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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from deskjockey1]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ya but they dont have identical finger prints]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from deskjockey1]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[reasonable doubt - hmmm - i wish i was an it.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Dingbat]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[My father is an identical twin- and while he and his brother never engaged in criminal activity (beyond taking each other's tests in school), they were life-long pranksters. When my uncle managed to score a date with a girl they both liked, my father called her up and changed the time to an hour earlier. They were endlessly messing with each other's reputation among friends and neighbors. I can't imagine how being switched after birth would make any difference. Chaos by any other name...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from GovBert]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[How to make it so the audience knows about the twin without knowing it is the twin doing it?  Otherwise it is one of those &quot;surprise the .... did it&quot; blind sides.  I guess that you would need a writer/director that was excellent about foreshadowing and slight misdirection.  Otherwise it will end up being a movie that is less about the story and more about sitting back for 2 hours to watch another rendition of the thing that is just like the other thing in that one movie that you saw last month.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from ericales]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Tattoos. Tattoo the name of each baby on the bottom of their foot. Problem solved. It probably wouldn't hurt any more than circumcising a boy.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Helm2Lee]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[My kid wasn't a twin, but I was sufficiently paranoid about the possibility that she would be mixed up in the nursery, that as soon as she was born, I picked out an identifying characteristic. Turns out that one eyelid had a bit of a skin blemish which looked like a backwards C; there were other marks but that was the most useful.  It was distinctive enough that I never had any doubt that I was taking home my little girl. (oh, and my wife's too, I guess). Also, since she was Caesarian born, she was the only infant with a nice round head among all the pointy-headed babies.

If any further confirmation were needed that she was related to me, it was confirmed when she was about 13 and developed an excessive liking for Star Trek and Monty Python.

Not sure what you'd do about identitwins, especially when the stigmata faded after a few days. Ever considered branding?

Helm]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from 7eggert]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Dogs can tell twins apart by scent, even if they have the same diet.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from GLK]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Sorry Scott. Ron Paul would make a better President than you. On the positive side he's probably not a good cartoonist.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from mathisking]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ha, great post.  I am an identical twin, and my parents had a labeling system where all of our clothes had our names sewn in.  One day while changing, she mixed us up.  We ended up at the hospital getting foot printed to confirm our !$%*!$%*!$%  Not really sure why fingerprints weren't good enough, but there you go.  And yes, I've given the crime a lot of thought.  Aside from looking alike, the other advantage is that identical twins have identical DNA.  Boo-yah.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from jaxid]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Mr. Adams;

     You did it again.  You are inferring that we don't have identical twins for potential presidential candidates we have triplets.  However, we can distinguish them apart.   But are they really different ?  As you are also running for that office, does that turn the contest into a quadruplet race ?  Maybe you are different, as per your blog several days ago.  If you are different, I will write your name in on election day.  Hey, you got one vote.  Anyway good luck.

                        JAXID]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from callcopse]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The film that did the twin thing - although I think ambiguously rather than evilly - the best for me might be The Prestige.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from hbmindia]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[
That is why it is said that &quot;the law is an ass.&quot;]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from dlowbeer]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Professor Leo Katz of UPenn's Law Faculty writes about this precise problem (which he calls the &quot;Twin Paradox&quot;) in his book &quot;Ill-gotten gains: evasion, blackmail, fraud, and kindred puzzles of the law&quot;. He writes:

&quot;An undisguised man robs a bank in New York. A camera records the entire episode, wanted-posters with his likeness are plastered across the country and someone is soon arrested. At the very time that the bank robbery occurred in New York, another man, also undisguised, commits a murder in Los Angeles. As luck will have it, his actions too are recorded by a camera, wanted-posters with his likeness are plastered everywhere, and someone is soon arrested. But then there is a snag: the two arrested men, it turns out, are identical twins; thus, despite the wonderfully clear-cut photographic evidence available, it is impossible to decide which of them committed the bank robbery and which committed the murder. The defendants deny all guilt.
The two cases are joined and tried before a judge, who disposes of the case by declaring both defendants guilty of bank robbery and imposing commensurate sentences. His reasoning is simple: we know beyond a reasonable doubt that one of the defendants is guilty of bank robbery and one of them is guilty of murder, but we donâ€™t know who committed which crime. Whatever the truth, no defendant will end up with less than a sentence for bank robbery; therefore, it is fair to sentence them for that offense.
How will the judgeâ€™s verdict fare on appeal? Very poorly. Any appellate court following the common understanding of the proof-beyond-a-reasonable-doubt requirement will insist that the crime of which the defendant is convicted (in this case bank robbery) be proved beyond a reasonable doubt. This has not been done. Therefore, the verdict cannot stand.&quot;]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from tkwelge]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[And I don't see how Ron Paul wouldn't protect the nukes.  As he says, &quot;I'm pro defense, anti empire.&quot;]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from tkwelge]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[See scott, I be you've developed your own blogging formula at this point. I imagine that it is sort of like your &quot;at least two, sexy, cute, bizarre, etc&quot; formula for cartoons.  In every blog, you have to mention either politics and technology, technology and family, life and politics, technology and sex, or some other combination of two.  I wonder if you spin a big wheel.  

And I didn't mean this as an insult, as it seems like you have the analytical mind that likes to come up with simple formulas.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Kingdinosaur]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Well, at least you didn't suggest waiting until the twins were old enough to say their names and then try to convince them that you switched them.  It'd be comedy gold for them to watch them run off to their moms screaming that they don't know who they are...  or use that info to screw with mom.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from wkartchner]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[In the story below it mentions &quot;An accomplice&quot;. The accomplice was Ronnie Lee Gardner's girlfriend and an identical twin. Even though several witness's saw her pass the gun to Ronnie no one could testify which twin was which. His girlfriend was never even charged. 


Gardner's path to execution began in 1985, when he was sentenced to death for shooting and killing attorney Michael Burdell during an attempted escape from a Salt Lake City courthouse in April of that year. An accomplice smuggled a gun to Gardner while he was in the courthouse on charges of killing Melvyn John Otterstrom during a 1984 robbery at Cheers Tavern.

Incidentally the girlfriend's twin hated Ronnie so there really is no doubt which girl passed him the gun.
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from marcoklaue]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[similar scenarios also occur in &quot;The Good Thief&quot; and &quot;A Tale of Two Cities&quot; (although in the latter case it was a doppelgÃ¤nger and not a twin).]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from marcoklaue]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[similar scenarios also occur in &quot;The Good Thief&quot; and &quot;A Tale of Two Cities&quot; (although in the latter case it was a doppelgÃ¤nger and not a twin).]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Drowlord]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Might matter to the kids if you named twin girls Crystal and Brunhilda.  I'm guessing one of them would be pretty pissed off to learn that she'd been accidentally switched during infancy.]]></description>
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