Example:
"So, I hear you passed out by a kerosine heater saturday night and singed some of your hair off. Damn you smell."

Try that same general greeting a few times a week for serveral weeks. Sure, I don't have hundreds of photographers buzzing around my place trying to photograph my frizzled nub (by the way, it's grown back now), and I don't get recognized everywhere I go. But is it really that different?