who is nearly half again De Rossi's age

A.k.a. well within x/2+7 range.

Portia's real name is Amanda Lee Rogers. It's all good.

Weird. #2 was me. Where did that "p" come from?

1: I believe Ogged is invoking the well-known Famous Hot Lesbian Modification to the formula, which turns the 7 into a 14.

Amanda Lee Rogers

Get the fuck out. Wow.

Is it just the hair, or facial expression that makes me like Amanda so much more in pic 2?

First Heche, now De Rossi? De Generes is on fire.

She has amazing Botticelli hair. I've always thought her eyebrows a little too arched, but it works on her. Also glad she is not Ally McBeal emaciated anymore.

Ha! I oppose this wedding for almost precisely opposite reasons.

1. Once upon a time, DeGeneres was my favorite comic. I can't say for sure that she started tanking once she came out, but I think it was about then. I don't even want to consider what might happen if she gets married. Tension and oppression is good for comics.

2. DeGeneres has horrible taste in women. It seems pretty clear, now, that Heche is just a crazy, bad person. DiRossi strikes me as the same sort of person. Just because the court upholds your right to own a gun doesn't mean you should immediately stick one in your mouth and pull the trigger.

3. DeGeneres has a pretty good career going. DiRossi doesn't. DeGeneres can do better.

First Heche, now De Rossi?

Wait, wasn't De Rossi with Heche? Was DeGeneres as well? I guess this means Moira has dated all three of them.

I've had a crush on De Rossi for way longer than has DeGeneres

You and me both, chief.

De Rossi was with the stepdaughter of Ringo Star, Francesco Gregorini, and left her for Ellen. God, I don't know how I know that, other than my sister is a dentist and so whenever I fill in as a receptionist over Christmas break I read US Weekly.

6: Except that Heche turned out to be a nut job. But De Rossi/Rogers? Gorgeous and a genius on Arrested Development. As far as I'm concerned, everyone who was on that show is extremely marriageable.

Heche is now with this guy named Coley Laffoon, which sounds like a bad porn star name. I learned this by reading the same article. Don't judge me.

Heche is now with this guy named Coley Laffoon, which sounds like a bad porn star name. I learned this by reading the same article. Don't judge me.

Heche is now with this guy named Coley Laffoon, which sounds like a bad porn star name. I learned this by reading the same article. Don't judge me.

Guilty.

8.1: Maybe we should roll back women's suffrage so women will be as funny as men again.

OMG, sorry, I don't know how that happened. Apparently I wanted you all to not judge me so badly I repeated myself three times for emphasis.

Not to mention that Heche is apparently now divorced from that guy.

8.1: Maybe we should roll back women's suffrage so women will be as funny as men again.

Don't tell me, tell the sisterhood. You've got my vote.

Weird. #2 was me. Where did that "p" come from?

When I open a thread from under the post, not the recent comments, it opens (I'm using Firefox) a new tab, and my Name-field is highlighted. If the same is true for you, then striking "p" would replace "Belle Lettre" with "p" while leaving your other fields intact. And "p", albeit capitalized, was the first letter of your post.

Well, see, that is what happens when you don't own a TV and read gossip rags only once a year. Your knowledge is a little outdated. My sis says that keeping up with it helps her make small talk with her patients. Much like the reason she watches/reads local news. Like the god awful Orange County Register.

17: Good point.

Also true for Jews -- we were funnier back when there was more anti-semitism.

Wasn't there a thread last week where we discussed how white people made better music back when they were poorer?

and my Name-field is highlighted

This might be my single biggest pet peeve with the site.

23: Black people got funnier after the Civil Rights Act so, you know, data point.

Hey Apo, look: people are shocked that you can post mixes online>/a>.

23: Black people got funnier after the Civil Rights Act so, you know, data point.

It might be like wage inequality trends between men and women, where really what happened is that white people became progressively less funny.

Wait, that didn't work. Sorry, I have a 5 pm deadline. I meant to alert Apo to this link.

Just because the court upholds your right to own a gun doesn't mean you should immediately stick one in your mouth and pull the trigger.

From my cold dead hands, Tim! Wait....

