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come now, ogged... how are we supposed to judge without a picture of you?


Posted by: soubzriquet | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 5:41 PM
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Yeah, coming right up.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 5:42 PM
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I dunno, you've decribed yourself as looking like Jeff Goldblum and Chris Noth, and I wouldn't call that guy much further off that either of the other two. Not that you look all that much like any of the three of them.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 5:44 PM
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That's what other people have said, LB. I, of course, don't think I look like any of them.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 5:46 PM
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That guy does look like an Iranian version of Jeff Goldblum.


Posted by: Cryptic Ned | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 5:46 PM
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Cyrus the Great, it's hard to tell with the helmet and beard. The nose is pretty close, though.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 5:50 PM
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I still contend you look more like Adrian Brody than Chris Noth.


Posted by: Becks | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 5:51 PM
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Maybe it is because you wear your collar up, like that guy.


Posted by: Megan | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 5:52 PM
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it turns out that she's completely insane.

Or, more likely, she's just hitting on you. Be nice.


Posted by: Junior Mint | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 5:53 PM
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I bet Cyrus the Great had similar scars, though- swordfights were tough.
They do have similar noses. Hard to judge the rest with the helmet and facial hair.


Posted by: SP | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 5:53 PM
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Your nose is a lot beakier than that Cyrus dude, though.


Posted by: Jackmormon | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 5:55 PM
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it turns out that she's completely insane. I'm not sure how to break it to her

The former dictates the latter. There's probably a variation on the rule (from R.A.H.?) "Don't pick with fights with anyone you don't know, they might be crazier than you are" that covers people you already suspect.


Posted by: Biohazard | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 5:56 PM
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9: You know, if this is possible at all, it is a timehonored technique for hitting on someone. The Lobster Hypnotizer made a move on me after an inordinate amount of time babbling about how much I looked like Dana Delaney in the movie we'd just seen. (Not borne out by actual fact.)


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 5:56 PM
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Well, he does have a skinny head. I've had people tell me they have seen my twin around town on a few occasions, and I've even met two of them—who looked not at all like me. I can only guess that, like blacks, all us redheads look the same.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 5:57 PM
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She's not hitting on me. We're totally frenemies.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 5:58 PM
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Oh, so there's already tension! She *totally* wants you.


Posted by: Junior Mint | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 5:59 PM
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HER: ogged, I've been thinking about how you look, a lot, and I think you look like a celebrated warrior and this other cute guy.

OGGED: You're weird. Fleeing now!


Posted by: standpipe b | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 6:00 PM
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Oy vey. She's not hitting on me; I'd say more, but one ought to keep quiet about work on one's blog.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 6:01 PM
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15: Yeah, the question isn't whether you're frenemies, it's whether she's attractive.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 6:02 PM
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Maybe she's trying to offer you pity sex?


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 6:02 PM
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18: And ogged once again backs nervously away from the monster he has created. Remember when you could post to your blog without feeling outnumbered?


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 6:03 PM
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21 gets it exactly right.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 6:04 PM
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1 -- didn't -gg-d post a picture of himself back when he first got his groove on?


Posted by: Clownæsthesiologist | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 6:07 PM
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23: well, yeah ... but then we'd need a rib-shot of those other two, wouldn't we.


Posted by: soubzriquet | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 6:08 PM
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Which of the three of you do you think she'd be most terrified to be seated next to on an airplane?


Posted by: tom | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 6:10 PM
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25: Probably Cyrus the Great, what with being a dessicated corpse and all that.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 6:11 PM
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Ogged, you ignorant slut, she's hitting on you.

Also, Ogged, you should grow your hair out, get your teeth whitened, and grow some stuble so that you can look more like the guy on the right.


Posted by: Michael | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 6:12 PM
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26: yeah, but at least there wouldn't be much sexual tension


Posted by: tom | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 6:13 PM
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all us redheads look the same

You mean just like this, right?


Posted by: ac | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 6:14 PM
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26 -- I believe Mr. The Great is way past the "dessicated corpse" phase and has progressed to "benign pile o' bones" -- I would be glad to accompany him on an airplane journey.


Posted by: Clownæsthesiologist | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 6:15 PM
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29: Or this?


Posted by: Junior Mint | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 6:19 PM
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29: Or this. But I prefer yours, all things being equal.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 6:19 PM
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Ha!


