Something awful: Internet doppelgängers

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Last updated 12-20-08

An awful-- maybe even inevitable-- twist of fate may lie ahead, for many of us.

You know how at times you run across awful pics on the net of people doing unspeakable things? Maybe often because pics they never meant to go public somehow do?

Well, combine this fact with one other-- namely, that among all the billions of folks in the world, we each of us likely have at least one and possibly even dozens of doppelgängers (people somewhere who eerily resemble us in likeness)-- and you cannot fail but come to one terrible conclusion:

Sooner or later, no matter how carefully or piously you have lived your own life, one of those doppelgängers is going to commit a heinous crime which becomes famous, and thereby makes your likeness one to be despised over a large section of the world. OR, perhaps much more likely, one of those doppelgängers will end up in a terribly embaressing, perhaps even seriously perverted image on the internet, to be seen by millions-- leaving you to try to somehow explain to everyone you know or ever meet thereafter just how that is NOT you in the picture. Yuck!

Maybe those new face transplant procedures are becoming available just in time!

Doctor: Face transplant patient 'very happy' with procedure 12-20-08; CNN