Find Your Double to Combat Domestic Spying
Since President Bush took office, the number of Americans being secretly wiretapped has increased dramatically. Honest citizens are having their financial records reviewed by the government, and the society Orwell wrote about in 1984 isn’t just around the corner anymore; it was here yesterday.
Luckily, the world population is quickly approaching 7 billion. Sure, that means food and resources are getting harder to come by, and the environment is shot to hell. But, it also means it should be getting easier to blend in. Why? Because there’s more people that look like you!
Finding Your Double
With 6.8 billion people in the mix, everybody has a twin somewhere.
The French refer to your look-alike as “sosie.” The Germans use the term “doppelganger” which really means sort of an evil twin that causes bad luck when encountered. Americans just shrug their shoulders and use the phrase “separated at birth.”
Joe Mulder
Lately, I’ve been watching a lot of X-Files episodes, and my 2-year-old daughter thinks Mulder is actually Daddy (for those who don’t realize yet that the two pictures here are actually two different people, that’s Mulder (David Duchovny) on the left, and me on the right ;-)) Anyway, I can’t think of any of the spies in Homeland Security that even approach the intelligence of my 2-year-old daughter, so I’m sure they think they’re collecting information and spying on an FBI employee, not moi.
Joe Gilligan
I’ve also been told I look like Bob Denver. Personally, I think being compared to David Duchovny is a lot cooler than being compared to Gilligan, but then I haven’t seen David Duchovny in a white bucket hat, either.
By the way, was Gilligan his first name, or his surname? The world may never know. As for the rest of the castaways, their names were:
- Jonas Grumby (the Skipper)
- Roy Hinkley (the Professor)
- Thurston Howell III (Mr. Howell)
- “Lovey” Howell (Mrs. Howell)
- Ginger Grant (Ginger)
- Mary Ann Summers (Mary Ann)
Joe Cruise
More than once, somebody has commented that I sort of look like Tom Cruise in an out-of-the-corner-of-their-eye sort of way, but I’m pretty suspicious it’s just their way of trying to politely tell me I’m short?
(Yeah, the photo is Photoshopped…me and Cruise aren’t really that tight, especially since Suri arrived…)
Joe Elvis
One good thing to keep in mind: if society really goes Orwellian, and the secret police roll into your neighborhood, just remember that anybody can hide in Las Vegas, baby!
So, who’s your double?
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