Lighthearted question: Ginger or Mary Anne ?

[bbodb1]

Mary Ann floated my boat (see what I did there?). Ginger just took up space.

I'm sure Mary Ann's boat(s) floated.....

 

[bbodb1]

Worf or Wesley???

Bilbo or Frodo???

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Perhaps sheltering-in-place is exacting a toll on me.

Perhaps? Well, admission is the first step....

 

[dago]

Janet or Chrissy?

Janet

@pedro47 - you are dating yourself with that reference!

Ditto that. And yes I am dating myself

 

[dago]

Mary Anne - She was also a nice looking squaw - See Bonanza - Season 9 Episode 18

Former Miss Nevada 1959

 

[bluehende]

This one goes out to those who were in the Philly tv market in the 60's

Pixanne or Sally Star

 

[klpca]

The Ginger/Mary Anne debate has been going on since time began.
In my youth, I (and my friends) thought Ginger was hot (a bit too hot).
But we knew instinctively that Mary Anne was more in our league.

As for Friends... Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow). Hew quirkiness was endearing.

Smelly Cat is one of the great Friends moments.

I always found Ginger glamorous and as a young girl definitely admired the dresses that she chose to wear on the three hour tour. I was not a fan of Mary Ann's pig tails, lol.

 

[WVBaker]

Okay, hold on here.....there has got to be a story here. You prefer a slob to a neat freak?
Inquiring minds, @geekette!

I believe the politically correct terms are organizationally challenged and Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder.

 

[davidvel]

I believe the politically correct terms are organizationally challenged and Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder.

Speaking of which I'm utterly shocked (not personally) that in this era this thread has remained open. I guess it's the TUG demographics.

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

I would make same choice between Bert and Ernie. Uptight is no go. Ernie, for sure. I'm also fairly certain he'd bring Rubber Duckie. Who could pass up making bath time oh so fun?

But Bert and Ernie are for each other.

 

[geekette]

But Bert and Ernie are for each other.

nah. they were experimenters when they roomed together, but Ernie couldn't leave the ladies alone, total swinger, into everything, and somehow, Bert's nasal droning and bald brain appealled to an Amy Farah Fowler Cooper type. Bert was a sucker for the attention. Bert had become annoyed at forever being the wingman, and never the pilot. It's truly unfortunate that even in the early days of reality tv, only the controversies would be aired, and usually, those bits of drama made Bert look like an uptight jerk. He was totally cool on his own.

Fun fact - I went to a Jim Henson/Muppets exhibit at some museum in Orlando several years ago. I saw the original Bert and Ernie in a stasis cube. I found out that my old friend Rufus had gone to live on a farm. That's what I had thought, but, it was good to get the closure, and to find out that he lives on in other Muppets.

I have an autographed Kermit in his Calvins. At the time, he wasn't counting out a reunion with Miss Piggy, so I knew I had no chance with him, I didn't bother to flirt. I wasn't sure how his tall friend that was always around would take it. By the time the revamped Muppet Show returned, he had already gone back to the princess swine and broken up with her. That show picks up with the Muppets grown up, with grown up problems. Miss Piggy has her own late night talk show, often human visitors, and is nasty to some of them. Of course, Kermit and the gang are the production crew. Definitely worth looking for that short lived series, if ever you loved a muppet...

 

[geekette]

Okay, hold on here.....there has got to be a story here. You prefer a slob to a neat freak?
Inquiring minds[/USER]!

Not about neatness (we were neither extremes of slob vs freak), more about inability to roll with stuff. Stick in the mud, overly anxious. In the range of Felix/Sheldon. My sister says she was married to Raymond/Sheldon.

 

[Talent312]

I'm an Oscar (slovenly/easygoing).

Felix (DW) just gave me a lecture about cleaning up after myself.
"I'm tired of picking up after you. You're not living in college dorm."
... "Yes, dear."

 

[billymach4]

Ginger

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

I'm an Oscar (slovenly/easygoing).

Felix (DW) just gave me a lecture about cleaning up after myself.
"I'm tired of picking up after you. You're not living in college dorm."
... "Yes, dear."

I admire in DW how neatness is as natural to her as breathing. She senses immediately when something is out of place, and without even thinking addresses it. She's one of those people who might be peeling an orange while talking, and when she is done peeling the orange the pieces of the peel will be be neatly stacked on top of each other. This while talking the whole time and without looking at the peel as she's doing it.

I commented a couple of weeks that she at her messiest is way neater than me at my neatest. She agreed with me instantly.

 

[geekette]

....She senses immediately when something is out of place, and without even thinking addresses it.

I completely got skipped in this trait. I have no idea where anything should go. I never have. I admire the ability that some have to "get this organized" and have it be a system that makes sense and easy to keep to. I can find a place for things, that's not an issue, I can store this kinda thing over with that kinda thing, but nobody is looking to me for "clever storage solutions". I seem to come up with something, go with it, and later find out, this isn't going to work, figure out another way.... It always seems like there must be an answer, but it eludes me.
"A place for everything and everything in its place" eludes me. I'm sure I could have turned out differently if my mother had been neat and organized and showed me how to do it.

I'm one of those people that should hire a professional organizer that can bring solutions that fit my lifestyle.

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

Picard or Riker?

Wouldn't you want the man who baldly goes where no man has gone before?

 

[DrQ]

Betty or Wilma.

For the fans of Red Dwarf:

 

[TravelTime]

Speaking of which I'm utterly shocked (not personally) that in this era this thread has remained open. I guess it's the TUG demographics.

I was surprised that anyone wound post this on TUG given it is socially inappropirate to compare women‘s looks. I am a Me Too type of person (not that Me Too is perfect but it is certainly a move in the right direction for future generations.) That is why I have not voted but I have been reading the posts out of curiosity. I think you are right that this reflects TUG demographics. Plus only old people would remember Mary Ann and Ginger. Technically, they were even before my time, and I am old.

 

[Luanne]

I was surprised that anyone wound post this on TUG given it is socially inappropirate to compare women‘s looks. I am a Me Too type of person (not that Me Too is perfect but it is certainly a move in the right direction for future generations.) That is why I have not voted but I have been reading the posts out our curiosity. I think you are right that this reflects TUG demographics. Plus only old people would remember Mary Ann and Ginger. Technically, they were even before my time, and I am old.

There are reruns.

 

[bbodb1]

Admiration of beauty never goes out of style.

 

[Talent312]

I recently told a doc's assistant that I had "O-L-D" syndrome.
She wrote it down on my chart and asked me what it was.

 

[TravelTime]

Admiration of beauty never goes out of style.

Admiration of beauty does not go out of style but social norms are changing about how you treat and talk about women in public. Even before Me Too, it was controversial to rate women solely on looks. Maybe 50 years ago that was okay, but not know. Times change. Admire all you like but keep the physical competition where women are objectified on their looks in your head.

 

[Ralph Sir Edward]

Yes, dear. . .

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

Admiration of beauty does not go out of style but social norms are changing about how you treat and talk about women in public. Even before Me Too, it was controversial to rate women solely on looks. Maybe 50 years ago that was okay, but not know. Times change. Admire all you like but keep the physical competition where women are objectified on their looks in your head.

Upthread there are references to male vs. male. Apparently you don't find that offensiive - or you would certainly be railing at that.

Is there a reason for a double standard?

 

[Bunk]

Kim Jong-un or Kim Kardashian