In the Bishop’s Palace in Astorga, Spain, I came across a medieval portrait bust representing one of St. Ursula’s 11,000 virgins, that looked exactly like Cate Blanchett.
Diane von Furstenberg has a twin sister. Not many people know this.
I didn’t. In fact I didn’t know she had one incarnation, let alone two. Who is she, now?
That’s a common affliction. But they’re easy to tell apart, when you get them in a relaxed homey situation: Manson’s the one whose batshit insanity is an onstage act. 
President Obama looks a lot like Charles Phillips the President of Oracle.
Last 150 million you mean. You don’t have newspapers or right wing radio where you live?
I get told I look like John McEnroe a lot.
About 20 years ago at the end of a night of drinking, some guy piss drunk in the wind (remember him?) insisted on telling me of his infatuation with Tatum O’Neal. I couldn’t get him to go away until finally I told him if he left, I would give him an autograph. OK yeah he said. So I did.
Apparently he was not so drunk as to not want to know why I played tennis left handed but wrote right handed.:smack:
Ha, me too. It hasn’t happened to me as much in recent years, perhaps because I had very long hair for a while (someone-you-know is unlikely to have suddenly sprouted longer hair), but I used to get mistaken for other random people fairly often. Once or twice I even had people think I was messing with them by pretending not to know them.
On at least one occasion someone I went to college with was mistaken for ME. I heard the following story from a friend:
ACQUAINTANCE: I couldn’t believe I saw Lamia making out on the quad with some guy. (Note: I would not have been making out with anyone on the quad, but if I had been it wouldn’t have been with a guy.)
FRIEND: What, Lamia?
ACQUAINTANCE: Yeah, right on the quad.
FRIEND: Lamia Lastname?
ACQUAINTANCE: Ah, I think so.
FRIEND: Hair about this long? Wears glasses?
ACQUAINTANCE: Yeah…
FRIEND: Well, I think it must have been someone else.
I never learned who my skanky heterosexual double was.
My generic appearance may be an inherited trait. When my mother was in college there was apparently another girl there who looked just like my mother from the back and had the same first name as her. They got mistaken for each other quite a bit. Once my mother’s boyfriend called out to this other girl, realized it wasn’t his girlfriend but struck up a conversation with her anyway…and wound up dumping my mother for her doppelganger.
It’s funny for me to think that had this not happened, I might never have been born. My mother met my father in college, and started dating him some time after she got ditched for her double.
I exaggerate a bit, but I thought the polls showed that almost everyone hated him?
We get the Journal and the Times, which just confirms that one should never trust newspapers.
If only. Notice how close our elections are other than the last presidential election? Especially not last week’s vote on Question 1 (or whatever it was called) in Maine. No one that voted to support the removal of Civil Rights from people (in 31 states now they brag!) hates Bush unless it is for not going far enough to get rid of “them”.
HIJACK: cough black voters cough
END HIJACK
You are suggesting that Black Voters love Bush?
I’d appreciate a cite of that!
ETA: Also, while you are looking, maybe see if you can find something relevant to your hacking cough on the demographics of Maine
Try asking around the Dope; they found out who *my *skanky double was. 
The opposite: you apparently said none of the people who voted against civil rights for same-sex couples hate Bush et al., and **AdG **offered the counter-example of Black voters in California: many of them dislike Bush (or at least voted for Obama) and also voted in favor of Prop 8.
Have they ever been seen together?
'Cause I have theories.
Lots of 'em …