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"______is the poor man's _______."

There was a thread like this years ago, but so much has changed since then.

Old examples included things like "Harry Connick, Jr is the poor man's Sinatra" or "Dick Cheney is the poor man's Satan."

Theresa May is the poor man's Thatcher.

by Anonymousreply 126April 9, 2018 9:52 PM

Trump is the poor man's Hitler.

by Anonymousreply 1June 16, 2017 7:35 PM

Melania Trump is the poor man's Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy.

by Anonymousreply 2June 16, 2017 7:37 PM

OP is the poor man's W&W.

by Anonymousreply 3June 16, 2017 7:39 PM

Gio Benitez and Tommy Di Dario are the poor man's Anderson Cooper and Benjamin Maisani.

by Anonymousreply 4June 16, 2017 7:41 PM

Joan Collins is the poor man's Elizabeth Taylor

Jayne Mansfield is the poor man's Marilyn Monroe

Diana Dors is the poor man's Jayne Mansfield

by Anonymousreply 5June 16, 2017 7:44 PM

Sorry, this person won't be well known here, having just recently become the leader of Canada's Conservative party.

For future reference, though, I would suggest that Andrew Scheer is the poor man's Mr. Haney.

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by Anonymousreply 6June 16, 2017 7:50 PM

Olivia de Havilland is the poor man's Luise Rainer.

by Anonymousreply 7June 16, 2017 7:52 PM

Hulu is the poor man's Netflix.

Putin is the poor man's Stalin.

That new woman on that one crime drama is the poor man's that other woman who used to be on that crime drama

by Anonymousreply 8June 16, 2017 7:52 PM

Grenfell Tower fire is the poor man's 9/11.

by Anonymousreply 9June 16, 2017 7:53 PM

Judy Garland is the poor man's Whitney Houston

by Anonymousreply 10June 16, 2017 8:01 PM

Philadelphia is the poor man's New York.

by Anonymousreply 11June 16, 2017 8:06 PM

Lindsay Lohan is the poor man's Melania Trump ( they're both whores)

by Anonymousreply 12June 16, 2017 8:13 PM

The Justice League is the poor man's The Avengers.

(Dodging flames)

by Anonymousreply 13June 16, 2017 8:15 PM

Baltimore is a poor man's Philadelphia.

by Anonymousreply 14June 16, 2017 8:16 PM

Ivanka is the poor man's Marie Antoinette.

by Anonymousreply 15June 16, 2017 8:17 PM

Black Widow is the poor man's Wonder Woman.

by Anonymousreply 16June 16, 2017 8:17 PM

Kate Jackson is the poor man's Meryl Streep.

by Anonymousreply 17June 16, 2017 8:18 PM

Melania is the poor man's Carla Bruni

Meghan Markle is the poor man's Kate Middleton

by Anonymousreply 18June 16, 2017 8:19 PM

The Texas Gulf Coast is the poor man's Hawaii.

by Anonymousreply 19June 16, 2017 8:19 PM

Mischa Barton is the poor man's Lohan.

by Anonymousreply 20June 16, 2017 8:19 PM

Jack Klugman was the poor man's Walter Matthau

Tony Randall was the poor man's Jack Lemmon

by Anonymousreply 21June 16, 2017 8:21 PM

Deborah Cox is the poor man's Whitney Houston.

by Anonymousreply 22June 16, 2017 8:21 PM

Rita is the poor man's Chita.

by Anonymousreply 23June 16, 2017 8:22 PM

The current West Wing is the poor man's Court of the Borgias

by Anonymousreply 24June 16, 2017 8:23 PM

Monica Potter was the poor man's Julia Roberts.

by Anonymousreply 25June 16, 2017 8:24 PM

Lorna Patterson is the poor man's Goldie Hawn.

by Anonymousreply 26June 16, 2017 8:25 PM

Cissy Houston is the poor man's Patsy Ramsey.

by Anonymousreply 27June 16, 2017 8:25 PM

Sally Ann Howes is the poor man's Julie Andrews.

by Anonymousreply 28June 16, 2017 8:26 PM

Bannon is the poor man's Karl Rove.

