From: cpd@cat.pan.net   
      
   "Ian B"  wrote in message   
   news:4b16a708$0$2533$da0feed9@news.zen.co.uk...   
   > catpandaddy wrote:   
   >> "Ian B"  wrote in message   
   >> news:4b1660a1$0$2483$db0fefd9@news.zen.co.uk...   
   >>> DaffyDuck wrote:   
   >>>> On 2009-12-01 04:20:52 -0800, "Ian B"  said:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> You don't seem to be getting the point. If somebody appeared on TV   
   >>>>> who looked exactly like your spouse, a close friend, etc, you'd   
   >>>>> immediately notice them, and remember them. They become significant   
   >>>>> to you because of the astonishing similarity, not because of what   
   >>>>> their job title or other status is.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Wow, so you're saying I actually *did* bang Lucy Liu, and Grace   
   >>>> Park?   
   >>>   
   >>> What country do you live in, and what ethnicity are you?   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> Ian, it makes no difference.  Two people of your own race can look so   
   >> alike that the difference in photographs is not distinguishable, even   
   >> though it is an extremely rare thing.  I guess you have to witness it   
   >> for yourself before you can realize it.  Mistaken identity takes   
   >> place even for us good old WASP types.   
   >   
   > Well, I noticed that both Daffy's like-a-looks are oriental (what's PC   
   > these days? "Asian"? Eastern first nations? :) There's a couple of factors   
   > that would have some significance there.   
      
   All fine and good, but nothing to do with me.   
      
   >   
   > Also, you've got the thing that there is much more genetic variation in   
   > "blacks" and "whites" and indians etc than oriental asians, due to the   
   > latter practicing more rigorous reproductive isolation, due to various   
   > cultural and historical reasons.   
      
   Well, I was talking about White Anglo Saxon Protestant types.  Moreover, I'm   
   talking about mistaking someone for a close friend or someone in the family.   
   Within the specific parameters that both the observer and the observee are   
   White Anglo Saxon Protestant types.   
      
   Just as a humorous aside, if you don't get off the Japanese Lookalikes   
   Script soon, I'm gonna have to award you an "Earth First" award.  The trophy   
   is a statuette of Brad.  ;-)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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