Face to face? Siblings excluded. How did you react?
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Quasi
I’ve never met my double, but I’ve been told repeatedly (by different people in different places) that I have a twin…I must just have one of those faces.
Same here - everyone always tells me I look JUST LIKE someone they know. (Whoever they are, I feel sorry for 'em…) 
Several years ago at a Kiri Te Kanawa concert, people were giving my friend weird looks and wondering why Kiri was sitting in the audience before the show.
We met Ms. Te Kanawa after the show and even she was quite shocked at how much my friend resembled her - could have passed for her (except my friend is a mezzo with Lawn Gyl’nd accent, and Kiri is a soprano).
As for me, I have a twin in Nebraska somewhere, as told to me by several tourists from that state (I worked at a theme park, and this was over the course of several months, not the same tourists each time).
Same here – I’ve never met my doubles, but they’re definitely out there. I’ve had total strangers come up to me in airports and tell me that I look exactly like someone they know. This happens a LOT.
Fortunately, I’ve discovered one of those people who “look just like me”. I lucked out – his picture appeared in an ad. And I have to agree with all those people – except for his more Leno-ish chin, he DOES look like me. He’s Paul Szep, one-time Editorial Cartoonist for the Boston Globe (and now contributor to the comics page). They had one of those “Dewar’s Profile” ads featuring him on a magazine. Somebody cut out the ad, covered over his name, and wrote mine in. Then they stucjk it up on my office door. People kept coming by and asking how I got into the ad!
Yep. What makes the meeting even wierder is that the guy is on TV and has his pic on most of his stories, so whenever I see anything, it’s like “What? When did I do a guest shot on MSNBC? Oh, wait, it’s just Bob again.”
Met him at a function down here in DC-he still had his goatee then, so the resemblance was more marked (he’s shaved it off since). We realised that we looked exactly alike after the third person walked up after staring and asked “Are you guys brothers?” Freaky.
Here’s a link to what he looked like then (and what I look like now)
http://stacks.msnbc.com/news/432208.asp
His pic’s about halfway down, on the left.
I’ve never met mine, but I’ve heard about him. Yada yada yada. Then again, I look like John Mellencamp and Mike Meyers had a child, so maybe that’s part of it…
Nope never met my twin or had anyone say “you look just like…” I guess I got me one of them unique faces. Although when I was younger someone told me I looked like the character John Lovitz did the voice for on the cartoon The Critic. I never caught the resemblence. I don’t know…
When I was in college, I was chastised by a friend who said I blew her off in the library. “I wasn’t even in the library last night,” I told her. Then I asked a girl out and she acted really wierd and told me she already told me “No”. I told her that I never asked her out before and we figured there must be someone who looked just like me on campus. Finally, one night at a party, I bumped into this guy and about shit my pants. We were identical twins. Same face, body type, hair color and style. We got a real kick out of it. People kept asking if we were twins, and they didn’t believe us until we showed them our drivers licenses. It was pretty cool.
Cro-Magnon Man, at The American Museum of Natural History.
I went to high school with a girl who looked just like me. Except skinnier, but it was amazing how similar we looked.
On an average of once a month for the last 25 years I am approached by someone who tells me that I look exactly like someone they know, that I must be the older/younger brother of someone they know or they know me from somewhere and can’t figure out where. It’s very odd. I have had a buzz cut, long hair down to my butt and all stages in between. I’ve also had various incarnations of facial hair. It doesn’t matter. I’ve been told that I look like various different people all over the world.
Some of the stranger ones:
-1993 in Nepal on a trek in the Anapurnal Himals: A group of Germans thought that I was their friend Wolfie.
-1981 while working at Straw Hat Pizza: A police detective swore that he arrested me at one time.
-1999 at brunch with my family: Some guy wouldn’t leave me alone after I told him that I definitely didn’t know him and I get that all the time. He wouldn’t believe me.
When someone approaches me now and says, “Excuse me, can I ask you something?” I always reply, “Let me guess. I look exactly like someone you know.” They are astonished. I have never met one of these doubles but I’d like to sometime. I wish that just once someone would say, “Wow, you look just like my husband. Wait, he’s right over here.”
One time a new college house mate brought one of her friends over. She starts in with the routine and I tell her that I’m told that all the time and we have never met before. Eventually I realized that she was right. I had a class with her five years before. I’m a little more careful now.
The strangest part of all of this is that I’m often told that I am very unique [sic] looking.
Haj
I have never met my twinner, but I have been told by more than one person that they know someone who looks just like me. Poor girl.
Rose
[hijack]
Wow. I say that because I just snuck a peek at your homepage. Why can’t your twinner be walking around HERE instead?
No, I know there’s no-one else out there that looks like me. God just wouldn’t be that cruel.
But I’ve got the last laugh:
I’m MAKING someone that looks like me! And it’s going to be a GIRL! Mua-ha-ha-ha-cough
I have never met my twin, but I have been freaked out about this before.
I woke up in the middle of the night one night about 3 years ago. I had fallen asleep with the t.v. on, and there was a documentary on about the Civil War. (I LOVE the History channel.) They had this special about Matthew Brady and the pictures he took during the Civil War. I looked up to see someone who looked familiar. After staring at the picture for a minute, I realized the guy that was in it looked just like me. (It’s kind of funny that my twin is a guy, but I do look a lot like my father, so that’s got to be what it was.) I got my mom to watch the special later, and she said it must be some long lost relative, which is entirely possible.
Freaky, huh?
Oh, and there’s apparently some girl that works at the local Kinko’s that looks like me “except she’s about a foot taller than you and has bigger hair, and she’s a big girl.” So how do we look alike, again?
I told this story in the VVC thread it may sound familiar:
When I was 16 I got pregnant. I had an abortion, moved to a new town and went on my way with life. Fast forward about 3 years later. I am working at Little Caesar’s. One day this girl comes in and she looks just like me except she had a 18-20 month old baby with her. And she was wearing clothes that I had in my closet. And she had glasses that were similar to mine. She didn’t sound like me or have any mannerisms like me but it was still the creepiest thing in the world. As for what I did - well, I just about had a nervous breakdown. I got over it, though. I kept the sweatshirt (the one like the shirt she was wearing) to remind me.
No, haven’t met her, yet.
But, I saw her on tv once, she was in the audience
and looked exactly like me,
it was like, wow.
And I also been told by others
that they have seen someone that looked exactly like me.
It would be cool to meet that person.
Never met either of 'em, but racinchikki’s friend saw somebody that looked exactly like me, and racinchikki has a lookalike who drag-races at the Valley. Our doubles should hook up
I pass a guy that looks just like me. The look on my face must have been astonishment mixed with fear; the feeling was a chill rising through my spine. My alter visual seemed to notice nothing unusual.
Of course I didn’t stop him.
Now I have a blond daughter, high school freshman, very serious. She managed to convince several classmates that she and the African-American neighbor are actually twins. But that’s a separate thread. . .