Karl Rove is the poor man's Machiavelli.

by Anonymousreply 29June 16, 2017 8:26 PM

Oxycodone used to be the poor man's heroin.

Now heroin is the poor man's Oxy.

by Anonymousreply 30June 16, 2017 8:34 PM

Coriolanus Burt is the poor man's Titus Andromedon

by Anonymousreply 31June 16, 2017 8:35 PM

Steve Scalise is the new John Wayne Bobbit.

by Anonymousreply 32June 16, 2017 8:38 PM

Theresa Russell is the poor man's Kim Cattrall.

Mamie Van Doren is the poor man's Jayne Mansfield

by Anonymousreply 33June 16, 2017 8:38 PM

Miami is the poor man's Los Angeles.

by Anonymousreply 34June 16, 2017 8:40 PM

Seattle is the poor man's Vancouver.

by Anonymousreply 35June 16, 2017 8:42 PM

Taylor Swift is the destitute man's Joni Mitchell

by Anonymousreply 36June 16, 2017 8:45 PM

Karen "Mother" Pence is the poor man's Barbara Pierce Bush.

by Anonymousreply 37June 16, 2017 8:47 PM

Tracy Chapman is the poor man's Joan Armatrading.

by Anonymousreply 38June 16, 2017 9:34 PM

Steven Tyler is the poor man's Mick Jagger. I think he used to brag about this.

by Anonymousreply 39June 16, 2017 9:38 PM

"______is the poor man's _______" is the poor man's Sumerian housewives.

by Anonymousreply 40June 16, 2017 9:44 PM

Anne is the poor man's Brontë sister.

by Anonymousreply 41June 16, 2017 9:47 PM

Liam Hemsworth is the poor man's Chris Hemsworth.

Chad Lowe is the poor man's Rob Lowe.

by Anonymousreply 42June 16, 2017 9:49 PM

Julie Andrews is the poor man's Angela Lansbury.

by Anonymousreply 43June 16, 2017 9:49 PM

Annette Benning is the poor man's Hillary Swank

by Anonymousreply 44June 16, 2017 9:52 PM

Chris Farley was the poor man's John Candy.

by Anonymousreply 45June 16, 2017 9:52 PM

Kevin James is the poor man's Chris Farley.

by Anonymousreply 46June 16, 2017 9:54 PM

John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band is the poor man's Bruce Springsteen and the E. Street Band

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by Anonymousreply 47June 16, 2017 9:55 PM

Michael Pitt is the poor man's Leonardo DiCaprio

by Anonymousreply 48June 16, 2017 9:56 PM

Jean Simmons is the poor man's Audrey Hepburn.

by Anonymousreply 49June 16, 2017 9:56 PM

Chaosmen is the poor man's CorbinFisher

by Anonymousreply 50June 16, 2017 10:02 PM

Fran Liebowitz is a poor person's idea of Dorothy Parker.

by Anonymousreply 51June 16, 2017 10:17 PM

Lucille Ball's Mame is the poor man's Angela Lansbury's Mame.

by Anonymousreply 52June 17, 2017 12:02 AM

GoBots are the poor man's Transformers.

by Anonymousreply 53June 17, 2017 12:12 AM

Gaga is the poor man's Madonna

by Anonymousreply 54June 17, 2017 12:15 AM

Janet is the poor man' Babe

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by Anonymousreply 55June 17, 2017 12:19 AM

Caylee Anthony was the poor man's JonBenet.

by Anonymousreply 56June 17, 2017 12:21 AM

Commoner Joan Fontaine was the poor man's Dame Olivia Dehaviland

by Anonymousreply 57June 17, 2017 12:24 AM

Melitha Harrith Perry ith the poor man's Joy Reid.

by Anonymousreply 58June 17, 2017 12:25 AM

R55: [italic]Babe[/italic] was the poor man's [italic]Charlotte's Web[/italic]. The latter had Debbie Reynolds, Paul Lynde, Agnes Moorehead, Henry Gibson, and Robert B. Sherman's favorite of his and his brother's scores. What did the former have? Stretch Cunningham and Lunchlady Doris.

