*sigh* because it is the only place we could think of to put it outside of Drool where lots of these posters are more comfortable. I understand your concern. But, in a conference with so many places for men to salivate over ladies of choice, is there not even a tiny corner where we might admire men of whom we think at least as much?!

if you don't like this topic, gregory, then avoid it and stick to the male-worthy ones in babes. *wink*

Perhaps the gentleman is worthy of admiration himself? Gregory, why does this bother you?

Sounds like Gregory ran. My own choice, if I were a woman, would be Sean Connery. Too rugged! Glad he's a Scot instead of a Welshman. Couldn't handle the competition!

Sean Connery is on my list! In fact, everyone female who has posted in here's list. He is a world-class Babe! But, so art thou...scion of Gwynneth...

can we lengthen our lists? i'd like to add the guy who played "Witt" in the thin red line. he sorta looks like ralph fiennes. i watched that movie twice just for him and ben (from the truth about cats and dogs)

Why is it whenever I hear the name of Fiennes I shudder? Must be a Colinic reaction which has become automatic by now. Gotta name for this guy so I can take a look at him?

Lengthen list? I have several lists for different categories of men. List away, Dear! The more the better *grin* One guy takes up one entire list of mine.

i don't remember his name but will have to do some searching...will get back with you....

oh, ralph is certainly drool-worthy, see my comment in inner, sweetie...

You'd like to dance with him and have him devour you with his eyes, too? I would, too...but I shall check your other comment. G'morning Wolfie!

James Caviezel...he has some beautiful eyes....still looking for pics

from Vanity Fair magazine

marcia? wait! i know, you passed out cold on the floor after taking a gander at this man, right? *grin*

Yup! I see those bedroom eyes...and he has all of the great features of R Fiennes, like you said. He is a Babe right up there with the best of them. Yupper! What a great picture!

...not passed out, changed the beds while you hunted for the picture*grin*

thanks for the reminder, i gotta do that too......

Guy Babes may not notice, but the female of the species sure does *grin*

*swoon*

found another, vince vaughn. cutie pie!

Where did you find him? What does do?

oh, i saw him first (where i was aware of him) in a movie called a cool dry place about a man who moves to kansas with his young son to escape the fact that his wife walked out on them. and now i'm watching him in return to paradise with anne heche and joakim something or other (say wua keem) i think it's phoenix. he's a cutie too.... and anne heche is good. i like her...lemme go find a pic of vince.......

here's a pic, i hope it's not too big:

He's cute,alright...but when they start looking younger than my son, I tend to draw the line right there for consideration of Babehood.

haha!! well, ok, maybe now it's not so funny since i checked on his birthdate and here ya go: March 28, 1970 *yikes*

You're younger than that!!!

...and I have clothes older than that *frown*

haha!! well, my age will be my little secret then! *grin*

brb *smile*

as is mine...I started deducting years after a while. Now I am so confused I have no idea what age I am!

He's the same age as my little brother--ewwwwww!!!!

Yup...and it's gonna get worse now that we have all reached *ahem* adulthood and they are worshipping younger and younger "men" Real Men don't begin to get interesting until they are in their 30's...

i think the same can be said of real women. it seems to be a point when we get comfortable with who we are and know a bit of who we are. same for the guys.

...but are the guys ever comfortable with who we really are rather than just who they wish we were?

good point!

*sigh* I have two week's worth of Rice University and Texas Christian University baseball players to add to my babes list. Are all Texans tall and handsome?! * s i g h *

Ok now I'm really confused. Why did you not want this in DROOL? I'm not critisizing, just baffled. At first I thought this topic was women listing the women they thought 'babe'-worthy, as a comparison kind of thing with what the fellas drool over. I thought "Well, I can go there... women, I know ;)" But... this is for women to name men who are babe-worthy. So, color me confused. I'll play... just let me get that rulebook, and a pencil for notes.

Drool is only about a few men and the ladies who post in there are almost a separate entity from the rest of Spring. Not many of us go there (I do because I came from Drool originally) and are not comfortable there. Where else do you suggest we do this?

Oh no, no, no..... I'm not suggesting it be moved. I just didn't 'get' the reasoning. I must say I haven't visited DROOL during my re-appearance in Spring. It used to be, for the most part, like this topic. Well, maybe a little more 'drooly'. I'll drop in there and do a little covert lurking. Really I meant no offense. I'm just trying to get a handle on stuff.

Ok...and I am really sorry if I came off sounding defensive, but this topic has been frozen once by Mike, and we really did not intend to make it controversial. We are gentle souls down here, and there are some in Drool who might easily intimidate the mild and noncombative, and they have offended men as well as women who promise NEVER to go back there. Lurk - it's the safest way!

I cruised into Drool for a bit... All the upfront links confused me for a moment but then I found the topic list finally. Peeked at a couple. Eh... does nuthin' for me. Big British actor crush factor there though, huh? OK... top 5 male babes huh? Well these are the guys whose physical appearance might make me contemplate my sexual orientation: Jean-Claude Van Damm Patrick Swayze Sean Connery (who doesn't love this guy?) Lorenzo Lamas Mel Gibson O.k. so I like a guy with muscles. What can I say...

