# I'm not Russell Crowe, but thanks for asking. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 11, 2005, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-russell-crowe-but-thanks-for-asking/321083 "2005-09-11T08:43:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2005, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-russell-crowe-but-thanks-for-asking/321083/21 "2005-09-12T16:04:07Z")
> [@Shirley Ujest](#): > > /Russell was to be my next husband. > //but he married that Mannequin. > ///I’m over it, thanks to donuts. Oh shush, Shirley, he loves me more than you. He told me so, but he knew I’d never dump Mr. Athena so when the mannequin stepped into his life he was lonely, sad, and vulnerable… ---
**Author:** ![Seven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Seven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seven)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2005, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-russell-crowe-but-thanks-for-asking/321083/22 "2005-09-13T04:20:13Z")
Here you go. I made a handy pocket guide. [http://www.sevengraylands.com/images/not-russell.jpg](http://www.sevengraylands.com/images/not-russell.jpg) Personally, I don’t see it. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2005, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-russell-crowe-but-thanks-for-asking/321083/23 "2005-09-13T04:54:41Z")
Were you born in New Zealand in '64 Do you love making movies but love one thing more? Fighting 'Round the World?! ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2005, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-russell-crowe-but-thanks-for-asking/321083/24 "2005-09-13T05:02:23Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > The writing’s on the wall, **Clothahump**. The cruel liberal overlords of the board will begin nailing the conservative posters to crosses any day now. I’m on my way to Home Depot right now! Anybody got 30 pieces of silver? Anyway, I have a friend who gets mistaken for Russell Crowe periodically. He’s not Australian and he’s darker than Crowe is, but when he has a beard there’s definitely a resemblance. ---
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2005, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-russell-crowe-but-thanks-for-asking/321083/25 "2005-09-13T05:04:58Z")
> [@Seven](#): > > Here you go. I made a handy pocket guide. > > [http://www.sevengraylands.com/images/not-russell.jpg](http://www.sevengraylands.com/images/not-russell.jpg) > > Personally, I don’t see it. “_Stared_ in the movie Gladiator”? That guy can ACT! ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2005, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-russell-crowe-but-thanks-for-asking/321083/26 "2005-09-13T05:29:17Z")
> [@](#): > > Wow. Could that have been more misplaced? I meant to start a thread. I’ll do that now, so please disregard these two posts. What Airman meant to post was that he was going Iraq for two months and if anyone has any phones they want him to throw at the insurgents, they should let him know. ---
**Author:** ![Seven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Seven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seven)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2005, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-russell-crowe-but-thanks-for-asking/321083/27 "2005-09-13T05:56:28Z")
So to sum up this thread so far: 1. I’m not Russell Crowe 2. Bush sucks because he didn’t order enough phones thrown in Iraq 3. Beware because cops might knock you up. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2005, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-russell-crowe-but-thanks-for-asking/321083/28 "2005-09-13T08:10:56Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > This was the very first response to a message. Is this now going to be SOP for the board from now on that, no matter what the OP was, the obligatory response has to be a “Piss-On-Bush-In-Some-Manner” format? It couldn’t hurt. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2005, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-russell-crowe-but-thanks-for-asking/321083/29 "2005-09-13T09:26:04Z")
This used to happen to me a lot, except it wasn’t Russell Crowe people mistook me for, it was [Prince Edward](http://www.debretts.co.uk/royal_connections/prince_edward.html). When I grew a beard (for a Victorian theme event a couple of years ago), people said I looked like [Tsar Nicholas](http://www.unf.edu/classes/saints/images/nicholasii1.jpg), which was a little more flattering. ---
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2005, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-russell-crowe-but-thanks-for-asking/321083/30 "2005-09-13T16:09:41Z")
> [@Electronic Chaos](#): > > Wasn’t it Colen Farrel that threw the phone at somebody? No, he was hiding in a phone _booth_. ---
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2005, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-russell-crowe-but-thanks-for-asking/321083/31 "2005-09-13T16:11:44Z")
