# A handsome woman.... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 21, 2007, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-handsome-woman/427351 "2007-11-21T18:59:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2007, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-handsome-woman/427351/21 "2007-11-21T20:49:06Z")
I love this site! It thinks I look like lots of hot gals who are half my age. [My Collage.](http://www.mortalwombat.com/Special/Collage.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2007, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-handsome-woman/427351/22 "2007-11-21T20:54:58Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] Thanks, but no, actually, not that much. [/QUOTE] Then let me put it a different way. You’re a damn pretty lady, and if I were twenty years younger, I’d spend evenings smacking myself in the head for not flirting with you more — which sums up my relationships for my whole life before meeting Edlyn. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2007, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-handsome-woman/427351/23 "2007-11-21T20:57:47Z")
Aw, shucks, sir. **Blushes prettily. Um, handsomely.** ---
**Author:** ![RoniaBorkason](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9dc877/32.png) [@RoniaBorkason](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RoniaBorkason)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2007, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-handsome-woman/427351/24 "2007-11-21T20:59:55Z")
Hmm. I tried two different pix, and my closest match is Meryl Streep, who is older than my mother. The second? Eddie Murphy. Why yes, those two DO look a lot alike, don’t they? And judging by the amount of Hispanic women who resemble me, my family isn’t as Swedish as we say we are. ---
**Author:** ![tremorviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47774/32.png) [@tremorviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tremorviolet)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2007, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-handsome-woman/427351/25 "2007-11-21T21:01:43Z")
Having done a bunch of photos, it seems to be picking celebrities based more on their pose in the photograph than their actual facial features. I ran six photos and didn’t get the same person twice. Although, evidently I look very Asian… ---
**Author:** ![Roland\_Orzabal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@Roland\_Orzabal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roland_Orzabal)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2007, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-handsome-woman/427351/26 "2007-11-21T21:02:35Z")
After poking around with it, I’ve concluded that instead of “celebrity lookalikes”, this feature could more accurately be called “celebrities making the same expression as you”. Five different pictures of me produced exactly one common match between any two, and that was Adrien Brody, who looks nothing like me but tends to do a similar thing with his eyebrows in angle photos. ETA: Or what **tremorviolet** just said. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2007, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-handsome-woman/427351/27 "2007-11-21T21:03:29Z")
Some of my “matches” included Jesse Jackson, Al Pacino, John Ritter. None of whom really look like me. I wouldn’t worry about it too much. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2007, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-handsome-woman/427351/28 "2007-11-21T21:13:00Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] Thanks, hon. Seriously, I’ve been bumming about this – _Nick Nolte!?!?!?!_ [/QUOTE] You look a bit like Diane Keaton to me… God knows what I’ll turn up as. \ ETA: crap. It doesn’t support Safari or the other way around or whatever. No celeb lookalike for me. ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2007, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-handsome-woman/427351/29 "2007-11-21T21:45:58Z")
[QUOTE=Roland Orzabal] After poking around with it, I’ve concluded that instead of “celebrity lookalikes”, this feature could more accurately be called “celebrities making the same expression as you”. [/QUOTE] I agree. I ran a second photo (with a rather different pose), and my [Collage](http://www.mortalwombat.com/Special/Collage2.jpg) contained none of the celebrities who were matches in the first attempt. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2007, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-handsome-woman/427351/30 "2007-11-21T21:55:48Z")
I’ve sat across the table from you. You’re not handsome. You’ve an allure that computers cannot handle. 🙂 Cartooniverse ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2007, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-handsome-woman/427351/31 "2007-11-21T22:16:45Z")
Definitely not very discriminating. I ran two almost identical pictures which were even taken at about the same time. The first list included Kim Jong Il, Suharto, Dustin Hoffman, Carl Perkins, Ray Romano, and Peter Ustinov. The second included Mel Gibson, Stan Lee, Hulk Hogan, Donald Rumsfeld, Water Mondale, and Tim McGraw. ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2007, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-handsome-woman/427351/32 "2007-11-21T22:37:56Z")
