The Contender
 

STP. Damnit.

The Contender
 

Watched the whole thing. Was hoping to see Alfonso v. The Latin Snake in the final bout, but was satisfied with the outcome. The problem they had was that they didn't have a villain for a good part of the show.

TM

The Contender
 

They replayed that show a hundred times per week on some cable channel. If you have a tivo and cable, you shouldn't have had to miss a show. In fact, my tivo is still picking up the reruns.

The Contender
 

No TiVo. :(

I think I only missed one episode, though.

That's Dr. Cruise To You
 

I've worn thighhighs to work. I never had problems with slippage, but then again, I have muscular/shapely legs. I am fatter and stupider and less attractive than people think I am.

Celeb height - first hand estimates
 

I like this game. Here are my guesses, based on walk-bys - but almost none of these are A-list:

Barbara Streisand: 5'5"
Timothy Hutton: 6' or 6'1"
Wesley Snipes 5'8" (may have appeared smaller by having some HUGE ASS BODYGUARDS nearby, but he was really surprisingly short)
Nancy Allen: 5'4"
Bruce Campbell 6'
Milla Jovovitch: 5'9"
Ted Kennedy: 5'8", maybe a bit less
Bill Clinton: 6'2"
Billy Joel: 5'6"
Helena Bonham Carter: 5'. Maybe 5'1". And weird looking
Alec Baldwin: 5'10" (with a dumpy ass)
Moby: 5'8"
John Voight: 6'2" (and my momma says he and his brother were way hot in high school)
Mike Tyson: 5'9"
Matthew Modine: 6'1"
Julia Roberts: 5'7" sounds about right, but I only saw her at a distance, and didn't want to get closer as she looked like complete hell in person.

Celeb height - first hand estimates
 

I've stood next to each of them. They are both about 6' 2".

Celeb height - first hand estimates
 

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.

Celeb height - first hand estimates
 

Then Ted was standing on a box, or he's lost half a foot to a shin-ectomy recently, 'cause he ain't nowhere near 6 foot. I'm 5'2 and in heels I was looking him dead in the eye.

Racy FB Sex Dream
 

I'll just get straight to the "good stuff" because the surrounding circumstances were entirely too detailed in bizarre to get into, and they're just not that interesting.

So, my internet boyfriend (that would be Shape Shifter for those of you keeping score at home) and I planned a rendez-vous at this high-school track meet so that we could make out and stuff. Now, though I was overwhelmed with desire during this making out/feeling up interlude, I felt it wouldn't be quite right for me to actually do the sex with my internet boyfriend in a public place (what with my being married and all), I procured him a substitute for the actual sex-having. The substitute was Gwen Stefani. [WTF?] I am so in contention for internet-girlfriend-of-the-year. Can I get a "hell, yeah"?

We then made a plan to meet later in his old apartment (as opposed to his new apartment - just upstairs from the old one) for the actual sex part. That part was off-camera though.

Celeb height - first hand estimates
 

ooooh a celebrity height fight!!! I love these.

Racy FB Sex Dream
 

And was your husband happy when you woke up, um, eager?

Oh, and hell, yeah.

Celeb height - first hand estimates
 

No box. I've stood next to him many times, not just once. He's a big guy. (Hank, you can post your picture now.)

Celeb height - first hand estimates
 

I've also met him and he was not short. I'm 5'8+", FWIW.

Celeb height - first hand estimates
 

Maybe he was laying on his side at the time?

Racy FB Sex Dream
 

Just curious -- do you know what Shapey looks like IRL or is this pure imagination?

The subtle whoring that costs too much to be free
 

You mean the pants or his ass?

Racy FB Sex Dream
 

Oooh - you reminded me, I saw this whole documentary on David Icke last night, and it was friggin' hilarious, and I thought of you, SS, fondly, all the while.

The docu. makers clearly thought he was out of his gourd, yet nevertheless he seemed radically sane compared to the people who protest him.

Case in point: the head of the Canadian Green Party, who was trying to get Icke expelled from Canada (where he was on a book tour), expressing outrage that he had accused a former Canadian PM of being a blood drinking, child murdering lizard. I was like, "Dude, that was Brian Mulroney - YOU think Mulroney is a blood drinking, child murdering lizard, so what are you talking about?"

BR(I particularly liked the narrator's line: "whether you think Icke is an anti-semite or not really depends on whether you think, when he talks about 12 foot lizards, he really means the Jews. Having spent a fair amount of time with him, I have to say, I think when he talks about 12 foot lizards, he really means 12 foot lizards.")C

Racy FB Sex Dream
 

Natch. Just like Brad Pitt.

Aruba, Jamaica, ooh I wanna take ya...
 

Well, now that you mention it, I was carded buying beer last weekend. Woohoo!!! (OK, it's not cigs, but STILL!!!)

Spirit-Girl
 

Techs are absolutely famous for mistaking the umbilical cord for the schlong. Let's face it, if they were geniuses, they'd be producing the show instead of doing special effects.

