# Put a face on a Doper you've never seen -- Round 2

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-a-face-on-a-doper-youve-never-seen-round-2/397678>\
**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\
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**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, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-a-face-on-a-doper-youve-never-seen-round-2/397678/21 "2007-03-27T16:22:28Z")

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[QUOTE=BarnOwl]  
Sniff.

Nobody cares what I look like, but you can see several shots of myself, my wife, our kids and our grandkids at:

> **[Google Search](http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=Barn+Owl&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2)**

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Which one is you?

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**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, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-a-face-on-a-doper-youve-never-seen-round-2/397678/22 "2007-03-27T16:24:12Z")

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[QUOTE=BarnOwl]

[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.  
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Aw, thanks! Middle-age has reared its ugly head, but I’m still able to fend it off with a whip and chair…for now.

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**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, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-a-face-on-a-doper-youve-never-seen-round-2/397678/23 "2007-03-27T16:24:27Z")

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Oh yeah. **Sampiro** looks like John Waters.

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**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, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-a-face-on-a-doper-youve-never-seen-round-2/397678/24 "2007-03-27T16:26:45Z")

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[QUOTE=NurseCarmen]  
Which one is you?  
[/QUOTE]  
Actually none of them. You see, I’m a pet of Valerie Plame, but unlike her, I’m still covert. No photos allowed.

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**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, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-a-face-on-a-doper-youve-never-seen-round-2/397678/25 "2007-03-27T16:27:29Z")

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[QUOTE=Argent Towers]

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.**  
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I always think of [http://www.google.com/musicl?lid=nXnfvapOW2K&aid=2-L8n0sXQaM](http://www.google.com/musicl?lid=nXnfvapOW2K&aid=2-L8n0sXQaM) when I think of you!

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**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, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-a-face-on-a-doper-youve-never-seen-round-2/397678/26 "2007-03-27T16:33:18Z")

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Wasn’t there a Kalhoun character on Amos and Andy - the radio or TV program?

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**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, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-a-face-on-a-doper-youve-never-seen-round-2/397678/27 "2007-03-27T16:34:27Z")

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[QUOTE=monstro]  
Oh yeah. **Sampiro** looks like John Waters.  
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**Sampiro** looks like Kevin Spacey in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.  
[http://www.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0119668/Ss/0119668/1-3.jpg.html?path=gallery&path\_key=0119668](http://www.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0119668/Ss/0119668/1-3.jpg.html?path=gallery&path_key=0119668)

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**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, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-a-face-on-a-doper-youve-never-seen-round-2/397678/28 "2007-03-27T16:35:56Z")

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[QUOTE=BarnOwl]  
Sniff.

Nobody cares what I look like  
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Without looking, I have to think you are feathery brown all over and rectangular. I am very literal-minded. \<Peeks at link.\> I win!

> [@Kalhoun](#):
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> I picture Gigi as a petite and perky 30-something with a little rosebud mouth.

Is there a prize for most different from impression? [I am petite](http://s87.photobucket.com/albums/k140/gigisdmb/?action=view&current=of50332442.jpg) only in relation to that bear. 5’10" 316.5#, slothful not perky 🆒 Although I do hope I have a tiny bit of Sarah Vowell’s brilliant dry wit.

[QUOTE=Phlosphr]  
**Lynn Bodoni** looks like Margot Kidder.  
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Yes!

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**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, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-a-face-on-a-doper-youve-never-seen-round-2/397678/29 "2007-03-27T16:45:45Z")

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[QUOTE=BarnOwl]  
Wasn’t there a Kalhoun character on Amos and Andy - the radio or TV program?  
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There was, indeed, but I believe he was a Calhoun, as in the Civil War era statesman. The way Amos and Andy and Kingfish referred to him on [the show](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amos_and_Andy) you’d think his name was spelled almost “Cowell-hoon” or with a big emphasis on the HOON part.

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**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2007, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-a-face-on-a-doper-youve-never-seen-round-2/397678/30 "2007-03-27T17:23:11Z")

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> Oh yeah. Sampiro looks like John Waters.

I couldn’t agree more.

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**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2007, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-a-face-on-a-doper-youve-never-seen-round-2/397678/31 "2007-03-27T17:23:55Z")

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**Kalhoun** is indeed very pretty, but far different that what I imagined.

For **gigi** , I expected somewhat longer blonde hair. And not as tall.

