Where Aren't They Now: This Dude Looks Like Katie Rice

I think I'm going to take a break this week, for two reasons:

1. My feed counter keeps saying that 0 people are reading, which can't be far from the truth, and

2. This guy looks so much like cartoonist Katie Rice that it's freaking me quite-a-bit out.

I'm having a difficult time finding a head-on picture of Katie Rice, but try this one or this one or this one.

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Jan-- many years after this photo was taken-- became the first female rapper to sport an all-diamond grill.

It wasn't the type of grill which you would recognize today. Jan actually had bits of diamond implanted into each and every one of her teeth. The diamonds were not removable, of course, but did no lasting damage. If anything, they made food easier to chew.

And, of course, amassed some serious street cred.

Where Aren't They Now: 66

Rae was raised by birds.

Sure, it was unlikely that a group of birds would take in a human infant.

And sure, birds and humans share very little in common socially.

Sure, Rae had a difficult time transitioning into the human world once she came of age in her own little Jungle Book life.

Sure, the birds were a little hurt when she abandoned them and went on to become a local news anchor.

Stranger things have happened.

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Jed has an impressive collection of cardboard cutouts of himself.

He spent the entire school year pranking people when he was a sophomore in high school. By then he had 15 full-size cutouts of himself, in various outfits and positions. Jed loved to position them in realistic places, then watch from afar as people began to interact with him.

This is a photo of one of the cutouts, actually. We discovered that after the picture was already taken.

Where Aren't They Now: 64

Chip is antidextrous.

You may be more familiar with antidexterity's counterpart, ambidexterity. While people who exhibit ambidexterity can use both hands with equal agility, the antidextrous, such as Chip, are equally clumsy with both.

This is not a matter of simply being a klutz-- Chip's brain actually prefers not to use either hand. It takes great force of will for Chip to pick things up, point to things, catch a football. High fives are completely out of the question.

Where Aren't They Now: 63

Phyllis is afraid of her own shadow.

She's been diagnosed with acute agoraphobia, but it's much more severe than that. Even within her own house, she lives in fear.

She developed an intricate lighting system within her home which shines from as many points as possible at once, casting almost no shadow. Phyllis is working on a mobile unit that will allow her to take her lights with her, so that she might experience life again.

Where Aren't They Now: 62

Herb can't hear rhyme.

He's failed every English class he can remember-- not because Herb isn't smart, because he certainly is. He can spell, form sentences, work an idiom or a simile. He simply cannot hear rhyme.

People have tried to explain it to him in all different ways. Herb cannot grasp the concept. He has read Green Eggs and Ham a hundred times if he's read it once, and does not understand the draw to that book. He can sense the rhythm behind it, but when people attempt to explain how words like "fox" and "box" relate, he's lost.

You'd be surprised how often it comes up.