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McKinney, Texas: A double dose of doppelgängers

May 5, 2022 Jim 6 Comments

Everyone thinks Jamie is so damn sweet. Well, I am here to tell you that she has a mean streak lurking just barely beneath the very thinnest of saccharine veneers.

She read the last blog post about doppelgängers and said, ”You left out a few.”

”What do you mean?” I asked.

“You know exactly who I’m talking about.”

Damn it. I do know. The woman has access to the cardboard boxes and plastic crates in the shed and knows that I have a few additional show biz doppelgängers. Ones I’m not as eager to speak about as I was with Peter Fonda and John Lithgow.

First, here’s baby Jimmy and his doppelganger.

That is one happy baby. That being said, I did have a big ol’ Charlie Brown head when I was born. In fact, the first time my dad saw me in the hospital he said words no loving father should ever have uttered. ”God damn it, Helen, I think the kid’s a mongoloid.” Nice.

And now here’s second grade Jimmy and his doppelganger.

That is one butt ugly kid.

Jamie said, ”You should get a childhood photo of Peter Fonda and see if you looked alike as kids.” No such luck. I did. He was a particulary good-looking lad. I’m willing to bet that no one ever compared him to Howdy Doody.

Let’s do an informal poll: Which set of doppelgangers looks the most alike: Jim and Peter Fonda, Jim and John Lithgow, baby Jimmy and Charlie Brown or second-grade Jimmy and Howdy Doody? Leave your answers in the comments or email them to me.

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  1. Jamie says

    May 5, 2022 at 10:18 pm

    As much as you look like all the examples, Peter Fonda wins😉

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  2. Jan says

    May 5, 2022 at 10:44 pm

    I cannot stop laughing!!!!
    So they say with 7.2 billion people on the earth that there is only a 1 in 135 chance there is a single pair of doppelgängers…… but then we are talking about our infamous Jim D.
    So as it turns out you may indeed have 4…… and 5 if I count Eli!!! But then you beat the odds at a lot of things!
    And have the crates and the stories to tell! You brighten our days Jim!
    And I vote Peter as your doppelgänger!

    Reply
  3. DG says

    May 5, 2022 at 10:46 pm

    I know that’s you on the right in second grade , but who is the kid on the left?

    Reply
  4. Ray says

    May 6, 2022 at 1:26 pm

    Yes, all of the above.

    Reply
  5. Monty says

    May 6, 2022 at 3:52 pm

    Howdy Doody, hands down.

    Reply
    • Scottie says

      May 6, 2022 at 3:55 pm

      I am torn between Doody and Fonda. Fonda Doody…that’s funny.

      Reply

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