My friend, Arty, works for an insurance company so he gets to do a lot of home working. He loves his computer and with it he lives a sort of virtual half-life. He met his wife through online dating. He maintains his bank account, buys theatre tickets, books his trips abroad and even decides what he is having for dinner online.

One day, early last week he was working' in his office at home. Overcome with boredom he logged on to the Internet and began to surf some of the social networking pages. Then suddenly his face lit up. He had found a page with a photograph of someone who had more than a passing resemblance to Mr. Potato head.

It wasn't just the man's comic looks that had grabbed Arty's attention. In the photograph, the handsome faces of around half a dozen celebrities encircled Mr. Potato head. The caption on the picture read: My celebrity look-alikes'. The celebrities included Britney Spears, Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise and Gandhi; none of them appear to have anything in common apart from looking like guy in the center.

'Celebrity would-like-to-look-alike is more like it I think' Arty muttered. Then he noticed a link to the site where he too could find who his celebrity look-alikes are. His cat, who had been sleeping in the armchair next to his desk was now awake and watching him through half closed eyes with a hint of disbelief as Arty clicked on the link and registered on the celebrity look-alike site.

He followed the instructions on the site and uploaded a photograph of himself and was rewarded with success at least on a par with that of Mr. Potato head. The first image to appear on the screen was a picture of Victoria Beckham, apparently looking 76% like Arty. Then came the famous despot, Nicolai Ceausescu followed by George Clooney and Billy Graham.

Now Arty has a great ability to rant, and when it comes to celebrity rants he achieves top score for his diatribes about Victoria Beckham. By now the cat was wide-awake, eyes wide open, ears back and waiting for the shouting to start but no rage came forth.

He called Anna, the maid to come and look. Hey, seventy-six percent is more than a passing resemblance' he pointed out to her. He was starting to appear flattered by the comparison. Oddly enough, Messers Ciacescu, Clooney and Graham didn't even get a. mention.

When his wife came in from work he physically dragged her into his office to look at the image on the computer. By now he was starting to pout. After all he and Victoria are almost identical twins. Its true, she is an attractive size double zero woman in her 30s and he is a 17 stone man in his 50s, and there the similarity ends. Somehow I don't think David would have too much difficulty picking out the real Victoria.

He made a point of telling everyone within earshot who walked passed his house about his look-alike. Then he started shouting it to people beyond earshot. Then he considered developing his own designer label. The intensity of his obsession continued to increase into the evening.

Predictably, his interest in Victoria Beckham passed within twenty-four hours. Then he discovered his new fad: the Apple iPhone.

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