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November 24, 2008 |
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Welcoming Twins
FOUND by Robert Keim
in Upstate New York
Found in the back of an old desk drawer with some other pictures. On the back it says "Dean and Dain inviting parents to the parent-teacher conferences" And a stamp for "kodak velox paper."
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
I am getting flashbacks of The Shining!
Oh my gosh, I didn't know Drew Carey had a twin brother!!!
I'm getting flashbacks of Michael Douglas in Falling Down. These two little freaks are just trying to get home.
yes, on parent-teacher day, they were on top of the world, receiving compliments, pats on the head and smiles from all the parents "aww what cute little helpers"
but on every other day of school it was their pants on top of the flag pole, taunts, doge balls to the head, and wedgies from all the students.
A-dork-able!
I think there is something slightly "twilight zone" sinister about their smiles... Like if you enter you'll become part of some lab experiment.
Hi Robert! Another gem from your bottom drawer. Keep 'em coming!
How very confusing to be called Dean and Dain... 'Hi! No, I'm DEAN. He's DAIN... No, he's -- oh never mind.'
@Feeling in coherent: I'm with you there. Their exact mirror gestures are definitely spooky.
'Hi! We're the Boys from Brazil. There are several thousand more of us waiting for you in the hall. Heil Hitler!'
They're so cute! Magnify and look at their hands.
Thanks again, Robert!
I'm not surprised you two loyal Foundhounds would be the first to point out the Finder!
Hi, friends!!
...and, no, these guys did NOT grow up to be librarians. At age 18, they moved from upstate New York to the City and worked their way through NYU - one of them on the job as the doorman at a 24-hour strip club in the East Village, the other one in classes (they traded off so that each got half an education and that they ended up with one diploma for the two of them).
Then it was on to Las Vegas where they put their degree in international tap dance to good use by scoring a prize job as the twin doormen at the Caesar's Palace casino.
Turned out, though, that Dean was allergic to feathers and that he could never spend more than 10 minutes at a time backstage. Just as well. He was always the twin who had to show their dad around the desert on his rare visits west. They had told their parents that they'd gone to Nevada to become oil drillers.
...DEAN AND DAIN? Did they also teach them to only speak in unison? As one of triplets I find this depressing; no doubt everyone else in the world finds it freaky/cute!! 'Hey kids! we are going to DENY YOU YOUR OWN IDENTITIES. Hopefully when you're older we can sell you to the freak show!'
If my parents had called me & my sisters 'Alice, Alicia & Aliciana' I think I would have spent my childhood filled with a vague sense of disgust and ridicule. Dain is not even a real name! They might as well have called them Dean I and Dean II.
Poor little guys. I hope they grew up & changed their names to Darth and Phoenix.
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how come dean gets the normal name? they couldn't just go with dean and dan? or avoid alliteration all together and go with dean and bob?
@alice:
"Dain is a very rare male first name" and is pronounced "dan." it means "from Denmark, Dane."
Good thing their parents were not academics. Then the boys COULD have been named "Dean" and "Associate Dean".
Erik and Lyle Menendez say "Come in! Check out our fabulous gun collection!"
((or maybe it's Loeb brothers....))
@ Alice in UK:
Couldn't agree more. (I'm a twin.) Matching names, matching outfits--bleaghh! The world treats you as a curiosity, as a matched set: "How are the twins? Oh look, here come the twins" You end up feeling like a single glove or a single bookend, your only value lying in your being part of a pair. And when your twin dies (as mine did,) you find your world totally disorienting, as you have never before experienced being a single, all-by-yourself person.
Parents of twins and triplets, listen up: Each of your children is a unique individual, deserving of a unique identity.
The way the one on the right is holding his hands makes them look like the old style prosthesis, the ones that were just bent hooks. Those things give me the heebie jeebies.
Not content with the glasses and the crew-cuts, their parents have to give them BOW TIES?
Why not just tattoo "DORK" on their foreheads?
I get the feeling Mummy had a secret passion for Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee...
Double your pleasure
Double your fun
with Doublemint,Doublemint
Doublemint Gum!
Blaze, too funny.
