gattino
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I was going to add this to the end of the Doppleganger thread, but it's only tangentially related (though may explain some of my own doppleganger incidents of strangers mistaking me for multiple different acquaintances of theirs or people online asking me if they saw me in such and such a shop earlier).
The other day a stranger informed me I looked like the actor Matt Damon. Let me be very clear I look absolutely nothing like the actor Matt Damon and no one has ever suggested it previously, with good reason. The relevance of this unsolicited nonsense is that it brings the total of my alleged celebrity lookalikes way into double figure. I'm pretty sure I've lost track of some of them. But its always strangers feeling a compulsion to inform me, whether i was already in conversation with them or not. Some are very flattering comparisons. Some are distinctly not. Some are repeated multiple times by different people. Some are totally out of left field one offs..such as Matt Damon and the possibly tipsy heavy built man I passed in the street a few weeks ago in the middle afternoon who smiled an acknowledgement and then threw in as I overtook him "You look like Rick Astley!"
From my teenage years in school until now I have been informed by enthusiastic strangers that I look just like....(Asterisk indicates multiple accusers):
Kevin from The Wonder Years. Charlie Chaplin. Uri Gellar Simon Cowell. Eric McCormack from Will and Grace*. Frankie Dettori. Joseph Fiennes. Hal Sparks from Queer As Folk USA*. Henry "The Fonz" Winkler*. Mika. Aiden "Little Finger"Gillen from Game of Thrones. Mario Cantone from Sex and The City. Kevin Bacon (!!). Tom Cruise. Rick Astley. "The doctor from Grey's Anatomy". Matt Damon.
Some of these have some obvious traits in common.. a head of dark hair, a generic "american" jawline, or a gaunt face. But others are gloriously random, and always with a great sense of compulsion to tell me.
I'm sure eventually they'll get around to Barbara Bush and Kanye West.
Throw in my "real life" doubles - a Mark, a Dave, a Steve, some deaf taxi driver, and someone known to various lady shop assistants around Liverpool and there's surely some insight into many examples of alleged dopplegangers. Some of us perhaps have chameleon faces...and many more of us have great difficulty in distinguishing some key feature of an individual from their overall appearance.
So, for the sake of a question.. can anyone outnumber me in alleged lookalikes?
The other day a stranger informed me I looked like the actor Matt Damon. Let me be very clear I look absolutely nothing like the actor Matt Damon and no one has ever suggested it previously, with good reason. The relevance of this unsolicited nonsense is that it brings the total of my alleged celebrity lookalikes way into double figure. I'm pretty sure I've lost track of some of them. But its always strangers feeling a compulsion to inform me, whether i was already in conversation with them or not. Some are very flattering comparisons. Some are distinctly not. Some are repeated multiple times by different people. Some are totally out of left field one offs..such as Matt Damon and the possibly tipsy heavy built man I passed in the street a few weeks ago in the middle afternoon who smiled an acknowledgement and then threw in as I overtook him "You look like Rick Astley!"
From my teenage years in school until now I have been informed by enthusiastic strangers that I look just like....(Asterisk indicates multiple accusers):
Kevin from The Wonder Years. Charlie Chaplin. Uri Gellar Simon Cowell. Eric McCormack from Will and Grace*. Frankie Dettori. Joseph Fiennes. Hal Sparks from Queer As Folk USA*. Henry "The Fonz" Winkler*. Mika. Aiden "Little Finger"Gillen from Game of Thrones. Mario Cantone from Sex and The City. Kevin Bacon (!!). Tom Cruise. Rick Astley. "The doctor from Grey's Anatomy". Matt Damon.
Some of these have some obvious traits in common.. a head of dark hair, a generic "american" jawline, or a gaunt face. But others are gloriously random, and always with a great sense of compulsion to tell me.
I'm sure eventually they'll get around to Barbara Bush and Kanye West.
Throw in my "real life" doubles - a Mark, a Dave, a Steve, some deaf taxi driver, and someone known to various lady shop assistants around Liverpool and there's surely some insight into many examples of alleged dopplegangers. Some of us perhaps have chameleon faces...and many more of us have great difficulty in distinguishing some key feature of an individual from their overall appearance.
So, for the sake of a question.. can anyone outnumber me in alleged lookalikes?
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