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The Best Show on WFMU => Show Discussion => Topic started by: mike a on April 13, 2009, 01:35:52 PM
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Tom had a bit about this some months back, riffing on how insulting most of those comparisons are. Over the weekend, I finally got my own:
"You know who you'd look like if you had less hair? George Costanza."
Gee, thanks. Made my fucking weekend.
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Once a complete stranger came up to me an a bar and said "You look exactly like Bronson Pinchot".
That really bumped up my self esteem.
I wish I had thought to say "Don't be ridiculous".
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i used to get tim curry, which was fine. then once i got noah taylor in Shine, which wasn't. For a couple years I didn't get you look like, but I got are you the Verizon guy? I tend to get whoever is wearing black framed glasses at the time. I think we're on to Jermaine from FOTC now.
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I get Woody Allen pretty much on a daily basis.
There was this toy doll for the movie Godzilla, starring Matthew Broderick, that looked EXACTLY like me, too. Same hairline, same glasses. Just missing the belly is all.
It was, in a word, creepy.
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I've gotten Tom Hulce a few times.
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This issue has been something of a recurring point (though not a terribly frequent one) on The Best Show for some years.
Surprisingly, I usually ended up on the receiving end of some flattering comparisons. But age and self-abuse are tremendous equalizers and as the years have gone on, the comparisons have gotten less and less flattering.
Two Thanksgivings ago, I was at my father's place with the rest of the family, who are a very free and easy lot (particularly when the drink is flowing). We were having whatever fun-n'-filthy conversation we were having, when my uncle turned to me and said, "Do you know who you look exactly like with those glasses?"
I immediately halted him and began to deliver the Scharpling theorem on such conversations. My uncle, however, was having none of it, and the conversation devolved into a semi-restrained argument about the issue until he forced his way through the matter by proclaiming, "I just think you look exactly like Jamie Hyneman," the walrus-moustachioed, beret-wearing question mark from "Mythbusters".
We all got a laugh out of that one -- myself included. Still, I was not pleased.
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I get anyone with a bit of a chubby face, curly hair and glasses. Austin Powers (I once had this shouted at me from a passing car), Jack Osbourne (sometimes people will sweeten this pill by claiming they mean the Adrenaline Junky era, but hes still a dick) or most recently, Nick Frost in The Boat That Rocked. I am a high school teacher, so most of these come from the kids i teach...
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When I was a teenager, I was constantly getting told I looked like "Ricky" from "My So Called Life", a show and character that to this very day I've never seen. I still bet I'm doing better than that guy now, though.
PS: Ouch, I just looked it up. I think some assholes I went to school with are going to get a long overdue phone call tonight.
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_bNnndJErdUA/R_HBSMee3ZI/AAAAAAAAB40/6dooC_hscBQ/s400/139.x600.timein.tuningin.wilsonc.jpg)
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i used to get tim curry, which was fine. then once i got noah taylor in Shine, which wasn't. For a couple years I didn't get you look like, but I got are you the Verizon guy? I tend to get whoever is wearing black framed glasses at the time. I think we're on to Jermaine from FOTC now.
You look just like Robert Carradine to me.
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I wonder what people say Spike most looks like?
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My friend's ladyfriend swears I look like Paul Dano.
She also swears that this is a compliment.
And there are no similarities, aside from our shared love of being mute boy-Preachers who want to be pilots.
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i used to get tim curry, which was fine. then once i got noah taylor in Shine, which wasn't. For a couple years I didn't get you look like, but I got are you the Verizon guy? I tend to get whoever is wearing black framed glasses at the time. I think we're on to Jermaine from FOTC now.
You look just like Robert Carradine to me.
you mean from Kung Fu right? Totally.
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Nana Mouskouri once when I was twelve. Nothing else.
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i used to get tim curry, which was fine. then once i got noah taylor in Shine, which wasn't. For a couple years I didn't get you look like, but I got are you the Verizon guy? I tend to get whoever is wearing black framed glasses at the time. I think we're on to Jermaine from FOTC now.
You look just like Robert Carradine to me.
you mean from Kung Fu right? Totally.
Close!
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nah, but they do it in malmo, sweden if you can make that.
http://www.getmortified.com
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I've been told I look eastern European, like Emo Philips, and like the girl from the cover of the video for Slacker:
(http://daily.greencine.com/archives/slacker-cover.jpg)
I've gotten Timothy McVeigh a few times for my shaved-head, angry ID photos.
When I had longer hair, I was told I looked like 1980s Tom Cruise, but only by people who had previously seen me with short hair (which I have again because it is convenient).
One of these people is the real me:
(http://www.pattonboggs.com/files/Uploads/Images/2007_PB-Foundation-_DN.jpg)
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I'd get "The Encyclopedia Britannica guy" a lot when I was younger. Can't say I cared for it.
(http://static.flickr.com/29/66004833_a4b113a9c3_o.jpg)
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I just get "you look just like my cousin". More than a person would consider normal.
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It's never been a good thing. Just to pull one at random - John Elway.
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Girls always used to tell me that I reminded them of their brother. Needless to say, I didn't get many dates.
