# AP Headline: "Supermodel Heidi Klum, Seal Engaged" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 5, 2005, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ap-headline-supermodel-heidi-klum-seal-engaged/283273 "2005-01-05T20:49:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2005, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ap-headline-supermodel-heidi-klum-seal-engaged/283273/21 "2005-01-07T20:04:39Z")
They warned me that if I married another woman, the next thing you know we’d be marrying animals. And the collapse of civilization associated with these events is clearly demonstrated by this thread. ---
**Author:** ![moriah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@moriah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moriah)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2005, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ap-headline-supermodel-heidi-klum-seal-engaged/283273/22 "2005-01-10T05:17:25Z")
Did she meet the Seal at a USO tour? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2005, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ap-headline-supermodel-heidi-klum-seal-engaged/283273/23 "2005-01-10T05:27:04Z")
> [@](#): > > What kind of name is “Seal”, anyway? If your parents named you Sealhenry Olusegun Olumide Samuel, you’d say “but my friends call me Seal” a lot too. But in the name of all that is humor, why couldn’t she have married Don Ho? ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2005, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ap-headline-supermodel-heidi-klum-seal-engaged/283273/24 "2005-01-10T05:32:37Z")
> [@manhattan](#): > > Heidi Klum’s car breaks down in a small town and she takes it to the mechanic… In the immortal words of Kip Adotta, “Just fix the damn thing and leave my private life out of it!” ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2005, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ap-headline-supermodel-heidi-klum-seal-engaged/283273/25 "2005-01-10T05:33:41Z")
> [@Little Nemo](#): > > But in the name of all that is humor, why couldn’t she have married Don Ho? Because then everyone would think she played Wilson on “Home Improvement”. ---
**Author:** ![buns3000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c89c15/32.png) [@buns3000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buns3000)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2005, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ap-headline-supermodel-heidi-klum-seal-engaged/283273/26 "2005-01-10T06:41:50Z")
I’d wager Seal must have a really great personality. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2005, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ap-headline-supermodel-heidi-klum-seal-engaged/283273/27 "2005-01-10T07:28:50Z")
Apparently he and [Cindy Crawford](http://www.zothike.com/tharsus/crowfo03.jpg) were an item as well. ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2005, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ap-headline-supermodel-heidi-klum-seal-engaged/283273/28 "2005-01-10T07:40:58Z")
_Supermodel Heidi Klum, Seal Engaged_ Didn’t the President make an Amendment banning this? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2005, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ap-headline-supermodel-heidi-klum-seal-engaged/283273/29 "2005-01-10T14:51:56Z")
I don’t think it is against anything in the Constitution or Bible to marry out of our species. In fact, divorce rates would probably fall. \*Say, Stan, how was your wedding night? Not, baaaaaaaad \* ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2005, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ap-headline-supermodel-heidi-klum-seal-engaged/283273/30 "2005-01-10T18:18:30Z")
> [@Little Nemo](#): > > But in the name of all that is humor, why couldn’t she have married Don Ho? \…well, there’s another day shot to hell. Nothing to do but curl up in a ball under my desk until I get the Mr. Hankey song outta my head… ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2005, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ap-headline-supermodel-heidi-klum-seal-engaged/283273/31 "2005-01-10T21:27:37Z")
Home Improvement? South Park? You kids nowadays wouldn’t know a good Cab Calloway reference if it came up and scat on you. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2005, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ap-headline-supermodel-heidi-klum-seal-engaged/283273/32 "2005-01-10T21:42:48Z")
> [@Little Nemo](#): > > Home Improvement? South Park? You kids nowadays wouldn’t know a good Cab Calloway reference if it came up and scat on you. First beastiality, now this… :eek: ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2005, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ap-headline-supermodel-heidi-klum-seal-engaged/283273/33 "2005-01-10T21:48:04Z")
> [@Little Nemo](#): > > Home Improvement? South Park? You kids nowadays wouldn’t know a good Cab Calloway reference if it came up and scat on you. :smack: I kept thinking ‘Heidi KlumHo’ what the heck does that mean? Had I thought Heidi Ho, my mind would’ve gone straight to Minnie The Moocher. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2005, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ap-headline-supermodel-heidi-klum-seal-engaged/283273/34 "2005-01-10T21:48:58Z")
> [@Little Nemo](#): > > Home Improvement? South Park? You kids nowadays wouldn’t know a good Cab Calloway reference if it came up and scat on you. Wait…was he the guy with the funny striped suit and watch on a chain whose mummified corpse Janet Jackson tried to drag back out into the sunlight once, or is he that little mouse puppet from Ed Sullivan? 😃 _runs_ ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ap-headline-supermodel-heidi-klum-seal-engaged/283273/35 "2005-03-18T17:57:03Z")
From today’s AP: “Heidi Klum and Seal Are Expecting Baby” And won’t it be [cute](http://pro.corbis.com/search/searchFrame.asp)? ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ap-headline-supermodel-heidi-klum-seal-engaged/283273/36 "2005-03-18T18:04:44Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > From today’s AP: “Heidi Klum and Seal Are Expecting Baby” > > And won’t it be [cute](http://pro.corbis.com/search/searchFrame.asp)? Ummm…no. 'Cause the linky-link is kerplooy. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ap-headline-supermodel-heidi-klum-seal-engaged/283273/37 "2005-03-18T19:00:05Z")
> [@Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor](#): > > 'Cause the linky-link is kerplooy. 😛 Hmmm . . . Link works for me: adorable baby seal photos! The unbloody, not-yet-head-bashed kind! ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ap-headline-supermodel-heidi-klum-seal-engaged/283273/38 "2005-03-18T19:28:38Z")
You know what they say… “Once you go Mirounga angustirostris, you never go back.” ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ap-headline-supermodel-heidi-klum-seal-engaged/283273/39 "2005-03-18T19:44:24Z")
How did Heidi and the seal meet? Did the go out … clubbing? ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ap-headline-supermodel-heidi-klum-seal-engaged/283273/40 "2005-03-18T19:53:44Z")
Well, the happy couple will be able to save money on entertainment at the wedding reception. Instead of booking a band, they can have the groom tootle out a tune on a row of bicycle horns. Maybe something by Cab Calloway. “Heidi Heidi Heidi Hi,” that sort of thing. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ap-headline-supermodel-heidi-klum-seal-engaged/283273.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ap-headline-supermodel-heidi-klum-seal-engaged/283273.md?page=3)