# What Images Can You Surmise From Other Dopers' Screen Names? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 11, 2004, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-images-can-you-surmise-from-other-dopers-screen-names/228557 "2004-02-11T00:49:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2004, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-images-can-you-surmise-from-other-dopers-screen-names/228557/121 "2004-02-14T07:01:28Z")
> [@Roadwalker](#): > > Doghouse, like a typical sitcom neighbor who is helpful and comidic and always in trouble (in the doghouse) > > I knew no-one could do me. You’re Randall Flagg, the Dark Man from SK’s _The Stand_. As for me . . . that’s quite a different image from what I would have picked for myself. Oh well. ---
**Author:** ![Empress\_Jolrael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d2c977/32.png) [@Empress\_Jolrael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Empress_Jolrael)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2004, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-images-can-you-surmise-from-other-dopers-screen-names/228557/122 "2004-02-14T07:16:20Z")
I like to picture **Master Wang-Ka** as a short, skinny Asian guy. It makes the image of him chasing a Mormon _that_ much funnier. **Mangetout** is plump, of medium height, and rides a bicycle. He does not, however, snack on the spare parts. 😃 So… you know what I’m going to say, so I won’t say it. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![umop\_ap\_sdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/dbc845/32.png) [@umop\_ap\_sdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/umop_ap_sdn)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2004, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-images-can-you-surmise-from-other-dopers-screen-names/228557/123 "2004-02-14T08:18:23Z")
**Sinshine** looks like a bright glowing sunburst but has a mischeivous streak. **Diogenes the Cynic** and **The Great Unwashed** are both short guys with big bushy beards. **js\_africanus** is either an antelope or an australopithecus (sorry). **Miller** is a cartoon alligator that drinks beer. But, he doesn’t read IMHO so it’s pointless to post about him here. **swampbear** reminds me of a tardigrade, or water bear. **Sauron** is one of David Icke’s reptoids. **CajunMan** is in the kitchen with one of those lobster aprons like that one guy wore on Seinfeld. I’d ask for someone to do me but with such an obvious username it’s probably a silly idea anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Blalron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/35a633/32.png) [@Blalron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blalron)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2004, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-images-can-you-surmise-from-other-dopers-screen-names/228557/124 "2004-02-14T09:02:46Z")
Midwinter: A snowflake Anyone out there who will dare to put a picture to my name? ---
**Author:** ![Bruce\_Daddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@Bruce\_Daddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bruce_Daddy)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2004, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-images-can-you-surmise-from-other-dopers-screen-names/228557/125 "2004-02-14T10:58:11Z")
> [@misstee](#): > > **Bruce\_Daddy** I am not sure if I can post what comes to mind when I see his screen name. So I won’t 😉 Explain yourself, woman! ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2004, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-images-can-you-surmise-from-other-dopers-screen-names/228557/126 "2004-02-14T12:40:48Z")
> [@Blalron](#): > > Midwinter: A snowflake > > Anyone out there who will dare to put a picture to my name? A dyslexic Dark Lord of Mordor. With a puppy. **Bruce\_Daddy** is clearly a Paul Hogan- lookalike, complete with Aussie hanging-corks hat, except that he’s a stripper. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2004, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-images-can-you-surmise-from-other-dopers-screen-names/228557/127 "2004-02-14T12:41:50Z")
Been wanting to add this for ages: **Q.E.D.** is sort of a Hugh Hefner with books. ---
**Author:** ![Tusculan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecd19e/32.png) [@Tusculan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tusculan)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2004, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-images-can-you-surmise-from-other-dopers-screen-names/228557/128 "2004-02-14T12:49:30Z")
**look!ninja?s** , you are probably thinking of **js\_africanus** as a Roman Senator because of his striking resemblance to his forefather _Scipio Africanus_. **Jayn\_Newell** : I?m thinking of a slender woman standing on a cliff, looking forlornly out over the sea. Why don?t you get back in, it?s freezing out there. **buttonjockey308** is a teenager in a bright red bell-hop suit. **Diogenes the Cynic** only provokees an image of a giant wooden barrell on it?s side. **The Great Zamboni** is wearing a top hat and waving a magic wand on stage, while his charming assistant is lying in a closed box before him, her head and feet sticking out. **Doghouse Reilly** is an Irish chap wearing a felt cap and speaking in an incomprehensible language. **MinniePurl** makes me think of a cute little woman with blond curls, rolled up on a pink or red couch, knitting. **Empress Jolrael** is a statuesque woman, sitting upright on her throne, rubbing her hands in glee. **cityboy916** strolls on a New York sidewalk, peering up to the buildings, dressed like someone out of a Salinger novel. **Blalron** is a large, darkish feller. He could be… a lumberjack! ---
**Author:** ![moi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@moi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moi)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2004, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-images-can-you-surmise-from-other-dopers-screen-names/228557/129 "2004-02-14T13:45:43Z")
**Bibliocat** always makes me think of cats I’ve seen in bookstores (either black or calico, for some reason), with a bit of the Cheshire cat thrown in **dangermom** makes me think of that amnesiac Geena Davis movie where she throws a tomato in the air and spears it with a chef’s knife (“Chefs do that,” she says innocently)… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2004, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-images-can-you-surmise-from-other-dopers-screen-names/228557/130 "2004-02-14T14:23:58Z")
Whenever I read one of **Rue DeDay** ’s delightful story posts, I just see and hear RuPaul telling them. I do not resemble Annie Christmas from the ALW song in “Whistle Down the Wind.” ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2004, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-images-can-you-surmise-from-other-dopers-screen-names/228557/131 "2004-02-14T15:29:19Z")
