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Popular culture sidenote : in France, the Bogdanov's brothers are now the standard butt of jokes related to: - aesthetic surgery (in a close race with actresse

Popular culture sidenote : in France, the Bogdanov's brothers are now the standard butt of jokes related to: - aesthetic surgery (in a close race with actresses Emanuelle Beart and Angelina Jolie) - aliens (or people looking like, claiming to have met, or communicate with aliens) - chins (a rather popular comedian has based about 12% of all his jokes about silly puns with Bogdanov's brothers and the word 'menton') - lots of other stufff - mad scientists - and, I suppose, cosmologists (although it is probably a challenge to make a cosmologist joke in front of a regular audience.) For whatever it's worth, next time you have to make a standup routine in France.

DonHopkins 10y ago
>Baez, who made a comparison between the two affairs, later retracted, saying that the brothers "have lost too much face for [withdrawing the work as a hoax] to be a plausible course of action". It looks like they had a lot of plastic surgery to repair the effects of losing too much face. [1] [1] https://nl.pinterest.com/pin/161214861633094104/ https://nl.pinterest.com/pin/161214861633094104/
nyolfen 10y ago
>chins I linked the article to a friend and she made a crack about Carlos II
77pt77 10y ago
> aesthetic surgery http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.446201.1314593283!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_750/alg-split-bogdanoff-brothers-jpg.jpg http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.446201.131459328...
- kardashian007 10y ago
  Leno meets Max Headroom
- skrebbel 10y ago
  Does anyone here understand why people do this to themselves? Is it some sort of disorder, like anorexia?
  - DanBC 10y ago
    Body dysmorphia is relatively common, has a high rate of attempted suicide and deaths by suicide. http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/740015 http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/740015
  - wyager 10y ago
    These guys are strong evidence that whatever it is, it's heritable.
  - 77pt77 10y ago
    The top one is the before. Wouldn't you want to change that? (Just joking. It's the reverse.)
v4nn4 10y ago
Totally second this. I often mention this scandal when discussing pseudo sciences, along with Elisabeth Teissier case. Quite embarrassing for my country but surely a good laugh. Love that this ended on HN !

DonHopkins 10y ago

>Baez, who made a comparison between the two affairs, later retracted, saying that the brothers "have lost too much face for [withdrawing the work as a hoax] to be a plausible course of action". It looks like they had a lot of plastic surgery to repair the effects of losing too much face. [1] [1] https://nl.pinterest.com/pin/161214861633094104/ https://nl.pinterest.com/pin/161214861633094104/

nyolfen 10y ago

>chins I linked the article to a friend and she made a crack about Carlos II

77pt77 10y ago

> aesthetic surgery http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.446201.1314593283!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_750/alg-split-bogdanoff-brothers-jpg.jpg http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.446201.131459328...

kardashian007 10y ago
Leno meets Max Headroom
skrebbel 10y ago
Does anyone here understand why people do this to themselves? Is it some sort of disorder, like anorexia?
- DanBC 10y ago
  Body dysmorphia is relatively common, has a high rate of attempted suicide and deaths by suicide. http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/740015 http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/740015
- wyager 10y ago
  These guys are strong evidence that whatever it is, it's heritable.
- 77pt77 10y ago
  The top one is the before. Wouldn't you want to change that? (Just joking. It's the reverse.)

v4nn4 10y ago

Totally second this. I often mention this scandal when discussing pseudo sciences, along with Elisabeth Teissier case. Quite embarrassing for my country but surely a good laugh. Love that this ended on HN !