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[mangosteen]

Evidently, there is someone out there that looks exactly like me.
I got to feel my brain recalibrate itself in the few seconds after seeing the picture, and got a much better idea of the brain's facial recognition procedure in the process.

"Not a bad picture of me."
"Wait a second, that's not quite right, but why?"
"I don't own a suit like that, and I don't remember being anywhere I'd be wearing a suit according to the date on the photo"
"Okay, but that still looks a lot like me."

I've looked at the picture on several separate occasions, and while the thought process isn't as obvious as it was the first couple of times, it's still there. That's how close the match is.

I actually sent mail to the fellow later who, after seeing pictures of us side by side, began his response with "You're not adopted, right?" Evidently he sent the picture off to his mother to see if she could tell the difference.

Getting to use the word verisimilitude in email was cool, too.

Observation: Long words look even longer in monospaced fonts, so something like "verisimilitude" looks like it goes on forever, to the point where you almost forget that this string of letters you're looking at is in actual word.

Comments

[gingicat]

You're trying to scare us, aren't you. :)

[hammercock.livejournal.com]

You should get him to wander around Baitcon to see how many people you can confuse. :) It really is an uncanny resemblance at first glance.