From an old comment: My standards of beauty in action...

[azurelunatic]

My ideal for male beauty was influenced heavily by my mother, but the whole brains and personality thing got the major attitude from Daddy. I think it's fortunate that it mixed like that --

One amusing moment: Fuzzy Modem and I were at a dance once, back in 1998, and we simultaneously spotted Hot People. "Yeeeeow," he said, looking in one direction. "Uh-*huh!*" I said, looking in almost the same direction.

We compared notes. He was looking at the chick in the red dress; I was looking at the guy in the leather jacket. He told me that she reminded him of someone, but he couldn't quite place who it was. I nodded -- I was getting the same vibe from the guy in the leather jacket.

Five minutes or so of eye candy pass, when Fuzzy suddenly places her. "Oh my God, she looks like my *mother*!" he says, and starts freaking. I check the chick out again. Sure enough, the chick in the red dress superficially resembles Fuzzy's very attractive young mother.

Fuzzy beats his head against a pillar, making unhappy noises.

I take another look at the guy in the jacket and freeze up. "...Fuzzy...." I say, "...I just noticed. I have a photograph of my father, when he was young, wearing a leather jacket..."

Fuzzy beats *my* head against the pillar. I make unhappy noises.

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[iroshi.livejournal.com]

Interesting. I think neither my mother nor my father are particularly attractive, though I do think my dad was kind of cute for the times, given that it was the 50s, when he was in his teens. Odd, then, that I think *I* look like my mother, while my loves think I decidedly resemble my father, and I don't see it, except in the ears. (BIG ears! :D )

I don't think 'hottie' when I see people that resemble him. I do suppose I find people of his physical type a bit more inherently trustworthy, friendly, affable...but not hottie or desirable. Too lanky. Need more meat. :D My dad was scrawny when he was young. By the time he got nice muscle he was too old for me...and he was *always* too skinny. ^_^

And from current perspective, too tall! I LIKE not having to always look UP all the time nowadays!

[azurelunatic]

Darkside is my mother's body type. I had a very odd moment one day, walking into the computer lab and seeing my mother sitting at a computer... it was Family energy, and the right hair, only she was wearing a leather jacket...

Darkside's hair is the same color as my mother's, and he used to keep it in a style that looked the same, from the back.

I laughed about that one.