And if you Google Dean + Dain you discover that they are interchangeable spellings as a family name or even a first name. And that Dean Gerald Le Dain chaired a commission on drug abuse in 1969.
I wondered if their names might be abbreviations? Deanford and Dainton or something. Doesn't help much.
Also if this was the 1960s these guys are probably still around, and they'd be quite distinctive so someone might recognize them from this site?
(Sorry, Erp and Alice, I guess that's pretty insensitive of me and proves your point.)
@Alan, that Doublemint jingle was one of those that the boy Alan sang (when he wasn't doing horrible things to horses) in the original production of the play 'Equus' in 1973. Which would be almost contemporary with this picture. Which is spooky too. Or is that why you thought of it?
Bwaaaa ha haaaa!
:P
Looooove.. Exciting and neeewww.
come aboooooard!
We're expecting yooooouuuu!
Not a single thing in the world wrong with birthcontrol glasses and bowties!
Oh yeah. I forgot to mention...
Flargy FTW!!
How about ...
Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome!
Fremde, etranger, stranger.
Gluklich zu sehen, je suis enchante,
Happy to see you, bleibe, reste, stay.
Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome
Im Cabaret, au Cabaret, to Cabaret!
Dain the Dane did not deign to wear anything less than a bowtie.
This is amazing. They're sort of creepy, but they just remind me of the kids who became the class double-act, bouncing jokes off each other who everyone remembers twenty years later at the class reunion.
I think they're adorable! They're trying to make their hands just so and pasting fake "welcoming" smiles on their faces. Although I suspect if they were to see this picture, they would be super embarrassed.
my first thought was those chinese foo dogs that guard temple doors, you know, the ones that look like a pug-dragon-lion thing?
um...slightly creepy...slightly lolipop guild...which is slightly creepy.
this is sweet, but i'm with Erp in Burp. in any school we are The Twins (i am a twin too!) and because of our height, we're called the local hobbits.
and for those who are simply too stupid to realize, they always ask, "OMIGOSH! are you twins?! that's so COOL! what a great thing to HAVE! oh you guys must share everything and do everything together!"
that could not be farther from the truth.
@Erp: I'm so sorry for your loss. I can't imagine not having my sister with me.
@Stuck, make a list of FAQs. This can become quite hilarious. For instance:
Q: Can you read each other's minds?
A: ARE YOU INSANE?!
my favorite part is the person caught in mid step inside the building to the left. so shadowy and spooky looking in contrast to the dorkus twins.
parent teacher conferences - you can check out any time you want but you can never leave!
Yay!! Another Robert Keim photo! I hope some of these people find themselves and write to the "hey that's me" section.
"Double your pleasure
Double your fun"
I didn't realize they were alter boys
@kwyncee in aere aedificare -- thanks for pointing out Shadow Person. That IS intriguing. Did you notice his hand? It looks like he's doing the meditative hand position for "ohm."
Is that a wheelchair behind the door?
It sure is a sunny day. Look at the boys' pants. There's piping down the side. I wonder what color they were?
They look pained.
I'm not even a multiple and yet I find it slightly irksome when looking through old photos only to find that my mother often dressed me to match my older sister.
DAD?
Oh wait...my dad wasn't a twin....hmmmm
Does anyone remember the early 90's show "Eerie, Indiana"? They had an episode with twins who looked exactly like they did in the 50's or 60's because their mother tucked them into lifesize Tupperware at night. I can't believe how much these two look like that episode...very creepy.
Sara in Indianola, that is weird! I have never heard of such a show. Your description makes me think of Eraserhead. Giant Tupperware sounds scary in itself.
They're probably welcoming people to Walmart now.
I don't know where the whole *creepy* thing is coming from. Something about their smiles, and almost supplicating outstretched arms reminds me of the old "Take my wife-- please!" bit.
cool, Kwyncee.. I was just going to comment on that- having finally gotten around to magnifying this picture.
Of all the photo finds sent in my Robert Keim, I think this one is my favorite.
