Fark has a link to a genealogy page up right now where you can upload your photo and have it compared with those of celebrities to see who you look like. That’s amusing, but not half as funny as the comments made about it.
Some Farkers got creative and uploaded pictures of movie monsters and various other ghastly people and even animals - and got comparisons to celebs. The posted results are the most hilarious thing I’ve seen in awhile. The comparisons to Madonna are especially funny. 
Hah! That is pretty good. And I have to admit, that cat does look an awful lot like Oscar II of Sweden!
Bwahahaa!
I ended up going to that heritage page, that was weird. I uploaded a couple pictures of me, and every time got hits back for Alyson Hannigan, Drew Barrymore… and Mae West?!
So I suppose that means I can rest easy and stop being insulted when people approach me and say, “Hey, you remind me of Willow!”
[sub] Yeah, I run that joke into the ground. What of it? [/sub]
Okay. I don’t think I have ever laughed so hard. Thank you.
Hee hee hee! No problem. Those were waaaaay too good to keep to myself.
Yeah, my results said I looked like Mae West too… :dubious:
I got Katherine Mansfield (whoever that was), and I really do look like her. I also got Vladimir Nabakov, and I don’t really know what to make of that. Also Alison Hannigan.
Since he’s a well-known individual by face (what with the mustache and the evil and all), I was thinking of doing a photo of Hitler. But then I realized that a photo of Hitler would be recognized as looking like Hitler. So I drew a crappy stick figure of a Hitler head with a swastika body, saying “grr” with the word “hitler” underneath. Since it wasn’t an actual face, it didn’t recognize anything. So, I said the hell with it and did a picture of Hitler I found on the Internet, and the first result was…
Pablo Casals, who is apparently some cello player. He also resembles Susan Sontag, James Earl Ray (well, they’re both focused on death), Igor Stravinsky, Mel Gibson (!), Omar Sharif, Vladimir Lenin, and Robert Altman.
Then I decided to do one of those paintings of Jesus I found on the internet- you know how Jesus is depicted, with the beard and all. Since it wasn’t a photo, that didn’t work.
Then I did another picture of Hitler, facing towards in camera instead of three-quarter view, just to see if the direction of the head in the photo made any difference. Apparently, Front-Facing Adolf looks like Richard Stallman, who apparently is a guy who is an advocate for non-copyrighted computer software. He also resembles Michael J. Fox and two U.S. presidents, Coolidge and Harding.
Then, just for the hell of it, I did a photo of the King Kong puppet from the original film. Didn’t work, probably since his head doesn’t look like a human’s.
Last, but not least, again just for the hell of it, I did a picture of one of my favorite cartoonists of all time, Charles Schulz. They could not find any matches for a front-facing photo. Nor did another photo of him. So I decided to do yet another Hitler, this time sitting in a chair (I’m not a Nazi, it’s just that Hitler had a lot of photos taken of him during his lifetime). No matches. Hitler and Mussolini standing next to each other, just to see what head would be looked at, if any. No matches. Hitler looking to the left. No matches. A guy in a Hitler costume. No matches. Hitler’s baby photo…Polish president Aleksander Kwaśniewski, Cary Grant, and, ironically, a younger Winston Churchill.
I’ve learned two things from my experiments: the system doesn’t work that well, and that in some alternate universe, Adolf Hitler is People Magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive.
I did that a few weeks ago with my three-year old senior portrait and got Uma Thurman for my highest female match. We resemble each other in much the same way bricks resemble canteloupes.
I keep getting Peter Gabriel. Peter Gabriel?? (That first picture there is the one I compare to, apperently. Thank god it isn’t the second one down the page…)
Oy. It says I look like Roy Orbison crossed with Sylvia Plath.
Kinda cool, but it seems more like it’s based on the facial expression of the photo than actual looks.
My celebrity match was Emma Watson, and my husband found great humor in that.
Okay, so I went around the house and found some photos of myself and various family members at various stages of life. I showed Mom the results for one of the pictures and I nearly killed her with laughter.
This is the picture I uploaded of my mother and me. She is, obviously, the one not in diapers. The results:
Mom
Me
For this picture, it tells me I resemble:
Conclusion: I have grown from a crusty, European male writer, with a brief foray into politics, to an arty Hollywood actress who sings the occasional showtune. Following in my mother’s footsteps, I see. Common results for the family are Judy Garland, Shirley Temple, Scarlett Johansson, and Emma Watson.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go watch Firefly with [strike]Barry Gibb[/strike] my father.
I supposedly resemble Scarlett Johansson, Becky Griffin (?), Vivien Liegh and an unflattering picture of Angelina Jolie.