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I just get "you look just like my cousin". More than a person would consider normal.
Same here. I've also heard someone say I look like John Sununu
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Ive been told i look like Jughead, Jay Leno, and The Joker which I kind of dont mind now since hes regained popularity. What can i say ive got chin for days.
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i used to get tim curry, which was fine. then once i got noah taylor in Shine, which wasn't. For a couple years I didn't get you look like, but I got are you the Verizon guy? I tend to get whoever is wearing black framed glasses at the time. I think we're on to Jermaine from FOTC now.
jeez, i'm glad I'm not the only one that happens to. FUCKING ANNOYING
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One time, a girl came up to me and said, "I'm sure this isn't the first time you've heard this, but do you know who you remind me of? Allen Ginsberg." Then she seemed kind of upset when I didn't take it as a compliment.
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One time, a girl came up to me and said, "I'm sure this isn't the first time you've heard this, but do you know who you remind me of? Allen Ginsberg." Then she seemed kind of upset when I didn't take it as a compliment.
I've gotten Tom Petty more than once by more than a few surprising sources. They too have the same reaction of being irked when I don't take it kindly.
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Zach G.
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I have the sort of bland handsomeness that has made people always say that I look "just like" someone else they know, and have heard mostly flattering comparisons. (Yeah, I'm braggin' a little...) It's eased off now that I'm getting older, but in my 20s, I got Matthew Broderick a lot, Ethan Hawke and Matt Dillon sometimes, and once - from a homeless guy, but still! - James Dean.
So I have no idea what you all are complaining about!
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I've been told I look eastern European . . .
Well, if you're going to broaden it out this way, I can add Latvian, Chinese, and Russian astronaut (yes, astronaut, not cosmonaut) to the list of types I've been told I resemble. I know I've said before that I was once referred to as "the nice Chinese woman at the front desk," and then there was the time a waiter addressed me in Chinese and looked amused and skeptical when I claimed I didn't understand him.
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I used to get Vincent D'Onofrio circa "Full Metal Jacket" (which I didn't take as a compliment) or Michael Chiklis.
I'm currently bearded, otherwise I think I'd get Frank Black circa "Trompe Le Monde".
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I used to get Vincent D'Onofrio circa "Full Metal Jacket" (which I didn't take as a compliment)
that made me chuckle tom-style. huh-heh-huh-huh.
The weirdest one I ever got was Chris Rock by a girl in highschool that had the hots for me.
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I have made this point before, but since there are new people
(http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee183/gaughin/chapman.jpg)
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All of these are only when I haven't shaved in a few days
Most common: Jack Black, although it really just tends to be whatever chubby funnyman is popular at the moment
Strangest: American Idol winner David Cook
Most out of left-field: Cubs catcher Geovany Soto, who is Puerto Rican and at least 2 shades darker than me
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(http://www.dugpa.com/images/other/s_6.gif)
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I get Paul McCartney a lot. Could be worse I guess.
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(http://www.dugpa.com/images/other/s_6.gif)
Is that Ted Raimi?
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I've gotten Rowan Atkinson on 2 seperate occasions. :(
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I've never really been compared to anyone before...my best friend says I look like Jenna Elfman (whatever). I have, however, been told numerous times by numerous people that I look like a little elf. I just frown at them and then do a little jig.
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But what are your crimes?
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curly (as in: "nyuk, nyuk.")
when i mentioned this to tom on the most recent show, his inquiry as to whether the person offering this unsolicited comment was in fact a "george clooney doppleganger" was dead on. i still see her around the neighborhood a lot and am reasonably sure she's a prostitute. the real question is do i tell her she's a dead ringer for scatman crothers next time we cross paths.
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Is that Ted Raimi?
No. (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0798310/)
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Is that Ted Raimi?
No. (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0798310/)
No, I'm pretty sure it's Ted Raimi.
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I had two completely unrelated people tell me that I looked like Pauly Shore, one at work and one at class.
On the same day.
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when i was younger, Steve Martin
now that I have the (whiter) hair, Fred Barnes...
oh god
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when i was younger, Steve Martin
now that I have the (whiter) hair, Fred Barnes...
oh god
Is it possible to have hair whiter than Steve Martin's?
Not that I'm judging. Lends a certain dignity, all that.
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I've never really been compared to anyone before...my best friend says I look like Jenna Elfman (whatever). I have, however, been told numerous times by numerous people that I look like a little elf. I just frown at them and then do a little jig.
not even to literary characters? (get it, cuz you're a bookworm, bookworm.)
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People used to say I look like Eddie Munster :(
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People used to say I look like Eddie Munster :(
Me too!!! They used to say it all the time when I was a little kid and it really really bothered me for some reason. Looking back, it's kind of cool. (?)
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I've never really been compared to anyone before...my best friend says I look like Jenna Elfman (whatever). I have, however, been told numerous times by numerous people that I look like a little elf. I just frown at them and then do a little jig.
not even to literary characters? (get it, cuz you're a bookworm, bookworm.)
