# What does your 'shoulder angel' look like?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [April 19, 2010, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-shoulder-angel-look-like/536672 "2010-04-19T21:53:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2010, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-shoulder-angel-look-like/536672/21 "2010-04-20T15:21:00Z")

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How about Cthulhu?  
[![](https://paizo.com/image/product/catalog/IMPTYV/IMPTYVHP004_360.jpeg) ](https://paizo.com/image/product/catalog/IMPTYV/IMPTYVHP004_360.jpeg)  
Or perhaps Wonder Woman:

> **[Archive blogs](https://www.latimes.com/archives/blogs/)**
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> Los Angeles Times blogs that were published between 2006 and 2013.

Or maybe my character, Panther Girl:  
[http://qurls.com?i=49140](http://qurls.com?i=49140)

Or my “cartooniverse counterpart”, the “Dastardly Disruptor”:

> **[The Dastardly Disruptor by gytalf2000 on DeviantArt](https://www.deviantart.com/gytalf2000/art/The-Dastardly-Disruptor-140029792)**

Hmmm… I have to decide on just one? This is harder than I thought…

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**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2010, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-shoulder-angel-look-like/536672/22 "2010-04-20T15:45:08Z")

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> [@garygnu](#):
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> Mine would have to look like [Kronk](http://i.imgur.com/p56IA.jpg).

Kronk was the best part of that movie. And I’d forgotten the shoulder angel/devil bit, which means it’s time to watch it again.

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**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2010, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-shoulder-angel-look-like/536672/23 "2010-04-20T15:46:10Z")

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> [@panache45](#):
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> My shoulder angel looks like my partner. So does my shoulder devil.

I’m assuming you can tell the two apart. Yes?

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**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2010, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-shoulder-angel-look-like/536672/24 "2010-04-20T15:54:55Z")

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A buddy of mine has a Homer Simpson angel tattooed on his right neck and a similar devil on his left neck. [So that is what I’m imagining I’d have.](http://images.picturesdepot.com/photo/h/homer_simpson_angels_and_demons-11209.jpg)

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**Author:** ![Surly\_Chick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Surly\_Chick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surly_Chick)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2010, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-shoulder-angel-look-like/536672/25 "2010-04-20T16:04:25Z")

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> [@Yllaria](#):
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> I’m assuming you can tell the two apart. Yes?

By their advice, no doubt!

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**Author:** ![Surly\_Chick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Surly\_Chick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surly_Chick)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2010, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-shoulder-angel-look-like/536672/26 "2010-04-20T16:07:51Z")

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ETA: Or by the goat-tee on the evil one…

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**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2010, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-shoulder-angel-look-like/536672/27 "2010-04-20T18:50:48Z")

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> [@Czarcasm](#):
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> Dude, give a heads up next time, o.k.? You almost woke up my cow-orkers!

Sorry, didn’t think of it.

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**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2010, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-shoulder-angel-look-like/536672/28 "2010-04-20T21:09:50Z")

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Hmm… maybe the succubus from Ugly Americans, or the devil’s daughter from that other Cartoon Network show that I’m forgetting.

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**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2010, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-shoulder-angel-look-like/536672/29 "2010-04-20T22:34:47Z")

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Christopher Walken.

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**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-shoulder-angel-look-like/536672/30 "2010-04-21T00:48:23Z")

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> [@Yllaria](#):
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> I’m assuming you can tell the two apart. Yes?

No, they keep switching sides on me. And just when I’m convinced I’m talking to one of them, he turns out to be the other.

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**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-shoulder-angel-look-like/536672/31 "2010-04-21T01:22:46Z")

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My shoulder angel is Mr. PC: buttoned-up, pedantic, and negative.

The devil on my other shoulder is Mr. Mac: laidback, approachable, and positive.

This is why I never get anything done, yet fail to work up enough guilt to change.

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**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-shoulder-angel-look-like/536672/32 "2010-04-21T01:41:31Z")

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George Carlin.

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**Author:** ![butler1850](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@butler1850](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/butler1850)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-shoulder-angel-look-like/536672/33 "2010-04-22T15:41:24Z")

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A copy of the Hitchhiker’s Guide, complete with large green smiley face. Preferably with the voice from the BBC radio series.

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