From: robgood@bestweb.net   
      
   On Tuesday, October 27, 2020 at 1:44:54 PM UTC-4, Howard wrote:   
   > Boron Elgar  wrote   
   >   
   > >>What am I missing? Why are impressions so popular?   
   > >   
   > > They are ubiquitous and seem to exist all over the place. I just   
   > > assume people enjoy them, from drag to politics to literary and   
   > > cultural archetypes.   
   >   
   > TV Tropes has a reference to the dancing bear effect, related to the old   
   > saying that the appeal isn't about the quality of the dancing but that   
   > the bear can dance at all.   
      
   That's true.  What's funny is that there can be facets of a personality that   
   are so easily recognizable that someone else can put them on and have them   
   recognized.   
      
   > Which I get, but it doesn't seem very sustainable.   
      
   It's not, when it's the same personality that gets imitated, which the easiest   
   ones are, like Cary Grant.   
      
   Bob in Andover   
      
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