Monday, November 28, 2005
Why Can't I Be Brad Pitt?
Ever been mistaken for a celebrity?
Me neither.
Ever been told that you resemble a celebrity?
Yeah, me too. I lost a bunch of weight a few years back when I was working out five times a week. I also shaved my head and grew a mustache and goatee. People started telling me I looked like Billy Bob Thornton. I'm not sure how to take that. Were they talking about the Friday Night Lights Billy Bob or the Slingblade Billy Bob? There is a subtle difference.The fine folks over at Miller Brewing helped me get the weight back, but I got to keep the shaved head, mustache, and goatee in the bargain. Now I just look like Crime Dog with some weight issues.
So, if you've been wondering what celebrity you look like, which I'm sure is a question that torments you on a daily basis, try visiting My Heritage. I found the link over at EMS Haiku. They have this facial recognition doo-dad that matches you up to celebrities. Don't expect a lot.
I ran the picture featured above, and it told me I looked like Jason Biggs, who's like 30 years younger than me. The matchup does, however, give me a hankering for some warm apple pie......
TFMCD turned out to be Whitney Houston, who, one might note, is black. But it gets better: Pabla is Alec Baldwin.
Huh?
OK, let's recap: It changed TFMCD's race, and Pab's gender. Could it get worse? Oh, yeah.
It can do both those things at once. The Fetching Annette, it turns out, is actually Nelson Mandela. Cheesehead/Mrs. Robinson turns out to be some dead French dude named Gilbert Becaud. It found no match for Flamingo Queen Kathy at all, which I suppose is preferable to being Nelson Mandela. Cheap Bastard got the best result. He's Marcelo Mastroianni, who used to get laid regularly in the movies. I guess he just went from Cheap Bastard to Lucky Bastard.
And Headbeak gets to be Billy Bob Thornton. The man has stolen my identity.
By the way: Just for fun, I ran The Big Man's picture. He's actually Jim Carrey.
