People Whom Your Friends Think Your Parents Look Like

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Are there any? Not necessarily from childhood....

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 14 April 2003 06:57 (twenty-three years ago)

A friend at school said my Mum looked like Dot Cotton. I was most offended.

My girlfriend reckons my Dad looks like the TV repair man in "Pleasantville". I have to concede that there is a resemblance...

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 14 April 2003 06:59 (twenty-three years ago)

When he was younger a lot of people said my dad looked like John Lennon. Now I get told that he is Robyn Hitchcock for some strange reason.

― kate, Monday, 14 April 2003 07:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My father has been compared both to Lenin and Colonel Sanders, with unsettling accuracy.

My mother looks very much like Donna Reed.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 14 April 2003 07:01 (twenty-three years ago)

In fact, I had this exact conversation with my mother some years ago:

Me: "Mom, I saw Dad today, you know who he looks like?
Mom: "Stalin!"
Me: "No no, the other one. Stalin had hair. Lenin."
Mom: "He's the one who was mostly bald, but had the beard?"
Me: "YES! That's exactly who Dad looks like."
Mom: "He really does. He's lost a lot of hair."
Me: "Mom, not everyone who loses their hair looks like Lenin. This is a unique thing. This is my father's thing now, looking like Lenin."
Mom: "Except his hair's all white."
Me: "And yet somehow he doesn't look any less like Lenin."
Mom: "Well, that's your father, dear."

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 14 April 2003 07:06 (twenty-three years ago)

My dad according to my friends, is http://www.countrylife.co.uk/images/worldsoccer2/Glanville.gif + http://i.tsn.com/i/n/baseball/61/crystal_billy_ap.jpg

― Mark C (Mark C), Monday, 14 April 2003 08:52 (twenty-three years ago)

my mother has been mistaken for renee gayer many times over several decades

― minna (minna), Monday, 14 April 2003 09:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Everyone says my dad = me + 32 years. I have come to realise this is true.

― robster (robster), Monday, 14 April 2003 09:04 (twenty-three years ago)

people think my mum looks like her twin sister, and she does. It's funny because often my auntie will be at the shops when she's visiting here and one of my mum's friends will come and say "hello joan how are you!" or whatever and she obviously throws a fit and says "for fuck sake, that's my sister, how can you mix me up, you're so fucking igorant".

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 14 April 2003 09:28 (twenty-three years ago)

(that's all true except the fit)

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 14 April 2003 09:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Apparently, my dad is

Stanley Tucci

http://www.htautographs.com/photos/celebrity/t/tucci.jpg

"Murdoch from the A-team"

http://bjwebb3749.tripod.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/murdoch.jpg

Is this my destiny?

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Monday, 14 April 2003 09:40 (twenty-three years ago)

mum: anna massey
dad: jack kerouac

actually i'd be quite chuffed if these two were my real parents....except jk would have disowned me as he did his real children, obviously. oops, whatever, so did my real dad!

― jeanne picot (jeanne picot), Monday, 14 April 2003 11:07 (twenty-three years ago)

One of my ex-boyfriends was certain that my mom looked like Courtney Love.

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 14 April 2003 12:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, and my dad looks a lot like Bill Pullman.

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 14 April 2003 12:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Kilian's dad looks like Steve Martin. Sorry if I stole your post Kilian.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 14 April 2003 12:36 (twenty-three years ago)

My brother's hobby is rally driving. He does pretty well at it. Unfortunately my dad is the spitting image of ex-Rally World Champion Juha Kankunnen (sp?). For a laugh once we dressed him in a Subaru world rally jacket at one of these events and watched loads of people ask him for autographs.

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Monday, 14 April 2003 12:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Apparently my mum looks like Dido in the video for 'Here With Me' in as much as Dido could be her daughter or something. (For the record I look a lot like my mother, but nothing like Dido)

― Anna (Anna), Monday, 14 April 2003 13:06 (twenty-three years ago)

My grandad used to look like Ian McKellen in LOTR (much shorter hair, but *exactly* the same eyes).

― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 14 April 2003 14:20 (twenty-three years ago)

My dad looks like Dave Thomas the Wendy's hamburger guy (R.I.P. Dave Thomas).

