<p>I had TheDad pegged as looking like Ward Cleaver!</p>
<p>Once again, now, tell me how to get out of jury duty - ha. Over 40, frosted hair, do I wear nerdy glasses or not? Or maybe dress as a bag lady?</p>
<p>Cheers, I don’t have the side curls to pass for Orthodox and I don’t have a long black coat. Actually, I oscillate between two beards, with the “writer” beard being fuller and shaggier than the “real estate agent” beard. I wear mostly the latter these days though have reverted a little for the month of December. </p>
<p>Kinshasa, neither TheMom nor D had ever seen me without a beard and so a few minutes before midnight on New Year’s Eve for 2000, I slipped into the bathroom and shaved it off, emerging at midnight. (Did I ever tell anyone that I have this teeny dramatic streak?) TheMom was fine with it but D burst into tears and said "Mom, it looks AWFUL! and did not relent until I had grown it back. Even just the other day, she said I look awful without it…I guess I can’t complain about having raised an offspring a little short on tact.</p>
<p>Berurah, as long as it’s not Orthodox, I can pass…some would even say I dance like a Lubavitcher. (I never forget the time a woman said “You’re very light on my feet.”) D spent a couple of her early years in after school care at the local Jewish community center and some people asked what temple I went to. Fwiw, I’m a quarter Russian by ancestry and can get the accent fairly well as long as I don’t have to stumble over a soft sound or a shchah.</p>
<p>Yeah, Yemaya…you get it…more like Depp than Tevye. Once upon a time I fenced epee…hmmm, I wonder if I should get back into it.</p>
<p>Tookie, I should hope I never come across as simultaneously bland, sanctimonious, and clueless as Ward Cleaver. Ah…that reminds me of a joke I can’t tell on this board.</p>
<p>TheDad,</p>
<p>“Ah…that reminds me of a joke I can’t tell on this board.”
And I guess you can’t post a link to it either. <em>lol</em></p>
<p><em>lol</em> about the lady with whom you danced! If you were light on HER feet, I guess I’ll have to revamp my image yet again–no Tevye here.</p>
<p>I have about a 3/4 Russian ancestry, and I can only muster a mediocre Russian accent, though I can do the sounds you mentioned. </p>
<p>I have a positive image of Ward Cleaver! ~berurah</p>
<p>TheDad–Had a friend whose wife had never seen him sans beard or long hair (this was in the 70s). She was a waitress on the night shift. Friend shaved his beard and got his haircut while she was out and went to bed. Wife came home from work and also went to bed. In the morning, she woke up, rolled over, saw her H and screamed! She thought a stranger was in her bed! Truth be told, I didn’t recognize him either.</p>
<p>One more beard story: I had a beard most of my life, but it eventually turned white. I guess that in some people, the beard goes before the hair. Anyway, the five-year-old daughter of a friend of mine became ABSOLUTELY convinced I was Santa Claus. Nothing could deter her. Why wasn’t I at the North Pole, i asked. Silly me, she said, that was only at Christmas. It wasn’t until I shaved it off that she finally gave up on me as Santa, but only with great reluctance.</p>
<p>Jani - I am going to Flaglar, Florida for spring break this year 
We’re gonna build a house. If for some reason we are near the college i’ll let you guys know about it :)</p>
<p>I had posted my “contribution” on the other thread before I found this one. Might as well double the exposure and likely ribbing, if not ridicule. Here goes.</p>
<p>Someone posted a comment a while ago (at least it seems like a while ago) about wondering what others looked like. Myself, I haven’t done that simply because I knew that whatever picture I would concoct would likely be 180 degrees divorced from reality. So I haven’t tried to picture anyone - until last week, that is.</p>
<p>Jamimom, I had always figured that you were the mother of a kid named Jamie, but last week I read that Jamie or some such variation is (or is part of) your own name. Well, that really threw me. I had read about the many kids you have, plus nieces and nephews, plus the kids that you have assisted in getting into college. The problem is that the only image I can associate with the name Jamie is Jamie Lee Curtis (not that I know her personally, you understand). So while I can picture Jamie Lee Curtis dealing with a passel of kids and the like, and being a straight-speaking person such as yourself, I hit a block when I try to picture her being a college counselor.</p>
<p>Probably I should revert to my habit of not trying to form pictures of posters.</p>
<p>Flagler College began as the Ponce de Leon Hotel, in the late 1800s. I believe Henry Flagler made his millions with Standard Oil. The school’s library, with incredible relief paintings, is spectacular. I believe the library may have been the original hotel structure. Fender, if you go St. Augustine, don’t miss this.
