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- From: egilmour@ac.dal.ca
- Newsgroups: alt.supermodels
- Subject: Re: Calendars and Brains
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.124641.9053@ac.dal.ca>
- Date: 22 Nov 92 12:46:41 -0400
- Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Lines: 35
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- dean@pico.qpsx.oz.au (Dean Economou) writes:
-
- >Ell probably speaks French since was was married to a Frenchman and lived
- >with him in France for quite a few years in her early twenties.
-
- Does that mean she has got brains because she speaks French? That is
- like saying that Francaphones are smarter than Anglophones because
- they speak French.
-
- Most models out there are not from America but are from Europe and
- therefore probably speak at least two languages like most people from
- Europe - but that doesn't mean they are more intelligent those with
- only one language.
-
- >I have heard second-hand from friends of my air-flight-attendant sister
- >that Elle in person is quite atractive to look at, but bllody rude, and
- >not very bright at all. Not much evidence, but better than nothing.
-
- I was watching a Canadian show called Fashion T.V. and they interviewed
- a few models about what they thought of the clothes in one of the shows
- they were doing, and truthfully, these models were barely monosyllabic. But
- hey, I don't know, just because they couldn't speak in complete
- sentences doesn't mean they are stupid - a person who speaks in
- complete sentences can still be an idiot. In fact, they interviewed
- a photographer or some such person about the model Karen Mulder and what
- he thought of her. He said she was exactly like Betty Grable!
- Talk about an idiot, she is hardly like Betty Grable.
-
- I've noticed, and it kind of irks me, that practically every new model today
- is labelled another Marilyn, or another Bardot, or another Loren etc. -
- why can't they just be original? That would make them much more interesting.
- There is nothing more boring and pathetic in the fashion industry than a model
- whose claim to fame is because she looks like one of the icons of beauty
- from the past. I suppose Marilyn et al are paragons of beauty,
- but must every new model be compared to them just to prove their worth?
-