"You look like that actress, you know, the one on TV."

Book Guy, I totally agree that Jessica Simpson looks like a stripper. Maybe that's why I think she's so hot.

I've neer been told that I look like anybody famous. I must be very ordinary looking. People come up to me all the time and say, "Don't I know you from somewhere?"

It's not the strippers who look like Jessica Simpson (or Pam Anderson). It's Jessica and Pam who look like strippers. :)

Shadowcat: In his post-Mash years, Alan Alda, good looks and all, became known as such a cliche that, justly or not, his name stood for a type of insincere, PC-friendly man. (Sorry about the long words.) Rather than explain it any further, I Googled "alan alda-ish" and got these results on the first page:

#1 -->comes across in a sensitive, sincere manner, without crossing the line into an Alan Alda-ish "Gee I'm sorry I'm a man" tone. ...

#2 -->sensitive, Alan Alda-ish balladeers of the seventies. James Taylor and his ilk may have started with folk music, but in an ongoing effort to mellow ...

#4 -->Abandon the argument of authenticity, drop the Alan Alda-ish nice guy first person impression, dump the obliging 90's thought-exercises of presenting ...

#6 -->Hate to get all "Alan Alda-ish" but I'm not a big fan of blowing away defenseless animals with rifles from 50 yards away. ...

#7 -->Men that support women can be cast as Alan Alda-ish: soft and femme. But they aren't: they're the most manly men that I know. Only a coward, like Limbaugh, ...

#8 -->I'm going to try that sort of Alan Alda-ish look of sensitive despair this afternoon and see if that doesn't hook 'em in. ...

...and in writing, you're the anti-Alan Alda (i.e., sensitive-to-a-fault man fot the age of women's lib).

Sometimes, I think the habit of finding similar facial features in people is a hard-wired trait. I've learned not to speak up when I see it to some friends who I know will always just shake their heads and say nope, don't see it. On the other hand, I've had people point out a similarity that I don't see myself at first. Then, after a while I'll see EXACTLY what they're talking about. Maybe it's just in the eyes or in a brief expression. I like sharing that.

I only remember one girl who reminded me of a star and I told her so. I think my most recent fave is a dead ringer for Jessica Simpson.

Just to clarify, I'm asking about a stripper *reminding* you of some actress or celebrity, not whether she's as good looking. Now, she might take it to mean that, so citing Oprah to her is ill advised.

I am having a bad week - think I saw an Oprah look alike - the thin version but still way too big - gotta find a way to travel......

Usually, I meet strippers who look more like any number of my ex-girlfriends than any celebrities. I don't think it has the same effect.

If these girls really do look as good as certain actresses, it makes you wonder what the actresses did "right" in their careers. I used to bemoan the fact that "hot enough" women weren't accessible to me, as I saw the unattainable standard presented up there on the silver screen and at Oscar night, to which I knew I'd never get invited. Then, I had the opportunity to meet some official super-hotties in real life, and discovered that (a) they were normal people full of quirks and (b) doggoneit YES they were hotter than any woman I'd ever have a chance to date.

So THEN, I started to wonder whether or not strippers could compare. And yes, they can. Some of them are as stellar and super-hot as any given Hollywood star. Especially one of the stars who has a certain "look" -- for example, Sandra Bullock at the start of "Miss Congeniality" is ultra-ugly, because she lacks the "made up professionally" appearance that gives her star quality hotness. Then they make her up and voila! super-stunner. Same with some strippers.

I consider this a mixed blessing. On the one hand, "hot enough" women are now accessible to me. On the other, it's only at strip clubs. So, I'm still wondering how to get a date with a woman who could be a Hollywood starlet, but I guess it's a start ...

When I was at Oasis--Atlanta in May, I saw a stripper who looked like Andie McDowell, and another who looked like Vanessa Williams in her Miss America days. I thought it was "Celebrity Night at the Strip Club."

There is a dancer at Brad's BF who looks like Kate Moss.

At PT's--Sauget (East St. Louis), there is a dancer who looks just like Penelope Cruz.

As for myself, I like to think of John Goodman or Brian Dennehy, but Charles Laughton might be more realistic...

I've been told I look like Peter Lorre. On a good day. And whenever I see a short black girl I try to remind her that she looks just like Angelica Huston.