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**Boog** · 03-27-2020, 06:43 AM

They say we all have a doppelganger. I believe we may have several. I can remember a half dozen or more times in my life I have been asked if I was someone else or if I ever lived somewhere. It has been somewhat embarrassing at times. Like one time at a restaurant two guys were sitting at a table near my wife and I. I kept feeling like they were looking our way but thought they were looking past us at someone or something else. Finally as we got up to leave one of them said "hey you ever been to some little town"? I said well yes I have a time or two. He said "fella, there are 4 kids there that would call you daddy". There I was with my wife and him saying such a thing. I laughed it off and said I was never there longer than to just drop off some freight and grab some fried chicken. We all laughed but I could see he wasn't buying that answer. My concern was, did my wife? But it is the truth.
Not much was said of it as similar things have happened over the years.
My mother called my wife one time to ask my wife where she was at that moment. Confused, my wife said at home with my husband, why? Mom said she was sitting behind my wife at some event. No way! Another woman told my wife she was the spitting image of some actress.
And who ever came up with the name doppelganger anyway?

Killer Bee · 03-27-2020, 07:22 AM

funny I hear that a lot too, but Lord help us, one of me is plenty

so often I've looked that word up often enough to remember its origin..

dop·pel·gäng·er
mid 19th century: from German, literally ‘double-goer’.

**special-K** · 03-27-2020, 07:51 AM

I get that all the time. I mean ALL the time I have people telling me I look like an axxhole

One factor in this that people can look at the same thing and see different things due to influenced perception. You know, like when you show a picture of a car with a well endowed woman in front of it and the guys say "What car?". It's been many years but at a point in my life I had quite a few, always black women, tell me I looked like Robin Williams. I sure couldn't see it, and I'd tell others and they couldn't see it. But I do a good Popeye impression

Keith Seymore · 03-27-2020, 08:29 AM

Germans condense everything into one gigantic word.

We need the German word for "....awkwardly standing there waiting for someone to find something on their phone, trying to decide if you should stay, look at your own phone, or walk away...".

K

**special-K** · 03-27-2020, 08:31 AM

Farfromluken?

Keith Seymore · 03-27-2020, 08:32 AM

Me and my doppelganger (without my reading glasses).

K

**truckster** · 03-27-2020, 08:57 AM

Keith, if I had just seen that picture with no identification I would have said Pierce Brosnan.

I get, "Has anyone ever told you that you look like Liam Neeson?" all the time. It's gotten so that most times I don't even let them finish the sentence before I say, "Yeah."

But my real doppelgangers are my sons - four of them. I've had complete strangers come up to me and say, "Hey, you're Michael's dad!" or "I know your son Adam." My wife has even mistaken them for me and vice versa from a distance. Even Facebook's facial recognition gets us mixed up.

**Stocker** · 03-27-2020, 09:07 AM

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Originally Posted by truckster

Keith, if I had just seen that picture with no identification I would have said Pierce Brosnan.

X2!

As far as I know, I don't have one -- but ~48 years ago my then-future MIL said I looked like Charles Bronson. I don't see it though....

**Boog** · 03-27-2020, 09:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Keith Seymore

Me and my doppelganger (without my reading glasses).

K

Yes. I do see the resemblance.

**Boog** · 03-27-2020, 09:35 AM

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Originally Posted by Stocker

X2!

As far as I know, I don't have one -- but ~48 years ago my then-future MIL said I looked like Charles Bronson. I don't see it though....

Mr Majestic?

**Ol Blue K20** · 03-27-2020, 09:50 AM

I hope I don't have one. I wouldn't wish all this ugly on anyone.....

**Boog** · 03-27-2020, 10:51 AM

Oh come on. You be like.

**mongocanfly** · 03-27-2020, 11:52 AM

Keith.i immediately thought you posted a pic of Bronson...then I see everybody else thought the same thing
Sure looks like him and the colonel

weq92f · 03-27-2020, 12:12 PM

.
Used to happen to me a lot...I would have people go out of their way to come over to me and let me know who it was that I looked like and it was always the same...got to the point where I was finishing their sentences for them. Eventually I grew and still have today a beard/Go-T to prevent it!

I believe there are only so many facial structures for us humans and so there are identical or nearly so copies running around all over the place!

