From the "All White Guys Look Alike Department"

[grantcart]

Living with my wife (from Thailand) over the last 30 years has been a nonstop experience of "I Love Lucy" with daily comedic eruptions.

One of the ongoing mix ups is the nonstop misidentifying various people on the TV with others. A decade ago I stopped trying to straighten out the mix ups and learned to embrace it.

When she saw Michael Isikoff on MSNBC yesterday her comment was



"So Jack McCoy finally got a new job"

My response was

"Yeah but he is older now and has to wear glasses".


I live in this alternative reality seeing the world through the strangely reassuring eyes of ancient Siam and felt a little bit better that Jack McCoy did find a regular gig after he apparently was voted out as District Attorney in New York. Those New Yorkers can be so damn fickle.

[In_The_Wind]

1. No kiddin'

[olddots]

2. is it because there are 7 billion people that we're loosing our bearings ?

remember the joke " I'll meet you at the Bruce Springsteen concert I'm the guy wearing a tee shirt and blue jeans " ?

[tblue]

3. Sometimes I confuse movie characters

I mix up the white men sometimes if their general description is the same.

"Guy with short dark hair, medium height, kinda good-looking, no accent."

Not that they all look alike but, in most movies, 1/2 the characters do fit that description. And my confusion? I'm not doing it on purpose. Honest.

[elleng]

4. HA!

BEST to you and yours!

[TrogL]

5. I have mild face blindness

I confuse my own kids.

My wife hates watching TV with me because I'm constantly interrogating her as to who is onscreen.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

6. Well you do have actors Javier Bardem and Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Which one is which? Who knows?

[Bucky]

7. loveable scamps

[caraher]

8. I have such a problem with that, as a white guy myself

I teach college and the very last students I get sorted out identity-wise are always white guys. I think this is one of those weird "white male privilege" side effects; if the "default" person is a white guy one tends to key in on differences from that "norm," which actually makes identification easier.

[Orrex]

9. I thought that was Soupy Sales

[marzipanni]

10. He was so much older then, he's younger than that now

Jack McCoy aka Sam Waterston was born in 1940, Michael Isikoff was born in 1952.