Brainy Babes — Babes

~riette Wed, Jun 10, 1998 (06:53) seed

Are there 'Babes' in Hollywood who are as famous for what they have between the ears as for their looks? It's so hard to tell . . .

~autumn Wed, Jun 10, 1998 (20:19) #1

I seldom read celebrity interviews, but when I do the star often comes off as either vapid or self-centered.

~jgross5 Wed, Jun 10, 1998 (20:43) #2

like me I'm both but the pooparrazzi made me who i am today the public is only too willing to shell out i'm only too willing to sell out in my next movie, nobody will wear clothes the producers don't care that that will reveal my true gender no one in the know is willing to predict what effect it'll have on my celery status, i mean celebrity.... i really wanna be normal and i just don't know how one fan told me to grow a brain and just see what happens i called my obstetrician about that today but it turned into phone tag

~riette Thu, Jun 11, 1998 (02:33) #3

ha-ha!!! If only there were more celebrities like you! At least they would be more interesting. But it's true, Autumn, I find that too. The worst interview I've seen lately was with that girl from Deep Impact. She was appalling! Comparing her silly multi-million dollar farce with it's foul Hollywoody sentimentality to World War II. I was throwing strawberries at the screen!!

~KitchenManager Thu, Jun 11, 1998 (12:21) #4

what a waste of strawberries!

~riette Thu, Jun 11, 1998 (14:11) #5

Oh, not really. I don't mind eating my food from the ground. Licking it from the TV screen is no different really, except it makes you a bit dizzy.

~riette Thu, Jun 11, 1998 (14:12) #6

I especially like licking strawberries from the TV screen when it is Sir Anthony Hopkins moving around on it. Sexiest man alive!

~stacey Tue, Jun 16, 1998 (14:10) #7

you shouldn't get so close to the tv... waves doing bad things to your body (of course there is a plus to that I suppose)

~riette Wed, Jun 17, 1998 (03:01) #8

Oh, who cares - it's not like I'm planning to have anymore children or anything . . . though Mr. C. has been whispering 'boy' in his sleep, while groping in my direction lately . . .

~stacey Wed, Jun 17, 1998 (11:34) #9

*laugh* actually it was a joke in reference to my mother and father's protesting... "don't sit too close to the television, you'll ruin your eyes!" Riette... just say NO!

~riette Wed, Jun 17, 1998 (14:04) #10

Oh, I don't have to - I just say YES as sweetly as I can, because I know I'm on the pill, and when and whether I have more babies is entirely up to me! Oh, the joys of living in the age of the woman!

~KitchenManager Wed, Jun 17, 1998 (15:35) #11

Zoe was conceived on the pill... as were my twin sisters...

~riette Wed, Jun 17, 1998 (16:23) #12

. . . as was my brother!! But if that happens to me, then I know it was destiny - free will can only be carried out SO far. There's no way I'm going to be celibate just to avoid having another baby, and I hate the idea of making love to an object inside a baloon. And spirals and caps border on the ridiculous if you think about it - I mean especially considering the discomfort in view of the fact that the pill is still the surest way. And, hell, what would Life be without risks anyway - certainly not my thing. I can take surprises like a man . . . uh . . . scratch . . . burp . . . fart.

~riette Wed, Jun 17, 1998 (16:25) #13

Oh, and I wanted to ask whether your little sperms swim around in regiments, the first armed with little Cupid's arrows . . . I bet you blow on a whistle every time you make love to your wife to give the order for the next ambush . . .

~KitchenManager Wed, Jun 17, 1998 (21:52) #14

???

~autumn Wed, Jun 17, 1998 (22:32) #15

I was told by my OB/Gyn (I know the guys will be leaving now, my husband is already running out of the room afraid that the next word will be "episiotomy", or something like it) that I've used up all my "quality" eggs and it's obvious by my cycle that I'm down to the mediocre ones. I'm so glad my children came from the good stock!

~KitchenManager Thu, Jun 18, 1998 (01:05) #16

yeah, right, told you I have my own speculum, and have studied Dead Ringers quite rigorously...

~autumn Thu, Jun 18, 1998 (01:11) #17

Dead Ringers? Please explain! (I forgot about your little objet d'art!)

~KitchenManager Thu, Jun 18, 1998 (01:16) #18

Movie about twin gynecologists played by Jeremy Irons...

~autumn Thu, Jun 18, 1998 (01:19) #19

Oh, I've seen parts of that! You have quite a stomach for all things...er...gynecological.

