# Put a face on a Doper you've never seen **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 22, 2006, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-a-face-on-a-doper-youve-never-seen/345664 "2006-02-22T18:57:20Z")\ **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:** [February 22, 2006, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-a-face-on-a-doper-youve-never-seen/345664/1 "2006-02-22T18:57:20Z")
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:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-a-face-on-a-doper-youve-never-seen/345664/2 "2006-02-22T19:37:43Z")
\*\*Mr Bus Guy \*\* is a younger, brunett William H Macy \*\*Mr Blue Sky \*\* looks like Constantin from last year’s _American Idol_ \*\*eleanorigby \*\* is petite, with curly/wavy light brown/dark blond hair, with a BIG smile ---
**Author:** ![The\_Mad\_Hermit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5ac83/32.png) [@The\_Mad\_Hermit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mad_Hermit)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-a-face-on-a-doper-youve-never-seen/345664/3 "2006-02-22T19:51:41Z")
OK, I’ll play… By the descriptons I found, **faithfool** looks like [this.](http://www.deaconlight.com/music/records/1979/cars_candyo.html) **Zeldar** is a Conehead. Most of the other Dopers whoi come to mind, I have seen personally. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-a-face-on-a-doper-youve-never-seen/345664/4 "2006-02-22T20:55:33Z")
When I see Bosda Di’ Chi of Tricor’s name I picture Fred Armisen on [SNL](http://i.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/021031/163211__fred_l.jpg) **Scylla** makes me picture [Harry Hamlin](http://www.nndb.com/people/152/000025077/harry-hamlin-sized.jpg) I’ll come up with more later. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-a-face-on-a-doper-youve-never-seen/345664/5 "2006-02-22T21:15:47Z")
> [@The Mad Hermit](#): > > … > > By the descriptons I found, **faithfool** looks like [this.](http://www.deaconlight.com/music/records/1979/cars_candyo.html)… Oh dear Bog how I wish! Actually, I’m closer to this picture [Jenna](http://www.movie-gazette.com/directory/directory.asp?strsearch=Jenna+Elfman), except with shorter hair, a more rounded face and obviously, not nearly, well, her. 😛 And despite my total enamoration with **The Hermit** , I only see him as the knight in shining armor. He hasn’t given me enough real world daydreams with which to indulge a mental image. Dang it. 😉 Surely he will though. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-a-face-on-a-doper-youve-never-seen/345664/6 "2006-02-22T21:19:36Z")
Ok, that should have been made clear that I meant _ **Elfman** _ NOT _ **Jameson** _ ! :eek: :eek: :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-a-face-on-a-doper-youve-never-seen/345664/7 "2006-02-22T22:18:01Z")
[Mr Bus Guy](http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/images/1600/onthebuses.jpg) [EddieTeddyFreddy](http://www.carepackagecorner.com/stores/images/images_454/ACC11377.jpg)🙂 (not really) ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-a-face-on-a-doper-youve-never-seen/345664/8 "2006-02-22T22:26:39Z")
and mustn’t forget [David Simmons](http://www.bromfieldhall.co.uk/richard%20todd.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Ghanima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Ghanima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ghanima)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-a-face-on-a-doper-youve-never-seen/345664/9 "2006-02-22T22:37:13Z")
I imagine Eve looking something like [this.](http://www.sheilaomalley.com/archives/harpers.jpg) And Inigo Montoya: like [this.](http://media.lawrence.com/img/photos/2005/04/07/inigomontoya.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-a-face-on-a-doper-youve-never-seen/345664/10 "2006-02-22T23:49:54Z")
> [@Bippy the Beardless](#): > > and mustn’t forget > [David Simmons](http://www.bromfieldhall.co.uk/richard%20todd.jpg) That’s a great choice. ---
**Author:** ![Birdmonster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/71e660/32.png) [@Birdmonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Birdmonster)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2006, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-a-face-on-a-doper-youve-never-seen/345664/11 "2006-02-23T00:28:01Z")
**lisener** looks like [Flannery O’Connor.](http://www.jimmyakin.org/images/flannery_oconnor.jpg) I feel very strongly about this. ---
**Author:** ![Birdmonster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/71e660/32.png) [@Birdmonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Birdmonster)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2006, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-a-face-on-a-doper-youve-never-seen/345664/12 "2006-02-23T00:30:59Z")
…even though I think I misspelled her username. Drat. ---
