# What celebrity would make a good Doper? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 29, 2009, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-would-make-a-good-doper/522957 "2009-12-29T20:37:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2009, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-would-make-a-good-doper/522957/61 "2009-12-31T00:48:51Z")
Natalie Portman, because her[Erdős–Bacon number](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C5%91s%E2%80%93Bacon_number) is 6. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2010, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-would-make-a-good-doper/522957/62 "2010-01-01T17:52:46Z")
> [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](#): > > I felt that Coulter and Beck, in particular, typify the raving, frothing over-the-top type of poster that we sometimes encounter on the SDMB. Not the average person, and certainly not the typical Doper conservative, whom I find to be thoughtful and well spoken, but rather the occasional soon-to-be-banned nutbar of any political stripe. Why would you think that? Neither one of them is a “raving, frothing over-the-top” kind of person. Well, Beck does get a little carried away at times, but at least he’s honest enough to admit it and even poke fun at himself about it. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2010, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-would-make-a-good-doper/522957/63 "2010-01-01T21:56:35Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > They’re way out of our league. True, but Benn’s getting less active physically, and the SDMB would keep his mind engaged. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2010, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-would-make-a-good-doper/522957/64 "2010-01-02T05:23:40Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > Why would you think that? Neither one of them is a “raving, frothing over-the-top” kind of person. Well, Beck does get a little carried away at times, but at least he’s honest enough to admit it and even poke fun at himself about it. Would you say either one of them plays well with others? ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2010, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-would-make-a-good-doper/522957/65 "2010-01-02T05:49:57Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Nah, Edwin Aldrin. His username could be **Punchmeister Ed** or **No Time For Idiots**. 😃 No, Michael Collins. Anyone who saw[In the Shadow of the Moon](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0925248/) knows how funny and bright Collins can be. And he had an amazing life long before he became an astronaut, and after, and his book _[Carrying the Fire](http://www.amazon.com/Carrying-Fire-Astronauts-Michael-Collins/dp/0374531943/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1262411080&sr=8-1)_ proves that he can write like a sum’bitch. > [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Getting back to the OP, is it clear that Carrera is a “liberal who is living in a red state”? She’s written that she moved to Utah intentionally because she likes the values of the area. She may be a conservative who happens to have worked in porn. The only porn star I’ve known well is a [life-long Republican](http://www.jodymaxwell.com/biography.html) (link surprisingly SFW). ---
**Author:** ![Jamicat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c67d28/32.png) [@Jamicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jamicat)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2010, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-would-make-a-good-doper/522957/66 "2010-01-02T07:12:36Z")
i second leary n miller think the bad astronomer lurks here, so wheaton may as well. maybe dose of nimoy n patrick stewart be cool. 1 finger typing ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Jim\_s\_Son](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19adc/32.png) [@Jim\_s\_Son](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_s_Son)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2010, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-would-make-a-good-doper/522957/67 "2010-01-02T07:29:30Z")
Peter Weller An actor/actress who has appeared in a lot of shows/movies as a character actor with stories to tell of what went on and what so-and-so were like. Warren Stevens? ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2010, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-would-make-a-good-doper/522957/68 "2010-01-02T07:29:42Z")
> [@Amber\_in\_Treasury](#): > > I second Alice Cooper. > > Also: > James Randi I’ll second Randi. I’ll always remember the [Larry King interview](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzkgskUkOlE#t=2m42s) someone here linked to a couple of years ago. _That_ is the attitude of a Doper, there. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-would-make-a-good-doper/522957.md?page=3)