So Who are those opinionated people on the Onion

Cafe Society
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The website “The Onion” has a reoccurring section where they ask topical questions and the “randomly poled people” provide humorous responses.

Example here

They rotate 5 or 6 pictures in for the fictional characters. The people in the photos look familiar. The gray haired woman looks like an actress that I just can’t place in my head.

The contemplative black man reminds me of Phil Morris who played Seinfeld character - Jackie Chiles.
The other people are not as familiar looking. Does anybody know who the actual actors/people are who posed for these pictures.

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http://noseknowledge.blogspot.com/2007/08/onions-american-voices-people-revealed.html

The black guy is from a PhotoDisc stock photo catalog (the original model they wanted backed out), all the others are people the original editors knew or met around Madison, WI.

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In my opinion, the woman resembles Ingrid Bergman in that picture.

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That’s actually pretty cool. Now who is Jim Anchower’s picture really of?

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Sublight

Thanks for fighting my ignorance! :slight_smile:

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I love that the black guy is always a “systems analyst.”

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Feh. I can’t get behind these new, post-1998 upstarts. Where’s bowler-hat-and-shades guy? Vaguely-Jennifer-Grayish-with-perm-and-glasses girl? Kinda-like-a-young-Patrick-Dempsey-in-front-of-brick-wall dude? Who will speak for them?