lookalikes

Dan Bricklin's pics of Malcolm Gladwell, author of 'The tipping Point': Malcolm is in fact the punishing 70's singer Leo Sayer. BBC: spot the real Leo Sayer

I don't mind the guy, but can't help thinking of this similarity (they really should give that scream bloke some botox injections):

Apply 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. Saddam lookalikes It would be very good news, however, if this rumor were true. VOANews.com

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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] Chaplin lookalike 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...