Kinda weird you say that- because at the time of reading this I am wearing my Belle and Sebastian "I'm a bookworm" t-shirt.
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People used to say I look like Eddie Munster :(
Me too!!! They used to say it all the time when I was a little kid and it really really bothered me for some reason. Looking back, it's kind of cool. (?)
You know what Hugman, I'm an adult now, you're right. It is cool. Should I even try the "it could have been worse, they could have said I looked like..."? I think I'll take Eddie Munster. Plus he had the widow's peak, so I guess thats pretty cool.
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I get Grandpa Munster Al Lewis. I'm 19. :-\
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My brother's old girlfriend used to say I looked like Joshua Jackson ("that Pacey guy" as she'd say), but with a "better nose," according to her. I can live with that, I guess.
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I've said it in the chat, but back when my life was coming off the rails, a college professor told me I look like a young Nick Nolte. That didn't help.
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As a young kid I was always compared to Ricky Schroder a la Silver Spoons. Later on it became Doogie Howser. In high school/ university I had a mop of curly hair and was told by many a stranger that I looked like Paul Bernardo, which always made me feel great.
My dad has always called me Charlie Brown.
I would kill to be back in the realm of Doogie.
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I get Grandpa Munster Al Lewis. I'm 19. :-\
I got Herman...too much HGH I guess...
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I've experienced repeat offenders of this crime, why does my roommate's mom think it's necessary for her to let me know how much I look like Ron Sexsmith every time I see her? I also get Michael Cera a lot, that's kind of at the other end of the spectrum. I don't really think I resemble either of those people.
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i will defend people like hugman and co. about the glasses thing. my pal kris gets this a lot (rivers cuomo, anyone?), although personally, i believe he looks like bob saget, season 1 full house.
similar to sarah, i get the, "you look..." and they pick from a plethora of random races: spanish, egyptian, jewish, lebanese, isreali, french, italian, greek, on and on. ive never had the celebrity resemblance, but i have had the, "you act like..." before.
another day, another thread.
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I was just checking facebook and a friend posted that "top 5" application. And it was "top 5 people that you have been compared to" or whatever, which was funny because it's been a topic of discussion lately on the show and here. But, one of the people is andy milonakis that he listed. That's a terrible one, but what's worse is that this guy looks NOTHING like Andy Milonakis. So what I'm wondering is, is there anything worse than being compared to looking like Andy milonakis often when you actually don't look anything like him? What a burden that must be.
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So what I'm wondering is, is there anything worse than being compared to looking like Andy milonakis often when you actually don't look anything like him? What a burden that must be.
I was compared to "Stewart" from the MadTV once. I don't think she was only talking about looks, either.
Not my finest moment.
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When I was younger and had long hair and a goatee I got told more than a couple times that I looked like an "ugly" version of Johnny Depp.
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When I had long hair and a goatee I got:
Jesus
General Custer
James Hetfield Of Metallica
...because those guys look so much alike...
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I've been told that I resemble:
1. William Hurt (nonsense)
2. Harrison Ford (also nonsense)
3. Will Farrell (not completely nonsense)
4. A large freeway interchange
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When I had long hair and a goatee I got:
Jesus Custer Of Metallica
Fixed.
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bobby lee of madtv and unfunny fame. bleh.
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I used to get Vincent D'Onofrio circa "Full Metal Jacket" (which I didn't take as a compliment)
that made me chuckle tom-style. huh-heh-huh-huh.
The weirdest one I ever got was Chris Rock by a girl in highschool that had the hots for me.
I totally * see it!
*don't
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apparently scratchbomb now looks like Zod
(http://www.hatley.org/chron/zodportrait.jpg)
As his lovely wife, I say, "not so much."
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I got Matthew Broderick this weekend.
I'll take it.
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I had a shop teacher in high school who vaguely resembled Chuck Norris. He was more likely to pass you if you mentioned this a couple times a semester. Just saying---sometimes "you like like" can get you somewhere.
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I once got Orlando Bloom, which is nonsense but at least a compliment. However, literally an hour after that someone told me I looked "like Carrot Top, but with brown hair."
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i get moby, way too often and from way too many different people, for it not to be true. (i'm sure lots of balding guys with bad eyesight who have opted for a shaved head and glasses get this, too, though.)
best time: once, at a music festival, some drunk guy yelled in my general direction: "hey, YOU!" i walked a few more steps and heard, "HEY, MAN!" i stopped, turned, looked at him; he looks at me for a few seconds and then said," dawwwwwwwwwwww. i thought you was moby!"
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(http://images-cdn01.associatedcontent.com/image/A3413/34132/300_34132.jpg)
so much so that when I moved to LA in '96 after spending 5 years in Europe,
I had to change my haircut and the clothes I wore.
srsly
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(http://images-cdn01.associatedcontent.com/image/A3413/34132/300_34132.jpg)
so much so that when I moved to LA in '96 after spending 5 years in Europe,
I had to change my haircut and the clothes I wore.
srsly
Racist.
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so much so that when I moved to LA in '96 after spending 5 years in Europe,
I had to change my haircut and the clothes I wore.
srsly
Racist.
