# When You Read the Dope, What Do You Hear? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 13, 2006, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-read-the-dope-what-do-you-hear/383899 "2006-12-13T00:32:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-read-the-dope-what-do-you-hear/383899/41 "2006-12-14T18:09:14Z")
[QUOTE=Kythereia] Now I’m not so sure if I’m flattered or not, but I’ll take it as a compliment anyways. 🙂 [/QUOTE] It’s exactly the same thing **Anastaseon** said, only in my words. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-read-the-dope-what-do-you-hear/383899/42 "2006-12-14T18:30:54Z")
[QUOTE=Caridwen] That was great!! I think I have a little crush on **astro** and **jimm**. [/QUOTE] Then move aside, 'cause I now have a MAJOR crush on **jjim**! My eardrums are all a-flutter. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Lissa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lissa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissa)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2006, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-read-the-dope-what-do-you-hear/383899/43 "2006-12-17T17:46:23Z")
[QUOTE=Kythereia] :o Should I be flattered? :o I admit, I only hear the voices of the people I’ve talked to IRL– **Sunspace** , **Lissa** , **Eats\_Crayons** , all the Trannadopers. That website from Francesca looks like a good place to start… [/QUOTE] You must mean\*\* Lissla Lissar\*\* because I’ve never spoken to another Doper. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2006, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-read-the-dope-what-do-you-hear/383899/44 "2006-12-18T07:31:16Z")
[QUOTE=pullin] I assign both voice and appearance to other posters. Everyone gets a personality based on TV and movies. A few samples of what I see and hear when I’m on the board(s)\*: Shirley Ujest == Dana Delaney QtM == Robert Stack tashabot == the robot Transformer chick from the movie (can’t remember her name, Susan Blu?) Chefguy == James Earl Jones (I have no idea why; It’s just happens) Martini Enfield == Jeff Cooper (I hope he takes this as a compliment) FairyChatMom == Liv Tyler **Faithfool == Mama Cass (please, please take this as a compliment… it is)** Johnny LA == Johnny Bravo (one of the few cartoons) lieu == Robin Williams Kalhoun == Bonnie Hunt TuckerFan == Orson Wells Dinsdale == Eric Idle \*hopefully everyone will view these avatars favorably. I don’t mean to offend. [/QUOTE] [Bolding mine.] Oh, I indeed _do_ take that as a compliment because I liked her. 🙂 However, I am curious as to specifically why. Do you mind sharing? And thanks for thinking of me in the first place, for this board is so big and me so indescript that I don’t feel anyone ever notices me at all. ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2006, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-read-the-dope-what-do-you-hear/383899/45 "2006-12-18T09:18:25Z")
Most of the time, my imagination’s turned off and I just read the words. Sometimes, though, I do “hear” a male or female voice, depending on what I know or think I know about the poster. I don’t have to “hear” gender to be interested, however. ---
**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2006, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-read-the-dope-what-do-you-hear/383899/46 "2006-12-18T10:40:04Z")
It’s strange. I don’t hear any of the voices you guys hear. When I’m reading the Dope, all I get is: “ **Sefton!** Stop surfing the web and get back to your job!” and “ **Sefton!** I need the vector so I can land this plane!” and then “ **Sefton!** You goddam-Aaaaaaargh!” But after that, things get kinda quiet and I can read the Dope in peace. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2006, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-read-the-dope-what-do-you-hear/383899/47 "2006-12-18T10:49:47Z")
[QUOTE=Least Original User Name Ever] **FairyChatMom** could do phone sex. She just has that kind of voice to her. (What??) [/QUOTE] OK, this cracked me up but good! 😃😃😃 Especially if I went thru a phone sex script in my workday voice. Imagine a distracted multi-tasker in a cubicle: “Oh baby… oh yeah… hang on \*\ \* I’m sorry, where were we? Oh, yeah, hot - you’re making me hot \*\ \* Um, right, yeah, that’s the way you like it. mmmmmmmmmmmm feels so… _\_” Back on topic, I don’t so much hear voices as try to stick faces to usernames. Easy with those I’ve met, occasionally surreal with the rest. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2006, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-read-the-dope-what-do-you-hear/383899/48 "2006-12-18T13:38:24Z")
[QUOTE=FairyChatMom] OK, this cracked me up but good! 😃😃😃 Especially if I went thru a phone sex script in my workday voice. Imagine a distracted multi-tasker in a cubicle: “Oh baby… oh yeah… hang on \*\ \* I’m sorry, where were we? Oh, yeah, hot - you’re making me hot \*\ \* Um, right, yeah, that’s the way you like it. mmmmmmmmmmmm feels so… _\_” Back on topic, I don’t so much hear voices as try to stick faces to usernames. Easy with those I’ve met, occasionally surreal with the rest. [/QUOTE] That’s right. Double click my mouse daddy. (Wait, go back and check that report) Um..make it hurt so…(Walter, I thought lunch was at 11:30 today!)..where were we? ---