In related news, a woman in a bar once said I looked like Ben Affleck. 1. I was mildly insulted. 2. It was dark. 3. She was drunk. Therefore, I concluded that I do _not_ in fact, look like Ben Affleck. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2005, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-russell-crowe-but-thanks-for-asking/321083/32 "2005-09-13T16:20:41Z")
> [@Seven](#): > > Here you go. I made a handy pocket guide. > > [http://www.sevengraylands.com/images/not-russell.jpg](http://www.sevengraylands.com/images/not-russell.jpg) > > Personally, I don’t see it. On point 3 in the photo, there is a point of similarity: Russell Crowe was not born in Australia either (he was [born in New Zealand](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000128/bio)) ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2005, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-russell-crowe-but-thanks-for-asking/321083/33 "2005-09-13T16:28:52Z")
If we don’t throw phones at Bush in Iraq with Russell Crowe and Colin Farrell going at it in a phone booth while the cops knock them up, the terrorists have already won. Or something. ( **Seven** , how _you_ doin’, handsome?) ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2005, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-russell-crowe-but-thanks-for-asking/321083/34 "2005-09-13T16:30:02Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > ( **Seven** , how _you_ doin’, handsome?) :smack: I try to flirt and there goes my coding skills… ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2005, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-russell-crowe-but-thanks-for-asking/321083/35 "2005-09-13T19:26:48Z")
Russell’s middle name is Ira. Seven’s middle name is not Ira. Both are hot. One is insanely wealthy. One is not. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2005, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-russell-crowe-but-thanks-for-asking/321083/36 "2005-09-13T20:03:59Z")
> [@Seven](#): > > Here you go. I made a handy pocket guide. > > [http://www.sevengraylands.com/images/not-russell.jpg](http://www.sevengraylands.com/images/not-russell.jpg) > > Personally, I don’t see it. I was about to ask if you were the Crowe-lookalike that I met in San Diego last year, on the Master & Commander ship at the Maritime Museum. But obviously you’re not. I don’t see it either. Hmmm. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2005, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-russell-crowe-but-thanks-for-asking/321083/37 "2005-09-13T20:21:35Z")
> [@Shirley Ujest](#): > > Russell’s middle name is Ira. > > Seven’s middle name is not Ira. > > Both are hot. > > One is insanely wealthy. > > One is not. Russell Crowe once had a secretary named **Seven**. **Seven** once dated a secrectary who owns a Sheryl Crowe album. There are **seven** letter’s in Mr. Crowe’s first name. ---
**Author:** ![velvetjones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/5f9b8f/32.png) [@velvetjones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velvetjones)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2005, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-russell-crowe-but-thanks-for-asking/321083/38 "2005-09-13T20:33:48Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > Russell Crowe once had a secretary named **Seven**. > > **Seven** once dated a secrectary who owns a Sheryl Crowe album. > > There are **seven** letter’s in Mr. Crowe’s first name. OMG! It’s the Illuminati! Run! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2005, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-russell-crowe-but-thanks-for-asking/321083/39 "2005-09-13T20:35:45Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > The writing’s on the wall, **Clothahump**. The cruel liberal overlords of the board will begin nailing the conservative posters to crosses any day now. Though from all appearances, Clothahump has taken care of that for himself already. ---
**Author:** ![cardsfan1975](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f9b8f/32.png) [@cardsfan1975](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cardsfan1975)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2005, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-russell-crowe-but-thanks-for-asking/321083/40 "2005-09-13T20:56:20Z")
About 10 years ago, [this guy](http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/players/profile?statsId=5912) and I looked like twin brothers. To make matters even more strange, we both went to high school at the same time, and in the same school district. Although I must say, our talent in baseball are, unfortunately for me, nowhere near as similar. Anyway, now I get told that I look like [this guy](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000115/). I guess it’s okay to look like somebody famous. But I seriously wanted to smack the customer who walked up to me one day and said, “I liked you in Con Air.” cf’75 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-russell-crowe-but-thanks-for-asking/321083.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-russell-crowe-but-thanks-for-asking/321083.md?page=3)