Making a buck cleaning Lester's spittle trays on Sequels' 22-year old supermodel abs

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by dtb
OK, I can do this too:

Paul Newman - 5'7" tops
Carrie Fischer - 5'4" tops
Elle MacPherson - 5'10" at least
Kate Moss - 5'7" maybe 5'8"
Michael Jackson (ew) - 5'9"
Billy Crystal - 5'7" or so
Kevin Kline [now there's an A-lister...] - 5'10"
Phoebe Cates (they live in the neighborhood) - 5'7"ish
Michelle Pfeiffer - 5'5"
Robert Redford - 5'7" (if that)
Bernie Williams - 6'4" and HUGE (much bigger than he appears on tv)
Liam Neeson - 6'2 at least
Natasha Richardson - 5'7"
Anna Wintour - 5'3"
Laura Linney - 5'6"
Julianne Moore - 5'5" (used to live in my building)

Bernie Williams is listed at 6' 2". Although athlete listings are notoriously false, they are almost always false in the opposite direction. So, I guess we can subtract 2" from each person on your list above?

TM

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
My name is not Jesus.

What, it's "Hey, Zeus!"? Would that be associated more with being from someplace spanish-speaking, or with christianity/catholicism?

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
I was really hoping that was going to be a link to some kind of abstract portrait of just head/shoulders of the men in question. Damn.

I can't believe no one has called his office yet to ask how tall he is.

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
My name is not Jesus.

Mary Margaret Francis Xavier McGonagle Feldstein? Is that you, after all these years?

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by Alex_de_Large
A dude shows up at the border, covered in blood and weilding a bloody chainsaw, and they let him waltz right on in? Homeland security, indeed...

Yeah. If only he'd had a nail file. Then those bastards would have cuffed him and thrown his ass in jail.

[Not Bob]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
My name is not Jesus.

I have a friend whose twin brother became born again in high school. My unsaved friend used to ask his brother why he wore a "Hay-zews Cah-rez"* t-shirt to school. The brother was never amused by this, and I guess it really isn't that funny, but the dope** made us laugh hysterically.

Uh, anyway.

*That would be "Jesus Cares" -- a slogan that was then-popular with the born again. Now it seems that the saved wear shirts attacking gay marriage with cites to Leviticus.

**"Why do you think they call it *dope* you idiots? I'll be laughing when you're both burning in hell!"

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Bernie Williams is listed at 6' 2". Although athlete listings are notoriously false, they are almost always false in the opposite direction. So, I guess we can subtract 2" from each person on your list above?

TM

True. The NFL lists Jeff Garcia (yes, him again) as
Jeff Garcia — Height: 6-1 / Weight 195
HA! No freakin way he's 6-1. Maybe in his cleats. 195? Doubtful. Unless he's "heavier than people think he is." And I think he's 180-185 after a big dinner.

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
I always had at least one and usually two other girls in my class with my name. It blew, because, with my last name, I was never the first one who was asked what I wanted to be called, and therefore frequently got stuck with some stupid teacher-chosen nickname to "distinguish" me.

My three favorite girls names not only do not appear in the top 1000, I have not been able to discover anyone currently living in the US with any of them. Of two of those, so far as I can tell, one has been given to about 40 girls in France over the last century, the other to about 15. The third, I haven't found anyone who's used it since about the year 700 (though, given the name, I admit there's a reason for that, love it though I do).

Freakonomics has a pretty amusing section on baby naming, socio-economic status and naming trends, actually. (And I recommend it again.)

I just discovered that my name actually is on the Top 1000 list for 2000-2004, though it is lower than a couple of the similar alternatives. The fact that it made the list shocks me somewhat, because it is quite unusual. I'll have to check whether it was on the list or not in the 70's. I'd guess no.

I disliked my name somewhat when I was growing up. Mainly just because of the common mispronounciation problem. Now I really really like it. If I were a celebrity, I would only use my first name. That is harder to accomplish in the legal world, it seems.

I have noticed though that it seems more common and accepted for girls to be given unusual names than it is for boys. I'm not sure why this is. I've never dated a guy with a name that was not in the top 50.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Bernie Williams is listed at 6' 2". Although athlete listings are notoriously false, they are almost always false in the opposite direction. So, I guess we can subtract 2" from each person on your list above?