**Author:** ![Ensign\_Edison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ab992/32.png) [@Ensign\_Edison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ensign_Edison)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2006, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-a-face-on-a-doper-youve-never-seen/345664/13 "2006-02-23T00:38:37Z")
> [@Birdmonster](#): > > …even though I think I misspelled her username. > Drat. And he’s not a she, as far as I know, but I don’t have any, uh, inside info on the matter. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2006, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-a-face-on-a-doper-youve-never-seen/345664/14 "2006-02-23T00:42:07Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > \*\*eleanorigby \*\* is petite, with curly/wavy light brown/dark blond hair, with a BIG smile Aw, shucks. Except for the petite part (I am 5’7") you are quite right! There is a pic of me floating around Doper cyberspace–can’t find it for the life of me at present. (it’s me 20 years ago, but this is cyber space where all things are possible). I don’t really have pics in my mind of any Doper–you’re all like those melting color lights that signifiy intelligence to the original Star Trek crew in some dam episode(no, I don’t need to know the episode number and air date!). 😃 ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2006, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-a-face-on-a-doper-youve-never-seen/345664/15 "2006-02-23T01:05:09Z")
Thanks to **roger thornhill** ’s evocative username, I will always picture him as Cary Grant. ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2006, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-a-face-on-a-doper-youve-never-seen/345664/16 "2006-02-23T01:44:12Z")
I think **pinkfreud** must look like [this](http://www.meideinbrasilnl.blogger.com.br/PinkFreud.jpg). Nice cleavage. Seriously. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2006, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-a-face-on-a-doper-youve-never-seen/345664/17 "2006-02-23T03:27:33Z")
In absolutely no particular order: Askia as [hair down Lenny Kravitz](http://www.otvoreni.hr/UserDocsImages/lenny%20kravitz%2010.jpg) Diogenes the Cynic as Raiders era John Rhys Davies Shirley Ujest as Madelyn Kahn Annie Xmas as Bernadette Peters Martin Hyde as Jim Bakker Zoe as Dixie Carter Eve as Joan Crawford as Norma Desmond as Nellie Olesen Otto as Roddy McDowell (pre Cornelius) TomnDebb as- can’t think of the name, but one of those Vaudeville performers who has lipstick and rouge on half the face and jet black hair and a moustache on the other side Swampbear as John Goodman ca. Revenge of the Nerds IrishGirl as [Fleur Delacour](http://ewancient.lysator.liu.se/pic/fanq/e/m/emn2/fleur.jpg) Bricker as [Cornelius Vanderbilt](http://www.tschoepe.de/auktion50/bilder/Vanderbild_port.jpg) (but younger than in that picture obviously) Zev Steinhardt as [Richard Schiff](http://www.nndb.com/people/856/000102550/richard-schiff-2.jpg) IvyLass as Delta Burke (ca. early _Designing Women_ ME Buckner as Jack Palance Do not ask me “Why?” on any of these. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2006, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-a-face-on-a-doper-youve-never-seen/345664/18 "2006-02-23T04:37:05Z")
I’ve met a handful of Dopers, and have seen pictures of several more: I collect them from photo threads and wherever they pop up, and keep them on my hard drive for future reference (currently I have 431 pics). However, there are still many folks I’ve neither seen photos of nor met in person. With absolutely no rhyme or reason, I imagine that **twickster** resembles [Sally Field](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000398/). I think of **Campion** as a somewhat “softer” [Jean Smart](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005443/) – sort of a cross between her and [Charlize Theron](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000234/). **Stranger On A Train** is [Donal Logue](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006610/)-ish. **Askia** is a young [Ernie Hudson](http://www.bohmphotography.com/portrait-ernie%20hudsn.html). Man, this is kind of fun. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Feydeau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df788c/32.png) [@Feydeau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feydeau)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2006, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-a-face-on-a-doper-youve-never-seen/345664/19 "2006-02-23T05:00:12Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Zev Steinhardt as [Richard Schiff](http://www.nndb.com/people/856/000102550/richard-schiff-2.jpg) Exactly!! That’s one of the ones I was going to post! Others of mine: Lynn Bodoni as Edie McClurg C K Dexter Haven as James Stewart in It’s A Wonderful Life (just – don’t ask) Evil Captor as Burl Ives – but not smiling Not A Well Woman as the grandmama from Addams Family (TV series) bubastis as Buddy Hackett in The Music Man ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2006, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-a-face-on-a-doper-youve-never-seen/345664/20 "2006-02-23T05:32:31Z")
For some reason, I picture **Left Hand Of Dorkness** as Alice Cooper. Even though reality is somewhat kinder, I often picture myself as Garrison Keillor or Lurch (from the Addams Family.) Lynn Bodoni, for no apparent reason, seems to look like Gulf Coast blueswoman Marcia Ball. I just finished reading _Skinny Dip_ by Carl Hiaasen, and I pictured **Swampbear** as looking like _Earl Edward O’Toole_ in that book. Large. Hairy. No, hairier than that. “Stands in a doorway, no light shines around him.” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-a-face-on-a-doper-youve-never-seen/345664.md?page=2)