When I was in college I got my first research job in the math department. I was a student in the physics department. The professor leading the project was young, but already building a reputation that would bring him to become a star of the department in later years. In the first social meet of the group there was this very bizarre looking lady not pretty at all. At all. I really wanted to impress the professor with my wits, so I approach him, point at the lady and say "Look at that lady. Poor thing. She looks like Leonid Brezhnev." He looks at me and says "That's my wife."
True story.
True story.