There was a movie in the 80s called Fast Times at Ridgemont High. I think it was Sean Penn who played a dopey stoner/surfer type…I think the character’s name was Jeff Spickolli or something like that.
Apparently my voice sounds like that character’s voice, and people used to always comment on this. I do not think I have ever watched the movie all the way through and have never intended to sound like him, but people used to tell me that I did sound like him.
Thankfully, the movie has long since ceased to be a current hot topic, so I do not hear this much if ever anymore.
It never fails, when someone finds out I’m a cop they always say something to the effect of “OOO, don’t arrest me!”.
Or when someone talks about doing something minorly illegal (not going into the debate), such as speeding, they’ll always go “Hey don’t look, I’m breaking the law!”.
I’m guilty of a few stupid jokes, myself. If I meet a nurse or a doctor I always give them the Rushmore:
Me: What is that you’re wearing?
Nurse: Oh, these are scrubs.
Me: Yeah. What type of scrubs?
Nurse: I guess they’re OR scrubs.
Me: OR they? Mwuhahaha!
Yes, I do follow through with the maniacal laugh cause I don’t think I’ve ever gotten one laugh from that joke. Ususally I just laugh long enough to creep everyone out and then I can just exit stage left. Getting them to say OR scrubs is the funnest part though.
IRL I’m Barbara Ann.
Needless to say, I get more Beach Boys reminders than I care about. I usually respond with, Yes, and the song came out a year after I was born.
Worst part of the name is my Dad got the name off of a bag of potatoes. Only my family seems to know about Barbara Ann potatoes, so when there is a family get together, I am reminded again and again how the name came to be.(He was sitting on toilet at the time)
The story has been told so many times I want to change my name just to stop them.
I can smile through a stranger making these jokes, but ones own family? Enuff Already
People ask me all the time : “where in Canada?” it cracks me up…!
Also (lovely) : “do you shave your armpitts?”
Who in hell would ask this type of question to a young lady they meet for the first time?! It’s beyond me… (and YES we do shave! Spread the word)
I can’t type everything, so many stereotypes! I learned to laugh about it.
Probably because they are unsure and would prefer to err on the side of caution. I knew a guy whose last name was Sellery, pronounced “celery.”
People would always read it and pronounce it “Seeelery” until he would say “no, it’s Sellery, like the vegetable.”
For some reason, people are afraid that the obvious way is somehow “wrong” and are worried that if they are mistaken, he may be offended. So they second guess themselves. When he corrects them it they get a relieved look. So I guess choosing between two slightly awkward options
possibly mispronouncing his name
possibly mispronouncing it so you call him a vegetable
they choose option #1 which seems to be the less potentially offensive of the two. Weird, but well-intentioned.
My hair is ginger.
Meaning it is necessary for one guy to say ‘you have red hair’ every day - no seriously, this guy is 16. And he still has nothing more intelligent to say. And he uses it as though it’s an extremely intelligent insult!
Unfortunately the guy has also discovered pubic hair jokes.
‘You have red pubic hair!’. Great. True wit.
SEVERAL 16 year olds still touch my head and then act as if it’s hot, or even that their hand is on fire every now and then.
Funny stuff.
And then there’s the names carrot top and redhead. Neither of those are even close to my hair colour. It’s orange, ginger, somewhere around there. It’s not red. OR GREEN!
Whenever somebody meets me for the first time, they invariably say, “Hey Joe, where are you going with that gun in your hand?” OK, I love Hendrix, too, but give it a freakin’ rest already!
I’m a remote descendant of a famous Dutch explorer, so there’s islands, seas and animals that share my last name. The inevitable comments about cartoon characters are usually the first comments out of somebody’s mouth.
“don’t try to tell me what my name is and isn’t. I think I know.”
Quote from jinwicked
I feel ya!
My real-life name is spelled Anna- Am I sure? Of course I’m sure, believe it or not, I’ve had it for some time now…
It is however pronouced with an “A” sound like waffle, not an “A” sound like baffle. My very favorite conversation to have is:
Me: My name is Anna
Nimrod: How do you spell that?
Me: A-N-N-A
Nimrod: But that spells Anna (baffle-sound)
Me: But it’s pronounced Anna (waffle…)
Nimrod: But…etc…
Brace yourself. When I was just starting in my career as a programmer, the old lady next door asked me what I did. When I told her, she asked if I could fix her stereo.
My undergrad was in ancient languages (Greek, Latin, etc) and most people would hesitate .00003 seconds before responding “It’s all Greek to me!” and laughing TOO hard. After a while i would just inform them how many witty people came before them, as in “You’re #57.”
How can you be a martinez when you are so pale? You;re adopted, aren’t you, aren’t you? Are you related to this _____Martinez? Do you know this other Martinez who works with my kid/SO/pizza deliverer/ aunt’s cousin’s Friend? Do you??
I’ve heard quite a lot of this, even if it is not a joke.
I’m fairly tall (6’4"), and I’ve had a shaved head for most of the last 13 years since I went into boot camp. Also for most of the last 13 years since I went into boot camp, I’ve gotten comments on my resemblance to Richard Moll’s character “Bull” from the Night Court sitcom of the mid-to-late 80’s.
The show is over. Give it a rest.
Take-away-point #138 from this thread: If you think someone strongly resembles a celebrity, other people have probably noticed too, and remarked upon it ad nauseum. Furthermore, he or she probably doesn’t see as much of a resemblance as you do.
Oh, If you meet some runners who look way too much like Adam Sandler, Drew Carey, and Ron Jeremy, I think they’ll agree with me (actually, I’ve heard rumors that the Ron Jeremy look-alike has a lot of fun with it).