~KitchenManager Thu, Jun 18, 1998 (01:23) #20

and various other body parts, as well...

~riette Thu, Jun 18, 1998 (02:47) #21

Autumn, that's a good answer, which I shall remember. Mr. C. mentions the word 'boy' again, I'll just say that I'm nearly a quarter of a century old, and my eggs have passed their sell-by date, so there!

~RUTGERS Thu, Jun 18, 1998 (04:28) #22

is there anyone out there?

~riette Thu, Jun 18, 1998 (05:44) #23

sure - but it depends on WHERE you mean . . .

~KitchenManager Thu, Jun 18, 1998 (15:35) #24

yep, some of us are really out there...

~riette Thu, Jun 18, 1998 (16:13) #25

and some of us, well, aren't to be found at all at the moment . . .

~KitchenManager Thu, Jun 18, 1998 (16:26) #26

tis true, tis true...

~CotC Thu, Jun 18, 1998 (16:36) #27

Maybe you're not looking under a small enough rock...?

~KitchenManager Thu, Jun 18, 1998 (17:00) #28

or maybe you should look between said rock and the old pelvical hard place...

~KitchenManager Thu, Jun 18, 1998 (17:01) #29

oops, meant proverbial...

~riette Fri, Jun 19, 1998 (02:40) #30

ha-ha!! You realize that not a single brainy babe has found her way into this topic yet? My opinion of Hollywood is sinking deeper by the minute . . .

~stacey Thu, Jun 25, 1998 (22:14) #31

are we just too intelligent and babelicious to be counted Riette?!?!

~KitchenManager Fri, Jun 26, 1998 (00:39) #32

*sigh*

~riette Fri, Jun 26, 1998 (05:30) #33

You, Autumn and Wolf are simply beyond intellicence and babeliciousness, Stacey! As for me, I meet neither standard, so the topic's still open.

~riette Fri, Jun 26, 1998 (05:30) #34

You, Autumn and Wolf are simply beyond intelligence and babeliciousness, Stacey! As for me, I meet neither standard, so the topic's still open.

~riette Fri, Jun 26, 1998 (05:31) #35

See what I mean? Can't even press the submit button properly!

~KitchenManager Fri, Jun 26, 1998 (11:12) #36

I thought you were one of the beautiful people, Riette...

~Wolf Fri, Jun 26, 1998 (11:45) #37

OK, a brainy babe, david duchovny. course, he dropped out of school to become a, gulp, actor, but, does he fit this topic, oh, and he married the deep impact female type person who died her hair black, ok, maybe he doesn't. sorry..... yeah, reitte, you fit in a topic all your own. we should start a beautiful people topic and it'd probably rival People magazine and their so-called choices!

~riette Sat, Jun 27, 1998 (07:45) #38

Oh, I'm sure. That is if you're talking about the kind of 'beautiful people' as portrayed in the lovely film with the same title by Jamie Uys . . . about animals of Africa, that is . . . ha-ha!!

~stacey Tue, Jun 30, 1998 (22:27) #39

would you say, then you most closely resemble the giraffe or the eleplant or the lioness or the hyena?

~riette Wed, Jul 1, 1998 (02:28) #40

After the incident in the porch I think porcupine would be the most accurate discription. We used to keep one as a pet on my granddad's farm when I was little - that's where I must have picked up this tendency to stab . . .

~KitchenManager Wed, Jul 1, 1998 (02:40) #41

it just takes some people longer to figure out which direction to rub you in is all...

~riette Wed, Jul 1, 1998 (05:50) #42

Suppose so, but it shouldn't be neccessary for people to have to figure me out - I find myself so totally boringly straight forward. So where did you acquire your talent for rubbing porcupines, muffin?

~KitchenManager Wed, Jul 1, 1998 (14:30) #43

practice, practice, practice... trial and continuing error... here and there, but mostly here... uh, I dunno...

~riette Thu, Jul 2, 1998 (06:23) #44

Or perhaps it comes from all that kneading you do?

~KitchenManager Thu, Jul 2, 1998 (13:29) #45

another typo... I think you meant either needing or pleading...

~riette Thu, Jul 2, 1998 (13:56) #46

And what do you need so badly that you'd plead for it?!?! Surely it isn't necessary with a two feet spatula . . .

~riette Fri, Oct 16, 1998 (03:46) #47

Sonja here: I agree with Wolf - David Duchovny is defenitely a brainy BABE. That guy is simply beautiful.

