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Chris Bridges
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Just saw this pic in a story we ran about Shooter Jennings, son of Waylon Jennings.

This is, aside from the pose and some of the fashion choices, exactly what I looked like when I was 20.

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Noemon
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You know you have to scan in a picture of yourself at 20 for us to compare it to, right?
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Tante Shvester
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Nah. I'll take his word on it. Why would someone claim to look like that if it wasnt' true?
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Farmgirl
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I can see the resemblence even using your current picture, Chris. You're minus the long hair now, but other than that, he DOES look like you.
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Cute ragamuffin. [Smile]
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You referred to a pic of yours the other day that I linked to then, and looking at this one I'd have to say--you're right! He looks a lot like you (even if you're not 20 anymore).
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Noemon
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quote:
I can see the resemblence even using your current picture, Chris. You're minus the long hair now, but other than that, he DOES look like you.
Oh, I can too--I was just trying to get Chris to post a picture of himself from back then.
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Chris Bridges
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Don't have a lot online where they can be pointed to right off, but here's a few:

When my hair was at its longest
Me and my sidekick
Me at age 35, more or less

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Noemon
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You've got kind of a Jedi thing going in that last picture.
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Wow -- I put those two pictures side-by-side on my computer screen (the one of you "my hair was at its longest") and the one of Shooter Jennings, and even your glasses are the same!

FG

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Chris Bridges
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Think how I felt...
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Maybe you could get a gig of being a stand-in for him when he's too tired to do a tour....

(not that I ever really have heard of Shooter Jennings before -- of course I know Waylon, but had no idea Shooter was even a singer, much less a "star")

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Here's what you need to do. Hire a PI to find out as much information about Shooter as possible. I'm talking about stuff that he doesn't think anyone other than himself could possibly know. While the PI is busy collecting information, find or make yourself a mylar jumpsuit. Once you've got both of these things, Don the jumpsuit and go wait for him in his driveway. When he gets home, tell him that you are a future iteration of himself, and that you have travelled back in time to warn him about the hell that will break loose unless you, his future self, are able to avert it. Explain to him that unfortunately only your body and the mylar suit were able to make it through time, and that you're consequently a little bit short on the funds that would be necessary to avert whatever crisis you come up with. Throughout the conversation, mention this and that fact that your PI was able to glean, thus ensuring that he'll have no choice but to buy your story.
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[ROFL]

I love Jake's imagination!

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*grin

I would so totally fall for it myself. Well, probably not Chris in a mylar jumpsuit, but maybe gender is yet more flexible in the future than it is now.

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Noemon
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The mylar jumpsuit is key. I think we can all agree on that.
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quote:
Originally posted by Noemon:
Here's what you need to do. Hire a PI to find out as much information about Shooter as possible. I'm talking about stuff that he doesn't think anyone other than himself could possibly know. While the PI is busy collecting information, find or make yourself a mylar jumpsuit. Once you've got both of these things, Don the jumpsuit and go wait for him in his driveway. When he gets home, tell him that you are a future iteration of himself, and that you have travelled back in time to warn him about the hell that will break loose unless you, his future self, are able to avert it. Explain to him that unfortunately only your body and the mylar suit were able to make it through time, and that you're consequently a little bit short on the funds that would be necessary to avert whatever crisis you come up with. Throughout the conversation, mention this and that fact that your PI was able to glean, thus ensuring that he'll have no choice but to buy your story.

I think I read that story. Wasn't it the first new con in a hundred years?

"Washed in the juice of the Apple." Hee.

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Noemon
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By Spider Robinson? Something about preventing the murder of John Lennon? Can't remember the name of the story, but I think I know the one you're thinking of, although I'd forgotten all about it.
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Chris Bridges
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It was his book "Lifehouse."
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Noemon
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It's been a while since I've read Robinson, but Lifehouse was a novel wasn't it?
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quote:

Me at age 35, more or less

I swoon.
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Yeah, too bad that last pic was taken a while ago, huh? [Big Grin]
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Chris Bridges
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Note the pic cleverly crops out the rapidly growing pot belly...
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Out of curiosity, what year was that taken Chris? This isn't a clever attempt to find out your current age--I just think that we may have had the same pair of glasses at the same time.
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