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by Anonymousreply 59June 17, 2017 12:35 AM

Cilla Black was the poor man's Dionne Warwick.

by Anonymousreply 60June 17, 2017 12:42 AM

[quote] Madonna is the poor man's Madonna

Fixed

by Anonymousreply 61June 17, 2017 12:43 AM

Dionne Warwick was the poor man's Dionne Warwick after we got through with her.

by Anonymousreply 62June 17, 2017 12:44 AM

Heigl is the poor man's Gwyneth.

by Anonymousreply 63June 17, 2017 12:44 AM

Gaarth Brooks was the poor man's Billy Joel

by Anonymousreply 64June 17, 2017 12:44 AM

Billy Joel is the str8 man's Barry Manilow.

by Anonymousreply 65June 17, 2017 12:45 AM

-a--Barry Manilow is the straight man's Nightmare

by Anonymousreply 66June 17, 2017 12:51 AM

Str8 men are humanity's nightmare

by Anonymousreply 67June 17, 2017 1:10 AM

Islam is the poor man's Christianity, and Christianity is the poor man's Judaism.

by Anonymousreply 68June 17, 2017 1:11 AM

Caitlyn is the poor man's Melania

by Anonymousreply 69June 17, 2017 1:14 AM

George Clooney is the poor man's Cary Grant

by Anonymousreply 70June 17, 2017 2:40 PM

R8, literally.

by Anonymousreply 71June 17, 2017 2:50 PM

Sorry I meant r9, literally.

by Anonymousreply 72June 17, 2017 2:50 PM

Cody Christian is the poor man's Colto. Should we start calling him Codo?

by Anonymousreply 73June 17, 2017 2:54 PM

Tom Hiddleston is the poor man's Benedict Cumberbatch.

by Anonymousreply 74June 17, 2017 2:54 PM

Jesus is the poor man's God.

by Anonymousreply 75June 17, 2017 2:54 PM

The Kardashians are the poor man's Gabor sisters.

by Anonymousreply 76June 17, 2017 3:00 PM

Caroline Appleby is the poor man's Ethel Mae Potter.

by Anonymousreply 77June 17, 2017 3:18 PM

Steve Scalise is the poor man's James Brady.

by Anonymousreply 78June 17, 2017 6:58 PM

John the Program Troll is the poor man's Miss Swan

by Anonymousreply 79June 17, 2017 8:40 PM

Lily James is the poor man's Keira Knightley. Who is the poor man's Jennifer Ehle.

by Anonymousreply 80June 17, 2017 8:59 PM

Trinity is the poor man's Detox. Alexis Michelle is the poor man's Roxxy Andrews.

by Anonymousreply 81June 17, 2017 9:04 PM

Sasha Velour is the pauper man's Sharon Needles.

by Anonymousreply 82June 17, 2017 9:05 PM

Beyoncé is the black man's Agnetha

by Anonymousreply 83June 17, 2017 9:05 PM

Farrah Moan is the darphur orphan man's Courtney Act.

by Anonymousreply 84June 17, 2017 9:10 PM

Wasn't "the K-Fed of ______" used for a while here as the inferior example of something?

by Anonymousreply 85June 17, 2017 9:13 PM

Fundamentalism is the poor man's religion. And religion is the poor man's atheism.

by Anonymousreply 86June 17, 2017 10:50 PM

Corey Feldman is the poor man's Hugh Hefner.

by Anonymousreply 87November 14, 2017 11:37 PM

Ronan Vibert is the poor man's Alan Rickman

by Anonymousreply 88November 14, 2017 11:46 PM

Kate is the poor man’s Diana.

