A woman, closer to my age, told my young so-worker that he looked like Sting, and perhaps he does only a little bit. This was suppose to be a compliment and when someone tells us we look like a famous person it is almost always met as a compliment. My coworker insisted that he didn't look like Sting and said things that implied that the comparison was a brutal insult. I tried to tell my coworker that he was being given a compliment and he even turned my words away as being wrong.
Sting? What could possibly be so wrong with being compared to Sting? The man did some interesting - not fantastic - but good music. He was excellent as an actor and now is helping to save the rain forests. Sure he's lost a little hair, but haven't we all?
I try to put myself in my coworkers place and remember myself as being 26 years old. I imagine someone telling me that I look a little like - say - Tony Bennett. I have to emphasize that I don't look like Tony or Ann will write 5 paragraphs only about that point. So.... at the age of 26 I would have found Tony to be an image of an earlier generation and would have not wanted to be compared.... I think i wouldn't have taken a comparison as hard as my coworker did, but I think I can see how I would have had some misgivings about being compared to anyone not so admired by my generation.
I think when we are younger we want to be recognized by things that seem important to our own generation. I guess it took me by surprise that younger people would find someone like Sting too irrelevant to be associated with in any way.
I think Sting is only a few years older than I am.
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If *anyone* looked like Sting when they were 26, it was you, Stan. Well, maybe just a little, like your blond hair (like when Sting had longer hair in movies like The Bride), and certain trace characteristics in the face...big forehead.... Not the height, of course. But there was a resemblance. And now that we're all losing our hair, maybe there's even more of one...ha ha! I don't think your coworker looks like Sting, but I only met him once.
FYI, Sting is a decade older than us.
I personally preferred the actor Sting to the musician Sting. Not that the Police or his solo work was bad, but it just didn't have that certain something that does it for me, music-wise. Sting was tres cool in Quadrophenia as The Ace Face, totally HOT as Feyd in Dune, and romantically sexy as Baron Frankenstein in The Bride. I wish I could convince your coworker that, from the female perspective, that is a total compliment (even though I don't find the resemblence with him).
OK, as far as insulting celebrity comparisons go, what if someone said you looked like Patrick Swayze? LOL! My mom told me (back in the '90s) that you resemble Patrick Swayze! That cracks me up. And one time my dad said one photo of you looked like "Fraser" (Kelsey Grammer). Kelsey Grammer? WTF! That comparison is just waaaaaay out there, but then, consider the source.
yes.. a Patrick Swayze could make me feel a little uneasy...
If you ever want a good snort-your-coffee-on-the-monitor laugh, go to Google Images and do a search on Patrick Swayze.
Cracks me up.
I guess he could be sexy if you like smarmy cock-sure studs'n'mullets.
I'm not Stings generation, but I think The Police had some good songs, at least one which is still played on the radio and which probably any alive person in the western world can sing along to, and I liked some of his solowork, especially because it was very political, and lyrics about something else than love hurts and hearts are broken, are rather rare these days.
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