# You meet your counterpart from Earth-Prime. What happens? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 10, 2008, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-meet-your-counterpart-from-earth-prime-what-happens/467339 "2008-10-10T16:15:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2008, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-meet-your-counterpart-from-earth-prime-what-happens/467339/21 "2008-10-10T22:57:44Z")
At first, we would each think that the other is a snotty, stuck-up total bitch. There’d be some eyeballin’, some cautious exploration on each side, but then we’d each see that the other one isn’t stuck-up, just shy, and that she’s actually pretty cool. Pretty soon we’d be best buddies, always making ourselves laugh and having a good time. We’d be perfect housemates since, naturally, we’d both be considerate and sensitive to the needs of the other. So I guess we’d join forces for good. That’s the pattern for most of my real-life relationships, anyway. Except for housemate part- in reality, I won’t share living quarters. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2008, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-meet-your-counterpart-from-earth-prime-what-happens/467339/22 "2008-10-11T00:43:01Z")
My last boyfriend was, essentially, my Earth-Prime counterpart. Fankly, it gets kind of boring after a while. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2008, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-meet-your-counterpart-from-earth-prime-what-happens/467339/23 "2008-10-11T03:31:13Z")
I’d start plotting for my counter-part to kill some key people from my past life - so I don’t have to do the deed or bear the guilt - while I create alibis by being in public places or with family at the time it happens. Or probably not…I’m not that evil. But it’s tempting. 🙂 Remember every time someone told you to go fuck yourself? (pause) Well maybe not that either. 😛 Hey, I know! I could kill him and frame my ex-wife for it! Oh wait, there’d be those whole ‘kill’ and ‘evil’ things again. :smack: Err… I got nothing useful. ---
**Author:** ![dotchan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@dotchan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dotchan)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2008, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-meet-your-counterpart-from-earth-prime-what-happens/467339/24 "2008-10-11T03:35:04Z")
We’d drive each other nuts trying to make the other one do all the hard work so we could laze about the house. Or my Earth-Prime alternate has already found her calling in life and wouldn’t mind giving me a job doing odd tasks, but I’d drive her (or her coworkers) nuts because I can’t focus worth a damn. ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2008, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-meet-your-counterpart-from-earth-prime-what-happens/467339/25 "2008-10-11T03:36:30Z")
I’d probably punch him. That asshole has had it coming for a long time. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2008, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-meet-your-counterpart-from-earth-prime-what-happens/467339/26 "2008-10-11T05:31:30Z")
We’d probably sit down and have a coffee. Maybe we could work out a plan to switch off classes / work / jail sentences… ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2008, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-meet-your-counterpart-from-earth-prime-what-happens/467339/27 "2008-10-11T05:36:03Z")
> [@dotchan](#): > > We’d drive each other nuts trying to make the other one do all the hard work so we could laze about the house. This. Although we’d go bowling together, which would be kind of cool. But otherwise, it would be a fight for dominance. ---
**Author:** ![Garula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ea666f/32.png) [@Garula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garula)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2008, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-meet-your-counterpart-from-earth-prime-what-happens/467339/28 "2008-10-11T15:33:35Z")
I’m pretty sure we’d sit down and play a lot of videogames and then perhaps head out to the local racquetball court. Competing against someone of my exact skill level would be interesting and perhaps help me improve a lot. Other than that, I’m a pretty boring, quiet person, so we’d tire of each other’s social company pretty quickly. After that, we’d draw straws to see which one of us has to grow the goatee. ---
**Author:** ![Oregon\_sunshine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/50afbb/32.png) [@Oregon\_sunshine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oregon_sunshine)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2008, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-meet-your-counterpart-from-earth-prime-what-happens/467339/29 "2008-10-11T16:46:21Z")
I think we would probably start collaborating on a graphic novel. Although, as my family would probably say, one of me is a statistical anomaly in the first place; _two_ of me would be too scary to even contemplate. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2008, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-meet-your-counterpart-from-earth-prime-what-happens/467339/30 "2008-10-11T18:01:08Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Hey, I know! I could kill him and frame my ex-wife for it! I don’t get that one. Issues of evil aside, how is that any different, on a practical level, from killing a stranger and framing your ex-wife? ---