Posted by: Junior Mint | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 6:20 PM
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Pwned!


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 6:20 PM
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26. You're thinking about it all wrong. Cyrus the Great already has his severed head; the other haven't gotten theirs yet.


Posted by: Michael | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 6:20 PM
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30: Just keep him away from AWB.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 6:20 PM
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carrottop's eyes seem abnormally small.


Posted by: Michael | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 6:23 PM
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I never thought about it before, but Carrot Top reminds me of Naymond from The Wire. They both have ill-conceived hair, are deeply pitiable, and work in completely disreputable fields that will ultimately destroy them.


Posted by: tom | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 6:33 PM
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Are we sure this post isn't merely to remind us--after his post on Second Life losers--that ogged's good looking? Let's lay wagers on whether his next post is about his athleticism ("I'm swimming again, and faster than ever!"), his courage ("I had cancer, and remained unfazed"), or his intelligence (TBD).


Posted by: SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 6:40 PM
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UPDATE: It's come to my attention that I'm very good-looking.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 6:43 PM
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13: Wait, wait, wait. "The Lobster Hypnotizer"? Somebody back up and explain that one for me.


Posted by: strasmangelo jones | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 6:51 PM
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Put the update in the post--it would be funnier. Maybe this blog will get you laid yet, Becks notwithstanding.


Posted by: SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 6:52 PM
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I bet if you took cyrus' helmet ff, shaved him, turned him around to face the camera (or rather the engraver), and told him a funny story, he would look just like the guy on the right. She's hitting on you, ogged.


Posted by: mcmc | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 6:52 PM
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ff s/b off.


Posted by: mcmc | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 6:53 PM
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Short term college relationship who claimed to be able to hypnotize lobsters. I never saw him do it. Search on lobster to find it in the archives.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 6:53 PM
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41 -- Hey I was just thinking today "Where's that Strasmangelo Jones? I never see him post lately." Glad to see you have not vanished.


Posted by: Clownæsthesiologist | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 6:57 PM
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Could he put a brick to sleep also?


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 7:02 PM
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Nobody ever says this guy, ogged?


Posted by: SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 7:03 PM
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The claim was that you can tell if a lobster is hypnotized because it becomes immobile to the point that you can balance it on a tripod formed by its claws and its face. I do not know if this is true, and never saw it done. But he was from Maine, and so presumably had lots of opportunity to practice.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 7:04 PM
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Yeah, she's on crack.


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 7:13 PM
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Who, our LB?


Posted by: Clownæsthesiologist | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 7:16 PM
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No, the woman that thinks Ogged looks like either of those pictures.


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 7:16 PM
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Bitchphd, the voice of reason.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 7:18 PM
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Too bad reason isn't funny.


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 7:22 PM
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The claim was that you can tell if a lobster is hypnotized because it becomes immobile to the point that you can balance it on a tripod formed by its claws and its face.

I don't know what's more shocking: that I apparently missed this the first time around or that we haven't had whole threads devoted to lobster hypnotism here.

But then there's this:

you've decribed yourself as looking like Jeff Goldblum and Chris Noth

Now all we need to do is run Jeff Goldblum and Chris Noth through Conan O'Brian's "If They Mated" machine to produce Ogged's secret identity.


Posted by: strasmangelo jones | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 7:22 PM
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Too bad reason isn't funny.

Not bad, B.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 7:30 PM
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1. Resemblance can be relational. My siblings and I don't think we look very alike, but others frequently comment on a strong family resemblance, and sometimes we're even mistaken for each other. (Notwitstanding an 8" height spread.) I don't think other people are crazy so much as they aren't calibrating as finely as we are.

I have also had clients of a different ethnicity repeatedly confuse a co-worker and me -- despite our different hair color and style, height, and build. I suspect it was due to being raised in an ethnically homogenous neighborhood.

2. I would join the chorus, but per 18 I will just point out that it is completely possible for there to be logistical/other factors that would preclude any romance, and yet a frisson of awareness may persist. Per B's point in the loneliness discussion about intimacy being characaterized as sexual, I think chemistry is too, when in reality its presence or absence can affect all our relationships.


Posted by: Witt | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 7:32 PM
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Chris Noth? OK, that's way way more of a stretch than these are.