TM

Shhhhh! her husband has convinced he's 6 feet tall. and that throws the rest off.

Originally posted by robustpuppy
Oooh ooh ooh, how exciting, here are mine:

Geraldo Rivera: short and hairy

Jerry Seinfeld (pre-Seinfeld): short, thin, single, and neat, and yes, has a matter of fact, he was wearing size 31 Levi's, with a tucked in, button-down shirt tucked in

Kirk Cameron: medium

Kirk Cameron's wife: taller than Kirk, and very pretty

Sting: short, and taut, and lithe, with really piercing eyes and a quick smile

Tracy Ullman: she was sitting down, but her hair was shiny, and she was cute

Joe Lockhart: doughy and not short

Ari Fleischer: short and thin and not hot

Ari Fleischer's wife: hot, in a shake-your-head, "she's procreating with HIM?" kind of way

Greta Van Susteren and Wolf Blitzer: exactly like you'd expect. Greta was not vain at all. A big tennis fan. Wolf was quite vain.

Alan Greenspan: short and thin and hunched and old and as muppet-like as those WSJ drawings would lead you to believe

Some SEC dude who left the year before last: fat and hairy and wearing ill-fitting clothes, and eating with his elbows on the table.

Some NBC news guy named David somebody: tall, thin, and very speedy in his movements

Anderson Cooper: short, thin, bad skin, but still cute, and a little harried


By short, I mean, not as tall as I am. Medium means maybe about as tall as I am. Not short means maybe taller than I am. It's all about me and my height, you see.

I'm sure I've seen lots of other famous for Washington types, but I either don't recognize them, or can't recall their names, or otherwise don't give a shit.

OK

Chris Farley: Fat and maybe 5'10"

Kato Kailen: Tight, schlong hugging pants and 5'10 or 11

Sandra Bernhard- pregnant and seated but not small
The guy who played Arliss- Fat, 5'8" , Shitty actor5

Pete Sampras- talking to Tennis Yoko in seven series BMW, left a waft of stink behind him, 6'1

Kate Hudson= chain smoking anorexic mom. My sister was very disappointed.

Steve Buscemi- seated, but appeared short and slightly annoyed.

Ba Ba Booey= High fives, very nice.

Mel Gibson- approaching midget

Ron Howard- very tall

the guy who coached the Knicks and then the Heat- tall.

Stephanie Seymour- tall and anorexic

Richard Gere- 5'9 or 10" and very nice

Greg Brady- schleppy looking.

James Woods- pockmarked.

and

Fabio- maybe six feet, highlights and gayer than cheese. very nice. has his own cereal special at the cajun place on sunset.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
My name is not Jesus.

Bambi?

[dtb]

Originally posted by ABBAKiss
Does [Michael Jackson] surround himself with really short people? He always looks a lot taller than that to me.

Certainly someone has already taken this overhead smash, but, do you really need to ask this?

I think maybe your TITS are impeding your brain function.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
Bambi?

forhskihn

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
I have noticed though that it seems more common and accepted for girls to be given unusual names than it is for boys. I'm not sure why this is. I've never dated a guy with a name that was not in the top 50.

That's easy. Boys are carriers of the family name, and reputation, and traditional (i.e, recurring) names make them seem more likely to succeed. That's why boys' names are more stable. Girls are more like accessories. Pretty, trend-following names make them seem more attractive to successful men. Traditional names make them seem old. My grandmother's name was Mildred. That seems to heavy and depression-era to dump on a cute little pixie.

[dtb]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Bernie Williams is listed at 6' 2". Although athlete listings are notoriously false, they are almost always false in the opposite direction. So, I guess we can subtract 2" from each person on your list above?

TM

You can do whatever you like. They are just guesses based on being up close (relatively, in most cases) to the person, and estimating based on their tallitude or shortitude compared to mine.

Maybe Bernie seemed taller because he's so damned big. He seems almost slender on tv, but up close, he's enormous (I don't mean fat, just really strong looking).