~mikeg Fri, Oct 16, 1998 (05:53) #48

A brainy porn star? :-)

~terry Fri, Oct 16, 1998 (10:05) #49

At a party the other night at Jim O'Briens someone was saying you could find your porn star name by taking your middle name and adding to it the name of the street you remember living on as a child, for example, mine is Terry Fieldcrest. What is your porn star name based on these criteria?

~riette Fri, Oct 16, 1998 (12:10) #50

Ri�tte Barbette!!!!

~sonja Fri, Oct 16, 1998 (13:58) #51

LOL!!! It rhymes! As supposed to Sonja Barbette....

~wolf Fri, Oct 16, 1998 (19:50) #52

what if you lived on tons of streets as a child? ok, so mine would be wolf lorraine circle (only one i can remember right now)

~riette Sat, Oct 17, 1998 (02:01) #53

Hey, that's not too bad!

~sonja Sat, Oct 17, 1998 (08:17) #54

Do you realize our other name would be: Sonja Rugby and Ri�tte Rugby? Rugby Ri�tte - remember, like in school????

~riette Sun, Oct 18, 1998 (02:13) #55

Don't remind me.

~sonja Sun, Oct 18, 1998 (05:08) #56

Why not? Is your butt still hurting?

~terry Sun, Oct 18, 1998 (05:31) #57

Y'all were rugby players?

~sonja Sun, Oct 18, 1998 (09:43) #58

Only she. Or rather she took a bet with a boy over who could kick a rugby ball furthest (we were 7). He kicked it pretty far. She kicked it through the window on the one side of the headmaster's office, and it didn't manage to come out on the opposite side, but it did crack up that window too. It earned her six of the best, great admiration from the other kids, and the nickname, 'Rugby Ri�tte'.

~riette Mon, Oct 19, 1998 (03:46) #59

And may I ask what that has to do with 'brainy babes'??

~sonja Mon, Oct 19, 1998 (11:33) #60

Nothing - it amuses me to mention these things....

~riette Tue, Oct 20, 1998 (01:39) #61

Naughty bugger!

~autumn Tue, Oct 20, 1998 (10:25) #62

Joyce Tydings. (Hey, come to think of it, I still live on Tydings Road!)

~sonja Tue, Oct 20, 1998 (10:39) #63

That's quite pretty though.

~autumn Tue, Oct 20, 1998 (10:50) #64

Blah! I always hated Joyce, and couldn't wait to drop it when I got married and take my maiden name for my middle name. What are yours & Riette's middle names?

~sonja Tue, Oct 20, 1998 (10:56) #65

We don't have any. Which is a good thing, because it's anybody's guess what Mom would've come up with next! I think Joyce is a beautiful name.

~osceola Tue, Oct 20, 1998 (13:54) #66

Terry, I don't think this middle-name/childhood street thing works. Not for me anyway. Does this mean I can't be a porn star and the world will never know my talents? Ed Major. Ed Race. Ed Monitor. Ed Dolphin. See, they don't work. If I had to pick my own it would be Randy Wood.

~wolf Tue, Oct 20, 1998 (19:06) #67

oh, it was middle name? well then, that would make a difference now wouldn't it? then mine would be Ann Lorraine Circle.... george, use your first name--- george major (oooo, now that has some authority to it) george race george monitor (????) george dolphin well, stick to the first one anyway (is ed short for edward? edwin?)

~terry Tue, Oct 20, 1998 (21:40) #68

Hey, Ed Dolphin works, think of all the connotations?

~riette Wed, Oct 21, 1998 (04:32) #69

ha-ha!

~wolf Wed, Oct 21, 1998 (10:32) #70

no no no, i don't want to go there, leave my little innocent dolphins alone please! *grin*

~sonja Wed, Oct 21, 1998 (11:24) #71

LOL! With Ri�tte my mom had trouble making her mind up between calling her 'Ri�tte' or 'Eli' - personally I wouldn't want either name!

~mikeg Wed, Oct 21, 1998 (13:38) #72

I think mine would be Mike Pilgrim :-)

~osceola Wed, Oct 21, 1998 (13:51) #73

Terry, Flipper jokes?

~riette Thu, Oct 22, 1998 (04:29) #74

ha-ha!

~autumn Thu, Oct 22, 1998 (23:50) #75

LOL, George, Randy Wood is a keeper!! Sonja, are Riette and Eli Dutch or African names? Of course Sonja is not uncommon, but I've never heard of the others. This would be a good time for Joyce to make a comeback, because there sure aren't any left (at least not under the age of 40).

