Friday, February 6, 2009

Claim to Fame

Request from a current student directed to me: “Hey, when you create the seating chart with our class photos, can you put a picture of Justin Timberlake in my seat instead of me?”

My verbal response: “Don’t you think someone would notice?”

My non-verbal response: “Why would someone WANT to admit to resembling Justin Timberlake? It’s only flattering to be compared to a celebrity if that celebrity is good-looking. Timberlake was a cutie in his curly haired younger years. Now-a-days, not so much.”

While I am helping a potential student, current student sits at my desk to search for a photo online of Timberlake. His hopes remain high that I will actually use the photo and someone will be duped into thinking that he indeed resembles Timberlake. Satisfied, wanna-be Timberlake then copies the photo to my desktop. But the Timberlake-contender is the only victim of being duped. I end up using his class photo rather than the Timberlake photo.

In my younger years people were always telling me that I looked like Brooke Shields. Recently, I have been compared to Jennifer Nettles from Sugarland. I like country music, so that is A-OK with me!
Katrina is often asked “Your name is Katrina, like the hurricane?” Yes, I know that’s not a human celebrity. But I don’t really know which celebrity people get her confused with. Or maybe she is just a celebrity in her own right.

Which celebrity have you been compared to?

2 comments:

Kaylynn said...

I'm always someones cousin, no celebrities. If I wear the right hat and makeup, some people thought I looked like Monica Lewinsky. Not that flattering.

Pam said...

When I was in drivers ed my teacher used to call me Jane because he said I looked like Jane Fonda - no comment.