# Put a face on a Doper you've never seen -- Round 2 **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 27, 2007, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-a-face-on-a-doper-youve-never-seen-round-2/397678 "2007-03-27T14:23:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2007, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-a-face-on-a-doper-youve-never-seen-round-2/397678/1 "2007-03-27T14:23:24Z")
Right at a year ago [Put a face on a Doper you’ve never seen](http://208.100.26.199/sdmb/showthread.php?t=360055) generated three pages of responses. Maybe it’s time for an update? If you have met the Doper in question, or have seen her or his picture in one of the “pic threads” than please don’t include your impression of that Doper here. This is purely for the impression you have built up over time by way of things the Doper has said or hinted at about how he or she looks, or by way of those mental images we all tend to form based on maybe nothing in particular. I had a revelation recently when I saw **Kalhoun** ’s picture in the latest “pic thread” and even commented to her how it wrecked by mental image of her. And there are others whose pictures have come as surprises. I’d say my mental image is right or nearly so, maybe half (or less) of the time. But that doesn’t prevent the process from taking place. I have some form of mental image of almost every Doper whose gender I’m pretty sure of, and even some whose gender, age, nationality, “race” or whatever hasn’t been specified yet. Here’s you chance to verbalize those striking images you have formed. Here’s the intro (OP) from that older thread: > [@](#): > > Title says it. If you’ve seen a Doper in real life or on one of the photo threads, don’t go any further. > > This has to be a sight-unseen exercise. > > Using well-known celebrities (in the loosest sense = liable to have been seen by more than half the Dopers) with (hopefully) a link to a picture that’s close to what you see, put a face on your favorite Doper(s). > > If you can’t find a picture, or if the “celebrity” you’re seeing isn’t that well known, then paint a word picture of what that Doper looks like. Hair color, if any. Eye color. Distinguishing features. Face shape. > > In short, pretend you’re giving a description to one of those guys with the Identi-Kit so they can locate this person. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2007, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-a-face-on-a-doper-youve-never-seen-round-2/397678/2 "2007-03-27T14:46:08Z")
Heh-heh. **Eve** told me she always pictured me kind of like Foghorn Leghorn. I picture **Zeldar** …just like Zeldar. Probably playing ring toss with his wife’s cone. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2007, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-a-face-on-a-doper-youve-never-seen-round-2/397678/3 "2007-03-27T14:55:55Z")
[QUOTE=Kalhoun] Heh-heh. **Eve** told me she always pictured me kind of like Foghorn Leghorn. I picture **Zeldar** …just like Zeldar. Probably playing ring toss with his wife’s cone. [/QUOTE] Something like[– this –](http://snl.jt.org/arc/char/DaAy-Beldar%20Conehead.jpg) maybe? Not even close! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2007, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-a-face-on-a-doper-youve-never-seen-round-2/397678/4 "2007-03-27T15:03:43Z")
**Zeldar** , I picture you as a not-to-tall, not-too-big dark-haired white guy, perhaps with an olive complexion. Wearing a blue knit shirt with a golden-yellow lightning bolt across the front. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2007, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-a-face-on-a-doper-youve-never-seen-round-2/397678/5 "2007-03-27T15:17:05Z")
I picture **qadgop the mercotan** as a sort of Hugh Laurie/House person. But much fatter ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2007, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-a-face-on-a-doper-youve-never-seen-round-2/397678/6 "2007-03-27T15:17:46Z")
I picture **Gigi** as a petite and perky 30-something with a little rosebud mouth. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2007, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-a-face-on-a-doper-youve-never-seen-round-2/397678/7 "2007-03-27T15:19:31Z")
I think of Kalhoun as a short, non-nonsense woman in a cowboy hat. Possibly sporting spurs, with a lot of brunette hair. I’m pretty sure she’s short, but the cowboy hat? Somehow “Kalhoun” shouts “western” to me. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2007, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-a-face-on-a-doper-youve-never-seen-round-2/397678/8 "2007-03-27T15:24:16Z")
