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Twin Viewing
« on: June 27, 2004, 03:00:42 AM »
Okay. so the chances of being an identical twin are pretty slim. But I guess everyone has seen a pair in person during their life.

Well, since I am an identical twin, I don't really get to see other identical twins. I think there was another pair of identical twins when I was in High School, but they dressed very different from each other. I met a lot of faternal twins that try to pass as identical, but thats like faux fur compared to real fur. There's always just something that gives it away.

So anyways, at work tonight one of the housekeepers came in to get a room for the night. She's currently going through a nasty divorce so she sometimes stays at the hotel to get away from it all. However, tonight it turn out that it was her identical twin sister that was actually staying in the room. So I didn't pick up on this and started chatting with her about stuff going on at the hotel until she interupts me and tells me she has no idea what I'm talking about. So I'm flabergasted. Is that what it's like for everyone else?

I've had the whole mis-identification thing happen to me a thousand times or more, but I've never been on the other end until today. It was hilarious. Later they were both at the hotel and came down to talk. I just started to laugh. They do both look amazingly simular. That and they are both seriously hot (think two young Cindy Crawford but better endowed). So I just found the whole situation intriguing.
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Re: Twin Viewing
« Reply #1 on: June 27, 2004, 05:21:18 AM »
Hot Twins.

Dude!

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Just, Dude.

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That is SO cool.
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Re: Twin Viewing
« Reply #2 on: June 27, 2004, 05:33:40 AM »
I know a whole lot of identical twins...at least four pairs. If you know them long enough then you can find something little to tell them apart, like a beautey mark or a mannerism or something.
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Re: Twin Viewing
« Reply #3 on: June 27, 2004, 05:36:16 AM »
Sorry for the double-ish post, but I just now remember that by Four o clock last tuesday I had already had a pair of Loquacious twins try to convert me to whatever their religion is.

No, they were not attractive. Nor can I tell them apart. (I got it right, but that was a complete guess.)
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Re: Twin Viewing
« Reply #4 on: June 27, 2004, 08:23:02 AM »
I was actually going to be an identical twin *my parents shudder at the thought of two of me...*.  But the other died in the womb or something, I ate all the resources or something.
It would have been nice to have someone else just like me...
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Re: Twin Viewing
« Reply #5 on: June 27, 2004, 08:29:08 AM »
Y'know, that really does explain a lot....
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Re: Twin Viewing
« Reply #6 on: June 27, 2004, 09:02:54 AM »
Really? Like what? Please, go on.  I can't wait for your answer...
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Re: Twin Viewing
« Reply #7 on: June 27, 2004, 09:06:08 AM »
;D
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Re: Twin Viewing
« Reply #8 on: June 27, 2004, 09:09:36 AM »
I'll force that one out of you later... electric staplers are such interesting things, aren't they?

*yeah, so I've been reading to much BOFH.  So sue me.
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Re: Twin Viewing
« Reply #9 on: June 27, 2004, 09:16:30 AM »
/me has his lawyer write up the subpoena
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Re: Twin Viewing
« Reply #10 on: June 27, 2004, 09:33:15 AM »
*Outkast ignoes JP and fires up the cattle prob (Uninterruptable Power Supply to the plebs) instead
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Re: Twin Viewing
« Reply #11 on: June 27, 2004, 02:24:57 PM »
All I know is that there are twins on both sides of my genetics, and neither my mother's side or my father's side has had any for 2 generations.

I'm doooooomed.

I never had too much trouble telling you and Greg apart though.  Of course this is because one of you was always upstairs at TLE and the other was always downstairs.  By the time I was seeing you interchangably, I'd gotten to know you well enough that I didn't often mistake you for Greg.

We had a set of twins in my ward back home, and I could tell them apart ok; until they moved to Vernal. When I next saw them 6 years later, I had no clue.
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Re: Twin Viewing
« Reply #12 on: June 27, 2004, 05:11:20 PM »
hey outkast you were one of those twin dealies too?
I was gonna say something but I didn't know if any one would believe me... also my mom was almost a twin too(she actually has an extra bone chip in her head, they found it when she got an MRI, they thought was a brain tumor) and my mom was also pregnant with Identical twins(they would have been my older sisters chloe and amelia) but one of them pumped too much blood into the other and died of blood loss then the other's heart failed, and my mom had to give birth to two dead twins... she still has their ashes next to her bed.
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Re: Twin Viewing
« Reply #13 on: June 27, 2004, 05:22:19 PM »
Any kind of multiple birth (twins, triplets, etc.) involves greater risk in fetal development. They say that miscarriages are often a mis-formed fetus that couldn't survive as it was. It's very sad.

My cousin has 3-year-old identical twin boys. Twins pop up in my family every three generations or so.

But to answer your question, Jeff, yes, that's how it feels on the other end. I never went through that with you and Greg for the same reasons Fuzzy said--I got to know you before I knew Greg, but I knew of him and once I did meet him a few weeks after I met you, you had different glasses and different voices, and Greg was a bit heavier than you, too. So there were enough differences that unless I just really wasn't paying attention, I could tell you apart.

That same year, though, there were twin girls in my ward who I could NEVER tell apart, and I'd always run into them on campus either together or alone, and just couldn't ever call them by name for fear of getting it wrong.
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Re: Twin Viewing
« Reply #14 on: June 27, 2004, 05:32:03 PM »
that's how I am with everyone. I'm terrible with names.