Posted by: profgrrrrl | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 7:35 PM
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58: You mean because Noth is identifiably masculine in a way these guys aren't?


Posted by: SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 7:36 PM
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that's way way more of a stretch than these are

Hey there, PG.

Good thing we got rid of Bob.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 7:40 PM
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(Not to mention lilishahir.)


Posted by: Clownæsthesiologist | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 7:44 PM
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Wait, is Chris Noth supposed to be attractive now? Because those bags are totally achievable...now, if you'll excuse me, I need to not sleep for three days. Come, Hotness, come!


Posted by: SEK | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 8:02 PM
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That's no way to address your wife.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 8:06 PM
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I was channeling ben. His apologies.


Posted by: SEK | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 8:08 PM
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To reiterate: 'Gee, look at the handsome actor and conqueror of the world I found, and how they look like you!'

That, or she thinks all y'all look alike.


Posted by: Cala | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 8:11 PM
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65: If this coworker exists outside of ogged's fevered imagination.


Posted by: SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 8:22 PM
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I think the resemblances are vague enough (Cyrus? Noth? Goldblum? the cute actor-boy?) that the explicit awareness of the Persian connection is driving a lot of this. If she didn't know that, there might be lots of other people that would occur to her.

Conversely, given that her search-space has been narrowed to other Persians, you should cheer up--she's not telling you that you look like Ahmadinejad.


Posted by: kid bitzer | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 8:28 PM
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What's wrong with looking like Ahmadinejad? He's a very handsome man.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 8:30 PM
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I recall thinking -gg-d looked a lot like Freddie Mercury, the time I met him.


Posted by: Clownæsthesiologist | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 8:32 PM
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68--
really? I'm surprised to hear it, but I'm in no position to disagree. I can never figure out what makes guys handsome or not, so I defer to others for these judgements.


Posted by: kid bitzer | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 8:34 PM
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69: You have made me the happiest commenter on earth.


Posted by: SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 8:35 PM
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69: It's the moustache.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 8:36 PM
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71 -- I live to serve.


Posted by: Clownæsthesiologist | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 8:37 PM
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70: Perhaps we should have some women or gay men weigh in on this, but yeah, I see him as a typical example of a handsome man.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 8:38 PM
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I think he's pretty good looking, but not a super dreamboat. He looks best at angles where it's not as evident how close together his eyes are.


Posted by: redfoxtailshrub | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 8:40 PM
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My wife has said that she thinks he's handsome too. I don't get it. He looks like a Flintstones extra.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 8:42 PM
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Sometimes he has a kind of sexy Che thing going.


Posted by: redfoxtailshrub | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 8:42 PM
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I like Ahmadi-nejad's wardrobe. He seems to pick some good shirt/jacket/no tie combinations.


Posted by: Cryptic Ned | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 8:44 PM
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69: It's the moustache.

And the penchant for wearing hot pants.

Ogged, she's not hitting on you, or insane: she's being insulting to see if she can get a rise out of you.


Posted by: slolernr | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 8:44 PM
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This is not, however, to say that he would be a better US president than our current one.


Posted by: Cryptic Ned | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 8:44 PM
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77: Are we talking about ogged or the Ajmenijawhatever?


Posted by: SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 8:44 PM
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Ahmadinejad. I don't know what Ogged looks like, and he doesn't act particularly Chelike.


Posted by: redfoxtailshrub | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 8:45 PM
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If you say so. So who are the hot male world leaders?


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 8:46 PM
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76: He's cute, but that description of him is fucking hilarious.


Posted by: Robust McManlyPants | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 8:47 PM
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OK, just googled some photos of Chris Noth. Maybe the hair a bit. But he's so ... old. Comparatively speaking and all.

Freddie Mercury. Heh.


Posted by: profgrrrrl | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 8:47 PM
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75--
right, things like the closeness of the eyes I can judge, and it's on that basis that I have inferred that he is not an attractive guy.

But this is what has always struck me as baffling about male attractiveness--there is a great deal more imperfection permissible in male models of attractiveness than in female ones.

There are some male actors who I can reliably predict will be good-looking, because their female analogues would be good-looking (mostly the pretty-boys, e.g. Pitt, Cruise, Redford). And they pass easy tests of facial symmetry, wide spacing of the eyes, high cheek bones--thing that I can check fairly mechanically despite having no intuitive feel for what's good looking.