[QUOTE=Ellen Cherry] I think of Kalhoun as a short, non-nonsense woman in a cowboy hat. Possibly sporting spurs, with a lot of brunette hair. I’m pretty sure she’s short, but the cowboy hat? Somehow “Kalhoun” shouts “western” to me. [/QUOTE] That cracks me up. No cowboy hats here! [http://new.photos.yahoo.com/karlen1956/photo/294928803221076320/109](http://new.photos.yahoo.com/karlen1956/photo/294928803221076320/109) Bottom right. Ellen Cherry strikes me as late 20s with long blonde hair. And big earrings. ---
**Author:** ![Bobotheoptimist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/919ad9/32.png) [@Bobotheoptimist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bobotheoptimist)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2007, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-a-face-on-a-doper-youve-never-seen-round-2/397678/9 "2007-03-27T15:25:37Z")
**Hippy\_Hollow** I picture as a Denzel Washington type, but maybe with John Lennon glasses and an extra few pounds. No real reason, just his style of writing I guess ---
**Author:** ![Autumn\_Almanac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d26b3c/32.png) [@Autumn\_Almanac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autumn_Almanac)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2007, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-a-face-on-a-doper-youve-never-seen-round-2/397678/10 "2007-03-27T15:29:30Z")
**Diogenes the Cynic** is a middle-aged guy with dark hair, maybe like Gary Sinise, but with a deeper voice. **Stranger on a Train** has messy, jet-black hair, like Tom Cruise’s son in _War of the Worlds_ but a few years older. **Sarahfeena** has really short, deep red hair, like Sarah McLachlan circa _Surfacing_. **Incubus** looks like the lead singer from Incubus (go figure). **WhyNot** has a really round face, shoulder-length dark hair with pink streaks, full/curvy figure. **tomndebb** is Mark Harmon but a bit younger. **catsix** is petite with brown hair and really intense eyes. **Kalhoun** is Tina Fey. **matt\_mcl** is Ben Affleck. **Tuckerfan** looks just like my old boss-- tall and wiry, short reddish brown hair, moustache. **Lynn Bodoni** looks kind of like Julianne Moore, but with darker hair. **Hippy\_Hollow** is Jeffrey Wright. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2007, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-a-face-on-a-doper-youve-never-seen-round-2/397678/11 "2007-03-27T15:35:57Z")
Being a little familiar (at least in memory) with the Leslie Caron _Gigi_ from way back when, I have a little bit of influence from that image, but mostly I visualize **gigi** as a cross between [Sarah Vowell](http://images.barnesandnoble.com/pimages/writers/images/VowellSarah_1l.jpg) (more for voice and facial expressions) and [Amy Sedaris](http://content.clearchannel.com/Photos/female_celebrities/amy_sedaris/amy_sedaris_EvanAgostini.jpg) (for the impish qualities). ---
**Author:** ![Phlosphr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Phlosphr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlosphr)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2007, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-a-face-on-a-doper-youve-never-seen-round-2/397678/12 "2007-03-27T15:41:02Z")
**Kalhoun** always struck me as the no-bullshit mom we were all afraid of when we went over our friends houses…the one that limited the amount of snacks we could have 😃 . With a look, I was wrong 😉 **Liberal** always struck me as the grumpy 40 something guy who played chess against college prof’s to show them they were nitwits. Then go home and revel in it on his own in a Dr. Evil sort of way. Probably a nice chap though… **Qadgop** - always struck me as the white coat doctor who was completely in shape and everyone got pissed at because he took care of himself and we didn’t. Then I realized he was as normal as the rest of us. **Lynn Bodoni** looks like Margot Kidder. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2007, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-a-face-on-a-doper-youve-never-seen-round-2/397678/13 "2007-03-27T15:52:06Z")
[QUOTE=Kalhoun] Ellen Cherry strikes me as late 20s with long blonde hair. And big earrings. [/QUOTE] HA. I’m an old bat in my 40s with a passel of kids. VERY short, dark (graying) hair and, well, big earrings sometimes. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2007, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-a-face-on-a-doper-youve-never-seen-round-2/397678/14 "2007-03-27T15:57:30Z")