[QUOTE=eleanorigby] ETA: crap. It doesn’t support Safari or the other way around or whatever. No celeb lookalike for me. [/QUOTE] If you’re that curious, e-mail me your photo and I’ll run it through for you. My addy is my username at [hotmail.com](http://hotmail.com). I promise I won’t Photoshop a mustache on you or anything before I upload it. ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2007, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-handsome-woman/427351/33 "2007-11-21T22:53:45Z")
I’m usually told I look like Charles Brosnan. [My collection](http://www.myheritagefiles.com/I/storage/site1/files/03/78/32/037832_567618556b4474qbkpir30.JPG) Guess he’s too old school for the lineup. ---
**Author:** ![cbawlmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2007, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-handsome-woman/427351/34 "2007-11-21T23:02:07Z")
I tried two different photos, both of which it thinks resemble Katie Holmes, Laura Bush, Gloria Estefan, and a young Fred Savage, among others. One of the photos turned up a teenaged Judy Garland, and that photo looked a LOT like the grandmother I take after. I really don’t look like any of those people though. ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2007, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-handsome-woman/427351/35 "2007-11-21T23:04:12Z")
[QUOTE=Projammer] I’m usually told I look like Charles Brosnan. [My collection](http://www.myheritagefiles.com/I/storage/site1/files/03/78/32/037832_567618556b4474qbkpir30.JPG) Guess he’s too old school for the lineup. [/QUOTE] Do you mean Charles Bronson or Pierce Brosnan? I think you look a bit like [Edward Norton](http://ballsandwalnuts.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/the_illusionist_.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Algher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Algher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algher)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2007, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-handsome-woman/427351/36 "2007-11-21T23:09:21Z")
Ahem. Neil Sedaka: 73% Alec Baldwin: 70% Freddie Prinze Jr: 69% Lance Armstrong: 68% David Soul: 67% Ayn Rand: 67% - !!! Mark Knopfler: 66% Mel Gibson: 64% ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2007, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-handsome-woman/427351/37 "2007-11-21T23:12:11Z")
[QUOTE=pinkfreud] Do you mean Charles Bronson or Pierce Brosnan? I think you look a bit like [Edward Norton](http://ballsandwalnuts.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/the_illusionist_.jpg). [/QUOTE] Bronson. Sorry. And thank you. Loved that movie. ---
**Author:** ![Swampwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8edcca/32.png) [@Swampwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swampwolf)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2007, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-handsome-woman/427351/38 "2007-11-21T23:13:50Z")
Okay, now this is just silly. [Kate Winslet?](http://www.myheritage.com/FP/Company/face-recognition-results.php?temp=b3bb4474evctqr49&server=Server2&database=2&startYear=1800&endYear=2005&collage=1&loadMethod=myFiles) All right. [This one’s](http://www.myheritage.com/FP/Company/face-recognition-results.php?temp=1cbb447489m7w593&server=Server22&database=2&startYear=1800&endYear=2005&collage=1&loadMethod=myFiles) better. Until you get to Robert Bloch and Ariel Sharon, that is. ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2007, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-handsome-woman/427351/39 "2007-11-21T23:24:29Z")
Ha! With a photo of my (very female) profile, my closest matches were all male and it is a tie between Charles Manson and Jim Henderson, Muppet creator. When I submitted a picture en face, the matches were all female and it was a close tie between Laura Bush and Dakota Fanning. The only thing those pictures had in common was a smile showing teeth. I can’t seem to link to the profiles, though. So… anyone else see a resemblance between Charles Manson and Laura Bush? ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2007, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-handsome-woman/427351/40 "2007-11-22T01:15:25Z")
I went on FF to do this. Here is the photo I used: [me, last week](http://www.flickr.com/photos/19350879@N07/2046949921/) And here is the result: [weirdresults](http://www.myheritage.com/FP/Company/face-recognition-results.php?temp=986d44744duvsd85&server=Server17&database=2&startYear=1800&endYear=2005&collage=1&loadMethod=myFiles) Ok, that’s not linking for me. But who is Gustav Streseman? And do I really look like Kiefer Sutherland? I think it’s the pose and angle of the head more than anything else… Seriously, a guy with a moustache? WTH? \ 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-handsome-woman/427351.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-handsome-woman/427351.md?page=3)