~riette Fri, Oct 23, 1998 (02:11) #76

Joyce is a lovely name - don't know what you've got against it. Or was it just over popular for a while? God only knows what kind of names Ri�tte and Eli are, Autumn. I don't think Mum knew either - she was probably feeling the need to call me something strange to make me look more exotic, since I was such an astonishingly ugly baby.

~terry Fri, Oct 23, 1998 (09:33) #77

Alright where are the baby pictures? Let us decide.

~autumn Fri, Oct 23, 1998 (09:48) #78

Ha-ha! What is your brother's name? Hans? Eggbert? Floyd? Joyce just sounds so "fifties" to me, like Dorothy and Sharon. Ugh.

~sonja Fri, Oct 23, 1998 (11:11) #79

Fifties is cool, Autumn! Those are all great names! Our poor brother is called Douw Gerbrandt!!! ha-ha! Mom defenitely got worse with naming us!

~wolf Fri, Oct 23, 1998 (19:35) #80

i for one am getting sick of kirsten, brandy, brandon, hunter, brianna, and all those other 90's names. everytime i turn around another baby is getting one of those names. not gonna be able to tell them apart when they get to school. and, of course, please do not take offense if one of these names happens to be yours. i'm glad my parents decided not to call me henrietta (which they said was one of the choices)....

~pmnh Sat, Oct 24, 1998 (01:15) #81

(from 'henrietta' to 'elke'... like hoot would say, 'that's a fur piece') joyce is kind of a frumpy name i guess for a girl... good name for a guy though (preceded with 'james', of course)...

~sonja Sat, Oct 24, 1998 (13:06) #82

LOL!

~riette Sun, Oct 25, 1998 (01:21) #83

Henrietta??? $hit, that must be the origin of my name, you realize!!! Henrietta could've become rietta, and rietta could've become Riette, which then became Ri�tte to help with pronunciation! WHAAAAAAA!!!!! My name is Henrietta!!! �retching visciously�

~wolf Sun, Oct 25, 1998 (18:27) #84

no no no! i like your name, couldn't possibly come from henrietta. am glad my parents gave me a name that is/was original. i've only run into a handful of others. and i'll bet you can say the same thing too, huh? ree-head?? *grin* and i love your sister's name too-sonya: tell me, is it pronounced sawn-ya or sown-ya?

~autumn Mon, Oct 26, 1998 (00:10) #85

Wolf, my mother likes to say that someday the nursing home is going to be full of Ambers and Kaitlins.

~riette Mon, Oct 26, 1998 (03:39) #86

ha-ha! Sonja is sawn-ya, Wolfie.

~wolf Mon, Oct 26, 1998 (19:50) #87

thanks, riette! and yes, i have to agree with your mother, autumn.

~sonja Tue, Oct 27, 1998 (05:56) #88

Amber is a horrible name.

~wolf Tue, Oct 27, 1998 (09:46) #89

i only knew one person named amber and that was back in high school.

~riette Wed, Oct 28, 1998 (02:21) #90

When my kids were smaller, I used to take them to a playgroup for mothers and kiddies. And there was a woman with daughters named Flora and Fauna. Disgusting!

~wolf Wed, Oct 28, 1998 (09:56) #91

what? she watched too many episodes of the munsters!

~KitchenManager Wed, Oct 28, 1998 (13:43) #92

one of my cousin's name is Amber Storm Desurne...

~autumn Wed, Oct 28, 1998 (14:34) #93

I know 2 Stormys.

~ratthing Wed, Oct 28, 1998 (17:08) #94

flora and fauna? oh, god how horrible! lets hope she doesnt have any boys, she might name them Frick and Frack, Heckle and Jeckle, Chip n Dale....

~pmnh Wed, Oct 28, 1998 (17:48) #95

(TOO MANY episodes of 'the munsters'???) (bite your tongue)

~osceola Wed, Oct 28, 1998 (18:25) #96

Stormy. Now THERE'S a name for porn.

~terry Wed, Oct 28, 1998 (18:27) #97

That was the other topic, the porn star name topic, remember ... Your first name, plus the name of the street you live on as a child . . .

~terry Wed, Oct 28, 1998 (18:28) #98

Ok to enter this response? y Warning: 4 comments slipped in ahead of yours at 93-96!

~wolf Wed, Oct 28, 1998 (20:54) #99

we have a special topic for our porn star names?

~terry Wed, Oct 28, 1998 (23:11) #100

We've been talking about that somewhere. Maybe not in its own topic though.