Woah woah woah, did they say Michael Richards or Cosmo Kramer?
I survived the ordeal by making the distinction.
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A little bit ago some drunk yelled at me "Bret from the Choncords!" and when I said, "Yup I'm him" He yelled "You ain't him asshole!" Pretty great moment in my life I gotta say.
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Something like ten years ago when I had long hair, someone actually did tell me I looked like Brad Pitt -- with the caveat that it was Brad Pitt in 12 Monkeys.
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What's worse:
You look like someone gorgeous.....when they are at their very worst.
-- OR --
You look like roadkill.....when it is surrounded by a beautiful halo of sunshine.
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i dont know if i should be jealous or relieved that i dont look like anybody.
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In high school I was in a barbeque restaurant (Stubby's) talking to a friend of mine who worked there. His coworker remarked that I looked like John Popper from Blues' Traveler. My friend, seeing the distress on my face, said to me, "don't worry, he meant that as a complement. He likes that band."
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so much so that when I moved to LA in '96 after spending 5 years in Europe,
I had to change my haircut and the clothes I wore.
srsly
Woah woah woah, did they say Michael Richards or Cosmo Kramer?
I survived the ordeal by making the distinction.
it was 1996 so, I got "Kramer" at least a coupla times a week.
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a couple of my friends in college used to say i looked like milton from office space. i got really annoyed by that. they stopped after a while tho.
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i got called moby twice more last nite.
sample comment: "shut the hell up, moby!"
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In seventh grade, I had a reading/PE teacher, Mr. Rudger. He would always call me Howdy Doody because of my freckles and big round head and the space between my front teeth (which have since grown together). He would do it in front of the other students too which I hated. He thought he was really funny. He wasn't. One day he called me Howdy Doody once again in front of the entire PE class. Everyone laughed. I had had enough so I sarcastically said, "Whatever, Clarabell" which received even bigger laughs from the class. Infuriated, he made me stand in the corner the rest of the period for talking back. Afterward I was written up and sent to the office. I told the story to the Vice Principal - including what Mr. Rudger's had been calling me - who sent me home with a note describing what had happened. My parents were impressed that I took it for so long (nearly the entire school year) but I didn't get in trouble. The teacher never called me by anything but my given name after that.
And that is why I am an axe murderer today.
The end.
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I have been told by friends that I don't look like anybody, and they've in fact racked their brains trying to figure out a celebrity counterpart to associate me with. The only time I've ever been told that I look like anybody specific was when this retarded girl fell in love with me and told me I looked like Jonathan Taylor Thomas. That was in the 6th grade, I think.
In fatter days, I studied myself and came up with Alexei Sayle, but my friends have no idea who that is.
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In seventh grade, I had a reading/PE teacher, Mr. Rudger. He would always call me Howdy Doody because of my freckles and big round head and the space between my front teeth (which have since grown together). He would do it in front of the other students too which I hated. He thought he was really funny. He wasn't. One day he called me Howdy Doody once again in front of the entire PE class. Everyone laughed. I had had enough so I sarcastically said, "Whatever, Clarabell" which received even bigger laughs from the class. Infuriated, he made me stand in the corner the rest of the period for talking back. Afterward I was written up and sent to the office. I told the story to the Vice Principal - including what Mr. Rudger's had been calling me - who sent me home with a note describing what had happened. My parents were impressed that I took it for so long (nearly the entire school year) but I didn't get in trouble. The teacher never called me by anything but my given name after that.
And that is why I am an axe murderer today.
The end.
BEST. STORY. ever.
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That IS an awesome story, I am sorry that I ignored it!
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I HAD to go and get these...
Clarabell: (http://www.bigplastichead.com/images/one_offs/clarabell.jpg) Me, 7th grade (1981): (http://www.bigplastichead.com/images/one_offs/me_7th_grade.jpg)
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I HAD to go and get these...
Clarabell: (http://www.bigplastichead.com/images/one_offs/clarabell.jpg) Me, 7th grade (1981): (http://www.bigplastichead.com/images/one_offs/me_7th_grade.jpg)
Clarabell looks just like Ryan Gosling in "Lars and the Real Girl". Except with dark hair.
p.s. you were a poetic-looking kid!
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i have a friend who looks like mitch hedberg:
(http://c2.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/2/l_72ffdede53ca1d5abb77a873c25803d5.jpg)
(http://www.rollogrady.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/mitch1.jpg)
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Patrick, your story was funny and the extra effort you made posting the pictures pushed it over the edge into greatness. Extra points for outsmarting Clarabelle.
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I HAD to go and get these...
Clarabell: (http://www.bigplastichead.com/images/one_offs/clarabell.jpg) Me, 7th grade (1981): (http://www.bigplastichead.com/images/one_offs/me_7th_grade.jpg)
I thought we were talking about famous people here?
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I HAD to go and get these...
Clarabell: (http://www.bigplastichead.com/images/one_offs/clarabell.jpg) Me, 7th grade (1981): (http://www.bigplastichead.com/images/one_offs/me_7th_grade.jpg)
I thought we were talking about famous people here?