-klb

**FleetsidePaul** · 03-27-2020, 12:21 PM

Keith you do look like Pierce Brosnan

Hey at least you don't look like Woody Allen.

1976gmc20 · 03-27-2020, 01:45 PM

When I worked at the Chevy dealer everybody said I looked just like another guy there. I didn't see it, but when going out to lunch in my blue shirt I had people on the street call me "Lonnie"

(not my name)

Decades later I was doing a bunch of research on Scotland people and history, and a few times I saw a picture of some old fellow with a beard and it was almost like looking into the mirror!

More trouble is my first/last name is pretty common. Seems like everywhere there is another "me" to be confused with by name. I did some geneology research and on my father's side and got stuck in South Carolina in the late 1700s. My great-great-great-grandfather has the same first/last name as me, and there seems to be dozens of them in that area at about that time

But none of them the one I'm looking for. There is even a town near Spartanburg with my last name.

Dukk · 03-27-2020, 01:51 PM

I always get people asking me if we have met. They tell me I look familiar - I tell them I do a lot of porn..

Back when I had my long goatee I was asked on two separate occasions if I was Tank Abbot. I tried to not be offended

Personally, I have always thought I share a resemblance to Bubba Dudley. Not sure how good that is either..

kingsolver72 · 03-27-2020, 03:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Dukk

I always get people asking me if we have met. They tell me I look familiar - I tell them I do a lot of porn..

Back when I had my long goatee I was asked on two separate occasions if I was Tank Abbot. I tried to not be offended

Personally, I have always thought I share a resemblance to Bubba Dudley. Not sure how good that is either..

Tank was a rough brawlin cat but when fighters learn more than one discipline he got left behind.

**mongocanfly** · 03-27-2020, 04:17 PM

I think Keith is bored and just messing with us..

**fine69** · 03-28-2020, 12:38 PM

Has happened to me on a few occasions. Actually happened with my mother-in-law last year. She thought she was talking to me at a grocery store. Was pissed off at me when i didn’t respond to her talking to me.
When i actually talked to her i had to convince her i was at work at that time. ��*♂️

**71CHEVYSHORTBED402** · 03-28-2020, 05:11 PM

Once we were at a restaurant with our daughter, who was about 10 at the time. A booth over was a girl who was 7-8, and we were all stricken. If they were the same age they'd pass as identical twins, every feature the same. Speaking for myself, we can only hope I don't have an doppelganger, just too dang ugly

**FleetsidePaul** · 03-28-2020, 07:28 PM

I stumbled across this picture and showed it to my wife.

She asked. "Who is that girl with you?

That's not me. Poor guy just looks like me.

**Boog** · 03-28-2020, 07:52 PM

Yeah but who is the girl?

**Stocker** · 03-28-2020, 07:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Boog

Yeah but who is the girl?

**Ol Blue K20** · 03-28-2020, 08:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by FleetsidePaul

I stumbled across this picture and showed it to my wife.

She asked. "Who is that girl with you?

That's not me. Poor guy just looks like me.

It's ok, we won't tell. We know it's you, so who is the girl?

03-27-2020, 06:43 AM	#1
Boog laying low Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Searcy, Ark. USA Posts: 12,959	Your doppelganger They say we all have a doppelganger. I believe we may have several. I can remember a half dozen or more times in my life I have been asked if I was someone else or if I ever lived somewhere. It has been somewhat embarrassing at times. Like one time at a restaurant two guys were sitting at a table near my wife and I. I kept feeling like they were looking our way but thought they were looking past us at someone or something else. Finally as we got up to leave one of them said "hey you ever been to some little town"? I said well yes I have a time or two. He said "fella, there are 4 kids there that would call you daddy". There I was with my wife and him saying such a thing. I laughed it off and said I was never there longer than to just drop off some freight and grab some fried chicken. We all laughed but I could see he wasn't buying that answer. My concern was, did my wife? But it is the truth. Not much was said of it as similar things have happened over the years. My mother called my wife one time to ask my wife where she was at that moment. Confused, my wife said at home with my husband, why? Mom said she was sitting behind my wife at some event. No way! Another woman told my wife she was the spitting image of some actress. And who ever came up with the name doppelganger anyway? __________________ Boog 69 Chevy stepside, 358/T350, 4.11 posi, 4.5/4 drop, rallys, poboy driver primer is finer 91 Chevy sportside, Tahoe, Yukon & GMC Crewcab All GM..'nuff said. I stand for the flag and kneel at the cross