I LOVE the boys' shadows. How the one on the left stops at the building, but the shadow of the boy on the right goes right on into the building. Just the other day I was playing with shadows and the camera. (easily amused while waiting for my LATE co worker.)
sara in indianola:
eerie, indiana, was my favorite show when i was a kid!!!!
i actually have the entire series on a dvd collection, it's pretty fantastic.
and when i saw this photo, that was the FIRST thing i thought of... it was actually the first episode, and it was called foreverware. AHH i'm excited someone else thought of that too!
I googled "Dean and Dain" and got a hit at a fulton co NY history site...they are Dean and Dain Pitcher, sons of Mr. & Mrs. Donald Pitcher of Emery Rd., mentioned in the Oswego Valley Newspaper.
No doubt these twins speak English to the world but between each other they communicate through an idioglossia understood only to them.
hmm, okay.
FAQs for twins:
Q: Are you twins?!
A: No. We're second cousins.*
Q: Omigosh! Are you SERIOUS!
A: Absolutely.
Q: Are you guys, like, identical?
A: Well, we are semifratedentical.
Q: Do you guys, like, dress the same?
A: We do wear the same brand.
Q: Don't you guys have superpowers or something?
A; We have the ability to breathe, eat and sleep.
Q: What about reading minds? Can you tell what s/he is thinking?
A: Nope.
Q: Can you guys try for me anyway?? Pleeeeease?
A: Okay. *thinks hard* My best guess is that s/he is thinking about snuffleupaguses, spoons, annnnd...ducks. Yep.
Q: You guys ever switch places, you know, in classes and stuff?
A: Actually, one time at band camp...
*several people have believed me when i said that. sad, no?
@ Shattered Cat: that's really cool. Your Google must be cleverer than mine. I got hundreds of hits but not those two guys. I feel a Letter to the Editor of the Oswego Valley Newspaper is called for ("Where are they now?").
Talking of FAQs: there was a pair of twins in the university department where I was a postgrad, who lived in different hostels but used to turn up identically dressed, i.e. having coincidentally decided to wear the same things.
And I have a friend who's a twin who says they're not normally telepathic or anything, but he suddenly got a terrific pain in his gut when his twin brother got appendicitis.
So there.
@ confused in Texas .... he isn't?? Are you sure??? This could be your family's deep dark secret that is haunting the current generations of the 'confused in Texas family.' (Cue the Twilight Zone music.)
@ Shattered Cat ... excellent searching technique! And did you see the notice below the one about twins Dean and Dain Pitcher celebrating their 3rd birthday on 15 April 1961? Apparently the Pitchers have the twin gene in a serious way: the twin boys had twin sisters named Donna and Dale Pitcher [you couldn't make this up!] whose birthday was 20 April!
It's all right there in the upper right corner of the page from the Oswego Valley News, April 20, 1961. Ain't the internet great?
My former neighbours had seriously identical twin daughters who enjoyed switching places, hassling their parents, and confusing people. They adressed each other as "Sis." The mother was very absent-minded, which added to their fun. I have heard her say to one of them, "Are you *you,* or are you your sister?"
I guess it's all in how you take it. They insisted on dressing alike from a very young age. On the other hand, there are lots and lots of non-twins like myself who were *forced* to wear "identical outfits" with a sibling. Mine was 3 yrs older than myself so my mother would make or buy 2 identical outfits in different sizes, which basically meant that I had to wear the same look for 3 years, as I grew into my elder sibling's castoffs. New clothes are still exciting to me!
I dug a little deeper into the Pitchers and they were a mere two of SEVENTEEN children!!! it's like that reality show - the duggars! I'm curious where in Up State the desk was found that contained this photo. Searching further on fultonhistory.com will bring more hits on the Pitcher family. I love a good mystery!
"In the moments that matter, even our own names are just sounds people make to tell us apart. What we are isn't that." - Joss Whedon
I named my daughter after a penguin species (Adelie) so I really can't dis the name Dain.
So I don't think they are the Pitchers...
http://fultonhistory.com/newspaper%202/Red%20C
Look what I found. Check out "Joyce Caywood, Barry Pearce Exchange Vows."
"Ushers were Dean and Dain Pearce, brothers of the groom."
Ooops... Sorry, here is the link:
http://tiny.cc/AaEBq