Um, Howdy Doody is famous.
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I HAD to go and get these...
Clarabell: (http://www.bigplastichead.com/images/one_offs/clarabell.jpg) Me, 7th grade (1981): (http://www.bigplastichead.com/images/one_offs/me_7th_grade.jpg)
I thought we were talking about famous people here?
Um, Howdy Doody is famous.
Wheres Howdy Doody?
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i have a friend who looks like mitch hedberg:
(http://c2.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/2/l_72ffdede53ca1d5abb77a873c25803d5.jpg)
(http://www.rollogrady.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/mitch1.jpg)
You should find a picture of that friend!
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i have a friend who looks like mitch hedberg:
(http://c2.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/2/l_72ffdede53ca1d5abb77a873c25803d5.jpg)
(http://www.rollogrady.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/mitch1.jpg)
You should find a picture of that friend!
ZING!
I have gotten Justin Timberlake. And it baffles me every time, so much so that I insist they are wrong.
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I HAD to go and get these...
Clarabell: (http://www.bigplastichead.com/images/one_offs/clarabell.jpg) Me, 7th grade (1981): (http://www.bigplastichead.com/images/one_offs/me_7th_grade.jpg)
I thought we were talking about famous people here?
Um, Howdy Doody is famous.
Wheres Howdy Doody?
my question: when did lee hazlewood enter the picture?
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Wheres Howdy Doody?
Oh Bugleboy. This is why you should read people's posts, not just look at the pictures. Patrick first posted a story on how the teach said he looked like Mr. Doody. Go back and read it and it will make sense.
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i have a friend who looks like mitch hedberg:
You should find a picture of that friend!
oh, come on, cut me some slack, dfk! i couldnt find the mitch picture i was looking for...but he looks like him...i think.
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I HAD to go and get these...
Clarabell: (http://www.bigplastichead.com/images/one_offs/clarabell.jpg) Me, 7th grade (1981): (http://www.bigplastichead.com/images/one_offs/me_7th_grade.jpg)
I love how that kid on the left in the Rudger picture looks completely exasperated with the whole situation.
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I love how that kid on the left in the Rudger picture looks completely exasperated with the whole situation.
I still know that kid (http://www.flickr.com/photos/paddysat/1347807529)...and HE looks like Bruce Willis. (Poor bastard.)
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I love how that kid on the left in the Rudger picture looks completely exasperated with the whole situation.
I still know that kid (http://www.flickr.com/photos/paddysat/1347807529)...and HE looks like Bruce Willis. (Poor bastard.)
You should find a picture of that kid for us to look at!
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I love how that kid on the left in the Rudger picture looks completely exasperated with the whole situation.
I still know that kid (http://www.flickr.com/photos/paddysat/1347807529)...and HE looks like Bruce Willis. (Poor bastard.)
You should find a picture of that kid for us to look at!
DFK are you makin' fun of me?! I can't tell but here ya go (http://www.flickr.com/photos/paddysat/1347807529)! (again.)
EDIT: Never mind. Slow minded over here. Move along everyone...
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just remembered what may be the most depressing "you know who you look like."
this was when i was in high school, at the local DQ with friends, getting something to eat. one of the girls working the counter went to our school, knew one of my friends, and had made the local news when she and this guy she was with were beaten as part of a gang initiation. he died; she went into a coma, which she came out of more or less intact.
so we're in the DQ, and she is talking to my friend that she knows, and looks at me, and sort of pauses for a second. she then says, "you look exactly like the guy who tried to kill me."
i think i said, "i'm .... sorry?" i dunno. what DO you say to something like that?
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My own dad gave me the worst "you know who you look like?" this weekend. He said I look like Rod Blagojevich. I think this was after a discussion about baldness in our family, because my two older brothers have slightly more thinning hair than I do. But my hair is in no way a pompadour, so I have no idea where the comparison came from!
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My own dad gave me the worst "you know who you look like?" this weekend. He said I look like Rod Blagojevich. I think this was after a discussion about baldness in our family, because my two older brothers have slightly more thinning hair than I do. But my hair is in no way a pompadour, so I have no idea where the comparison came from!
in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
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just remembered what may be the most depressing "you know who you look like."
this was when i was in high school, at the local DQ with friends, getting something to eat. one of the girls working the counter went to our school, knew one of my friends, and had made the local news when she and this guy she was with were beaten as part of a gang initiation. he died; she went into a coma, which she came out of more or less intact.
so we're in the DQ, and she is talking to my friend that she knows, and looks at me, and sort of pauses for a second. she then says, "you look exactly like the guy who tried to kill me."
i think i said, "i'm .... sorry?" i dunno. what DO you say to something like that?
"Thank you!"?
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just remembered what may be the most depressing "you know who you look like."
this was when i was in high school, at the local DQ with friends, getting something to eat. one of the girls working the counter went to our school, knew one of my friends, and had made the local news when she and this guy she was with were beaten as part of a gang initiation. he died; she went into a coma, which she came out of more or less intact.
so we're in the DQ, and she is talking to my friend that she knows, and looks at me, and sort of pauses for a second. she then says, "you look exactly like the guy who tried to kill me."
i think i said, "i'm .... sorry?" i dunno. what DO you say to something like that?