But then there are guys that I never in a million years would have predicted would be heart-throbs, and whose female analogues would (I'm pretty sure) never make it in the movies. Nick Cage? Bruce Willis? What's that about? Who knows? For whatever reason, they are found to be attractive.

This is why with somebody like Ahmadinejad I think: okay, seems to me that he fails on some fairly straightforward mechanical tests. But--my proxy heuristics for this are *really* inaccurate, so I'll take anyone's word who has an opinion.


Posted by: kid bitzer | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 8:49 PM
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83: I don't know what any of them look like. I think Blair's better looking than people give him credit for being, and the Martin guy of Canada's pretty good-looking. But if Edwards (or Hagel, who I think is even better looking) wins in '08, I think we take the crown.


Posted by: SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 8:53 PM
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84: It's funny because it's true.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 8:56 PM
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Edwards (or Hagel, who I think is even better looking)

Seriously. Whole lotta hott there. Hagel would also make the first Republican president since Gerald Ford that I wouldn't consider evil.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 9:00 PM
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I think we take the crown

Hooray! We win superficiality!

But anyway, I think this guy is pretty good-looking, although he isn't going to be holding power much longer.

While researching this question I discovered that the prime minsters of Belgium, Finland, and Hungary all look virtually identical, and all look like total dorks.


Posted by: Cryptic Ned | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 9:02 PM
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Yuschenko was pretty handsome before they poisoned him.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 9:05 PM
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I'd like to revise 90 to say that Ferenc Gyurcsany actually looks a lot cooler than Guy Verhofstadt or the Finnish guy. He looks like John Oliver from the Daily Show. Still a dork though.


Posted by: Cryptic Ned | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 9:07 PM
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91: Jeebus. He really was good looking.

I think Edwards has been a Most Beautiful Person in People Magazine, but not Hagel. Liberal bias?


Posted by: SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 9:11 PM
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Japan took a huge drop in the rankings when Shinzo Abe replaced Junichiro Koizumi. I mean, really.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 9:11 PM
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ac's redhead has tomwaitsian lips.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 9:16 PM
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You know, I'm one of those weird people who visualizes people I haven't met ,or seen pictures of, as very vague shadowy humanoid silhouettes overlaid with giant, sesame-street style 3D sculptures of their name written out, so to me, until now, ogged has been, well,

OGGED

Now the shadowy silhouette is suddenly intermixed with intermixing transparent projections of this actor, Chris Noth and Jeff Goldblum, the giant OGGED fading a bit, and it's a little trippy.

I hadn't realized how many of you actually know each other in real life, and how hot Ogged is. Now I'm even more envious about never making it to these big meetups.


Posted by: Saheli | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 9:28 PM
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Awwww yeah!


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 9:33 PM
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97 to 69.


Posted by: Cryptic Ned | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 9:34 PM
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That sounded more like Barry White than Freddie Mercury.


Posted by: slolernr | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 9:35 PM
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That's so fucking wrong. I bet Saheli's a terrorist. (Just kidding, G-man.)


Posted by: SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 9:37 PM
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the best looking american politician lost his senate race a few weeks ago.


Posted by: text | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 9:41 PM
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You know, I don't think it would be that difficult for ogged and Saheli to meet each other...


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 9:42 PM
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I refer of course to This handsome guy.


Posted by: text | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 9:48 PM
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91. christ: the poison even changed his hair color.


Posted by: Michael | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 9:51 PM
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It should be obvious that text was actually referring to the Cadillac of men shown in this photo.


Posted by: Cryptic Ned | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 9:56 PM
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I hadn't realized how many of you actually know each other in real life, and how hot Ogged is. Now I'm even more envious about never making it to these big meetups.

What am I, chopped liver?


Posted by: Josh | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 10:00 PM
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I feel suddenly inadequate for not having a list of hot world leaders in my head.

That said, none of the candidates named in this thread would be on it.


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 10:08 PM
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Apostropher, what does it say about you that I saw a site search for thatcher bhutto and knew it was you even before I saw the North Carolina IP address?


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 10:13 PM
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102: Well, hopefully one day, but apparently I keep missing out on the big opportunities.
105: Gyah. That's going ot give me nightmares.
106: :-D But see, the coolness of spontaneous BART meetups only increases my expectation that the big parties are Awesomeness Squared. :-) Not to mention that Becks is as excellent an in-person hostess as she is a webmistress.