**Giraffe** is tall, yellow, and spotted.

**Liberal** is ruddy-skinned middle age with short balck hair and a weathered face.

**JayneNewell** is a slender pretty thing with long brown hair.

**velvetjones** has shoulder-length black hair, fair skin, bright eyes and a wide smile.

**Argent towers** is young, little too thin, has short blond hair and wire-framed glasses.

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**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, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-a-face-on-a-doper-youve-never-seen-round-2/397678/32 "2007-03-27T17:26:26Z")

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[QUOTE=tdn]  
**Kalhoun** is indeed very pretty, but far different that what I imagined.

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More like this?  
[http://sweb.uky.edu/~btsmit2/large\_marge.jpg](http://sweb.uky.edu/~btsmit2/large_marge.jpg)

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**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, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-a-face-on-a-doper-youve-never-seen-round-2/397678/33 "2007-03-27T17:33:29Z")

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[QUOTE=tdn]

**Argent towers** is young, little too thin, has short blond hair and wire-framed glasses.  
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20, formerly buff, still semi-built; medium dark hair, almost black; I do have glasses but they’re not wire-framed.

[Picture of me.](https://oncourse.iu.edu/access/content/user/akentisa/Filemanager_Public_Files/newpic3-1.JPG)

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**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2007, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-a-face-on-a-doper-youve-never-seen-round-2/397678/34 "2007-03-27T17:34:15Z")

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[QUOTE=Kalhoun]  
More like this?  
[http://sweb.uky.edu/~btsmit2/large\_marge.jpg](http://sweb.uky.edu/~btsmit2/large_marge.jpg)  
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EXACTLY like that!

Actually, I pictured you as having longer darker hair, and more mysterious and less open face. Open in a good way, of course.

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**Author:** ![Sarahfeena](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarahfeena/32/519_2.png) [@Sarahfeena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarahfeena)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2007, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-a-face-on-a-doper-youve-never-seen-round-2/397678/35 "2007-03-27T17:36:41Z")

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[QUOTE=Autumn Almanac]  
**Sarahfeena** has really short, deep red hair, like Sarah McLachlan circa _Surfacing_.  
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Ooh, I’d love to have red hair to go with my pasty Irish complexion, but actually my hair is very dark (almost black), and I generally wear it long & straight (about 1/2 way down my back).

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**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2007, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-a-face-on-a-doper-youve-never-seen-round-2/397678/36 "2007-03-27T17:36:59Z")

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[QUOTE=Argent Towers]  
[Picture of me.](https://oncourse.iu.edu/access/content/user/akentisa/Filemanager_Public_Files/newpic3-1.JPG)  
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Wow, I couldn’t have been more wrong. I got your coloration all wrong. I pictured you as much lighter. I also thought of you as identical twins.

Must be the user name.

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**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, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-a-face-on-a-doper-youve-never-seen-round-2/397678/37 "2007-03-27T17:37:15Z")

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Yeah, I definitely saw **Kalhoun** as dark-haired and no-nonsense, kind of a tomboy. **Jodi** too, with the clipped tone of a L&O lawyer. I just saw **Missy2U** in another thread–she strikes me as long wavy blond hair and a gentle face.

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**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, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-a-face-on-a-doper-youve-never-seen-round-2/397678/38 "2007-03-27T17:38:36Z")

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[QUOTE=Argent Towers]  
20, formerly buff, still semi-built; medium dark hair, almost black; I do have glasses but they’re not wire-framed.

[Picture of me.](https://oncourse.iu.edu/access/content/user/akentisa/Filemanager_Public_Files/newpic3-1.JPG)  
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That’s pretty close to what I would have said. Except for the silver-framed glasses I picture.

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**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, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-a-face-on-a-doper-youve-never-seen-round-2/397678/39 "2007-03-27T17:41:13Z")

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[QUOTE=gigi]  
Yeah, I definitely saw **Kalhoun** as dark-haired and no-nonsense, kind of a tomboy. **Jodi** too, with the clipped tone of a L&O lawyer. I just saw **Missy2U** in another thread–she strikes me as long wavy blond hair and a gentle face.  
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**Jodi** is kind of a Katie Kouric type in my brain. **Missy2U** …I pictured her kind of Irish-looking; very fair with red curly hair.

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**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2007, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-a-face-on-a-doper-youve-never-seen-round-2/397678/40 "2007-03-27T17:47:30Z")

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How about moi?

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