"Thank you!"?
once time-travel technology is perfected, future-scot will make sure that response is communicated to past-scot. perfect!
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Once you introduce time travel into the mix you will start getting references to yourself.
"You know who you look like? The younger, skinnier, better looking you that I just met when I jumped back 15 years."
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A guy once told me I was the spitting image of his ex-girlfriend.
Jerk!
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A guy once told me I was the spitting image of his ex-girlfriend.
Jerk!
As soon as I read this, "Somebody Told Me" by The Killers popped in my head.
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And now it popped into my head, Bonnie.
Jerk!
That's right, I called Bonnie a jerk. That's how much I dislike that song.
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i went to a party one time and my buddy danny's place and i was standing in danny's living room with his room mate and a few of our friends. there was a painting on the wall of what looked like the albino from princess bride in drag. like, it was identical to that albino dude only it had eye shadow, lipstick, and brown hair. THE ONLY DIFFERENCES. so i started laughing and asked, "who's painting of the albino from princess bride in drag?!" danny's room mate wasn't laughing. he looked at me stone faced and said, "i painted that. it's my mom." awkward!
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And now it popped into my head, Bonnie.
Jerk!
That's right, I called Bonnie a jerk. That's how much I dislike that song.
Sorry Dorvid. Didn't realize I opened a pandora's box. Just know I am suffering just as much, if not more, for having friends who are Killers fans.
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My sister insists that I look like Seth Rogan. I am insulted every time.
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sanny's room mate wasn't laughing. he looked at me stone faced and said, "i painted that. it's my mom." awkward!
Here, the proper response would be a deadpan "I'm sorry."
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yeah, i just hung my head and said under my breath and barely audible, knowing that it wasn't helping my cause but i guess i was so dumbfounded the only words i could muster were, "oh... well-- it looks a lot like that guy from the movie-- in drag."
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(You did get that I'm suggesting you should have said "I'm sorry" the way Tom does when he's snarkily commiserating with someone who has just said, for example, "I'm from Boston"?)
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i didn't get that. but i get it now, sarah. very funny.
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And you're right, I should have said that. But youth is wasted on the young, right? I should have knifed him and grabbed his wallet.
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i didn't get that. but i get it now, sarah. very funny.
Mildly, at best. And perhaps only appropriate if you wanted to alienate the artist forever.
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"The Jonas brother no one cares about"
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"The Jonas brother no one cares about"
Zeppo Jonas?
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"The Jonas brother no one cares about"
Zeppo Jonas?
Shemp Jonas.
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"The Jonas brother no one cares about"
Zeppo Jonas?
Shemp Jonas.
I was going to say Joaquin "Leif" Jonas
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Hello. I'm _Jim_ Ameche.
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I GOT MR. BEAN ON MONDAY! STOKED!!!
:'(
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someone told ME I look like MITCH HEDBURG!
I did not take this too well. First off, I'm a gal.
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God, I just remembered that a college friend compared the shape of my head to H.P. Lovecraft's:
(http://theteemingbrain.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/h_p_lovecraft.jpg)
In fairness, I do have a weird, oblong head. But, come on!
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i hardly ever see people who look like other well-known people. in high school, there was an over abundance of this, but now...i only see people who look like other people i know.
again, with the exception of myself, who looks like no one but has been compared to janeane garafolo or daria in the personality dept more than once.
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This isn't quite the same thing, but there's a guy at my school whose hair is apparently very similar to mine. His friends keep coming up behind me and yelling or jumping on my shoulders and then getting really embarrassed when they realize I am not him.
It's too funny for me to be annoyed.
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For years, I would get Jason Biggs, which is I *guess* alright, but every once in a while, I'd get "a fat Adam Sandler." Hey, fuck you, dude.
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Around the time I turned 30, people started looking like people I'd met before.
Life went into repeats.
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This isn't quite the same thing, but there's a guy at my school whose hair is apparently very similar to mine. His friends keep coming up behind me and yelling or jumping on my shoulders and then getting really embarrassed when they realize I am not him.
It's too funny for me to be annoyed.
this happened in college once. I was walking into a building and a girl ran up and swatted me on the ass. hard. I turned around and she melted with embarrassment realizing I wasn't who she thought I was. She apologized profusely, but I DIDN'T MIND.......
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I've been victimized by a non-celebrity look-alike for almost 15 years now.
All through high school, I was told I looked like a kid named Jeremy, who went to another nearby school. Several different people pointed this out to me. None of them seemed to know each other, but this Jeremy and I have roughly a dozen friends in common. Somebody else just brought it up the other day, and it occurred to me that he and I have still never met.
I wonder if people tell him that he looks like me. They'd damn well better.
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I had a Best Show moment the other day. A lady working at Panera Bread told me I looked like John Cusack.
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Tom had a bit about this some months back, riffing on how insulting most of those comparisons are. Over the weekend, I finally got my own:
"You know who you'd look like if you had less hair? George Costanza."