Posted by: Saheli | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 10:15 PM
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108: What does it say about you, Ogged?


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 10:17 PM
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I'm sure you're itching to tell me, B.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 10:22 PM
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Nope. Not a thing in my pretty little head.

xoxoxox!


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 10:28 PM
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109 - Awww, thanks! And in a better world, you would have already had your chance to meet Ogged. Fucking cancer. And you would have had your chance to meet w-lfs-n. Fucking w-lfs-n.


Posted by: Becks | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 10:36 PM
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Fucking cancer.
Fucking w-lfs-n.

Do we have to choose?


Posted by: standpipe b | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 10:39 PM
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You only get one, Standpipe. Don't be greedy.


Posted by: Becks | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 10:41 PM
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Aw.


Posted by: standpipe b | Link to this comment | 11-30-06 10:47 PM
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People do have quite freaky ideas about who people resemble, and as has been repeated a lot above, some people just pick people who they think will be flattering to the person they are talking to ... 'You really look like $foo' where $foo is someone hot.

Or they latch on some feature -- when I had long hair I was repeatedly told I looked like two particular rock singers. I looked nothing like 'em, I just had the same hair.

That said, my wife does look like Michelle Williams -- even though she thinks I am on crack for thinking that.


Posted by: nattarGcM ttaM | Link to this comment | 12- 1-06 1:05 AM
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91, 93: Yeah, I was oddly disturbed by that. Poisoning is one thing, but deliberately (maybe?) disfiguring a pretty person seems weirdly extra-unpleasant. Feeling this way makes me terribly shallow, I'm certain.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 12- 1-06 7:48 AM
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118: Me too. Ukraine is hardcore.


Posted by: redfoxtailshrub | Link to this comment | 12- 1-06 8:05 AM
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118: Disfiguring an ugly person is also unpleasant, just sayin.


Posted by: Clownæsthesiologist | Link to this comment | 12- 1-06 8:15 AM
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Disfiguring an ugly person

From a utilitarian perspective this has no impact on the world.


Posted by: Cryptic Ned | Link to this comment | 12- 1-06 8:18 AM
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The bitzer clan and I will storm your ramparts.


Posted by: Clownæsthesiologist | Link to this comment | 12- 1-06 8:23 AM
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120: Agreed.

A friend of mine and I are frequently mistaken for one another and asked if we are sisters or twins, even though from our own point of view we look nothing alike. I agree with 57 that the issue usually rests on how finely grained peoples' observations and comparisons are. Also, I think (though this doesn't apply so much to the example in the post itself) that people often observe similarities in behavior, such as shared intonational patterns, gestures, and so on, and attribute them to similarities of static physical features.


Posted by: redfoxtailshrub | Link to this comment | 12- 1-06 8:27 AM
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Ok, I fucking know that guy in the second picture. Or at least I know a guy who's his twin. Are we sure that guy's not a Broadway conductor/piano player? Who serves as musical director for the occasional white supremacist show?


Posted by: Joe Drymala | Link to this comment | 12- 1-06 8:37 AM
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Broadway conductor/piano player

Wow -- -gg-d is certainly branching out.


Posted by: Clownæsthesiologist | Link to this comment | 12- 1-06 8:39 AM
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107: But think of all the neurons you haven't totally wasted until just now.


Posted by: Biohazard | Link to this comment | 12- 1-06 9:41 AM
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He looks like a Flintstones extra.

Funny because it's true, indeed. Good eye.


Posted by: dagger aleph | Link to this comment | 12- 1-06 11:15 AM
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Who serves as musical director for the occasional white supremacist show?

This part, on the other hand, has always been a hobby of -gg-d's.


Posted by: Saheli | Link to this comment | 12- 1-06 12:04 PM
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Eh, Ahmadinejad is decent-looking, though his hair is a little too Steve Carrell. Chuck Hagel gets points for being a handsome Republican without being Republican-handsome. (Republican-handsome being that clean-cut businessy sort of look that might seem good-looking at very first glance, a reaction which is immediately overridden by the certainty that if he accidentally knocked you up, he'd totally make you carry the baby to term.)


Posted by: Magpie | Link to this comment | 12- 1-06 1:35 PM
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