03-27-2020, 07:22 AM	#2
Killer Bee Registered User Join Date: Jan 2016 Location: Barber City, CA Posts: 4,729	Re: Your doppelganger funny I hear that a lot too, but Lord help us, one of me is plenty so often I've looked that word up often enough to remember its origin.. dop·pel·gäng·er mid 19th century: from German, literally ‘double-goer’. __________________ *I started out with nothing - and I still have most of it*

03-27-2020, 07:51 AM	#3
special-K Special Order Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Mt Airy, MD Posts: 85,863	Re: Your doppelganger I get that all the time. I mean ALL the time I have people telling me I look like an axxhole One factor in this that people can look at the same thing and see different things due to influenced perception. You know, like when you show a picture of a car with a well endowed woman in front of it and the guys say "What car?". It's been many years but at a point in my life I had quite a few, always black women, tell me I looked like Robin Williams. I sure couldn't see it, and I'd tell others and they couldn't see it. But I do a good Popeye impression __________________ "BUILDING A BETTER WAY TO SERVE THE USA"......67/72......"The New Breed" GMC '67 C1500 Wideside Super Custom SWB: 327/M22/3.42 posi.........."The '67" (project) GMC '72 K2500 Wideside Sierra Custom Camper: 350/TH350/4.10 Power-Lok..."The '72" (rolling) Tim "Don't call me a redneck. I'm a rough cut country gentleman" R.I.P. ~ East Side Low Life ~ El Jay ~ 72BLUZ ~ Fasteddie69 ~ Ron586 ~ 67ChevyRedneck ~ Grumpy Old Man ~

03-27-2020, 08:29 AM	#4
Keith Seymore Registered User Join Date: May 2009 Location: Motor City Posts: 9,149	Re: Your doppelganger Germans condense everything into one gigantic word. We need the German word for "....awkwardly standing there waiting for someone to find something on their phone, trying to decide if you should stay, look at your own phone, or walk away...". K __________________ Chevrolet Flint Assembly 1979-1986 GM Full Size Truck Engineering 1986 - 2019 Intro from an Old Assembly Guy: http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=342926 My Pontiac story: http://forums.maxperformanceinc.com/...d.php?t=560524 Chevelle intro: http://www.superchevy.com/features/s...hevy-chevelle/

03-27-2020, 08:31 AM	#5
special-K Special Order Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Mt Airy, MD Posts: 85,863	Re: Your doppelganger Farfromluken? __________________ "BUILDING A BETTER WAY TO SERVE THE USA"......67/72......"The New Breed" GMC '67 C1500 Wideside Super Custom SWB: 327/M22/3.42 posi.........."The '67" (project) GMC '72 K2500 Wideside Sierra Custom Camper: 350/TH350/4.10 Power-Lok..."The '72" (rolling) Tim "Don't call me a redneck. I'm a rough cut country gentleman" R.I.P. ~ East Side Low Life ~ El Jay ~ 72BLUZ ~ Fasteddie69 ~ Ron586 ~ 67ChevyRedneck ~ Grumpy Old Man ~

03-27-2020, 08:32 AM	#6
Keith Seymore Registered User Join Date: May 2009 Location: Motor City Posts: 9,149	Re: Your doppelganger Me and my doppelganger (without my reading glasses). K Attached Images __________________ Chevrolet Flint Assembly 1979-1986 GM Full Size Truck Engineering 1986 - 2019 Intro from an Old Assembly Guy: http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=342926 My Pontiac story: http://forums.maxperformanceinc.com/...d.php?t=560524 Chevelle intro: http://www.superchevy.com/features/s...hevy-chevelle/

03-27-2020, 08:57 AM	#7
truckster Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Orem, Utah Posts: 7,800	Re: Your doppelganger Keith, if I had just seen that picture with no identification I would have said Pierce Brosnan. I get, "Has anyone ever told you that you look like Liam Neeson?" all the time. It's gotten so that most times I don't even let them finish the sentence before I say, "Yeah." But my real doppelgangers are my sons - four of them. I've had complete strangers come up to me and say, "Hey, you're Michael's dad!" or "I know your son Adam." My wife has even mistaken them for me and vice versa from a distance. Even Facebook's facial recognition gets us mixed up. __________________ I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. - Thomas Jefferson