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Monday, 14 April 2003 14:38 (twenty-three years ago)

My dad sorta looks like Gabriel Byrne -- except not so exceedingly handsome. (Sorry, dad!) Maybe more like Gabriel Byrne's brother. Same Irish genes. Then again, when I was seven, I made a drawing of my dad that my mom said looked like Henry Kissinger.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 14 April 2003 14:42 (twenty-three years ago)

My friends think my dad looks like Dave Gedge

http://www.sospubs.co.uk/sos/feb01/images/cineramaheader.gif

― Mandee, Monday, 14 April 2003 14:52 (twenty-three years ago)

My dad gets Christopher Lloyd alla the time. I'm not sure if that's a good or bad thing.

― Charles McCain (Charles McCain), Monday, 14 April 2003 15:01 (twenty-three years ago)

My mum: Chloe Sevigny, but in 'young' photos only. If I wanted to be cruel in the '80s, I'd tell her she looked like Candy Darling as seen on the sleeve of Sheila Take A Bow.

My dad: A 'black Irish' version of Steve McFadden (Phil on EastEnders).

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 14 April 2003 15:23 (twenty-three years ago)

My dad looks almost exactly like either Chuck Norris or Ron Jaworski.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Monday, 14 April 2003 15:28 (twenty-three years ago)

My mom ==> Phylicia Rashad

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 14 April 2003 15:30 (twenty-three years ago)

(a.k.a. Claire Huxtable)

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 14 April 2003 15:31 (twenty-three years ago)

My parents:

http://www.westfieldnetwork.com/malcontentsimages/200207/billpullman.jpg http://heraldsun.news.com.au/common/imagedata/0,1658,217317,00.jpg

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 14 April 2003 15:34 (twenty-three years ago)

http://images.usatoday.com/travel/_photos/franz.jpg
my Dad's idol

― bnw (bnw), Monday, 14 April 2003 15:40 (twenty-three years ago)

my dad's idol is bruce willis, cos he kinda looks like him

― minna (minna), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 12:50 (twenty-three years ago)

(can't pull myself away)

My parents in their younger years looked very much like:

Mom.

http://image.pathfinder.com/Life/beach/beauties/beauty01a.jpg

Dad.

http://www.meredy.com/brando02.jpg

Of course, neither La Liz nor Brando were my parents for real. I don't think I could've coped, though my father was almost as brooding a figure as Brando for much of my childhood.

― Dee the Lurker (Dee the Lurker), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 13:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Your mum looked a lot like my mum, then. Only my dad was Robert Vaughn.

― SittingPretty (sittingpretty), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 14:41 (twenty-three years ago)

How the fuck I turned out looking like this I can only wonder. Arseholes.

― SittingPretty (sittingpretty), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 14:41 (twenty-three years ago)

One thing they've agreed on over the years is that my dad looks like Paul Newman. I had some "friends" in high school who used to come over because they had crushes on my dad.

― Kerry (dymaxia), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 15:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Do people idolize the people whom they look like? 'Cos my dad's a big Paul Newman fan as well.

― Kerry (dymaxia), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 15:05 (twenty-three years ago)

I definitely think there's something to that, Kerry. I don't have any examples (like, my dad has no particular affinity toward G. Byrne), but it makes sense to me...

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 15:21 (twenty-three years ago)

My father never eats fast food, only health food (so no Colonel Sanders love for him), and he's a rabid ultraconservative, so I don't think he's a Lenin fan either.

My mother used to be very Donna Reed-like, though, but I'm not sure how well she remembers the show.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 15:28 (twenty-three years ago)

my dad = matthew corbett

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 16:28 (twenty-three years ago)

eight years pass...

I just stumbled across a book in Google Books, a history of the college my dad attended and later taught at. I checked to see if he was mentioned in it and found a photo of my parents (!) in an undergrad production of Guys and Dolls:

http://oi43.tinypic.com/348q5xu.jpg

― Cuba Pudding, Jr. (jaymc), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 22:37 (fourteen years ago)

awwww!

― og (admrl), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 22:38 (fourteen years ago)

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