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The Best Show on WFMU => Show Discussion => Topic started by: Keith Whitener on October 16, 2009, 01:15:14 PM
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Today I got, "I thought 'Oh my god this guy looks like fuckin Arnold Horshack!!!' That's not a bad thing. I think it's neat."
Two weeks ago, two different people, told me I look and sound like Jeff Goldblum.
When I was on Facebook, someone had tagged me as Borat. Not Sacha Baron Cohen, but Borat. Thanks. I look like a guy who intentionally doesn't bathe for weeks to make the caricature that he's portraying more authentic and funny.
Next I need someone to say, "You look vaguely Middle Eastern. Jew? Arab?"
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I've gotten:
Pee Wee Herman (when I have short hair)
Emo Phillips
The above two are inevitable when you have dark hair, are thin or nearly so, with pale skin.
On the more positive front when I had longer hair I got Tom Cruise multiple times. And I got my first girlfriend in middle school because I had a skater cut like the kid from Terminator 2.
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For me, the sad part is the progression over my life: I have gone from a young Elliott Gould to David Schwimmer to "a tall Paul Giamatti."
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I have honestly never been told that I look like a celebrity. I usually get "You remind me of my brother," but I think that's usually more of a personality thing than an appearance thing.
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This isn't exactly on this topic but it's related...Every now and then (more frequently when I was younger, like in high school), people come up to me and ask "how tall are you?" Like in a bar some stranger will just ask me that. Like it's public information and they have a right to know. If someone came up to me and said "what time is it?" I would think they were rude, let alone "how tall are you?" Secondly, I'm obviously short, why would I want to be reminded by some strange dude that I'm 'not normal'?? Lastly, who cares??
People. Honestly.
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This isn't exactly on this topic but it's related...Every now and then (more frequently when I was younger, like in high school), people come up to me and ask "how tall are you?" Like in a bar some stranger will just ask me that. Like it's public information and they have a right to know. If someone came up to me and said "what time is it?" I would think they were rude, let alone "how tall are you?" Secondly, I'm obviously short, why would I want to be reminded by some strange dude that I'm 'not normal'?? Lastly, who cares??
People. Honestly.
I get that on the opposite end of the spectrum - total strangers asking me how tall I am, or asking me to get things off higher shelves for them in stores. Or did I play basketball etc.
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And I got my first girlfriend in middle school because I had a skater cut like the kid from Terminator 2.
She told you this?
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This isn't exactly on this topic but it's related...Every now and then (more frequently when I was younger, like in high school), people come up to me and ask "how tall are you?" Like in a bar some stranger will just ask me that. Like it's public information and they have a right to know. If someone came up to me and said "what time is it?" I would think they were rude, let alone "how tall are you?" Secondly, I'm obviously short, why would I want to be reminded by some strange dude that I'm 'not normal'?? Lastly, who cares??
People. Honestly.
I get that on the opposite end of the spectrum - total strangers asking me how tall I am, or asking me to get things off higher shelves for them in stores. Or did I play basketball etc.
This happens to my wife all the time. I guess guys used to use some variation of "Wow, you're tall" as an approach, apparently not realizing how much it pissed her off.
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Best I ever got: Orlando Bloom/Bret from Flight of the Conchords
Worst: "Carrot Top, but with brown hair."
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Worst: "Carrot Top, but with brown hair."
What would one call a brown haired Carrot Top?
Potato Skin Top? Nooooooooooo.
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I've gotten Eugene Mirman, or as the lady at work put it: "The Guy on the Mike-FM commercial". I love Eugene Mirman to death, but I wish she had not made the comparison.
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And I got my first girlfriend in middle school because I had a skater cut like the kid from Terminator 2.
She told you this?
Yes.
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At various times when I've gotten a shorter than normal haircut, people will say "Nazi." As a blond, blue-eyed, pale American, that hurts! Although I'm not actually being discriminated against, now I totally know what discrimination is like.