> [@Tusculan](#): > > **N. Sane** makes me think of _Jim Carey_ as mr. Nygma in the Batman movie. Nah, I picture Niles Crane from “Frazier.” ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2004, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-images-can-you-surmise-from-other-dopers-screen-names/228557/132 "2004-02-14T15:36:11Z")
> [@Diogenes the Cynic](#): > > **Gobear** I see as being sort of like the chef on _Queer Eye_. I imagine a deep voice for some reason. Yogi Bear with a beard. (And… uh, leather chaps for some reason.) ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2004, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-images-can-you-surmise-from-other-dopers-screen-names/228557/133 "2004-02-14T16:37:36Z")
**Eats\_Crayons** is a big crayon who always has to run away from people trying to eat him, like in the M&M commercials. Or Ralph Wiggum. ---
**Author:** ![UselessGit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/74df32/32.png) [@UselessGit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UselessGit)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2004, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-images-can-you-surmise-from-other-dopers-screen-names/228557/134 "2004-02-14T17:15:47Z")
For some bizarre reason, I always picture Rafel Van der Vaart when I see **Dutchboy208**. **Js\_Africanus** invokes an image of a guy with a turban riding an elephant. **Ginger Of The North** makes me think of my sister because my sister is also ginger. And from the North. **BruceDaddy** is obviously a playboy from down under, always sporting the same haircut as David Beckham. I would try and picture **Aldebaran** , but I think he was not meant to be seen by mortal men. I therefore avert my mental gaze. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2004, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-images-can-you-surmise-from-other-dopers-screen-names/228557/135 "2004-02-14T17:41:19Z")
> [@UselessGit](#): > > For some bizarre reason, I always picture Rafel Van der Vaart when I see **Dutchboy208**. Who’s Raf… Rafa… that guy? ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2004, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-images-can-you-surmise-from-other-dopers-screen-names/228557/136 "2004-02-14T17:49:26Z")
When I see **Aldebaran** I picture a red giant variable star of the spectral type K5+III with a visual magnitude of 0.85 in the constellation Taurus at RA 04 35 55.2 Dec +16 30 33 with the catalogue numbers of HR 1457 and HD 29139 . ---
**Author:** ![The\_Great\_Zamboni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@The\_Great\_Zamboni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Great_Zamboni)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2004, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-images-can-you-surmise-from-other-dopers-screen-names/228557/137 "2004-02-14T18:27:00Z")
**NoClueBoy** is a nerdy looking teenager. I see **Mangetout** as a French intellectual. **Annie-Xmas** looks like a Dominatrix dressed as an elf. **Tusculan** is either a suave Italian man, or a skinny Italian Chef. **Diogenes The Cynic** reminds me of a Greek Philosopher dressed as a biker, with chaps and all. Originally posted by Tusculan: > [@](#): > > The Great Zamboni is wearing a top hat and waving a magic wand on stage, while his charming assistant is lying in a closed box before him, her head and feet sticking out. I stopped doing that when the “sawing the woman in half” trick didn’t work as planned. Now I perform at ice rinks and hockey games. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2004, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-images-can-you-surmise-from-other-dopers-screen-names/228557/138 "2004-02-14T20:08:10Z")
[QUOTE=The Great Zamboni] . **Annie-Xmas** looks like a Dominatrix dressed as an elf. Quite a good guess **Zamboni**. I look very innocent and blah, but inside I am a control freak. ---
**Author:** ![Agent\_Foxtrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2004, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-images-can-you-surmise-from-other-dopers-screen-names/228557/139 "2004-02-14T23:17:47Z")
**Q.E.D.** - I imagine he looks a lot like **Ed Zotti** , but in his early thirties and skinnier. Big glasses. Reads a LOT. **Ex Machina** - Makes me think of any of the Al Bhed from Final Fantasy X. **World Eater** - I just imagine a giant deity in space, about twice the size of the Earth, eating it with his bare hands. **Shirley Ujest** - I just can’t stop thinking of that line from _The Naked Gun_: “Surely you can’t be serious!” “I am serious. And don’t call me Shirley.” Don’t ask, okay? ---
**Author:** ![misstee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/958977/32.png) [@misstee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/misstee)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2004, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-images-can-you-surmise-from-other-dopers-screen-names/228557/140 "2004-02-15T00:02:31Z")
> [@Bruce\_Daddy](#): > > Explain yourself, woman! I just can’t. :::: blushes ::::: Well, maybe after a few more drinks. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-images-can-you-surmise-from-other-dopers-screen-names/228557.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-images-can-you-surmise-from-other-dopers-screen-names/228557.md?page=8)