Foo - Ever been mistaken for someone famous?

I was waiting in line at a fix-it-yourself soda fountain the other day and the man in front of me suddenly got all weird acting...he actually dropped his drink...I didn't think too much about it but then out of the blue he turned around and started saying in a painfully loud voice, "Oh my god, it's really you--I knew it had to be. You're Mia Hamm, aren't you?! The team must be in town!" I have been told lots of times that the resemblance is remarkable, but never actually had someone freak like this. Everyone in the place was staring. Part of me was like, run with this and give the man an autograph, but I just smiled and said sorry, but it's ok --I get that a lot. I'm sure it was a let-down for everybody.

my mother once had this huge discussion with a neighbor, and they had it figured that I looked more like Nicole Brown Simpson's sister--don't know the first thing about her since I chose not to waste brain space on all that trial hoopla. Anyway, I don't see any of these resemblances, but personally I'll stick with the Mia thing if it's ok with everyone else.
Anybody ever been mistaken for Lance?? :D

I used to get Tom Hanks a lot, but then I gained weight, lost some hair and was mistaken for Drew Carry on a few occasions. Now I'm back down (weight) and I get the Tom hanks thing again.

I like looking like Hanks better.

Can't pass for Lance, but I used to get taken for Willie Nelson a lot --when we were both younger, of course. Even people in the music business, who should have known better, made the mistake a couple times. They quickly realized their mistake, however.

I was mistaken for a cyclist once while at the bank. The man in line behind me made a "nice" comment about my legs. ;)

I was mistaken for Paul Newman once by a mob of women, but then I woke up :)
Ron: You're lucky I usually here stuff like "You know I almost forgot I need to pick up some crab legs on the way home

Back a few years ago, when I wore my hair in a different style, I was often taken for Lewis Grizzard, the southern humorist. We both had the same stye of eyeglass frames, mustache, and hair color.

Now he's gone forever, and I don't get that anymore.

When I was younger, hairier, and fatter, I was often accused of being David Crosby.

More recently, until I started keeping my little remaining hair buzzed short, people were always remarking on my resemblance to Walter Becker (of Steely Dan).

Now, since Walter Becker and David Crosby look nothing like each other, I can only conclude that I must look like Clint Eastwood.

RichC

When I was doing research at UCLA, I used to get people going crazy when they saw me- said I looked like Diana Ross's daughter. The scary thing is, I really do, and I don't normally let people say I look like someone else (other than family) and get away with it. I saw her on television one day and fell off my chair. The resemblance is scary...

Koffee

That's what I'm talking about, Koffee!! It's when someone says "You know, you look just like" and you go yeah, whatever...and then you see that person for the first time and get the willies.
I had two guys that were stocking the dairy case in the local Mart practically drag me over to the milk display...there was Mia on a poster, doing that milk mustache promo-thingy and we all just stood there staring at it. I hadn't really seen her close up like that (hey, I do volleyball, not soccer) and it was...eerie for all of us.

Then there's this schmo from my Thursday sand v-ball league that keeps insisting that I look like Angie Harmon(?) from Law and Order. I got curious, looked her up on the net, and decided that he needs to ease off the 1$ longnecks. Or maybe drink more until he thinks I'm Gabby Reece...???

;) Gabby Reese would be nice for you... tall, long limbed, and big! She is a healthy looking woman!

Now Mia and Angie look nothing alike, except that they both have brown hair? Sometimes, people really are off when they make claims that you look like someone else. Sometimes, I just look at people crazy when they say I look like someone else fameous- it's obviously not there at all. But Diana Ross' daughter... brrrrrrrrrr... it's like looking at my twin or a really really close sister. It doesn't help that we both have the same name either. ;)

Koffee

I look kind of like the michelin man right now but im trying to fix that with some good ol fashion road bike riding....lol

I forgot in my chunky days I had a co worker that told I resembled the Sta-Puff Marshmallow man

I have been hauled off for "Meeting the description of someone they were looking for"

When I was in my early 20s I was told several times that I looked like KC of KC and the Sunshine Band. In my 30s I heard the Tom Hanks comparison. Now that i'm in my 40s I hear comparisons to some guy named Slow Biking Old Fart (haven't yet seen this guy so I'm not too sure on that).

