# It could be worse, you could look like this guy.... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 15, 2002, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-could-be-worse-you-could-look-like-this-guy/136911 "2002-11-15T20:00:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2002, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-could-be-worse-you-could-look-like-this-guy/136911/21 "2002-11-16T03:02:58Z")
Jackson has been known to often go out in disguise, just to shop, or to witness for the church he was brought up in. In another brief about his court appearance, there was a reference to his arriving in disguise. Heavens! It must be hell to have to hide from one’s adoring public. All those groupies! Is groupies a gender-specific term? Age-specific? –Nott, who still thinks Dennis Rodman is at least 6% stranger than Michael ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2002, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-could-be-worse-you-could-look-like-this-guy/136911/22 "2002-11-16T03:54:57Z")
It makes me sad. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2002, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-could-be-worse-you-could-look-like-this-guy/136911/23 "2002-11-16T04:09:29Z")
Isn’t that Helena Bonham-Carter from that lousy Planet of the Apes? But I agree with **mayberrydan** as well. ---
**Author:** ![Krisfer\_the\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Krisfer\_the\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Krisfer_the_Cat)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2002, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-could-be-worse-you-could-look-like-this-guy/136911/24 "2002-11-16T04:57:15Z")
I am just glad I wasn’t eating when I brought up that pic! jeez looeez… ---
**Author:** ![chula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a4c791/32.png) [@chula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chula)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2002, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-could-be-worse-you-could-look-like-this-guy/136911/25 "2002-11-16T10:51:06Z")
I am really not exaggerating when I say that MJ looks worse than HBC in those photos. ---
**Author:** ![chula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a4c791/32.png) [@chula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chula)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2002, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-could-be-worse-you-could-look-like-this-guy/136911/26 "2002-11-16T10:56:39Z")
I was so distracted by the nose in that Yahoo picture that I didn’t notice the hair. Don’t they make more realistic wigs these days? Look at the hairline. ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2002, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-could-be-worse-you-could-look-like-this-guy/136911/27 "2002-11-16T16:07:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Beadalin \* > \*\*But doesn’t he claim to have some sort of skin disease? If that’s true, couldn’t that be responsible for some of the horribleness that is Michael Jackson’s Face? \*\* Vitiligo is a condition where you lose pigmentation. Unfortunately you don’t lose it evenly, it tends to be patchy, so you might have smooth, gorgeous dark skin and then a big splotch of whitish-pink. Make-up is still the best way of disguising it. There are other skin dye type products, but they tend to produce strange hues and still requires make-up to even it out. Depending on how much pigment you’ve lost and where, it’s sometimes easier to go lighter with make-up than darker (if MJ is telling the truth, this may be why he cakes on so much light make-up). Vitiligo, IIRC, does not cause you skin to deteriorate – it won’t make your face fall apart, it’s just gives you a facier paint job. **Jeep’s Phoenix** Ohhhh… it’s a band-aid! On clearer photos you can see it better. It looks like he put make-up over it too. That has been bugging me all week because I couldn’t figure out why he looked like he had duct tape over the bridge of his what-used-to-be-a-nose. MY guess: Wicked sun damage to fragile skin that he’s trying to keep covered (hence pealing nose and arrival under an umbrella to dodge the sun.) ---
**Author:** ![SparrowHawk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac8455/32.png) [@SparrowHawk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SparrowHawk)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2002, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-could-be-worse-you-could-look-like-this-guy/136911/28 "2002-11-16T19:36:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Guinastasia \* > \*\*And now look at him-he’s a freak of nature. \*\* He’s a freak all right, but I wouldn’t blame nature for it. Nature did a fine job. They just couldn’t leave it alone. ::shudder:: ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2002, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-could-be-worse-you-could-look-like-this-guy/136911/29 "2002-11-18T00:15:57Z")
:eek: Oh my freaking GAWD!!! :eek: Ok, I’m going to cry now… ☹ err, sorry for the excessive use of smilies, but they were completely necessary. ---
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2002, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-could-be-worse-you-could-look-like-this-guy/136911/30 "2002-11-18T00:31:29Z")
[L.A. Times article—“Is Jackson’s nose what the doctors ordered?”](http://www.calendarlive.com/printedition/calendar/cl-et-moore15nov15.story). It’s super-creepy. I just want to see it close up. I want to figure out, _WHAT THE HELL IS THAT THING on his nose?!?_ ---
**Author:** ![TVGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/82dd89/32.png) [@TVGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2002, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-could-be-worse-you-could-look-like-this-guy/136911/31 "2002-11-18T00:37:55Z")
I’m not sure but Mikey may end up being the Howard Hughes of our generation. He’s getting increasingly wierd, increasingly insular and keeps losing his fortune hand over fist. I’m starting to wonder if, being in the line of work he’s in, he even expected to still be alive at 44, back when he was 24. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2002, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-could-be-worse-you-could-look-like-this-guy/136911/32 "2002-11-18T18:51:46Z")
[Emily Latella voice] What’s this I hear about Michael Jackson getting Buttocks Injections in his face? Doesn’t he know that’s going to make him look like an ass? How does he do this? Does he lie on his back and let some asshole straddle his face or do they use a turkey baster to… [Chevy Chase voice] Emily! Emily! That’s Botox Injections, not Buttocks Injections. [Emily Latella voice] Oh… I see. Well… _never mind_. ---
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2002, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-could-be-worse-you-could-look-like-this-guy/136911/33 "2002-11-18T19:59:39Z")
He’s this century’s Elephant Man! Speaking of, found this: [The Elephant Man Tries to Buy Michael Jackson’s Soul](http://www.lostbrain.com/news/eric/elephant.html) ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2002, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-could-be-worse-you-could-look-like-this-guy/136911/34 "2002-11-18T20:12:11Z")
Rodman is just an attention starved idiot. Jackson is certifiably out of his mind, and obviously suffers from severe psychological problems. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2002, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-could-be-worse-you-could-look-like-this-guy/136911/35 "2002-11-18T20:37:10Z")
Um, I wouldn’t compare him with poor Joseph Merrick. The guy had a horrible disease, but from what I understand, was reasonably intelligent. ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2002, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-could-be-worse-you-could-look-like-this-guy/136911/36 "2002-11-18T21:33:56Z")
Joseph Merrick: “I am a man!” Michael Jackson: “I am a woman. _AOW!_” ---
**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2002, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-could-be-worse-you-could-look-like-this-guy/136911/37 "2002-11-18T23:45:48Z")
Thanks, **Charmian**. I’ve been wondering about that for a while. ---
**Author:** ![Mauvaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mauvaise/32/11084_2.png) [@Mauvaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mauvaise)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2002, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-could-be-worse-you-could-look-like-this-guy/136911/38 "2002-11-18T23:58:56Z")
When I first saw this picture last week, I thought it was a photoshop joke. Imagine my horror when I was told it wasn’t doctored. :o ---
**Author:** ![Mauvaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mauvaise/32/11084_2.png) [@Mauvaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mauvaise)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2002, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-could-be-worse-you-could-look-like-this-guy/136911/39 "2002-11-19T00:08:32Z")
Ack, I forgot which smiley is which. That should have been :eek: ---
**Author:** ![SlickRoenick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@SlickRoenick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlickRoenick)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2002, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-could-be-worse-you-could-look-like-this-guy/136911/40 "2002-11-19T00:19:51Z")
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