Can't say that I blame you on your choices... I think we all adore Sean Connery. John and I have been bashing it out in Email about whether or not this topic belongs here. He equated it with a unisex bathroom or a men's room in which women have taken over. Unfortunately, this and topic 45 are the only ones currently active in here, and I really don't think we are the inhibiting factor. I will gladly move it elsewhere. Just suggest and agree and we're gone. But, not to Drool. That's a whole nuther world in there!

Yes, Gena, if it were not for Colin Firth, that entire conference would dry up and die.

Is there a 'Women's Room' conference at the SPRING? Perhaps if there's not, there should be. Then they could make BABES the boys room and we would? stay out. I'm sure we could come up with inumerable topics to fill it. Due to possible content it would probably need to be an 18+ room. What do you think?

Sure, we used to have one and it was admisable via user list. You had to be on the list to access it.

You've inspired my coming out of lurkdom. Very quickly, a brief intro. I am not Dutch, in spite of my name. I was born in Hong Kong. My father is English/Chinese and my mother is American of German and American Indian (Crow) ancestry. My mother has a degree in Art History. She admires the work of Rembrandt, hence my name. You are right about Drool. I've been lurking about the Spring for a few weeks and that particular conference is very clique-ish. It's like high-school over there. There is very much a group of a favored few and everybody else can go hang. One of my favorite posters at Drool is a woman named Cheryl, she also posts on other conferences, I think. She's intelligent, funny and very astute, but "the chosen few" are very rude to her. Quotes are copied from her posts and not credited to her. She is not allowed to have an opinion, although the favored ones can be as opinionated as hell. I think her a to be a nicer person than I. No doubt she has a life and doesn't much care about ill-bred Colin Firth fans behavior toward her. I'll be nasty and name someone posting at Drool I can't stand. Namely that would be Mari. In a word boring. All she ever does is post newspaper articles, make bad Mafia jokes and play sycophant to Karen. It would appear, unlike Cheryl, she appears not to have a life at all outside the Drool boards. Childish, I know but hey, I'm 22. Just a kid. Drool is essentially a Colin Firth board. One that alienates many Colin Firth fans at that. Perhaps another conference for male babes. I don't know. You might call it Hot Male. I'm absolutely mad for Russell Crowe, and there is a Drool topic on him. There is one, but no one ever posts there. So why should I bother. Please consider my idea for a new male appreciation conference. You might even have a Colin Firth topic there for the more gentle souls. I've been bad mannered enough. My father would be mortified. Before I close one more thing. Marcia, Marcia, Marcia. You are the Queen of Spring. I love your posts on a myriad of topics. Enough. Bye-bye.

Aloha Saskia! I am delighted you posted so much about youself. I feel at home with you already. *hugs* We'll add your suggested conference to the list. Wolf and I are trying to get someone to make the space for us to have a craft conference. As to Drool, that was my origin, and if you read the old part of 72 or 113 they are my topics before I got my own conference to run. However, I agree with you, it is no longer fun! CherylB is the best!!! I spent considerabel time in email with her to convince her we needed and valued her posts. She is a frequenter of Geo. Please come over - we are not all that stiff in there. After all, I am running it *grin*

hey baby hey baby do you want to be my girl (sprin5) Yup!

Oops...guess he did not mean me...*sigh*

man, where did that line come from (the hey baby). i was ready to blush! thanks for comeing over saskia and gena. i'm over here because i was tired of wading through firthian posts just to get to two of my topics over in drool (arnold vosloo and david duchovny). and i certainly don't mean to impose on the men's territory and i try to keep my comments on babedom in this topic. am not apologizing in the least. i've held many babe conversations with men about women. i think it's great to have a place where men and women can converse about their likes and dislikes. no one is treated badly and i get a good laugh as do the guys! i might be able to add a RL babe and i work with him. so no names at all!!

Oh yeah...I can relate to that. But you already have been introduced to the men I would name - and probably already have (ruffling back through my files to see) One thinks I am bizarre and the other questions my taste but does not discourage it. Wolfie, we used to keep the men's 5 top Babes topic alive by posting this in there and no one complained until...so I created this for us. The came here to complain and abandoned their topic entirely. Go figure!

Re: hey baby...Um...Terry is feeling frisky? It IS spring, you know...*giggle*

I KNOW!!!! (not shouting, emphasizing) and i have spring fever bad, girl!

Yeah, very frisky, I went through and changed all my pseuds today.

uh-huh....noticed that!

how'd you get them to match each topic?

You do that when you enter the conference

oh. and it stays that way until you change it. cool!

Yeah, I only do that once every few months.

Indeed it does - and mine is now cast in Yapp till I change it.

as is mine!

Post something, Wolfie...

Alright!!! That's more like it! *grin*

done.

I wanna play... this is what my friends call me because I'm such a geek.

OK! Yes! excellent! *LOL*

i agree. welcome to the game! *giggle*

You got game.

