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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
(72,300 posts)olddots
(10,237 posts)remember the joke " I'll meet you at the Bruce Springsteen concert I'm the guy wearing a tee shirt and blue jeans " ?
tblue
(16,350 posts)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
(130,975 posts)BEST to you and yours!
TrogL
(32,822 posts)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
(43,184 posts)Which one is which? Who knows?
Bucky
(54,027 posts)caraher
(6,278 posts)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
(63,216 posts)marzipanni
(6,011 posts)Jack McCoy aka Sam Waterston was born in 1940, Michael Isikoff was born in 1952.