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by Anonymousreply 89November 14, 2017 11:55 PM

Shannon Beador is the poor man's Betty Broderick.

by Anonymousreply 90November 15, 2017 12:28 AM

Ace of Base is the poor man's ABBA.

by Anonymousreply 91November 15, 2017 12:58 AM

Pippa Middleton is the poor man's Lee Radziwill

by Anonymousreply 92November 15, 2017 1:03 AM

John Cougar Mellencamp is the poor man's Bruce Springsteen.

by Anonymousreply 93November 15, 2017 1:47 AM

Tori Amos is the poor man's Kate Bush.

by Anonymousreply 94November 15, 2017 1:54 AM

Tarot is the poor man’s I Ching.

by Anonymousreply 95November 15, 2017 2:29 AM

Adele is the poor man's Alison Moyet.

by Anonymousreply 96November 15, 2017 2:31 AM

Tom Selleck is the poor man's Burt Reynolds.

by Anonymousreply 97November 18, 2017 10:32 PM

Dark matter is the poor man’s aether.

by Anonymousreply 98November 19, 2017 6:58 PM

Exit row is the poor man's first class.

by Anonymousreply 99November 19, 2017 7:09 PM

Hand-held shower nozzle is the poor man's bidet.

by Anonymousreply 100November 19, 2017 7:30 PM

Angelo is the poor man's Fernando.

by Anonymousreply 101November 19, 2017 7:50 PM

Mary Miles Minter was a Mary Pickford knockoff.

by Anonymousreply 102November 21, 2017 2:03 AM

Barack Obama is the poor man's John F. Kennedy.

by Anonymousreply 103November 21, 2017 2:24 PM

Tongs are the poor man's colander.

by Anonymousreply 104November 21, 2017 2:26 PM

Tori Amos is the Poor Man's Kate Bush.

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by Anonymousreply 105November 21, 2017 2:28 PM

Sheryl Crow is the Poor Man's Stevie Nicks.

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by Anonymousreply 106November 21, 2017 2:30 PM

Jen Richards is poor "MAN 's" Catlyin Jenner

by Anonymousreply 107November 21, 2017 2:40 PM

Jack Ruby is the poor man's Lee Harvey Oswald.

by Anonymousreply 108November 21, 2017 3:05 PM

Susan Lucci is the poor man's Deidre Hall.

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by Anonymousreply 109November 21, 2017 4:17 PM

The Grackle is the poor man’s Crow.

by Anonymousreply 110December 6, 2017 8:59 PM

If a Crow is the Tide detergent of birds, then Grackles are the Great Value brand, but Starlings are like the $3 detergent with the Spanish name that comes in a plastic bag.

by Anonymousreply 111December 6, 2017 9:05 PM

Ariana Grande is the poor man's Mariah Carey.

by Anonymousreply 112December 6, 2017 9:05 PM

Tiffany Trump is poor man 's Ivanka Trump

by Anonymousreply 113December 6, 2017 9:16 PM

David Morris was the porn man's Tony Danza.

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by Anonymousreply 114December 22, 2017 6:45 AM

Checkers are the poor man's chess.

by Anonymousreply 115December 22, 2017 7:04 AM

Bowling is the poor man's golf.

by Anonymousreply 116December 22, 2017 7:05 AM

ELaine Stritch was a poor man's Bea Arthur.

by Anonymousreply 117December 22, 2017 7:25 AM

Golf is the poor man’s Croquet.

by Anonymousreply 118December 22, 2017 10:51 AM

Dang it I was going to say that about Ariana... Adele is the poor man's Whitney Houston

by Anonymousreply 119December 22, 2017 10:59 AM

Irene Cara was the poor man’s Donna Summer

by Anonymousreply 120January 30, 2018 1:39 AM

Justin Trudeau is the poor man's Pierre

by Anonymousreply 121January 30, 2018 1:40 AM

Laurie Metcalf is the poor man's Kristin Scott Thomas.

by Anonymousreply 122April 9, 2018 3:06 AM

Sam Claflin is the poor man's Henry Cavill.

by Anonymousreply 123April 9, 2018 3:10 AM

The current DC Universe is the poor man's Marvel Universe.

by Anonymousreply 124April 9, 2018 9:29 PM

Barbara Stanwyck is the poor man's Bette Davis.

by Anonymousreply 125April 9, 2018 9:39 PM

Steven Ogg is the poor man's Billy Bob Thornton.

by Anonymousreply 126April 9, 2018 9:52 PM
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