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« Peyton Manning: No Alan Alda | Main | Rape, pregnancy, and prison » Wednesday, February 7, 2007Who's your celebrity look-alike?New uses of the Internet--do they still make those? Here to tell you they do. Check this out. It's a site where you can upload a clear face picture of yourself (or a friend) and get a whole bunch of celebrity matches to your facial structure, including an accuracy rating. I did it, naturally; who can resist? (It requires free registration. I suspect spam is a possibility so give them that out-of-work Yahoo account.) The surprise for me is that women are included in my results, which is fun. In fact, my number one was Greta Garbo (dead and alive!) and my number three or so was Mary Louise Parker. This last one is actually not a bad call. If my sister had taken a slightly different physical tack from childhood, bam, you'd have MLP. I wouldn't have said it, but Great Garbo actually does look like Mary Louise Parker. Behold below. I'm the first guy. The rest you can guess:
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