar from The Wire
#59 07-05-2010, 12:10 AM
drgnrdr07
Omar Little. The Wire’s resident badass.
#61 07-05-2010, 01:00 AM
Crawlspace
Omar Devon Little, 29 there abouts, a rip and run man from B’more.
#62 07-05-2010, 05:42 AM
willthekittensurvive?
the wire
#63 07-05-2010, 06:07 AM
don’t ask
Omar Little of The Wire
#64 07-05-2010, 06:09 AM
Springtime for Spacers
Quote:
Originally Posted by Peanut Gallery
Omar Little,The Wire
Yep, me too, followed by Omar Khayam.
#70 07-05-2010, 02:27 PM
SecondJudith
First, Omar the caliph, the one whose daughter was one of Muhammed’s wives.
Second, Omar Little from The Wire.
#73 07-06-2010, 05:29 AM
GoodOmens
The sound of whistled “The Farmer in the Dell” on a dark city street, of course. What else could it be?
#76 07-06-2010, 01:29 PM
Marley23
We’re in the middle of season four of The Wire, so I thought of Omar Little with his shotgun and his scar.
#89 07-07-2010, 09:45 AM
Left Hand of Dorkness
The Wire first.
Second, Omar Khayyam…
…Ravenhurst.
#92 07-07-2010, 10:34 AM
woodstockbirdybird
The character from The Wire. I’m guessing I’m in the majority here.
#99 07-08-2010, 02:29 PM
mhendo
Omar Little for me too. I’ve watched all of The Wire at least three times over.
#102 07-08-2010, 02:58 PM
River Hippie
The badass from “The Wire.”
#106 07-08-2010, 11:00 PM
Gestalt
Little, no doubt.
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Omar Khayyam.
For some we loved, the loveliest and the best
That from his vintage rolling Time has prest,
Have drunk their Cup a Round or Two before,
And one by one crept silently to rest.
Not sure this helps your thread. Through another message board I chatted regularly with a small group of friends. After a wacky conversation we ended up with nicknames for eachother that sometimes popped up on the boards.
When I saw the thread title my breath caught a little bit because one member of that group has passed on. Since that board uses the same software and looks similar I thought my brain stirred it all up and my first thought was that this thread would be announcing that my friend with the nickname “Omar” had also died.
He has not…and I know where I am and today’s date and who is serving as President of the United States.
Fascinating! It appears that you and Morgyn were faithful to the OP’s instructions! If this thread keeps going, it may be even more enlightening than it had been before the summary just above.
Glad to hear your friend is still with us, and sorry that whoever the other one was/is has departed.
The Tentmaker
Omar Little from the Wire;
Oh wait! Wait! Can’t I just say I thought of the guy who got hisself kilt this week defending his right to steal beer from his employer?
That the first Omar I thought of.
Good grief. I think I read the news too often.