**Author:** ![pullin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c57346/32.png) [@pullin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pullin)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2006, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-read-the-dope-what-do-you-hear/383899/49 "2006-12-18T13:50:15Z")
[QUOTE=faithfool] [Bolding mine.] Oh, I indeed _do_ take that as a compliment because I liked her. 🙂 However, I am curious as to specifically why. Do you mind sharing? And thanks for thinking of me in the first place, for this board is so big and me so indescript that I don’t feel anyone ever notices me at all. [/QUOTE] Faithfool, I’ve racked my brain trying to figure where and why I assigned your avatar. I’m stumped. It must have been one of those things that just popped into my head, unbidden. I’m glad you like it tho’ 😛 (and yes… we notices ya) Almost everyone on the board has an avatar/voice (to me). I’ve used almost the entire cast of the tranformer’s movie, Gilligan’s Island, and Bewitched. There’s even a Sylvester the cat (but I’m keeping quiet.. I like Sylvester, but I don’t know whether that particular SDMB member does). ---
**Author:** ![The\_Weird\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@The\_Weird\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Weird_One)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2006, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-read-the-dope-what-do-you-hear/383899/50 "2006-12-18T15:18:13Z")
[QUOTE=pullin] Almost everyone on the board has an avatar/voice (to me). [/QUOTE] Oh, now I’m curious. Do you have one for me? What is it? ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2006, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-read-the-dope-what-do-you-hear/383899/51 "2006-12-18T16:39:54Z")
_I hear dead people_ ---
**Author:** ![pullin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c57346/32.png) [@pullin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pullin)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2006, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-read-the-dope-what-do-you-hear/383899/52 "2006-12-19T00:31:25Z")
[QUOTE=The Weird One] Oh, now I’m curious. Do you have one for me? What is it? [/QUOTE] Nothing really original. Just Christopher Lloyd. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2006, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-read-the-dope-what-do-you-hear/383899/53 "2006-12-19T14:05:06Z")
The voice that I hear when reading each and every post by members of the SDMB, male or female, is that of [Ladislav Löwenstein](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Lorre) . (Interestingly, I hear normal voices from SD guests and members of other message boards). ---
**Author:** ![The\_Weird\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@The\_Weird\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Weird_One)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2006, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-read-the-dope-what-do-you-hear/383899/54 "2006-12-19T14:07:08Z")
[QUOTE=pullin] Nothing really original. Just Christopher Lloyd. 🙂 [/QUOTE] 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2006, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-read-the-dope-what-do-you-hear/383899/55 "2006-12-19T16:12:47Z")
[QUOTE=Least Original User Name Ever] **Winston Smith** = Jack Nicholson [/QUOTE] That’s funny, LOUNE! IRL I bear a passing resemblance to Jack Nicholson, enough so that if I can do a pretty convincing (i.e. scary) _Jack Torrence_ impersonation. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2006, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-read-the-dope-what-do-you-hear/383899/56 "2006-12-19T19:12:31Z")
I knew it! It makes your role as \*\*50’s Dad \*\* even funnier imagining Jack doing the talking. ---
**Author:** ![Kal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de053/32.png) [@Kal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kal)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2006, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-read-the-dope-what-do-you-hear/383899/57 "2006-12-19T19:14:27Z")
Many of you sound like Peter Lorre. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2006, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-read-the-dope-what-do-you-hear/383899/58 "2006-12-19T19:41:08Z")
[QUOTE=Lissa] You must mean\*\* Lissla Lissar\*\* because I’ve never spoken to another Doper. [/QUOTE] My bad! Please excuse. _humble bow_ Thank you, **Draelin**! Incidentally, Cecil’s voice is the voice of God from _Monty Python and the Holy Grail_. (Yes, even with the British accent. My mind rarely, if ever, makes sense.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-read-the-dope-what-do-you-hear/383899.md?page=2)