Gee, thanks. Made my fucking weekend.
I actually got George Costanza too once. So I feel your pain here.
Some other ones I've gotten...Jim Belushi (this one REALLY hurt), John Belushi (oddly I didn't mind this one), Mark Ruffalo, Jimmy Kimmel, and TV food critic Adam Richman from MAN VS. FOOD.
I've also been told I sound like Michael Douglass and Charlie Sheen. So apparently I talk like the movie WALL STREET.
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This isn't quite the same thing, but there's a guy at my school whose hair is apparently very similar to mine. His friends keep coming up behind me and yelling or jumping on my shoulders and then getting really embarrassed when they realize I am not him.
It's too funny for me to be annoyed.
Many years ago, when I was still a ne'er-do-well skulking about central Jersey, I found that a dear friend who had been living in Europe for the previous two years had come back to NJ. As I entered the place where we were all meeting for our grand reunion, I asked the first person I saw if "Paul" had arrived. "Yeah, he's in the next room," I was told. I entered the room and saw his trademark haircut and platinum blonde hair over the back of the chair he was sitting in. So I snuck up behind him and punched him in the head (as we were wont to do to each other back then).
Imagine my surprise when I discovered that what looked like bright blonde hair in that dim light was actually gray hair, and that I had punched my friend's father in the head.
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Tom had a bit about this some months back, riffing on how insulting most of those comparisons are. Over the weekend, I finally got my own:
"You know who you'd look like if you had less hair? George Costanza."
Gee, thanks. Made my fucking weekend.
I actually got George Costanza too once. So I feel your pain here.
Some other ones I've gotten...Jim Belushi (this one REALLY hurt), John Belushi (oddly I didn't mind this one), Mark Ruffalo, Jimmy Kimmel, and TV food critic Adam Richman from MAN VS. FOOD.
I've also been told I sound like Michael Douglass and Charlie Sheen. So apparently I talk like the movie WALL STREET.
At least it was "if you had LESS hair."
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i used to get tom green all the time when he was on tv and not in a gutter somewhere praying that dr. drew will have him do a guest spot on loveline or something.
also, when that shitty movie "Swimfan" (i dont even know if you all will remember it it was so terrible, but i caught some of it because i was working at the movie theatre at the time), my friends were all hanging out at a party, and i was off getting a drink. when i came back to the room, my friends were talking about "that girl from swimfan" and i was like "oh my god, that girl is absolutely horrible looking! when i see her face i want to punch it!" to which one of my friends replied "you dick! everyone was just talking about how much i look like her!"
ew buoy. although i did end up saving myself, because it really didn't take much convincing to assure everyone present that there was absolutely NO RESEMBLANCE WHATSOEVER. i mean, they were almost like opposites they looked so different. i didn't get it.
kind of like how i don't get how Hugman could be called eddie munster, mr. bean AND chris rock. CHRIS ROCK!?
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I GOT MR. BEAN ON MONDAY! STOKED!!!
:'(
for real? i am working on a mr bean script with a highly talented writing partner. can you ride a scooter? so far most of the film we have constructed is him riding a scooter. we are still searching for stunt doubles.
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Firstly, Swimfan is a good movie.
Whatever.
So I'm in a bar the other night and some guy comes up to me and says, "You know who you look like? Daniel Kitson - if we cut your legs off at the knees."
I says, "Cut me off at the knees - why would you want to cut me off at the knees? These are traffic stopping pins, friendo."
What a D-face.
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I GOT MR. BEAN ON MONDAY! STOKED!!!
:'(
What is the matter with Mr. Bean? He's cute. Do you have a Teddy Bear and do you think Mr. Bean would like ALF? You should definitely take the part of Mr. Bean's Stunt Double.
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Mr. Bean was much better when he was called "BlackAdder."
And much worse in that race around the world movie. Hoo boy, I'll never get that time back. I ought to be able to sue for that.
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The race around the world movie sucked. I walked out of the Mr. Bean movie and the race around the world movie.
I don't know if Black Adder is better than Mr. Bean unwrapping candy during mass.
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Firstly, Swimfan is a good movie.
Whatever.
really?
i like black adder and mr. bean. the past couple of years i've watched that black adder christmas special during the holidays, it's funny.
rat race was very not good. i mean, of course you all realize it was basically a remake of it's a mad, mad, mad, mad world...which had an insanely great cast, and they're trying to replace that cast with whoopi goldberg, seth green and breckin meyer? what the hell?
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Why do they even bother? Can't anyone write a new movie? Can you imagine re-making Strozcyck with Kevin Costner and directed by Ron Howard?
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i can, but i don't want to.
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I GOT MR. BEAN ON MONDAY! STOKED!!!
:'(
for real? i am working on a mr bean script with a highly talented writing partner. can you ride a scooter? so far most of the film we have constructed is him riding a scooter. we are still searching for stunt doubles.
i have a '64 allstate.
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the same scooter in Fish Out Of Water's version of "Scarface", i assume?
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the same scooter in Fish Out Of Water's version of "Scarface", i assume?
Oh, Baron, shows what you know. That was a modern Vespa.
