I can’t claim to have the best celebrity doppelganger photo this week- but I may have the most personal relationship –on all of facebook– with the word “doppelganger”. It was part of the dumbest, least-glorifying lie I ever told:

– 9th Grade English (summer class) —
Teacher:	“so it becomes kind of an exact copy… the Germans have a word for that… ‘don.. ?’ ‘dap…?’ …it starts with a ‘d’…
Me:	“It’s ‘doppelganger’”
(the entire class turns around to look at me)
	None of these people know me, as I’ve skipped 3/4 of our classes. The last thing I want to tell them is the truth –that I learned the word in a German philosophy book– because I’m worried I’ll look uncool. Thus, I respond with this gem-
Me:	“I learned it in a rock AND roll song”
	Even the teacher starts laughing out loud at this. At top volume, I have just pronounced the full “AND” in ‘rock n roll’. Even he –the teacher– has never heard that in his lifetime. It was like a bad Disney movie, where an alien attends high school in the body of a teenager- but all his knowledge of Earth is based off of old radio waves that just recently reached his planet. I could have told them I read it in a German philosophy book, while wearing all black and leaning on a walking stick- and I would have looked cooler.