Lookalike Posted Mon, 05 Jan 2009

Is Richard Stallman leading a secret life as Serbian Nationalist "Chetnik" Zoran Radovanovic?

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Maybe he was Serbian in the other life ;)

Anyway the comparison is very good ;)
Posted by Milan SKOCIC at Mon Jan 5 22:58:47 2009
That's pretty poor taste, considering the atrocities that the Chetniks committed in the most recent Balkan war.
Posted by Anonymous at Tue Jan 6 02:21:09 2009
bah! who gives a flying hippo
Posted by domino at Tue Jan 6 04:33:46 2009
Where did you find him? You can find more. This is their style. Richard has it, but I don't think this funny.

(I am from Serbia)
Posted by Marko at Tue Jan 6 05:20:42 2009
The labels are swapped. RMS is on the left.

Zoran has slightly longer hair, and he looks less... "positive".
Posted by harry666t at Tue Jan 6 05:20:52 2009
The swapped labels are a standard form for a regular features called lookalike in the British satirical magazine Private Eye.

Private Eye routinely does comparisons to bad or even truly evil people. Here are a couple examples:

http://private-eye.co.uk/pictures/lookalikes/big/borat_stalin.jpg

http://private-eye.co.uk/pictures/lookalikes/big/hitler_mugabe.jpg

I'm sorry if I offended anybody. I'm in Serbia at the moment, I understand the Chetnik's have done, and am in no way trying to support them. I thought that would be clear.

I just found the picture when I was googling around for an example picture of the hat.
Posted by Benjamin Mako Hill at Tue Jan 6 05:34:18 2009
I just didn't think it is funny...

Anyway, I hope you have good time in Serbia.

Best regards,
Marko
Posted by Marko at Tue Jan 6 05:49:59 2009
This is the nature of humor, I suppose. :)

I'm having a wonderful time in Serbia and thrilled I could be here for (my second!) Christmas!
Posted by Benjamin Mako Hill at Tue Jan 6 06:13:36 2009
This is your blog, do whatever you want. I just want to say I fail to appreciate this particular facet of your humor.

Then again, I can think of a few things that would be considered humor in most of Europe, but racism/sexism in the US.
Posted by Mark Van den Borre at Tue Jan 6 12:03:14 2009
As I already said, Mark, this was certainly not meant to offend or to imply anything about either person. This is my blog but I also want to be sensitive to others.

I've posted (admittedly less controversial) lookalikes for other members of the free software community in the past:

http://mako.cc/copyrighteous/20060919-00

And even of myself:

http://mako.cc/copyrighteous/20040907-00

The model for these lookalikes (Private Eye) is British, not USian, but I understand that these things don't always translate between cultures or individuals. After all, Private Eye is plenty controversial in Britain.

Thanks Mark, Marko, and Anonymous, for your feedback. I'll try to be more considerate in the future.
Posted by Benjamin Mako Hill at Tue Jan 6 12:57:03 2009
"That's pretty poor taste, considering the atrocities that the Chetniks committed in the most recent Balkan war."

The real poor taste is occidental propaganda against Serbian people...
Posted by Milan at Wed Jan 7 03:15:44 2009
come on people, i'm croatian and i find it really funny. down with political correctness!
Posted by ivana at Sat Jan 10 10:37:32 2009
Lol, i thought i was looking at a Conan the Barbarian promo
Posted by dudeman at Mon Sep 14 19:02:50 2009

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