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resemblance
Sep. 2nd, 2003 06:48 pmA cashier at the Panera at Woburn Mall told me today that I "look like the guy from There's Something About Mary". I haven't seen this movie, but an IMDB check confirmed what I guessed immediately: Chris Elliott is in it.
The consensus seems to be pretty universal that I look like Chris Elliott, especially when I haven't trimmed my beard in several days. Now, I regard Chris Elliott as a genius, albeit a genius of stupidity, so I don't find this terribly insulting. However, I do not think he is generally regarded as an attractive man.
There's been a downhill slide. The general consensus in my early adolescence was that I resembled Ricky Schroeder. This was intended as a mild swipe at my baby-faced appearance, since he was a couple of years younger than me (and was known largely for work done when he was younger still); but he was a cute kid, and if the resemblance had held over time, I would now be, by all accounts, fabulously sexy. Unfortunately it was not to be. Later, when I still had all my hair, there was a brief period in which I was compared to both Larry Bird and Gary Busey; I can only assume that great deterioration in my appearance had already set in. But for the past several years it's been Chris Elliott all the way.
The consensus seems to be pretty universal that I look like Chris Elliott, especially when I haven't trimmed my beard in several days. Now, I regard Chris Elliott as a genius, albeit a genius of stupidity, so I don't find this terribly insulting. However, I do not think he is generally regarded as an attractive man.
There's been a downhill slide. The general consensus in my early adolescence was that I resembled Ricky Schroeder. This was intended as a mild swipe at my baby-faced appearance, since he was a couple of years younger than me (and was known largely for work done when he was younger still); but he was a cute kid, and if the resemblance had held over time, I would now be, by all accounts, fabulously sexy. Unfortunately it was not to be. Later, when I still had all my hair, there was a brief period in which I was compared to both Larry Bird and Gary Busey; I can only assume that great deterioration in my appearance had already set in. But for the past several years it's been Chris Elliott all the way.