# F\*ckin' Farah Fawcett **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 16, 2009, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-ckin-farah-fawcett/496592 "2009-05-16T00:03:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2009, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-ckin-farah-fawcett/496592/21 "2009-05-16T06:12:33Z")
> [@mswas](#): > > Jenny McCarthy has attention? Yeah, her retarded anti-vaccine campaign seems to have traction, unfortunately. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2009, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-ckin-farah-fawcett/496592/22 "2009-05-16T06:33:48Z")
Godawmighty, but is Farrah’s extended clan the original “White Trash With Money” gens or what? Matriarch Farrah: Drugged up bimbo who began cohabiting with Ryan O’Neal while still married to his friend Lee Majors, yet still sues him for spousal support. Goes on talk shows baked out of her mind. Patriarch Ryan: Where do you start? Constant brushes with the law including assault and battery, drugs, assault, battery, spousal abuse, child abuse, and domestic disturbances of all sorts involving his kids even after they were grown. RYAN’S KIDS Tatum O’Neal: Smack addict- and quite pitiable when you read the objective story of her childhood (i.e. not just taking her word for it as relayed in the memoir). Her mother had affairs with boys barely out of adolescence and of course was a druggie and drunk, then she went to live with Ryan (who she describes- and it’s not hard to believe- as physically, verbally, and emotionally abusive) and Farrah (who she describes as a total space cadet). Lost custody of her kids due to her addictions. (How effed up is your life when John McEnroe is seen as parent you’d be emotionally better adjusted growing up with?) Griffin O’Neal: First came to national prominence when 21 and coked after accidentally beheading his best friend (Francis Ford Coppola’s son, also coked) in a boating accident; most recently made headlines a couple of years ago when father Ryan attacked him with a poker and allegedly a gun and injured his 22 year old pregnant girlfriend. Redmond O’Neal: Farrah and Ryan’s co-production. Beats all you never saw been in trouble with the law since the day he was born practically (I think his first intervention was staged at a Chuck E’ Cheese’s) and most recently got busted taking narcotics INTO A JAIL TO VISIT A FRIEND! Ryan and Farrah don’t seem to lack for money at all- apparently he took good care of Peyton Place earnings and she took good care of Charlie’s Angels and whatever she got from Lee- but I seriously doubt there’s a person here who’d have rather grown up in that house than across town in Watts. Per wiki per People Ryan said in a recent years interview "“It’s a love story. I just don’t know how to play this one. I won’t know this world without her.” I wonder if he’s being melodramatic or if they really are a love story, albeit a majorly fucked up one. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2009, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-ckin-farah-fawcett/496592/23 "2009-05-16T06:53:39Z")
> [@SenorBeef](#): > > Yeah, her retarded anti-vaccine campaign seems to have traction, unfortunately. I didn’t even know about that. I knew she had an autistic kid, but that’s about it. ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2009, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-ckin-farah-fawcett/496592/24 "2009-05-16T07:22:10Z")
The goblin feces they put in the vaccine gave her kid autism, but then she cured it with fairy dust, and she thinks it’s okay if some eradicated diseases make a come back and start killing people if that’s what it takes for the evil pharmaceutical companies to stop putting goblin feces in the vaccine. And the media gives her plenty of air time. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2009, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-ckin-farah-fawcett/496592/25 "2009-05-16T07:29:19Z")
> [@JThunder](#): > > Is it fair to blame Farrah for all of this? As far as I can tell, she’s not the one who insisted on this TV special. I’d like to see the back story on that – I hadn’t heard any such thing. She’s certainly not an involuntary participant – except for the disease itself – of course. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2009, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-ckin-farah-fawcett/496592/26 "2009-05-16T07:32:31Z")
> [@Quasimodem](#): > > So, what celebrity (recent) died with dignity? > > Robert Urich? I think maybe **he** didn’t make a big deal out of it. > > Chris Reeve? > > Michael Landon? > > I **do** see your point, though, **BJ**. Why all the hoopla and fanfare? Just go with your loved ones at your bedside. > > But then I think about my blog, and I’m suddenly not so sure. Maybe I’m doing the same thing on a smaller scale? > > Or maybe **y’all** are my “loved ones”? > > Want me to shit the fuck up, already? ;):D:smack: > > Q You go ahead and blog and post, pal. This thread is about an annoying publicity campaign by a sick self-pitying celebrity diva. Really more like my story than yours. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2009, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-ckin-farah-fawcett/496592/27 "2009-05-16T07:52:59Z")
Just heard (on a podcast) that apparently Oprah is getting Jenny McCarthy her own talk show. FFS. I hope they both catch a rare strain of explosive polio. ---
