Malcolm Gladwell’s awesome ‘fro
Thursday, May 27th, 2004Dan Bricklin’s pics of Malcolm Gladwell, author of ‘The tipping Point’:
Malcolm is in fact the punishing 70’s singer Leo Sayer.
Archive for the ‘lookalikes’ Category
Kerry mask
Thursday, February 5th, 2004I don’t mind the guy, but can’t help thinking of this similarity (they really should give that scream bloke some botox injections):
The first casualty of war
Thursday, March 20th, 2003Apply Occam’s Razor to the Saddam has been killed rumor.
Which is simpler? That this is a deliberate rumor to destabilize and seed doubt in the minds of the Iraqi’s (a clever tactic) or that after 12 years of trying to get Saddam, this objective is successful within 90 minutes of hostilities.
On the other hand, Saddam’s lookalikes are notoriously good, they fooled the odious Haider on his visit to Iraq, when he posed for photos with an imposter.
People are easily fooled. Charlie Chaplin famously lost a lookalike competition against an impersonator and as Christopher Hitchens discovered, some of Churchill’s most famous wartime speeches were delivered by a children’s radio presenter with a gift for mimicry.
It would be very good news, however, if this rumor were true.
Hummer Grilled
Monday, October 21st, 2002
Saddam lookalike
Friday, October 18th, 2002
Reuters: “Austrian rightist [slight understatement] Joerg Haider, the best-known West European politician to visit Iraq in recent years, was proudly photographed in February beside President Saddam Hussein — or was he?
A German coroner says the man Haider met was one of at least three Saddam Hussein lookalikes, men who have undergone surgery and mimic the president’s gestures and expressions perfectly.”
Projected cost of a war with Iraq: $100 - $200 Billion
Mach3 Turbo: $7.99
Hmm…
As “Chaplinitis” swept across America around 1915, Charlie Chaplin look-alike contests became a popular form of entertainment…Legend has it that Chaplin himself once entered — and lost — one of these competitions…in a San Francisco theater.” [thanks Justine]
This brings to mind what Christopher Hitchens says about Churchill’s wartime speeches:
“what was not revealed until the late 1970’s - that many of these exercises in ‘Finest Hour rhetoric were recorded and delivered by Mr. Norman Shelley, a ‘Children’s hour’ actor with a gift for mimicry”
In fact people often show a preference to fakery, Walt Disney’s hand writing was so bad, that the famous Disney signature was actually done by someone else in the studio. When some original Disney cells went up for auction in New York, those with the celebrated, but unauthentic autograph fetched less than those actually signed by Walt.
So clearly, given the chance, people will opt for the fake if it looks more like the icon, and Saddam’s moustache is an icon. Obviously alternative to war, markets crashing and having to listen to Chris Mathews is to send over a hairdresser with a Gillette and some shaving foam.
Lookalikes:
Tuesday, October 15th, 2002On the left, Orwell with real moustache; on the right, with caterpillar substitute…
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