Time to breathe some life back into this topic. I have a noble knight to add to my list. He is Most Worthy! Lord Dimday

And, like I said elsewhere... Just in case you are reading this... Impossible to forget!

Another noble knight.... Sean Connery, the gravelly voiced, sexy Scottish actor who shot to stardom as secret agent 007 in the James Bond films, turned 70 on Friday. Tall, handsome and possessing a famously gruff personality, Connery has often been described as Scotland's favourite Scot and the world's sexiest man. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth in July, two years after he was reportedly denied a knighthood because of his Scottish nationalism. Connery, who grew up in the slums of Edinburgh and once worked as a coffin polisher, played the character created by novelist Ian Fleming in seven Bond films. Born Thomas Connery on August 25, 1930, he was brought up in near-poverty, never attempted to disguise his raw Scottish accent and preferred beer to Bond's vodka martini cocktails that are "shaken not stirred". At the age of 17, two years after the end of World War Two, Connery was drafted into the Royal Navy and served three years as an ordinary seaman. He hated it.A chance meeting with a friend resulted in him joining the chorus of the American stage musical "South Pacific" -- after 48 hours of dancing and singing lessons. "I grew up with no notion of a career, much less acting," he once said. "I certainly never have plotted it out. It was all happenstance, really." There's my two cents .... At 70 he still does it for me......

There are a lot of us, Maggie. You are not alone in your choice of Sir Sean. Look back through the posts. A long line has long since formed. A worthy knight companion of Lord Dimday!

Ah, didn't go back that far in the archives .... Just saw the birthday pix and thought I'd add my twopennorth! I seem to remember Sir Sean coming up in a quiz somewhere recently - didn't we both pick him???? *naughty grin*

We did ...*grin*

like to add someone to my babe list but he shall remain nameless for now. david duchovny is still there though. i thought it was way cool when sean connery was knighted!!

Was Sir Sean not a vision in his Kilt? Way cooler than cool is he. However, My Lord Dimday out-shines him in my world...

*grin* Way to go, Wolfie! *HUGS*

He tops my list for November 14 - in fact, he occupies a list all to himself. The top five on this very special Babes list is: Neil Neil Neil Neil Neil ...not done yet... try something Sino-Poetic and well-aged like fine wine...

Marcia, Many thanks for the posting of the Faith Hill pics for me. Thanks, Greg

Thanks for giving us much eye candy. My pleasure! Surprisingly, I also have a topic (45) in here. You are definitely now babe material as far as I am concerned. Get thee hence Firth. Here comes Greg!

*laugh* good, maybe we oughta rename drool to Firthing and start a new drool conference!!

the has gotta be a better name for a conference than Drool!!! How elegant can one be??? *wiping it off me as I type*

Such as?

Actually, it is so entrenched and so almost single-mindedly Firthian... Drool is fitting I think, now. Drool can imply many things and since I do not want bullet holes through Geo, I'll let Droolers be just that. Wolfie? Wanna wade in and help me remove my foot?!

I'm with you, girlfriend!!

Since I'm the host, I guess I should contribute my top 5 male babes (or at least as many as I can think of). People I admire rather than people I necessarily would want to go to bed with :-) In no order 1. Damon Albarn (singer of an English band called BLUR). This guy is *so* hot...I am just desperate to be the combination of cool and good-looking that he is :-) 2. Dave Grohl (front guy of Foo Fighters, formerly in Nirvana). Really interesting face...it's fun to watch. He also has a great voice and writes fantastic songs. Oh, and he has a fantastic scream, too, like all true Metallers should :-) 3. Nicholas Cage. I've only seen him in two-dimensional Action Film roles just recently (The Rock, Gone in Sixty Seconds), although I'm led to believe he's quite a good actor. I love the way he delivers his one-liners...so droll. Hmmm...all I can think of for now. I've got to say, women come far more easily to mind :-)

Here is Damon Albarn:

If I could be anybody for a day (and it had to be male :-) then it'd be him :)

Hmmmmmm... not Sean Connery??? Personally I imagined you'd pick someone a tad more mature but not bad... Funny, but I kinda liked you blond!!! Beats being one of the Backstreet Boys... or is he?! Thanks for posting him. I see you in an entirely different light now. Interesting!

He's doing the "Scream" thing...is he some tortured artist type?

Think the audience suffers most...

ROTFLOL, Marcia!!!

I have a new list - this one is Cyber Guys and, for obvious reasons, they are in no particular order: Andres Bill Bob Herman Ian John (5 of them) Liam Mike Neil Rob Stephen Waren William Others have gone missing and will be added as they or if they reappear.

They are in order though, alphabetical.

Terry Marshall (stay tuned)

i messed up my male babe post by putting in top 5 babes *grin* all i did was add bill pullman to my list *schmoooze*

Is he the guy from "While You Were Sleeping"?

Might I suggest a chorus of "Tea For Two?" You must hate that song - it is all too graphic! Quite ok Wolfie - yeah, who is Bill Putnam?

bill pullman is the brother in while you were sleeping. he also played the prez in independence day...