Celeb height - first hand estimates
 

Laying . . . bricks? Eggs?

Was he in the vomitorium?

Celeb height - first hand estimates
 

I couldn't tell how tall the Dalai Lama was when he and I did lunch, but he smiles alot.

And while I was pretty young when I hung out with Chou En Lai, he was pretty short.

Sex huts
 

Something for Ironweed to look forward to.

BERLIN - A German city is rushing to install a series of drive-in wooden “sex huts” in time for next year’s soccer World Cup and an expected boom in the local sex trade, a city official said on Wednesday.

Experts estimate as many as 40,000 prostitutes may travel to Germany to offer their services to fans during the tournament.

“The World Cup has put us under added time pressure, as we don’t want a situation where prostitutes and their clients disturb residential areas,” the official said.

“In Dortmund we have an official red light district on the outskirts, but there is a problem. There is not enough space for everyone to park.”

Dortmund plans to arrange the Dutch-designed huts, which have been introduced in the city of Cologne, another World Cup venue, in an area with condom machines and snack bar.

“That said there will always be those who want to go behind a bush, under a bridge or into the woods.”

Celeb height - first hand estimates
 

Or he left his lifts at home. I have to say, I was really shocked, 'cause I'd always thought of him as reasonably tall.

And his wife is a total giant.

http://cache.boston.com/bonzai-fba/G...11106_9204.jpg

That said, Bush I is 6'2", and he only has about 3 or 4 inches on Ted (though it's hard to say since you can't see their feet), so I may misunderestimate:

http://media.collegepublisher.com/me...s/20ig3vm0.jpg

Of course, the real Ted may have been replaced with an only partially grown clone.

BR(removed unkind observation about alcohol and osteoperosis)C

Celeb height - first hand estimates
 

In this picture, he looks taller than she is, even though he is partially bent over. So she wouldn't need to be *that* tall -- certainly not a giantess -- unless, I guess, he's like 6'7" or something.

Celeb height - first hand estimates
 

Buddha came to my birthday party.

Celeb height - first hand estimates
 

Apparently you have given up all thoughts of dtb being your internet gf.

Celeb height - first hand estimates
 

Christ was a little taller than Muhammed. Mohammed. Whichever -- I don't have nametags at my parties. Zeus is a real big guy, though, and not just by ancient standards.

Celeb height - first hand estimates
 

Did he let you rub his belly?

BR(when you did, did he giggle like the Pilsbury Dough guy?)C

Celeb height - first hand estimates
 

Your rebuttal might be mildy persuasive if you did not pick two pictures in which he was obviously stooping. What is worse is that you have essentially guaranteed that someone will do a Google image search of Kennedy to find pictures of him where is he is not obviously bent over in order to rebut your rebuttal, thus unnecessarily dragging out this inane argument. Can someone just do a web search and find out how tall he is so we can end this? No offence to GWNC and her love of celebrity height fights.

Celeb height - first hand estimates
 

These pictures do not really strengthen your argument. In the top one, he has his head down, is slightly downhill from his wife and she appears to have on heels. In the second one, next to Bush, he looks hunched over.

And whatever your unkind remarks were, they may have been apt.

Spirit-Girl
 

Not Bob Evans?

Celeb height - first hand estimates
 

Do you have pictures?

Celeb height - first hand estimates
 

Think of it as a PSA. Since first seeing the picture, I have thrice corrected my sitting posture, taken two calcium +D pills, and resolved to forego the General Tsao's chicken in favor of the shrimp with snow peas. I, for one, am eternally grateful.

Celeb height - first hand estimates
 

My only hope is becoming a horse trainer.

Did I tell you about that beautiful black Arabian I just bought?

Celeb height - first hand estimates
 

Thing is, I don't think he's partially bent over, I think that's osteoperosis. He looks like he's got maybe an inch or two on her there, even given crediting some lowered head/slouching. (His foot appears lower in the picture partially because he's on the downslope of the street, but also because he's about a step behind her.) She could be close to 6 feet tall, but I'd be surprised.

eta: fwiw, and I'll stop, I think he was once pretty tall, not much shorter than brother no. 1 (who may or may not have been quite the advertised 6'2, but was over 6 foot) based on old pictures. But I don't think he is anymore. I saw one of him and Ian McKellan where neither is slouching, and IMcK is a bit shy of 6 foot I'm given to understand, and TK doesn't appear much shorter than him once crediting Ian's fluffy hair, but the pic is from the early '90s so it isn't much use:

http://www.mckellan.com/images/0963.jpg

Celeb height - first hand estimates
 

Jesus was a motherless Disney character?

Celeb height - first hand estimates
 

No. And you having . . . Britney? as an avatar is kinda like when NFH had that winged guy as hers. I think you are a girl. Who dresses like a whore.

Jesus is an example of the motherless archetype. Have you not had a Jungian therapist yet? Get one.

Celeb height - first hand estimates
 

BTW, today is the 1373rd anniversary of Muhammad's death. Dunno if it's a cake event or not.