That's awesome that you've seen Scarface, though. I love that, if I do say so myself.
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Someone I did NOT tell a person he reminded me of even though he did: Rob Schneider
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I rewatched the chicken scene from Stroczek today on YouTube. Tough to make it all the way through.
The duck is always a surprise.
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the same scooter in Fish Out Of Water's version of "Scarface", i assume?
Oh, Baron, shows what you know. That was a modern Vespa.
That's awesome that you've seen Scarface, though. I love that, if I do say so myself.
:-\ i know, im a scooteradummy.
interesting thing about Fish Out Of Water, i saw it before 1000 fights was the talk of the town and i dont remember how i came across the site. yeah, im braggin'.
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I just got Zachary Quinto - Sylar from Heroes and Spock from the new Star Trek movie.
Could be worse.
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I hate that movie. Bunch of lies. Nobody stalked me when I was on the swim team.
Firstly, Swimfan is a good movie.
Whatever.
So I'm in a bar the other night and some guy comes up to me and says, "You know who you look like? Daniel Kitson - if we cut your legs off at the knees."
I says, "Cut me off at the knees - why would you want to cut me off at the knees? These are traffic stopping pins, friendo."
What a D-face.
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the same scooter in Fish Out Of Water's version of "Scarface", i assume?
Oh, Baron, shows what you know. That was a modern Vespa.
That's awesome that you've seen Scarface, though. I love that, if I do say so myself.
:-\ i know, im a scooteradummy.
interesting thing about Fish Out Of Water, i saw it before 1000 fights was the talk of the town and i dont remember how i came across the site. yeah, im braggin'.
you probably got it off the link on my profile. i was on the board here for a month or few before I called in.
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"You look like a more handsome version of ______________"
gross
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"You look like a more handsome version of ______________"
gross
Charles Bukowski?
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In line at JFK airport security.
Female ID and ticket screener looks at my passport photo and says I look like Leonardo DiCaprio in the picture.
"Do I look like him in person?" I ask.
"No," she said matter-of-factly, then she realized that maybe she had gone too far, and added: "But you're still handsome!"
"Thanks a bunch."
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I got a haircut over the weekend. This morning, a lady at work was staring at me and says, "That haircut makes you look like someone...oh I know, Jon from Jon & Kate + 8! That's funny because you share the name Jon!" When I pointed out that I have no Asian features, nor am I balding, she just shrugged. A wonderful way to start the week.
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This really can go either way... I get two pretty frequently:
Skippy from Family Ties:
(http://por-img.cimcontent.net/api/assets/bin-200811/376434cb7a71d3457f1b924798f3cd89.jpg)
John Mayer:
(http://www.celebrityviplounge.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/john-mayer.jpg)
Sadly, I think Skippy is probably closer to the mark...
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I got Shia Lebouf last night. I don't see it.
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I need to bump this because I recently got:
'you sort of look like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.'
UGH.
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I need to bump this because I recently got:
'you sort of look like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.'
UGH.
JPEG?
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(http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/gallery_photos/kidvampires_dunst_gal.jpg)
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I just got a rather short haircut and on Friday my boss told me I look like a 12 year old boy.
Then when he saw that I looked kind of hurt he said 'It could be worse. I told Keenan [a gay coworker who just got a pretty wild haircut] he looks like he got too close to the Pride Parade.'
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Where do you work? Inside of a PSA about workplace harassment?
I just got a rather short haircut and on Friday my boss told me I look like a 12 year old boy.
Then when he saw that I looked kind of hurt he said 'It could be worse. I told Keenan [a gay coworker who just got a pretty wild haircut] he looks like he got too close to the Pride Parade.'
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I just got a rather short haircut and on Friday my boss told me I look like a 12 year old boy.
Then when he saw that I looked kind of hurt he said 'It could be worse. I told Keenan [a gay coworker who just got a pretty wild haircut] he looks like he got too close to the Pride Parade.'
Where do you work? Inside of a PSA about workplace harassment?
Yeah, when I actually wrote it down I thought, 'this is pretty bad'. However my boss is a child of the 60s whose sense of boundaries was long ago destroyed by drugs. And I know I sound like an abused spouse saying this, but outside of such wacko comments here and there, it's a pretty great workplace.
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Having had workplace experiences involving wacked individuals who make life difficult, and others involving unstoppable dehumanizing forces of bureaucracy seemingly sucking all the oxygen out of the workplace air (the name rhymes with 'Hey D&D'), I would agree, it could be worse.
I just got a rather short haircut and on Friday my boss told me I look like a 12 year old boy.
Then when he saw that I looked kind of hurt he said 'It could be worse. I told Keenan [a gay coworker who just got a pretty wild haircut] he looks like he got too close to the Pride Parade.'
Where do you work? Inside of a PSA about workplace harassment?
Yeah, when I actually wrote it down I thought, 'this is pretty bad'. However my boss is a child of the 60s whose sense of boundaries was long ago destroyed by drugs. And I know I sound like an abused spouse saying this, but outside of such wacko comments here and there, it's a pretty great workplace.