# So Who are those opinionated people on the Onion **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 6, 2008, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-are-those-opinionated-people-on-the-onion/440376 "2008-03-06T21:15:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-are-those-opinionated-people-on-the-onion/440376/1 "2008-03-06T21:15:56Z")
The website “The Onion” has a reoccurring section where they ask topical questions and the “randomly poled people” provide humorous responses. Example [here](http://www.theonion.com/content/amvo/dungeons_dragons_creator_dies?utm_source=onion_rss_daily) 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. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-are-those-opinionated-people-on-the-onion/440376/2 "2008-03-07T02:33:47Z")
[http://noseknowledge.blogspot.com/2007/08/onions-american-voices-people-revealed.html](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. ---
**Author:** ![milquetoast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@milquetoast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/milquetoast)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-are-those-opinionated-people-on-the-onion/440376/3 "2008-03-07T02:54:23Z")
[QUOTE=BubbaDog] The gray haired woman looks like an actress that I just can’t place in my head. [/QUOTE] In my opinion, the woman resembles Ingrid Bergman in that picture. ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-are-those-opinionated-people-on-the-onion/440376/4 "2008-03-07T03:43:44Z")
That’s actually pretty cool. Now who is Jim Anchower’s picture really of? ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-are-those-opinionated-people-on-the-onion/440376/5 "2008-03-07T23:53:05Z")
**Sublight** Thanks for fighting my ignorance! 🙂 ---
**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 8, 2008, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-are-those-opinionated-people-on-the-onion/440376/6 "2008-03-08T00:09:35Z")
I love that the black guy is always a “systems analyst.” ---
**Author:** ![brossa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brossa/32/3040_2.png) [@brossa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brossa)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2008, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-are-those-opinionated-people-on-the-onion/440376/7 "2008-03-08T02:38:48Z")
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?_