# I found my doppleganger!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-my-doppleganger/641177>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [November 16, 2012, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-my-doppleganger/641177 "2012-11-16T12:14:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2012, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-my-doppleganger/641177/1 "2012-11-16T12:14:30Z")

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And it is a German woman from the 1930s!

[![](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51LE7VUHDvL._SL500_.jpg) ](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51LE7VUHDvL._SL500_.jpg)

:eek:

Kinda strange since I’m a 29 year old guy. Even my wife is creeped out by these pics.

[![](https://boingboing.net/assets_mt/2009/12/25/gallery01.jpg) ](https://boingboing.net/assets_mt/2009/12/25/gallery01.jpg)

Well I know what I will look like drag at least.

[http://elizabethpschorr.com/images/img4.jpg](http://elizabethpschorr.com/images/img4.jpg)

[http://elizabethpschorr.com/images/img5.jpg](http://elizabethpschorr.com/images/img5.jpg)

I wonder if this is what I’ll look like when I’m old:

[http://www.elizabethpschorr.com/images/author.jpg](http://www.elizabethpschorr.com/images/author.jpg)

I can’t yet rule out some strange time travel shenanigans, maybe when I age a little more.

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**Author:** ![furdmort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@furdmort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furdmort)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2012, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-my-doppleganger/641177/2 "2012-11-16T14:23:15Z")

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> [@grude](#):
>
> And it is a German woman from the 1930s!
> 
> [http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51LE7VUHDvL.\_SL500\_.jpg](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51LE7VUHDvL._SL500_.jpg)
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> :eek:
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> Kinda strange since I’m a 29 year old guy. Even my wife is creeped out by these pics.
> 
> [http://www.boingboing.net/assets\_mt/2009/12/25/gallery01.jpg](http://www.boingboing.net/assets_mt/2009/12/25/gallery01.jpg)
> 
> Well I know what I will look like drag at least.
> 
> [http://elizabethpschorr.com/images/img4.jpg](http://elizabethpschorr.com/images/img4.jpg)
> 
> [http://elizabethpschorr.com/images/img5.jpg](http://elizabethpschorr.com/images/img5.jpg)
> 
> I wonder if this is what I’ll look like when I’m old:
> 
> [http://www.elizabethpschorr.com/images/author.jpg](http://www.elizabethpschorr.com/images/author.jpg)
> 
> I can’t yet rule out some strange time travel shenanigans, maybe when I age a little more.

Oh, Shit!  
[All you Zombies](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E2%80%94All_You_Zombies%E2%80%94) was only a thinly veiled biography of your life!

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**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2012, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-my-doppleganger/641177/3 "2012-11-16T22:17:14Z")

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**grude** , this thread is worthless without pics of yourself for comparison (and I shouldn’t have to point that out). And the last 3 links don’t work.

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**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2012, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-my-doppleganger/641177/4 "2012-11-16T23:40:01Z")

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> [@John\_DiFool](#):
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> **grude** , this thread is worthless without pics of yourself for comparison (and I shouldn’t have to point that out).

But we already KNOW what he looks like! 😃

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**Author:** ![3trew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/13edae/32.png) [@3trew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3trew)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2012, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-my-doppleganger/641177/5 "2012-11-16T23:48:46Z")

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I wish I had one doppelganger. I’ve seen at least five.

At least I’m pretty sure that’s what was happening. It is possible I was an actor on an English television program and traveled to South Dakota to get my picture taken in an old west costume during some sort of blackout, but the one dude was from India and I don’t tan that well.

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**Author:** ![dimmy\_derko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/43a26b/32.png) [@dimmy\_derko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dimmy_derko)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2012, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-my-doppleganger/641177/6 "2012-11-17T17:59:46Z")

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I haven’t found mine but I’ve seen him in a crowd on an episode of The Tube, an old Channel4 music show. I can’t remember which act I was watching, but it was definitely my doppelganger and not just someone who bore a similarity from a distance.
