# Dear Natalie Maines, **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 25, 2003, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-natalie-maines/171017 "2003-04-25T02:25:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bruce\_Daddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@Bruce\_Daddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bruce_Daddy)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2003, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-natalie-maines/171017/1 "2003-04-25T02:25:44Z")
I think your band makes good music. I think you sing well. I don’t care what you say on stage. I was once in a terrible garage band and I said the most ridiculous things on stage. However. . . I once asked a girl who was the celebrity she thought she most resembled. She said “The ugly Dixie Chick.” I knew who she was talking about. (I didn’t say it, she did. Don’t hate on me!) “Long time gone!!!” ---
**Author:** ![cuauhtemoc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecb155/32.png) [@cuauhtemoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cuauhtemoc)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2003, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-natalie-maines/171017/2 "2003-04-25T02:29:55Z")
I think she’s cute. And all three are naked on the cover of Entertainment Weekly. Yum! ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2003, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-natalie-maines/171017/3 "2003-04-25T02:48:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bruce\_Daddy \* > \*\* > She said “The ugly Dixie Chick.” > > I knew who she was talking about. > > (I didn’t say it, she did. Don’t hate on me!) > > “Long time gone!!!” \*\* Wow. Shallow much? ---
**Author:** ![FranticMad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c68b51/32.png) [@FranticMad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FranticMad)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2003, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-natalie-maines/171017/4 "2003-04-25T02:53:49Z")
My. brain. fell. out. of. skull. huh? ---
**Author:** ![Bruce\_Daddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@Bruce\_Daddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bruce_Daddy)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2003, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-natalie-maines/171017/5 "2003-04-25T02:54:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mockingbird \* > \*\*Wow. Shallow much? \*\* I guess she was! ---
**Author:** ![FranticMad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c68b51/32.png) [@FranticMad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FranticMad)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2003, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-natalie-maines/171017/6 "2003-04-25T02:58:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bruce\_Daddy \* > \*\*I was once in a terrible garage band and I said the most ridiculous things on stage. I am shocked. Yay, shocked say I! ---
**Author:** ![SpaceGhostofArrakis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@SpaceGhostofArrakis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpaceGhostofArrakis)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2003, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-natalie-maines/171017/7 "2003-04-25T02:58:20Z")
As has been implied, they looked fine on the cover of this week’s _Entertainment Weekly_. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Bruce\_Daddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@Bruce\_Daddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bruce_Daddy)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2003, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-natalie-maines/171017/8 "2003-04-25T03:18:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by FranticMad \* > \*\*I am shocked. Yay, shocked say I! \*\* I love your skit on Crank Yankers. ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2003, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-natalie-maines/171017/9 "2003-04-25T03:24:43Z")
Is she the one that ususally sports anus lips? If so, I think she’s pretty, but I hate her makeup style. ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2003, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-natalie-maines/171017/10 "2003-04-25T03:24:54Z")
Is she the one that ususally sports anus lips? If so, I think she’s pretty, but I hate her makeup style. YMMV ---
**Author:** ![Scotticher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Scotticher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scotticher)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2003, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-natalie-maines/171017/11 "2003-04-25T03:46:01Z")
I hate to get into this, but all three of them look extrodinarily beautiful to me. All three of them have different kinds of beauty. All three are very beautiful. IMHO. They also make beautiful music. JMHO ---
**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2003, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-natalie-maines/171017/12 "2003-04-25T03:56:37Z")
I think she’s cute. She doesn’t have that “cookie cutter” look that most female celebrities have. The other 2 are okay, but I get them mixed up. They’re bordering on cookie cutter. ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2003, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-natalie-maines/171017/13 "2003-04-25T04:01:22Z")
I agree with **Scotticher**. I usually hear Natalie called “the fat one.” I think this is horrible, especially as she has never been _fat_ in the entire time she’s been a celebrity. Whether she was fat when she was in high school, or in college, or whenever, I have no idea about that. But she’s built differently from the sisters who are her bandmates, and because they are willowy and she is not she gets called “the fat one.” Ok, she was fat while she was pregnant, but so was the other one! (I forget whether it was Martie or Emily.) Martie’s my favorite, Nat’s my second-favorite. Emily has her hair brown sometimes (I think she’s naturally a brunette, actually) and I think she’s the least attractive of the three - but even then she’s beautiful. (And she’s hitched to Charlie Robison. Go her!) ---
**Author:** ![Scotticher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Scotticher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scotticher)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2003, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-natalie-maines/171017/14 "2003-04-25T04:09:26Z")
FAT? People say she is FAT? I formally, quite publicly and forever, give up. ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2003, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-natalie-maines/171017/15 "2003-04-25T04:14:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by racinchikki \* > **Emily has her hair brown sometimes (I think she’s naturally a brunette, actually) and I think she’s the least attractive of the three -** :::double take::: :::_triple_ take::: I think Emmy is far and away the prettiest of the three. She’s also head and shoulders the most intelligent (I saw them all on a celebrity version of Jeopardy. Marti was dumb as a plank, but Natalie was embarrassingly stupid.) I just hope they don’t short-circuit their careers by talking too much. I mean, I’ll still listen to their music, but if enough country fans tune them out, there might not be enough of a market to keep them going. ---
**Author:** ![Payton\_s\_Servant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3da27b/32.png) [@Payton\_s\_Servant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Payton_s_Servant)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2003, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-natalie-maines/171017/16 "2003-04-25T04:16:35Z")
Dear **Bruce Daddy** , I think you are a sexist AssHat. And your garage band sucked. /Pie Nazi/ No Pie For You!!! /Pie Nazi/ ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2003, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-natalie-maines/171017/17 "2003-04-25T04:34:56Z")
Emily _is_ very smart. Also shy. And pretty. It’s just that my personal taste is towards a physical type different from hers. ---
**Author:** ![Bean\_Counter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/db5fbb/32.png) [@Bean\_Counter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bean_Counter)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2003, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-natalie-maines/171017/18 "2003-04-25T04:46:32Z")
Let me see if I have this correct: The Dixie Chick’s response to being called “unpatriotic” and “unAmerican” was to pose nude on the cover of Entertainment Weekly? Hmmmm… [engage male hormones] Ya know, Sandra Bullock isn’t all that patriotic. Nor Cathy Ireland. How about that Riese Witherspoon? Oh yeah, a down right commie! Kirsten Dunst? Pinko. Angelina Jolie? Down-right unAMERICAN I tell you! [/engage male hormones] ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2003, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-natalie-maines/171017/19 "2003-04-25T05:15:54Z")
I don’t normally like to look at these sorts of things but I did want to intelligently reply to this topic with all of the relevant facts. No need to thank me, I feel that it’s my duty as a member of the community. So, I just looked at the picture and I can’t for the life of me tell you which one of these ladys would be considered the “ugly one.” They are all attractive women and not a one of them is overweight. I don’t know which one is Natalie either. Could someone educate me? Haj ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2003, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-natalie-maines/171017/20 "2003-04-25T05:20:46Z")
Bruce\_Daddy, somehow the OP doesn’t jive with the five word description of yourself elsewhere. 😃 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-natalie-maines/171017.md?page=2)