Another time, my homeroom teacher in high school, apropos of nothing, on the last day of school asked me if I were Swedish. Despite my non-Swedish name, the fact that I was from the town I was in, and I'd never worn any sort of national Swedish costume.
Yorgen vorgen I was angry!
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At various times when I've gotten a shorter than normal haircut, people will say "Nazi." As a blond, blue-eyed, pale American, that hurts! Although I'm not actually being discriminated against, now I totally know what discrimination is like.
Maybe if your eyes weren't so clearly full of hate, this wouldn't be a problem! Also, stop bossing people around about cream.
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At various times when I've gotten a shorter than normal haircut,
Nazi!
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At various times when I've gotten a shorter than normal haircut, people will say "Nazi." As a blond, blue-eyed, pale American, that hurts! Although I'm not actually being discriminated against, now I totally know what discrimination is like.
Maybe if your eyes weren't so clearly full of hate, this wouldn't be a problem! Also, stop bossing people around about cream.
Half-full. Too lazy for full of hate.
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Ah, the "I'm too lazy to be a Nazi" defense. I should've known you'd resort to that!
I know what you mean, though. I pretty much top out at mildly irritated..
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My brother keeps telling me I look like Minnesota Twins outfielder/DH Jason Kubel:
(http://i36.tinypic.com/r0qbmq.jpg)
I really do not know how to take this, especially after he struck out like fifteen times during the ALDS.
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My brother keeps telling me I look like Minnesota Twins outfielder/DH Jason Kubel:
(http://i36.tinypic.com/r0qbmq.jpg)
I really do not know how to take this, especially after he struck out like fifteen times during the ALDS.
Choke up.
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My brother keeps telling me I look like Minnesota Twins outfielder/DH Jason Kubel:
(http://i36.tinypic.com/r0qbmq.jpg)
I really do not know how to take this, especially after he struck out like fifteen times during the ALDS.
guh, there's nothing worse than a douche-smirk on a young guy like this. Give your bro a knuckle sandwich!
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I'm sure I've mentioned this before, but Yoko Ono hisses when I pass by.
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I was standing at the post office counter on Tuesday. There were about five or six people in a line behind me. There was a guy being helped by another clerk next to me and when he was leaving he stopped and said to some guy in line, "Does anyone ever tell you you look like Brett Farve?". The guy (who I hadn't seen yet because I am allergic to any sort of eye contact while visiting the post office) said, "Yep. All the time. But I have more kids." Everyone in the line behind me started taking and agreeing that he did indeed look like Brett Farve.
So of course I become curious but I couldn't be that guy who rubbernecks around to take a gander at the stranger so I waited until I left. As I passed him I took a look. He had three young kids with him and was chatting with other people in line but he looked right at me smiling as I walked by. I smiled back.
Boy did that dude really look like Brett Farve. Seriously.
I think he was OK with it though.
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"You know who you look like?"
"Don't tell me. Just keep it to yourself."
"That guy who gets shot in the nards as the end of The Last House on the Left."
"I TOLD YOU NOT TO TELL ME." *Walks away*
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Consistently, I either get James Woods or Steve Buscemi or some combination.
:'(
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At least 2-3 times a week since I was a young teenager, someone has told me that I looked like Ice Cube.
Today I was in a liquor store and the attendent was actually annoyed with me when he realized that I wasn't Ice Cube.
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WOW...that John Hodgman really looks like John Clayton from ESPN. seperated a birth perhaps.
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WOW...that John Hodgman really looks like John Clayton from ESPN. seperated a birth perhaps.
Ah, rookie mistake.
Hodgman is clearly a geek. Clayton is a obviously a dork. Somewhat subtle difference, but it's a significant one.
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The topic's all but dead on the show, but I've got a visual version of it...
I didn't mean for it to happen. I want that to be perfectly clear.