[QUOTE=gigi] **Zeldar** , I picture you as a not-to-tall, not-too-big dark-haired white guy, perhaps with an olive complexion. Wearing a blue knit shirt with a golden-yellow lightning bolt across the front. [/QUOTE] I’m 5’9", 210, graying (mostly gray) brown hair, salt-and-pepper beard, wire-rim glasses, rarely wear knit shirts and none of them have any insignia at all. My wife says I have “Raymond Burr” eyes, but I can’t be sure what she means except they’re kinda puffy. Others have said I look like [Shelby Foote](http://home.gwi.net/~jscarp/images/shelby%20foote.JPG) but my nose is more pug than his. ---
**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:** [March 27, 2007, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-a-face-on-a-doper-youve-never-seen-round-2/397678/15 "2007-03-27T16:03:36Z")
**Der Trihs** is in his early thirties, has a beard, and looks like an alternative rock/activist guy. **RedFury** looks the same, but younger. **Johnny L.A.** is a cocky-looking guy with spiked black hair and a goatee. Since he’s a serious rider I always imagine him with a motorcycle jacket (one of the really professional-looking ones made of synthetic fabrics and Kevlar, not a leather one.) **clairobscur** looks like the guys in [Air.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:AirTalkieWalkiealbumcover.jpg) I have no idea how old he is or what he actually looks like but when I think of French guys I think of Air. I know **Kalhoun** is a woman but every time I see the name, I think of my friend Mark, because his AIM screen-name was **Kuhndog** for years. The two names are just too similar in the way they look at first glance for me to see anything but Mark when I think of **Kalhoun.** ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2007, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-a-face-on-a-doper-youve-never-seen-round-2/397678/16 "2007-03-27T16:03:57Z")
For some reason I’ve always seen Zeldar as a female cartoon character. Isn’t there some sort of video game character by that name? Not that I can throw rocks about the confusion of female name/male poster from _my_ glass house. ---
**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2007, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-a-face-on-a-doper-youve-never-seen-round-2/397678/17 "2007-03-27T16:06:43Z")
[QUOTE=Kalhoun] That cracks me up. No cowboy hats here! [http://new.photos.yahoo.com/karlen1956/photo/294928803221076320/109](http://new.photos.yahoo.com/karlen1956/photo/294928803221076320/109) **Bottom right**. Oh Kalhoun! You’re much, much prettier than I had a right to expect!!! Someone with so many wonderful traits such as you have, doesn’t have a right to be so good looking. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2007, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-a-face-on-a-doper-youve-never-seen-round-2/397678/18 "2007-03-27T16:12:43Z")
[QUOTE=NurseCarmen] For some reason I’ve always seen Zeldar as a female cartoon character. Isn’t there some sort of video game character by that name? Not that I can throw rocks about the confusion of female name/male poster from _my_ glass house. [/QUOTE] It wouldn’t surprise me if there’s a female Zeldar character. Beldar was Dan Aykroyd’s Conehead name (see above). Maybe Zelda Fitzgerald (F. Scott’s wife) made it to the comics, Betty Boop style? No clue, otherwise. ---
**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2007, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-a-face-on-a-doper-youve-never-seen-round-2/397678/19 "2007-03-27T16:13:19Z")
Sniff. Nobody cares what I look like, but you can see several shots of myself, my wife, our kids and our grandkids at: [http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=Barn+Owl&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2](http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=Barn+Owl&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2) ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2007, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-a-face-on-a-doper-youve-never-seen-round-2/397678/20 "2007-03-27T16:21:02Z")
**Zoe** is a short, pleasantly plump woman with a pear-shaped figure and twinkling eyes. **jsgoddess** is slender and petite, with blonde hair. **Askia** looks like that guy who played Miles on _Soul Food_ (the movie, not the TV show). **Biggirl** looks like Angie Stone. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-a-face-on-a-doper-youve-never-seen-round-2/397678.md?page=2)