As an aside. is it my imagination or are there a lot of us “MOT’s” on CC?</p>
<p>Oh my gosh this is fun! Definitely shows something about how the mind works… almost Freudian</p>
<p>These are my initial impressions over the years (NOT judging from posts, only from the name):</p>
<p>TheDad: Thick-rimmed glasses, very thin and tall, brown hair/eyes, dorky, so to speak
SuzieVT: Long brown hair, kind of “outdoorsy”, tomboyish, if I may
Carolyn: Short blonde hair, ruddy face, short, likes to eat ice cream
Cheers: Often drunk, reddish complexion, short brown hair
Northstarmom: Strong, usually wearing something like “Zena, Warrior Princess” would wear, brown hair, kick-ass
Jamimom: African (no idea why), tough love, no nonsense (not even in reference to your posts, just your name)
mini: (before I knew you were a guy) Mimi on “The Drew Carey Show” (not a pleasant sight, sorry!)
that Candi girl that went to yale: Asian (yes I know she’s African-American now (errr… I don’t mean that I know she’s changed to being black from being Asian before, but rather that I now know that she was black all along…)) really happy
sokkermom: African (again, no idea why), loving, if untraditional, mother; has a son that goes to a great school… (go Duke!)
Interesteddad: really nosey, know-it-all, identical triplet of TheDad (along with MassDad)
Xiggi: one of those kids that sits at home watching science shows (like Bill Nye the Science Guy or something), curly hair, extremely pale
Toblin: A mini-gargoyle come to life in a fantasy kingdom far away
TaxGuy: I always think of the tax collector that Jesus invited to his house in the Bible (and the picture from my Illustrated Bible I read when I was a kid)
Fendergirl: girl with blonde hair, dressed provocatively (I had no idea that Fender was like a type of guitar or anything)
Icarus: some sort of mythical creature, usually a pegasus with the head of some kid I randomly generated in my head each time
Ohio_mom: short, stocky woman with brown hair and a smile who is like the ideal stay-at-home wife and mother
Marite: latin dancer with black hair and very … nice moves</p>
<p>sorry if i forgot anyone
please don’t get offended</p>
<p>ay-
Boy am I glad you forgot me :)</p>
<p>jym626: very athletic and flexible, probably the type that can put her feet behind her head; blonde, blue eyes</p>
<p>see, they’re not all negative!</p>
<p>oh and
Alexandre: (I thought he was a woman at first) very strong, almost dominatrix-like (without the sexual connotations…) jet black hair</p>
<p>I’ll take it!!</p>
<p>haha. So…you think I am drunk when I post? :p</p>
<p>Don’t drink. Turns my nose bright red. Makes me sleepy. Never a big drinker. Nurse a half beer/turn down the chardonnay type. NOT acceptable in a pub culture. Oh well.</p>
<p>Shoulder length hair. It USED to be brown. Back in the day.</p>
<p>I’m with you on the drinking. Never been my thing either (not acceptable in college culture either… jk). “Cheers” is just something you seem to see people say in the movies when they are getting ready to drink.</p>
<p>Cheers is what the English say when they mean “Thanks for that”. Not sure how the different meanings evolved. Linguists?</p>
<p>My drinking is not acceptable in the pub culture where I live. No judgement from me against pub culture. Pub culture has it’s advantages. Promotes lengthy but polite political discussions and extensive male friendships.</p>
<p>i don’t like the taste of alcohol… particularly beer. i do like fruity “girly” drinks though, which is what i usually get at the bar. if only they weren’t so expensive :)</p>
<p>hey, ay-carumba, what about me? Feathers?</p>
<p>And TheDad with a beard? I totally picture it. And glasses.</p>
<p>Sorry, no glasses except when I’m driving or at the theater. I use them when driving to help cap the excessive machismo that radiates from my unshielded glance. (See also, Johnny Depp.) Thin? 30 years ago.</p>
<p>Actually, what varies a lot–and I see signs of it in my posts on the board–is not look but presence: from silly and avuncular to brisk and professional to formidable verbal combatant.</p>
<p>Ay-caramba: How flattering! and how inaccurate! Compared to the rest of the family, I am not the least light on my feet.</p>
<p>“Xiggi: one of those kids that sits at home watching science shows (like Bill Nye the Science Guy or something), curly hair, extremely pale”</p>
<p>I am afraid that you won’t find Xiggi watching many science shows! The curly hair and extremely pale is, alas, equally incorrect. Sorry!</p>
<p>On the other hand, I will share a deep dark secret from the old board: a self-described portrait of TheDad. In his own words, for a very rough approximation in bad light and bad vision, that is what he kinda look like.</p>
<p>Here it is:
<a href=“http://www.sunday-in-the-park.com/sondheim/novelties.html[/url]”>http://www.sunday-in-the-park.com/sondheim/novelties.html</a></p>
<p>It is the guy to the right, if someone wondered.</p>