I was asked to contribute a piece to a downtown gallery for an upcoming show called "Urban Myths & Legends". Pressed for time and short on ideas, I went with the first urban legend that popped into my head - that Josh Sorvino, the guy who played Paul Pfeiffer on "The Wonder Years", grew up to become Marilyn Manson. It's since been debunked, thanks to the internet, but I remember that one flew around thick during my years in high school and hung around until the 90's died. So my piece took Marilyn and stuck him in the world of the TV show. I combined the looks of both the actor and the singer for a portrait.
Which...ended up being a dead ringer for my girlfriend's roommate (aside from the dyed hair, stupid contact lenses and translucent skin). I didn't realize it until I signed my name to it. The biggest burn was that her roommate actually got called "Paul Pfeiffer" throughout school. I have since apologized many many times over.
(http://photos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs279.snc1/10631_1170494434014_1577587279_30435447_1777570_n.jpg)
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Mike, that's amazing.
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whoa, skills.
I HATE, HATE, HATE, the "Do you know who you remind me of" conversation.
I get it a lot, maybe that's why. When I was younger and blond it was "that girl from Dharma and Greg" then when I dyed it back to brown it was "a young Carrie Fisher." Most recently I've gotten "a young Shirley McLean"
And the thing that bugs me about these conversations? is that there's no where to go from there. I mean, what do I say to that?
"I'm sorry, your face is so boring and forgettable that I can't think of anyone you look like."
^ did not go over well ( fyi)
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I was really hoping to call in with this tonight, but I wasn't able to get home tonight...
And I think it's far enough away from this actual topic that I may have been able to sneak it by (because this topic is banned now, right?)
At any rate, for some reason, I follow Dane Cook on Twitter. He had posted some stupid myspace video with him interviewing himself, and in one of them, he looked a bit heavy and his hair looked a little bit curly - Jean Charest style, for anyone reading in Canada. (Yes, I will watch just about any video posted on Twitter.)
So, I at replied him saying "You are looking more and more like Jeff Garlin by the day!"
Within five or six minutes, I get a DM from Dane Cook himself.
He said "I don't even know what that means, but Jeff is a really great guy. I know him."
I think I got under Dane Cook's skin...
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If you had listed a hundred different responses including that one, it would have been so easy to pick that out as his response. Total tool.
Good job, amiright?. Loved the Norm MacDonald interview, too.
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Who is Norm MacDonald?
I keep reading a boot him.
Does he have a Farm? If so I might know him.
E EYE E EYE OHHHH
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When I was 23 years old, I was in the lobby of an office waiting for someone to come out and meet me. While I was waiting, the receptionist said "excuse me, but has anyone ever told you that you have a STRIKING RESEMBLANCE to Stephen King?"
Stephen King.
I gave her that "really?" look.
She said "No! I mean, you're much better looking than he is!"
Too late, lady. There is no way to save that.
Stephen King. I got a haircut the next day.
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almost everyday i get Jemaine from flight of the conchords.
on halloween day when i wasn't even in costume yet i got people coming up to me and being like " great costume! the guy from flight of the conchords right?"
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I recommend to everyone that, if someone tells you who you look like, you simply respond: "Funny, because I was just thinking you look like Little Jackie from Benny Hill."
(http://runstop.de/lgjackie03.jpg)
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whoa, skills.
I HATE, HATE, HATE, the "Do you know who you remind me of" conversation.
I get it a lot, maybe that's why. When I was younger and blond it was "that girl from Dharma and Greg" then when I dyed it back to brown it was "a young Carrie Fisher." Most recently I've gotten "a young Shirley McLean"
And the thing that bugs me about these conversations? is that there's no where to go from there.
Jackie Stallone?
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When I was 23 years old, I was in the lobby of an office waiting for someone to come out and meet me. While I was waiting, the receptionist said "excuse me, but has anyone ever told you that you have a STRIKING RESEMBLANCE to Stephen King?"
Stephen King.
I gave her that "really?" look.
She said "No! I mean, you're much better looking than he is!"
Too late, lady. There is no way to save that.
Stephen King. I got a haircut the next day.