**Author:** ![tumbleddown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tumbleddown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tumbleddown)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2009, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-ckin-farah-fawcett/496592/28 "2009-05-16T08:03:27Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > Free Jon! Free Jon! Free Jon! Free Jon! Screw Jon. Free the eight! Free the eight! > [@mswas](#): > > Jenny McCarthy has attention? Jenny McCarthy just signed a deal with Oprah’s Harpo Productions company. This seems to be the precursor to The Jenny McCarthy Talk Show, just as it was for Dr. Phil and Rachael Ray. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2009, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-ckin-farah-fawcett/496592/29 "2009-05-16T08:42:05Z")
> [@mswas](#): > > Who? [http://tlc.discovery.com/tv/jon-and-kate/jon-and-kate.html](http://tlc.discovery.com/tv/jon-and-kate/jon-and-kate.html) ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2009, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-ckin-farah-fawcett/496592/30 "2009-05-16T09:33:22Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > You go ahead and blog and post, pal. This thread is about an annoying publicity campaign by a sick self-pitying celebrity diva. Really more like my story than yours. 🙂 The blog is therapy for me, and right now - it’s the only way I communicate these days. I cannot be trusted to make rational decisions anymore, and it keeps me from being so frightened when I know someone’s on the “other end and listening”, so to speak. But, I in no way want to give the impression “Hey! Look at me! I’ve got Early Onset Alzheimer’s! **The** designer disease of the year!” And I have to be very careful what I write. So before I hit “Publish”, I ask myself “is this something people might wanna know (about me, my symptoms, etc.) and is it educational?” And yeah, okay: “Is it funny?” 🙂 To be perfectly honest, I didn’t (and still don’t) know squat about this shit, and I’m just learning as I go along - kinda OJT, you might say. But when I read the title of the thread, it just caused me to go “Whoah, Boy!”, and made me re-examine my reasons for doing it. So this is good, because it strenthens my resolve. So thank you for what you wrote - all of you. “I…feel… better now, Dave…” 😃 Bill ---
**Author:** ![askeptic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@askeptic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/askeptic)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2009, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-ckin-farah-fawcett/496592/31 "2009-05-16T10:08:50Z")
Am I the only jaded asshole suspicious of the timing of the UCLA fiasco about some employee selling Farrah’s medical records to a tabloid. Seems awfully convenient that Farrah first resurfaces on the Today show complaining about the invasion of her privacy a day or so before her show airs. Hmmmm ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2009, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-ckin-farah-fawcett/496592/32 "2009-05-16T10:17:29Z")
Free hat! Free hat! Free hat! Free hat! … Free Hat! Free Hat! Free Hat! Free Hat! ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2009, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-ckin-farah-fawcett/496592/33 "2009-05-16T12:44:02Z")
Nah, can’t get on this bandwagon. When she was on drugs and appearing on David Letterman, she deserved my contempt. She doesn’t deserve to die like this. So I’ll issue her a free pass due to extenuating circumstances. ---
**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tristan/32/18058_2.png) [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2009, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-ckin-farah-fawcett/496592/34 "2009-05-16T13:48:42Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > [Patrick Swayze/] Ditto. {cough} [/Patrick Swayze] I am a bad person, and will be warming my toesies in the fires of hell because of just how much I actually laughted out loud here at work. hehehehee! ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2009, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-ckin-farah-fawcett/496592/35 "2009-05-16T13:50:46Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Doesn’t she understand that her whinefest is taking valuable air time from possible breaking developments in the impending divorce of Jon and Kate? :mad: And the upcoming trial of Drew Peterson or Scott Peterson or whoever it is in the news now? ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2009, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-ckin-farah-fawcett/496592/36 "2009-05-16T13:55:09Z")
> [@SenorBeef](#): > > Just heard (on a podcast) that apparently Oprah is getting Jenny McCarthy her own talk show. FFS. I hope they both catch a rare strain of explosive polio. I love Oprah. Everything that people hate her for, I adore her for. But this…this hurts my feelings. I can’t believe she is getting McCarthy her own platform for her crazy stuff. Also, ‘goblin feces’ is killing me. Ha! ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2009, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-ckin-farah-fawcett/496592/37 "2009-05-16T13:59:18Z")
> [@PunditLisa](#): > > Nah, can’t get on this bandwagon. When she was on drugs and appearing on David Letterman, she deserved my contempt. She doesn’t deserve to die like this. So I’ll issue her a free pass due to extenuating circumstances. She doesn’t deserve to die like this – i.e., cancer – but she also doesn’t need to die like this – i.e., so fucking publicly. ---
**Author:** ![Rascal\_s\_Mom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a698b9/32.png) [@Rascal\_s\_Mom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rascal_s_Mom)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2009, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-ckin-farah-fawcett/496592/38 "2009-05-16T15:06:11Z")
> [@Quasimodem](#): > > Want me to **shit** the fuck up, already? ;):D:smack: > > Q Am I the only one who caught this typo? Made my day! Thanks **Quasimodem**! ---
**Author:** ![Suse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@Suse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suse)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2009, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-ckin-farah-fawcett/496592/39 "2009-05-16T15:15:50Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > She doesn’t deserve to die like this – i.e., cancer – but she also doesn’t need to die like this – i.e., so fucking publicly. Because dying publicly is so offensive? ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2009, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-ckin-farah-fawcett/496592/40 "2009-05-16T15:55:23Z")
“Tacky” is the word I’d probably use. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-ckin-farah-fawcett/496592.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-ckin-farah-fawcett/496592.md?page=3)