03-27-2020, 09:50 AM	#11
Ol Blue K20 Proprietor of Dale's Corner Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: Vacaville , CA Posts: 15,834	Re: Your doppelganger I hope I don't have one. I wouldn't wish all this ugly on anyone..... __________________ "Some Days Chickens And Some Days Feathers" Dale XNGH ECV Sam Brannan 1004 R.I.P. 67ChevyRedneck R.I.P. Grumpy Old Man

03-27-2020, 10:51 AM	#12
Boog laying low Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Searcy, Ark. USA Posts: 12,959	Re: Your doppelganger Oh come on. You be like. Attached Images __________________ Boog 69 Chevy stepside, 358/T350, 4.11 posi, 4.5/4 drop, rallys, poboy driver primer is finer 91 Chevy sportside, Tahoe, Yukon & GMC Crewcab All GM..'nuff said. I stand for the flag and kneel at the cross

03-27-2020, 11:52 AM	#13
mongocanfly Post Whore Join Date: May 2015 Location: Alabama Posts: 14,587	Re: Your doppelganger Keith.i immediately thought you posted a pic of Bronson...then I see everybody else thought the same thing Sure looks like him and the colonel __________________ Mongo...aka Greg RIP Dad RIP Jesse 1981 C30 LQ9 NV4500..http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=753598 Mongos AD- LS3 TR6060...http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...34#post8522334 Columbus..the 1957 IH 4x4...http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...63#post8082563 2023 Chevy Z71..daily driver

03-27-2020, 12:12 PM	#14
weq92f Registered User Join Date: Oct 2016 Location: Dallas Texas Posts: 2,881	Re: Your doppelganger . Used to happen to me a lot...I would have people go out of their way to come over to me and let me know who it was that I looked like and it was always the same...got to the point where I was finishing their sentences for them. Eventually I grew and still have today a beard/Go-T to prevent it! I believe there are only so many facial structures for us humans and so there are identical or nearly so copies running around all over the place! -klb __________________ 67 C10 fleet fuel injected '70 402, 700r4, 3.73 posi 07 335 sport turbo 6sp 94 Trans Am GT LT1 6sp posi -- sold after 22yrs 99 540 sport V8 6sp -- sold 73 240z L24 4sp -- given to friend 68 C10 step 350/350 3.73 open -- sold

03-27-2020, 12:21 PM	#15
FleetsidePaul R.I.P. E.S.L.L. Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Kernville CA./ Lake Isabella CA. Posts: 11,416	Re: Your doppelganger Keith you do look like Pierce Brosnan Hey at least you don't look like Woody Allen. __________________ 1971 Custom C/20 1970 CST 20 1970 C/30 Flatbed 1983 C/30 Dually 2015 Corvette Z51 2021 Corvette Z51 1991 Cadillac Hearse 1982 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz 2000 Porsche Boxster S 2020 Jeep Gladiator 1973 VW Thing 1973 Plymouth Satellite wagon 1963 Baja Bug 1959 Bug Dune Buggy 1970 Baja Bug 1987 Jaguar XJ 350. R.I.P. El Jay R.I.P Jessie. R.I.P Grumpy. Every day is a gift from God.

03-27-2020, 01:45 PM	#16
1976gmc20 Registered User Join Date: May 2015 Location: Montana Posts: 3,696	Re: Your doppelganger When I worked at the Chevy dealer everybody said I looked just like another guy there. I didn't see it, but when going out to lunch in my blue shirt I had people on the street call me "Lonnie" (not my name) Decades later I was doing a bunch of research on Scotland people and history, and a few times I saw a picture of some old fellow with a beard and it was almost like looking into the mirror! More trouble is my first/last name is pretty common. Seems like everywhere there is another "me" to be confused with by name. I did some geneology research and on my father's side and got stuck in South Carolina in the late 1700s. My great-great-great-grandfather has the same first/last name as me, and there seems to be dozens of them in that area at about that time But none of them the one I'm looking for. There is even a town near Spartanburg with my last name. __________________ Current/past Chevy/GMC trucks: 1958 Chevy C-60; 1965 GMC C-50; 1965 Chevy C-10; 1971 Chevy K-10; 1973 Chevy K-20; 1976 GMC C-20; 1977 Chevy C-10 Suburban; 1980 Chevy K-10; 1989 Chevy K1500; 1991 GMC V1500 Suburban; 2016 Chevy K2500 HD Other vehicles: 1988 Jeep XJ; 2011 Toyota 4Runner

