Is it okay to tell a stranger they look like someone famous?

In My Humble Opinion
101

There’s a person who used to always say I look like a younger John Goodman.

That person is me. :slight_smile:

Nobody else has ever remarked on it, although when I say it they usually tilt their heads and say “Oh yeah, I can see that.”

Since John Goodman was in that teleporter accident with Jabba the Hutt, though, I’ve stopped saying it.

The only other celeb I’ve been compared to was Wayne Knight. :eek:

When I reacted with predictable horror, the woman immediately backpedaled, saying, “He’s lost a LOT of weight since his “Newman” days.” Never mind that I’m a good foot taller than he is and don’t look like an overinflated Macy’s parade balloon.

(Well, not in the face, anyway.)

102

There’s a woman who works as a cashier at my workplace cafeteria who looks uncannily like a murder victim from an episode of “Forensic Files”.

I decided she might view it as creepy if I told her “Hey, you look exactly like that woman who got drowned by her husband in their hot tub in Pennsylvania in 1994!”

The flip side of this is that a deli cashier kept telling me I looked just like an actor in a film he’d seen, but he couldn’t remember what movie it was. Finally he recalled the actor, who played a sleazeball in some B movie, and who even on his best days wasn’t exactly a hunk. Uh, thanks a lot.