Better to look like the guy from KC and the Sunshine Band rather than the guy from KFC, right? ;)

I did a search for this Slow Biking Old Fart- are you sure they aren't making it up? ;)

Koffee

Not too sure on that Slow Biking Old Fart guy. I am making a grave assumption that it is a guy!! I would be crushed if it turned out to be a woman. It may have something to do with cars because I only hear it from people who are driving their cars, if that helps.

The KFC guy does have a cool goatee though!!

Yeah, but the KFC guy is dead!

:eek: If anything, you'd look like a pile of dust then, huh? ;)

Sometimes, people think I am Joe Dirt.

I've had a few people tell me i look like the carpenter guy on the TV show "while you were out." I guess there is a resemblence, but I was surprized to hear it more than once <shrug>

Bikesick, if you look anything like Ty, then... git on over here right now, boy! ;)

:D

Ty is HOT!!!

Sorry, I'm drooling... :D

Koffee

Sometimes, people think I am Joe Dirt.

Doesn't Joe Dirt resemble Bryan Adams?

:D

Koff

Come on now, Coffee. Ti is Trading Spaces. While You Were Out is Jason Cameron, Andrew Dan-Jumbo, or (my favorite) Leslie Segrete.
After Monster Garage and Junkyard Wars, the best shows on TV

Well apparently, I resemble a Canadian singer-songwriter from the Toronto area. People will come up to me and start singing his songs and act as if they know me. This is embarrassing, as I really dislike his music. I have run into this singer a few times; once in Toronto he and his band mate were walking by me they just stared, I guess they were thinking something like ‘you look like me/him’! Another time he and his band sat next to me in a café here in Winnipeg and they had the same reaction. The worst part about this whole look-a-like-resemblance-thing, is this guy is really ugly. :(

Doesn't Joe Dirt resemble Bryan Adams?

:D

Koff

Good one. :roflmao:

Come on now, Coffee. Ti is Trading Spaces. While You Were Out is Jason Cameron, Andrew Dan-Jumbo, or (my favorite) Leslie Segrete.
After Monster Garage and Junkyard Wars, the best shows on TV

Bleah... While You Were Out. I used to like that show back when Anna Bacci was the hostess. Then they got the new chick and I couldn't stand watching it anymore. Jason Cameron is ok... I prefer the animation of Ty....

Too bad you don't look like Ty. I would have ripped your clothes off and...well...

The rest is X-rated. :p

Koffee

:D :D :D Sta-puf Marshmallow Man...I am dying here because I am getting a full color,Dolby surround sound flashback of that Ghostbusters scene!!!!!
Ok, Koffee...now I am going to just HAVE to look up Diana's daughter now out of curiosity.
BTW...yup, I'm a dead ringer, looking like Gabby like I do. Ha. It's that extra 4-inches of height thing that I can't get past. Guess I will have to have my femurs stretched.
The scary thing is, they can probably do that.....

Ok, do you look more like Gabby or Mia, cause to me, they look nothing alike. Seriously! :D

Koffee

I've been told I look like Michael Vartan the CIA guy from the Alias TV show. Never been mistaken for him though... I also had someone tell me I looked alot like Lance Armstrong although I'm sure my legs are much skinnier...

A friend of mine had some people mistake him for Andre Agassi. He went along with it and even knew how to fake his signature... poor people...

I've been told that I resemble Mr. Ed, but only when he is facing the other way. Frankly, I fail to see the resemblance.

George Clooney. j/k

Our friends' 3-year old saw a magazine cover of Antonio Banderas and Melanie Griffith and thought it was a photo of me and my wife. (Which is laughable, because Mrs. Caloso really looks like Ally Sheedy)

I have been mistaken for - get this:
Robby Benson (remember him?)
Joey Ramone (I am OK with this one)

My mom used to be mistaken for Cher fairly often back in the early 70's!

I get mistaken for Alan Rickman and after pondering
this for a while I think, OK I can get that (at least in
Die Hard, and especially Robin Hood when my hair
was longer). I don't get called Snape now so I guess the
resemblence isn't there now that he's not sporting a beard.

