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Steve Jobs To Be A Stamp In 2015: Five Other Amazing Places To Land Your Likeness

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Steve Jobs was an ambitious man, but likely he wasn't so ambitious as to one day picture himself on a U.S. stamp, on which he will appear in the year 2015, according to the San Jose Mercury News.

There aren't standards for that kind of fame. Being featured on a stamp is like three or four degrees off landing your likeness on money. Jobs' stamp, designed by the U.S. postal service, depicts a younger version of him in his trademark black turtle neck holding an older model Apple computer.

Without further introduction, the three next best places to get your picture (not counting stamps or currency) in no particular order:

1. Billboard in NYC: Not Peter Claven style, who landed his likeness on the billboards of Miami because his best man in "I Love You, Man" knew a guy who sold ad space, but because some advertising executive believed you were worth blowing up 1000 times your actual size and displaying before millions of pedestrians.

2. Professional sports logo: Only one player has achieved this feat (Jerry West aka "the logo") making it arguably more impressive than George Washington's presence on the one dollar bill. Still, other athletes have transformed their silhouettes into recognizable emblems, like Jordan for "Jordan" and Stephon Marbury for And 1.

3. As a tattoo on a non-family member/non-romantic partner: Imagine a stranger asking a professional artist to draw your face on their own body. The logo and the billboard may be more professionally meaningful, but the tattoo is more personally meaningful.

4. Back of Wheaties box: It doesn't hold the same prestige it once did (Wheaties hasn't varied its formula since Larry Bird was still making boxes), but it still stands for the same thing it did before: sports excellence.

5. Fat head: I don't think they offer custom designs yet, which means a life-sized sticker of yourself to paste on your wall must be earned. 

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