**Author:** ![puppygod](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@puppygod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puppygod)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2008, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-meet-your-counterpart-from-earth-prime-what-happens/467339/31 "2008-10-11T18:15:06Z")
> [@Daerlyn](#): > > We’d go out, get drunk, plan out an entirely new political model that would solve all our problems, and then hit on whatever attractive guys and/or girls that were in the vicinity. > > Once the hangover wore off the next day, we’d play video games and drink coffee. Are you me? Because that’s exactly what I’d do. And then, I/we would start stage magician career. Can you spell teleportation? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2008, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-meet-your-counterpart-from-earth-prime-what-happens/467339/32 "2008-10-11T19:06:00Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > how is that any different, on a practical level, from killing a stranger and framing your ex-wife? Motive! ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2008, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-meet-your-counterpart-from-earth-prime-what-happens/467339/33 "2008-10-11T19:14:40Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Motive! Yes, but if you are believed to be dead, what do you do with yourself while she languishes in prison? Wander around the country doing good deeds & hunting for a cure for gamma poisoning or a one-armed man? ---
**Author:** ![Agent\_Foxtrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2008, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-meet-your-counterpart-from-earth-prime-what-happens/467339/34 "2008-10-11T19:46:22Z")
I think we’d have some initial conversations about the mind-blowing enormity of what happened, and then things would go downhill from there. I know I have some strange social quirks, and I think this would cause my clone and I to not really care for each other after a while. Hell, some of my own habits annoy me now! …But not before some sexual experimentation. C’mon, you know you’ve thought of it! 😃 ETA: I’d definitely love to learn about how others view me based on how I view my doppelgänger. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2008, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-meet-your-counterpart-from-earth-prime-what-happens/467339/35 "2008-10-11T20:20:37Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > Yes, but if you are believed to be dead, what do you do with yourself while she languishes in prison? Wander around the country doing good deeds & hunting for a cure for gamma poisoning or a one-armed man? I live my life as normal. My ex is on SSDI for mental illness. She obviously thought this person was me and killed him. Therefore she should be locked up forever and I should be notified the moment she gets released (if ever), because hell, she already “killed me” once already! But no, like I said, it’s a flimsy idea and not something I’d ever consider. What would be more fun is to harass my ex-wife by having us be in two places at the same time. _He’s everywhere!_ Of course, I say that not having laid eyes on her in over five years now. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2008, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-meet-your-counterpart-from-earth-prime-what-happens/467339/36 "2008-10-11T20:32:17Z")
Well, there would definitely be some vigorous, hot, sweaty man-sex. Not because I think I’m so hot but because somehow the idea of me fucking myself is incredibly erotic. As for a relationship, we’d probably become good friends seeing as I get along well with almost everyone, including myself. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2008, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-meet-your-counterpart-from-earth-prime-what-happens/467339/37 "2008-10-11T20:36:51Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > Yes, but if you are believed to be dead, what do you do with yourself while she languishes in prison? I believe the object is to “get” the ex-wife. She would be the prime suspect. One could always move to Mexico and work construction like Jack Bauer. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2008, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-meet-your-counterpart-from-earth-prime-what-happens/467339/38 "2008-10-11T21:24:14Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > I believe the object is to “get” the ex-wife. She would be the prime suspect. One could always move to Mexico and work construction like Jack Bauer. You & Chimera are officially not allowed to attempt any evil plans without clearing them with me first. You’ll only get yourselves in trouble. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2008, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-meet-your-counterpart-from-earth-prime-what-happens/467339/39 "2008-10-11T22:08:54Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > You & Chimera are officially not allowed to attempt any evil plans without clearing them with me first. You’ll only get yourselves in trouble. Hah! You think I’d put my GOOD plans on the Internet? Hell, I don’t even write those down. Exposition is Suicide in the Evil Business. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2008, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-meet-your-counterpart-from-earth-prime-what-happens/467339/40 "2008-10-11T22:14:38Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Hah! You think I’d put my GOOD plans on the Internet? Hell, I don’t even write those down. Exposition is Suicide in the Evil Business. Fool of a Took! As if I don’t have spies reporting on your every move and preventing you from getting youself killed, arrested, or made to squeal like a pig by backswoodsmen! Not for any sentimental reason: it’s just that my current plan to destroy New Zealand requires that you and carniverous plant remain live and relatively unbuttfucked until December 3rd, 2009. Oddly enough, that plan also requires that everyone know your survival is vital to it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-meet-your-counterpart-from-earth-prime-what-happens/467339.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-meet-your-counterpart-from-earth-prime-what-happens/467339.md?page=3)