Marty

I have been told more than once that i look like Rob Zombie .

Depending on my hair length, I get Michael J. Fox or Tom Cruise all the time. Longer hair, MJF, shorter, nutjob, I mean Tom.
Since I've put on my office job 20lbs, I get MJF more now. I can live with that. The only think I'd like about Tom would be his money and chicks, most of his movies suck and all his characters are the same person.

I have been told more than once that i look like Rob Zombie .


Is there a particular reason you're reviving 30 month old threads :p

When I was 20, I was told by an older lady(who, in retrospect, I think was trying to pick me up)that I looked like a young Robert Goulet. Now I look like General Zod.

Back when "Footloose" was released I was often told that Kevin Bacon looks like me. He's changed now :D and I don't get the comments so often.
Steve.

Similar to a thread I did last year.
http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=149338

Mine is with a once local radio personality. He's now on XM or Sirrus or whatever. His (stage) name is "Bubba the Love Sponge".

Here is Bubba
http://www.btls.com/show/pics/bubbapic.jpg

Pic from about 6 months ago of Me (w/o beard and metrosexual haircut) attached.

I've been told I look like Melissa Gilbert (Laura from Little House in the Prarie), Princess Dianna (not sure where THAT comes from, I am neither tall nor blond) and..oh...what is her name, the wife from Mad About You (again, not blonde...). I can't see any of those resemblances. I DO look an awful lot like my mother (but she's not famous, sorry) in her younger, pretty days. (now she is older and prettier)

Is there a particular reason you're reviving 30 month old threads :p
I have just been "spokey doke'd" :eek: :D

I was waiting in line at a fix-it-yourself soda fountain the other day and the man in front of me suddenly got all weird acting...he actually dropped his drink...I didn't think too much about it but then out of the blue he turned around and started saying in a painfully loud voice, "Oh my god, it's really you--I knew it had to be. You're Mia Hamm, aren't you?! The team must be in town!" I have been told lots of times that the resemblance is remarkable, but never actually had someone freak like this. Everyone in the place was staring. Part of me was like, run with this and give the man an autograph, but I just smiled and said sorry, but it's ok --I get that a lot. I'm sure it was a let-down for everybody.

my mother once had this huge discussion with a neighbor, and they had it figured that I looked more like Nicole Brown Simpson's sister--don't know the first thing about her since I chose not to waste brain space on all that trial hoopla. Anyway, I don't see any of these resemblances, but personally I'll stick with the Mia thing if it's ok with everyone else.
Anybody ever been mistaken for Lance?? :D


You should have taken off your shirt and swung it around over your head :D

I've been told that I resemble Mr. Ed, but only when he is facing the other way. Frankly, I fail to see the resemblance.


Why the long face Mike? :D

Many said I looked like Meryl Streep (when I was younger, when she was younger).

Why the long face Mike? :D
*tee hee!* :D

Not personally, but I've got this cousin who in high school started to get this Liza Minnelli thing going. She went with it whole-hog! Voice, moves, hair, makeup. . . Now her home town is rural south USA [on a cold still January night, you can hear banjos], but at the beach and downtown Atlanta, she did autographs [Liza's].

A group of kids came to our Penisula store to rent bikes for a school outing on the Towpath and this one boy started yelling "Oh my God, it's Stone Cold". He thought I was Steve Austin the professional wrestler. It actually took a while to convince him I wasn't.

When I was younger, I used to get a lot of.. you look just like that girl for the Guess jeans ad ( Claudia Shieffer) Now.. I get a lot of.. you look just like hum.. you know that girl..( no I dont) or you look like that famous girl.. I can't put my finger on it but you look like that celebrity.. (ok, who?) guess they all tell me I look like someone famous but the word is still out on who!!

Alot of people confuse me with Tom Boonen... when I crank the power to 400W!

Bleah... While You Were Out. I used to like that show back when Anna Bacci was the hostess. Then they got the new chick and I couldn't stand watching it anymore. Jason Cameron is ok... I prefer the animation of Ty....

Too bad you don't look like Ty. I would have ripped your clothes off and...well...

The rest is X-rated. :p

Koffee

Carter is by far the best. *drool*