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someone just called and told me that when my hair is dark, i look like the girl in shakespeare's sister that isn't in bananarama.

i'm researching this to see if this is a compliment or insult.

― colette (a2lette), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 16:15 (twenty years ago) link

I'm an asshole apparently, and arrogant/snobbish as well.

I have beautiful eyelashes that several ex-girlfriends have been bitterly jealous of.

When I used to smoke, I smoked like a girl and held my cigarettes too high.

― webcrack (music=crack), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 16:19 (twenty years ago) link

Colette, it's a compliment. Though however well-meant, you do not look like Siobhan Fahey. You look better than that, she is a bit ropey and Pam Hogg-looking now.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 16:23 (twenty years ago) link

Suzy, I think they meant Marcella Detroit, i.e. the one who isn't in Bananarama. I don't think that's an insult either.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 16:31 (twenty years ago) link

i think he meant the detroit one as well. but all the pictures online are fuzzy or her hair is covering her face.

and since i'd never heard of her (or the band) i guess that ruins my potential career as a celeb impersonator!

and as long as we're allowed to disagree with people, mr. crack you're more of an elitist, surely?

― colette (a2lette), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 16:49 (twenty years ago) link

actually, there may be a market for vaguely familiar, but unplaceable celebrity lookalikes. because that would only heighten the versimilitude!

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 16:50 (twenty years ago) link

(insert an I somewhere)

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 16:50 (twenty years ago) link

and as long as we're allowed to disagree with people, mr. crack you're more of an elitist, surely?

That does tend to sum it up, doesn't it? Though I like to think that my elitist tendencies have dimmed to a certain extent.

― webcrack (music=crack), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 16:53 (twenty years ago) link

well, huck, if you ever find details of that market, let me know. people are always saying, 'you look like that one girl. you know, from that show/band/movie'. usually they mean someone that had a bit part on 'saved by the bell' or something.

but if i could make money off of their confusion, that would rock!

― colette (a2lette), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 17:00 (twenty years ago) link

i walk like a penguin.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 17:01 (twenty years ago) link

attention: all pigeon-toed knock-kneed women report to Matos immediately. thank you.

― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 22:20 (twenty years ago) link

and he claims he doesn't know he's flirting!

― mullygrubber (gaz), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 22:31 (twenty years ago) link

that's not flirting, it's being an obnoxious twat

― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 22:35 (twenty years ago) link

it's a fine line between the two

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 03:34 (twenty years ago) link

I supposedly look like a Renoir. Which painting was not specified.

― j.lu (j.lu), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 04:37 (twenty years ago) link

Apparently I mix up "bought" and "brought" all the time.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 04:38 (twenty years ago) link

it's a line I spend most of my life crossing to the wrong side of

― M Matos (M Matos), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 04:40 (twenty years ago) link

That I walk fast.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 04:41 (twenty years ago) link

That I have 25 years of experience dealing with difficult women. Thanks, Mom (note: she is the one who told me this).

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 7 January 2004 05:02 (twenty years ago) link

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