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What celerities do we resemble?
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Big_Bird



Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: Sometimes here sometimes there...

PostPosted: Fri Aug 24, 2007 1:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

In my mid to late teens people would occasionally tell me I looked like Kate Bush (back in those days she was long past her most famous but people still kind of remembered her).



I'm not really convinced we resemble each other that much facially, but we certainly have similar hair:




She's the only person I recall westerners ever comparing me to.

From time to time Koreans would tell me I looked like Drew Barrymore. Bloody hell - I'm not even blonde?



I thought it was utter nonsense, and I didn't worry too much about, it until one day I mentioned it to my husband while we were watching one of her films. My husband looked at her, and then looked at me and then back again, and said "you know what....you do look a little bit like her..." Shocked "but don't worry darling, you look much much better, of course..." Hahahahaha (he would say that).

Oh to be likened to Audrey Hepburn... Crying or Very sad




I would enjoy this thread more if people would post pictures, as I'm not always familiar with the celebrities you are talking about.
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pest2



Joined: 01 Jun 2005
Location: Vancouver, Canada

PostPosted: Fri Aug 24, 2007 2:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

There's a famous German soccer player in my text book who looks EXACTLY like me ... every time I've used it for any class, the students refuse to believe its not me.
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peppermint



Joined: 13 May 2003
Location: traversing the minefields of caddishness.

PostPosted: Fri Aug 24, 2007 2:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I don't really look like anyone famous, unless you count IloveBDT, whom I used to get mistaken for fairly often, when we lived in the same town.

I've only ever gotten told I look like a famous person once, and that was Alyson Hannigan, which prompted a "huh?"


After watching the Bourne Ultimatum last week, I think Ody looks a fair bit like Joan Allen
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butlerian



Joined: 04 Sep 2006
Location: Korea

PostPosted: Fri Aug 24, 2007 2:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sadly, my students at school call me "Rooney" after the Man Utd football player. Unfortunately, I think it's more based on my appearance than my footballing skills. As an Everton fan, it's doubly annoying as he's not exactly a player I admire!
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princess



Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: soul of Asia

PostPosted: Fri Aug 24, 2007 3:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I get told by Koreans and non-Koreans I look like Sarah Jessica Parker.
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princess



Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: soul of Asia

PostPosted: Fri Aug 24, 2007 3:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mosley wrote:
Bald/balding white guys inevitably get the "Bruce Willis" bit. In Japan too.


Trust me on that one....
Yeah, I used to work here with a balidng white guy and of course, he got the Bruce Willis comment. Geez. Bruce is ugly. Who wants to look like him?
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luv2dance79



Joined: 01 Jun 2007
Location: Suwon

PostPosted: Fri Aug 24, 2007 3:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

All of my Korean teachers say I look like Cameron Diaz.
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applesandshanana



Joined: 09 May 2007
Location: Michigan

PostPosted: Fri Aug 24, 2007 3:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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wait, is that you in the bottom photo, or Katie Holmes?


The bottom one is me.
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pest2



Joined: 01 Jun 2005
Location: Vancouver, Canada

PostPosted: Fri Aug 24, 2007 4:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

princess wrote:
Mosley wrote:
Bald/balding white guys inevitably get the "Bruce Willis" bit. In Japan too.


Trust me on that one....
Yeah, I used to work here with a balidng white guy and of course, he got the Bruce Willis comment. Geez. Bruce is ugly. Who wants to look like him?


Yeah, its much better to be a transvestite-expat... that way, girls like princess will think you look like the sunkist lemonade guy and fall in love with you.
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pest2



Joined: 01 Jun 2005
Location: Vancouver, Canada

PostPosted: Fri Aug 24, 2007 4:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

applesandshanana wrote:
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wait, is that you in the bottom photo, or Katie Holmes?


The bottom one is me.



Ok, that is amazing. You really do look like Katie Holmes. Makes me wanna take back what I was saying about expat girls in Korea in that other thread over there....
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bejarano-korea



Joined: 13 Dec 2006

PostPosted: Fri Aug 24, 2007 6:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

butlerian wrote:
Sadly, my students at school call me "Rooney" after the Man Utd football player. Unfortunately, I think it's more based on my appearance than my footballing skills. As an Everton fan, it's doubly annoying as he's not exactly a player I admire!


Are you a scouser?

Just think, you should have beaten Reading and you would have been top instead of the Latics! Razz
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bejarano-korea



Joined: 13 Dec 2006

PostPosted: Fri Aug 24, 2007 6:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've been told George Clooney, Antonio Banderas, Vinny Jones, Sugar Ray Sefo and a mixture of these guys with Grant Mitchell, I'm not bald and I don't look like Grant Mitchell but I have Grant Mitchells physique.

Photo is on 'how hawt are you' page 59 I think. Shocked
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Big_Bird



Joined: 31 Jan 2003
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 24, 2007 7:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Haha, tha's just had uz trawling back through that blummin' thread to find thee. A welsh-peruvian from up North - ee by gum! Very Happy Tha dun't look nowt lahk any of them buggers what tha's listed 'bove (to me at any raaate).

You've got quite an interesting look - but I'd expect you to look like some famous rugby player for some reason.
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bejarano-korea



Joined: 13 Dec 2006

PostPosted: Fri Aug 24, 2007 7:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Big_Bird wrote:
Haha, tha's just had uz trawling back through that blummin' thread to find thee. A welsh-peruvian from up North - ee by gum! Very Happy Tha dun't look nowt lahk any of them buggers what tha's listed 'bove (to me at any raaate).

You've got quite an interesting look - but I'd expect you to look like some famous rugby player for some reason.


Tha's right luv! folk say I look like thee big Maori-Kiwi bugga's who play for saints and mebbe they're right!

I don't look like Clooney or Banderas - big girls blouses them men but
mebbe Sugar Ray Sefo!
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Big_Bird



Joined: 31 Jan 2003
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 24, 2007 7:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

bejarano-korea wrote:
Big_Bird wrote:
Haha, tha's just had uz trawling back through that blummin' thread to find thee. A welsh-peruvian from up North - ee by gum! Very Happy Tha dun't look nowt lahk any of them buggers what tha's listed 'bove (to me at any raaate).

You've got quite an interesting look - but I'd expect you to look like some famous rugby player for some reason.


Tha's right luv! folk say I look like thee big Maori-Kiwi bugga's who play for saints and mebbe they're right!


Summat lahk this, ducks?

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