Muxtape doesn't let you download the songs, BL, so it's arguably more legal. You can just stream them.

I know, it was more "look at those crazy kids listening to music over the internet" aspect that I found funny. Law profs are so behind the times! Frank Pasquale is super cool though. Most of the peeps on Madisonian have a pretty progressive view of copyright law. Most law profs too, although I have one friend who thinks that even mix-CDs are illegal and not fair use.

The article I read was an example of Hollywood's values becoming mainstream. It referred to De Rossi as Degeneres' "long term girlfriend". How long have they been dating? Since December 2004.

so what's a long-term relationship?

This might be my single biggest pet peeve with the site.

Where would you rather have the focus go? I think Bennie can change this.

Except that Heche turned out to be a nut job.

It seems pretty clear, now, that Heche is just a crazy, bad person. DiRossi strikes me as the same sort of person.

Whatever. On. Fire.

Anywhere that isn't an entry field. The problem is that when the name box is highlighted and you hit the page down key, instead of getting the next page of comments, you get taken to the bottom of the page and have to find your way back to where you were.

so what's a long-term relationship?

When you start to think of analingus as "that old chestnut."

DeGeneres has a pretty good career going. DiRossi doesn't. DeGeneres can do better.

Actors deserve better companionship than other actors. I am completely serious about this.

But when they pair up with "normal" people, the laity makes fun of them. See, e.g., Matt Damon and his bartender girlfriend Luciana, who people describe as a "plain single mother."

whoops, dated pop culture. I forgot, Damon married the bartender, and they have a second kid together.

36: Apo speaks the truth here. My instinct is to read threads with page down, and at least half the time I forget that I have to click the background of the comment window before I can do this.

Actors deserve better companionship than other actors. I am completely serious about this.

But who deserves the companionship of actors?

Black people got funnier after the Civil Rights Act so, you know, data point.

How would we know? Maybe Josh Gibson was better than Babe Ruth, Hank Aaron, and Barry Bonds.

But who deserves the companionship of actors?

War criminals, Joe Francis.

my only observation is they look like they are the same age

45: I love you, read. I assume it's a great marriage. Degeneres is some sarcastic woman, and I don't really know who the De Rossi woman is, though she seems to go for some dramatic false eyelashes. It's a thing.

42 has it right, says the boyfriend of an actress.

Apparently, between Heche and DiRossi came Hedison, easily the best looking of the lot. (Probably also the best of the lot, though that's not saying much). Like right between. Ellen might be a little emotionally needy.

Ellen might be a little emotionally needy.

Dude, she's a stand-up comic.

"Gorgeous and a genius on Arrested Development. As far as I'm concerned, everyone who was on that show is extremely marriageable."

Apart from Lucille, presumably (either one).

I'm with Ogged and Apostropher on DeRossi. We go way back.

Haters. Ellen is very funny, Portia is gorgeous, and the announcement was sweet.

Wow, am I sappy today or what?

Apart from Lucille, presumably (either one).

Nah, Jessica Walter is great.

"Black people got funnier after the Civil Rights Act so, you know, data point."

Oh bullshit, if you knew anything about the great black comedians of the 20s, 30s, and early 40s you wouldn't even dare to make this statement.

Who can ever forget Barrell-laugh Jones who worked the backroads of Missouri with his finely honed stand-up routines. Or Orrell flopshoes Jefferson who escaped being stabbed in a hoochie house by telling a joke so funny that his assailant shit himself to death.

Probably the greatest though is Crazy-Ass Blaines whose work is maintained in Library of Congress special collections on early Black comedians, I have a copy in which he tells a hilarious ongoing anecdote regarding a farmer's daughter - highly recommended.

It's said that his brother, Toby Blaines, was funnier - but he got lynched.

I've seen it suggested semi-seriously that, since the oppressive states of eastern Europe and Russia produced so much great drama and literature, the UK Arts Council (which subsidises art) should be disbanded and its budget used to fund a small but efficient secret police force, focussed exclusively on oppressing writers.

Funny, Oliver Jungen feels the same way as " " about writers in Germany, but even more so.