I had invited a girl I liked to dinner one evening. I’d known her for a few months; far shorter than the years I’d owned the Waterhouse print at:
http://www.jwwaterhouse.com/view.cfm?recordid=18
I’d never really noticed how much she looked like a nymph until she came over that night. I was foolish enough to point it out to her and she freaked out. She always looked at me funny after that. Oh well.
A few years ago, I was in a drawing class and had drawn a model’s face. A couple weeks later, my dad had a business lunch at our house, and one of the women looked just like my drawing (no, it wasn’t the model). Both my dad and I found it amusing, though we didn’t tell the lady.
Well, a few years back a friend of mine was getting ready to audition for the lead in a new series of Nancy Drew TV mysteries. So she bopped down to Barnes and Noble on our lunch break (we worked together at the time) to get some research material.
25 minutes later, she returns, with a deeply freaked look on her face.
TROUT: What? What?
JENNY: Is this a good sign?
At which point she held up a copy of the latest ND novel. And Nancy-on-the-cover looked exactly like Jenny. As in, a dead ringer. Jenny, with a flashlight, in a cave.
She took the book to the audition, but although it freaked out the casting people as well it didn’t get her the part.
A friend of mine, whose last name is McDonald, as one brother, who looks enough like him to see they’re obviously brothers.
I found a magazine advertising local garage bands with photos, and one band had a member, name of McDonald, who could quite easily be a third brother! It was freaky how similar he looked to them, and had the same name! He is certain they are not related, though. He knows his family tree well.
I work with a guy who looks almost exactly like the guy who plays Miguel Lopez-Fitzgerald on Passions. Freaked me out a little first time I saw him.
Well, there was this portrait that my mom got before I was born that ended up looking almost exactly like me at age 5.
Also, my ex-boyfriend once spent a couple of hours raving about how I looked exactly like this one girl in a porn thing he downloaded. It didn’t exactly win him many accolades.
One day when I was in high school, I was studying my art history textbook between class periods. My friend who was sitting next to me said, “That painting looks just like Rodney!” The painting showed a young, dark-haired man with a serious expression, wearing a doublet and a ruff. I didn’t know Rodney, so I had to take her word for it.
I have a print of two little boys building a snowman (unfortunately, I can’t read the painter’s name, but it looks like it might start with a D). When I first saw it in one of those country/lacey/candley type stores, I truly thought it was a painting of my two older boys. Of course, they’re all bundled up and maybe they look like anyone’s boys, but everyone who sees the picture asks if it’s them. Wish I could do a search on the artist, but since I can’t read the name…
A guy I worked with told me that I looked like Paul Kariya from the Anaheim Mighty Ducks. I looked up some pictures of the guy, and it’s spooky how much some of them look like me. The "first official picture one from this page looks exactly like me! Weird.
Once, while reading a history book, I came across a portrait of Queen Hortense of Holland (Napoleon’s stepdaughter) that was the spitting image of my then-friend Vicki! I hunted through Google looking for this painting, but couldn’t find it. Aw well.
.:Nichol:.
Last week I went to Canada to visit my girlfriend. Of course, I had to get exchange some U.S. money for Canadian bills. I was astonished to discover that the guy on the Canadian $10 bill looks a lot like Star Wars’ Emperor Palpatine did in The Phantom Menace.
Not perfect, but scary enough for me.
Before our Elks Lodge moved, we had an oil painting up in the lobby of a man who looked EXACTLY like my father, down to the pale blue eyes!
It took me several years before I could find someone who knew enough of the history of the lodge to tell me who it was. Turns out it was the second Exalted Ruler of our lodge, who served in 1926-1927.
About 12 years ago, I went to the National Gallery in D.C. with my girlfriend. We saw a Renoir which looked not only like her, but also like our cat, Tasha.
Very creepy.
My friend Randy resembles Robert E. Lee strongly. My mom has a book about Lee/the civil war with a portrait of (an older) Lee on the cover. One day, she held it up and said to me, “Who does this look like?” After thinking a bit and rejecting the obvious, I said, “Randy.” At that time, Randy was (and actually, still is) quite a bit younger than Lee in the picture, but you could see Randy in Lee’s eyes, lips, and general facial structure.
Then Mom told me that Randy actually is a descendent of Lee’s, so I guess it really makes sense.
You can do the same type of thing with European rulers from the late 1800s/early 1900s - seems they’re mostly all related due to Queen Victoria. Czar Nicholas resembles a Hapsburg ruler resembles an English King. It’s kind of fun.
Snicks
Just after I got together with Mr Cowgirl, I went travelling to the south of France (where neither of us had ever been before). There was a graffitti artist showing his wares on the beach, and one of his pics was a massive, 6’ high portrait of Mr Cowgirl. Very spooky. But the artist really captured his dashing good looks … I took a photo and I tell people it’s him, and they generally believe me.
I found the drawing of my wife. It from a Pin-Up site so I hope the mods don’t mind but be fair warned that although this drawing is really tame some of the others may not be.
Here is the drawing that many think looks like a drawing of my wife.