Is that better or worse than Larry King?
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When I was 23 years old, I was in the lobby of an office waiting for someone to come out and meet me. While I was waiting, the receptionist said "excuse me, but has anyone ever told you that you have a STRIKING RESEMBLANCE to Stephen King?"
Stephen King.
I gave her that "really?" look.
She said "No! I mean, you're much better looking than he is!"
Too late, lady. There is no way to save that.
Stephen King. I got a haircut the next day.
Do people ever tell you that you look like Paul Giamatti?
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(http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/9cyPFQbgCozmcbylpNOSdsRRo1_1280.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=0RYTHV9YYQ4W5Q3HQMG2&Expires=1258631116&Signature=%2FQQS1tBR7MbbQBkmaV6FsatTFeE%3D)
I didn't know where else to put this but that dude looks like Tom.
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I think I got under Dane Cook's skin...
Do you have access to a bathtub filled with salicyclic acid?
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I was really hoping to call in with this tonight, but I wasn't able to get home tonight...
And I think it's far enough away from this actual topic that I may have been able to sneak it by (because this topic is banned now, right?)
At any rate, for some reason, I follow Dane Cook on Twitter. He had posted some stupid myspace video with him interviewing himself, and in one of them, he looked a bit heavy and his hair looked a little bit curly - Jean Charest style, for anyone reading in Canada. (Yes, I will watch just about any video posted on Twitter.)
So, I at replied him saying "You are looking more and more like Jeff Garlin by the day!"
Within five or six minutes, I get a DM from Dane Cook himself.
He said "I don't even know what that means, but Jeff is a really great guy. I know him."
I think I got under Dane Cook's skin...
You should have punched him in his abundance of energy.
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Most of my life I got John Cusack - pretty consistently from the early 90s until now. But every once in a while, someone tells me Randy Quaid.
Which begs the question: how can one look like John Cusack and Randy Quaid at the same time?
It's horrible.
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Most of my life I got John Cusack - pretty consistently from the early 90s until now. But every once in a while, someone tells me Randy Quaid.
Which begs the question: how can one look like John Cusack and Randy Quaid at the same time?
It's horrible.
Daniel Day Lewis.
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I was really hoping to call in with this tonight, but I wasn't able to get home tonight...
And I think it's far enough away from this actual topic that I may have been able to sneak it by (because this topic is banned now, right?)
At any rate, for some reason, I follow Dane Cook on Twitter. He had posted some stupid myspace video with him interviewing himself, and in one of them, he looked a bit heavy and his hair looked a little bit curly - Jean Charest style, for anyone reading in Canada. (Yes, I will watch just about any video posted on Twitter.)
So, I at replied him saying "You are looking more and more like Jeff Garlin by the day!"
Within five or six minutes, I get a DM from Dane Cook himself.
He said "I don't even know what that means, but Jeff is a really great guy. I know him."
I think I got under Dane Cook's skin...
You should have punched him in his abundance of energy.
It was twitter, not IRC...
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God damn it. My roommate's girlfriend just sent me a link on Facebook:
"Man, I'm sure you get this a shit-ton, but still.... Voila, your dopple:"
(http://media.avclub.com/images/events/performer/11019/louisck_jpg_595x325_crop_upscale_q85.jpg)
First of all, I love Louis CK. He is a funny, funny man.
Second, NO ONE has ever told me this. I have made it through my adult life without anyone comparing me, physically or otherwise, to Louis CK. I think it's because no one thinks I look ten years older than I am, bald, red-haired, with a gut and a goatee. I possess none of those things.
Third...LOUIS CK. God damn it.
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I got this the other day:
(http://thislittlelightofmine.typepad.com/.a/6a01156f248397970c012876097944970c-500pi)
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Third...LOUIS CK. God damn it.
I know, right? He's so fucking awesome. I cannot believe how funny he is.
Also can Mama get some points for referencing one of his bits on air this Tuesday?
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Louis C.K. should star in a show called "Dad Cop"