Has anyone ever told you...

So remember how a while back I wrote about awkward things people say? And how I never know how to respond to these kind of statements? Well, I have another one to add to the list. I never know what to say when people tell me that I look so much like so-and-so (so-and-so being a celebrity, a mutual friend, or someone that I have never even heard of).

I’m sure all of you have experienced the same thing, and I really cannot come up with an appropriate response to it. “Thank you” doesn’t seem quite right, cause it’s not like they are really paying you a compliment (unless they explicitly state that they think so-and-so is good looking), and half the time people tell me that I look like their great-niece or something random so I don’t even get what the devil they are talking about.

Here are a few of the random comparisons I seem to get over and over again:

Christina Ricci:
Ew. To me she looks like an emaciated crack whore. But luckily most of the time when people compare us they refer to her as “that girl from Casper.” So apparently I look like Christina Ricci circa 1995, which I am slightly more OK with:

Betty Boop:

Seriously people? A cartoon character? And a deformed, slutty one at that?

Amanda Seyfried:

I’ve heard this one a few times since Mama Mia came out and I don’t see it at all but whatever. At least she’s pretty.

Cabbage Patch Doll:

I’m not even going to dignify this one with a response. Mostly because if I think about it too long it makes me want to cry.

The one time that I’ve been glad of people’s tendency to play the look-alike game was on my wedding day. Mike and I were standing in the receiving line at our reception and my mom’s friend took one glance at my new husband before telling him that he looked exactly like this man:

And suddenly the reason that my dad took such an instant liking to Mike became abundantly clear. I think I will start calling him "Crocodile Butch" from now on.