03-27-2020, 01:51 PM	#17
Dukk Registered User Join Date: Oct 2019 Location: Abbotsford, BC Posts: 63	Re: Your doppelganger I always get people asking me if we have met. They tell me I look familiar - I tell them I do a lot of porn.. Back when I had my long goatee I was asked on two separate occasions if I was Tank Abbot. I tried to not be offended Personally, I have always thought I share a resemblance to Bubba Dudley. Not sure how good that is either..

03-27-2020, 04:17 PM	#19
mongocanfly Post Whore Join Date: May 2015 Location: Alabama Posts: 14,587	Re: Your doppelganger I think Keith is bored and just messing with us.. __________________ Mongo...aka Greg RIP Dad RIP Jesse 1981 C30 LQ9 NV4500..http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=753598 Mongos AD- LS3 TR6060...http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...34#post8522334 Columbus..the 1957 IH 4x4...http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...63#post8082563 2023 Chevy Z71..daily driver



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03-28-2020, 12:38 PM	#20
fine69 Senior Member Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Urbana,Ohio,USA Posts: 4,618	Re: Your doppelganger Has happened to me on a few occasions. Actually happened with my mother-in-law last year. She thought she was talking to me at a grocery store. Was pissed off at me when i didn’t respond to her talking to me. When i actually talked to her i had to convince her i was at work at that time. ��*♂️ __________________ 2008 Chevy HHR 1/2 panel. 1949 Chevy Panel truck(just sittin, waiting) Board member #6

03-28-2020, 05:11 PM	#21
71CHEVYSHORTBED402 Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Northern Nevada Posts: 7,124	Re: Your doppelganger Once we were at a restaurant with our daughter, who was about 10 at the time. A booth over was a girl who was 7-8, and we were all stricken. If they were the same age they'd pass as identical twins, every feature the same. Speaking for myself, we can only hope I don't have an doppelganger, just too dang ugly __________________ Tony 71 Custom Deluxe, SWB, 2WD, 402, A/C. I developed an assm. guide "kit" for restoring it from ground up. With assys, the guide accts for 1000s of OEM identifications and part numbers, all written in short order. 700+ images include assm, illust., charts, and points of interest. Much of the info. applies to all 67-72 GM trucks, and to a lessor degree all 67-72 GM vehicles. My build thread, and more on the guide https://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/...d.php?t=730025

03-28-2020, 07:28 PM	#22
FleetsidePaul R.I.P. E.S.L.L. Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Kernville CA./ Lake Isabella CA. Posts: 11,416	Re: Your doppelganger I stumbled across this picture and showed it to my wife. She asked. "Who is that girl with you? That's not me. Poor guy just looks like me. __________________ 1971 Custom C/20 1970 CST 20 1970 C/30 Flatbed 1983 C/30 Dually 2015 Corvette Z51 2021 Corvette Z51 1991 Cadillac Hearse 1982 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz 2000 Porsche Boxster S 2020 Jeep Gladiator 1973 VW Thing 1973 Plymouth Satellite wagon 1963 Baja Bug 1959 Bug Dune Buggy 1970 Baja Bug 1987 Jaguar XJ 350. R.I.P. El Jay R.I.P Jessie. R.I.P Grumpy. Every day is a gift from God.

03-28-2020, 07:52 PM	#23
Boog laying low Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Searcy, Ark. USA Posts: 12,959	Re: Your doppelganger Yeah but who is the girl? __________________ Boog 69 Chevy stepside, 358/T350, 4.11 posi, 4.5/4 drop, rallys, poboy driver primer is finer 91 Chevy sportside, Tahoe, Yukon & GMC Crewcab All GM..'nuff said. I stand for the flag and kneel at the cross

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