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robotnik2004Q: What do these ten people have in common? (Hover the mouse over their pictures if you don't know who they are.)
If you solve that one, try this: What do these six people have in common? (Again, make with the mouse if you don't recognize 'em.)
A shiny red Huffy Desperado (with banana seat) to the first correct answer.
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xorphus, who I don't even really know, really, got it in about three seconds, and the rest of you who had seen the meme weren't far behind. I underestimated my F-list, or at least the speed of meme-travel.
A: Yes, those ten big-shiny-chinned guys are all "Celebrities Who Kinda Sorta Look Like Me," according to MyHeritage.com, which is not the white supremacist hate group its name implies, but rather a clever photo meme. You plug in a photograph of yourself, it does a goofy little scanning animation that looks like something the Bat Computer might have done in a hypothetical Batman flick from 1983, and presto! Ten celebrities that kinda sorta look like you. (My ten guys appear above in order, so I'm like 80% Carson Daly and only 49% whatsisface on the end there.) As I just said in a comment toxorphus, it's like the archetypal LJ meme: fun, pointless, narcissistic (because most, though not all celebrities, are easier on the eyes than us schlubs), and both self- and celebrity-obsessed.
And, as you've probably guessed by now, the six smiling faces in the bottom row are "Celebrities Who Kinda Sorta Look Likepapersource." Hers seems a bit more random than mine (ie, Chiang Kai-Shek?!?) (and doesn't Chiang sorta look like Jean-Luc Picard in that picture?). I don't know if MyHeritage needs more semi-Asian cuties in its database, or if I just confoozled it by giving a sort of three-quarters photo rather than a dead on view. But hey, Natalie + Willow, that sounds about right to me.
The final riddle is, of course: How did this dude...
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...end up with this girl?
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It must be my mastery of the Pan flute.
(Also, why do I now find myself weirdly attracted to Chiang Kai-Shek?)
If you solve that one, try this: What do these six people have in common? (Again, make with the mouse if you don't recognize 'em.)
A shiny red Huffy Desperado (with banana seat) to the first correct answer.
Wow, that was quick!
xorphus, who I don't even really know, really, got it in about three seconds, and the rest of you who had seen the meme weren't far behind. I underestimated my F-list, or at least the speed of meme-travel.A: Yes, those ten big-shiny-chinned guys are all "Celebrities Who Kinda Sorta Look Like Me," according to MyHeritage.com, which is not the white supremacist hate group its name implies, but rather a clever photo meme. You plug in a photograph of yourself, it does a goofy little scanning animation that looks like something the Bat Computer might have done in a hypothetical Batman flick from 1983, and presto! Ten celebrities that kinda sorta look like you. (My ten guys appear above in order, so I'm like 80% Carson Daly and only 49% whatsisface on the end there.) As I just said in a comment to
xorphus, it's like the archetypal LJ meme: fun, pointless, narcissistic (because most, though not all celebrities, are easier on the eyes than us schlubs), and both self- and celebrity-obsessed.And, as you've probably guessed by now, the six smiling faces in the bottom row are "Celebrities Who Kinda Sorta Look Like
papersource." Hers seems a bit more random than mine (ie, Chiang Kai-Shek?!?) (and doesn't Chiang sorta look like Jean-Luc Picard in that picture?). I don't know if MyHeritage needs more semi-Asian cuties in its database, or if I just confoozled it by giving a sort of three-quarters photo rather than a dead on view. But hey, Natalie + Willow, that sounds about right to me.The final riddle is, of course: How did this dude...
+ + ...end up with this girl?
+ + It must be my mastery of the Pan flute.
(Also, why do I now find myself weirdly attracted to Chiang Kai-Shek?)
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Date: 2006-08-17 07:57 pm (UTC)lying naked on the floor?