# I pit Heather Mills, by proxy **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 20, 2007, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-heather-mills-by-proxy/396718 "2007-03-20T15:10:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-heather-mills-by-proxy/396718/41 "2007-03-21T16:39:41Z")
[QUOTE=Biggirl] _I ain’t sayin’ she’s a gold digger But she ain’t messin’ with no broke niggas_ You can type the word ‘nigga’. Even ‘nigger’. I don’t think the race police will ban you or anything. [/QUOTE] Thank you. 🙂 (Given my rather (ahem) conservative nature, I’ve learned to try to accomodate the PC police in these types of things lest I add fuel to the erroneous notion that righties are racists.) ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-heather-mills-by-proxy/396718/42 "2007-03-21T16:40:34Z")
[QUOTE=Biggirl] _I ain’t sayin’ she’s a gold digger But she ain’t messin’ with no broke niggas_ You can type the word ‘nigga’. Even ‘nigger’. I don’t think the race police will ban you or anything. [/QUOTE] Yeah, but you know us whiteys can’t make that call. (Like the great scene in _Heart Condition_ where the black police captain is explaining this point to Bob Hoskins. ---
**Author:** ![Sarahfeena](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarahfeena/32/519_2.png) [@Sarahfeena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarahfeena)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-heather-mills-by-proxy/396718/43 "2007-03-21T16:44:32Z")
[QUOTE=AHoosierMama] How many of the other contestants are planning to donate their winnings to charity? [/QUOTE] Doesn’t she kind of _have_ to, considering that she is billing herself as a charity fundraiser? 😉 Typically on game shows, the policy is that celebrities who are on the show play for a charity. Is this not the same on _Dancing with the Stars_? How much cash do they win? ---
**Author:** ![SanVito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sanvito/32/2805_2.png) [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-heather-mills-by-proxy/396718/44 "2007-03-21T17:15:14Z")
[QUOTE=AHoosierMama] How many of the other contestants are planning to donate their winnings to charity? [/QUOTE] Yeh, really big of her, considering how strapped for cash she is. Haven’t noticed her donating her alimony to charity. ---
**Author:** ![Elza\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Elza\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elza_B)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-heather-mills-by-proxy/396718/45 "2007-03-21T17:23:06Z")
[QUOTE=AHoosierMama] How many of the other contestants are planning to donate their winnings to charity? [/QUOTE] Like she’s going to win. :rolleyes: 😉 Please. Sir Paul’s fans will make sure she’s voted off in the first three shows. E. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-heather-mills-by-proxy/396718/46 "2007-03-21T17:26:41Z")
[QUOTE=Sarahfeena] True enough. If anyone was NOT being stupid, it was Heather Mills. If I were her, I would have pumped that baby out even faster than she did. And tried to squeeze in one more for good measure. 🙂 [/QUOTE] Speaking of babies…how close are you? ---
**Author:** ![Caridwen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c89c15/32.png) [@Caridwen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caridwen)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-heather-mills-by-proxy/396718/47 "2007-03-21T17:30:13Z")
[QUOTE=Elza B] Like she’s going to win. :rolleyes: 😉 Please. Sir Paul’s fans will make sure she’s voted off in the first three shows. E. [/QUOTE] I suspect even some of his fans think he sorta got what he deserved. He was 60 years old when he married her and he’s been around the block a few hundred times. He should have known better. Next time you marry someone half your age, get a prenup. Larry King could have told him that. ---
**Author:** ![Sarahfeena](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarahfeena/32/519_2.png) [@Sarahfeena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarahfeena)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-heather-mills-by-proxy/396718/48 "2007-03-21T17:31:00Z")
[QUOTE=Kalhoun] Speaking of babies…how close are you? [/QUOTE] About 2 1/2 weeks to go! (Due on Easter Sunday.) 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Elza\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Elza\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elza_B)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-heather-mills-by-proxy/396718/49 "2007-03-21T17:36:18Z")
[QUOTE=Caridwen] I suspect even some of his fans think he sorta got what he deserved. He was 60 years old when he married her and he’s been around the block a few hundred times. He should have known better. Next time you marry someone half your age, get a prenup. Larry King could have told him that. [/QUOTE] Well, yeah…but since when do super-fans think rationally like that? And seriously, my husband is a huge Paul McCartney fan whom I normally consider a level-headed person, but he hates Heather Mills with an odd intensity that I’ve never seen from him. And I know he’s not the only one. Hell, a friend of mine in her early sixties is so rabidly in love with Clay Aiken that you can’t say a negative word against him or she has a hissy fit. Honest-to-God. I had no idea a sixty-one year old woman could act like a 13 year year old fangirl. E. ---
**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:** [March 21, 2007, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-heather-mills-by-proxy/396718/50 "2007-03-21T17:53:52Z")
[QUOTE=The Flying Dutchman] I was not surprised to hear of their separation, but I was surprised to hear that she needed to sue for hundreds of millions of dollars. Their marriage lasted what, a couple of years? That just makes her the biggest whore of the millenium. I understand why Paul didn’t pursue a pre-nup, but clearly he entered the marriage in good faith, and this is how he was rewarded. Not only is she a bitch whore, she’s an ugly bitch whore as well. [/QUOTE] Brilliant. Didn’t Princess Diana get a buttload less in her settlement from Charles for enduring a much longer marriage than this UBW? ---
**Author:** ![Siege](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@Siege](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siege)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-heather-mills-by-proxy/396718/51 "2007-03-21T18:23:42Z")
[QUOTE=Sarahfeena] About 2 1/2 weeks to go! (Due on Easter Sunday.) 🙂 [/QUOTE] “Welcome Happy Morning!” indeed, then! 😃 From what I’ve read, Heather Mills has said some quite vicious things about Paul McCartney, including that his children hate him which apparently came as quite a surprise to them. I didn’t follow the case closely, but I did see some things in the gossip columns and it lowered my opinion of her. Ironically, I’m taking ballroom dance lessons when _Dancing With the Stars_ is on this season and I haven’t had a chance to watch my tape yet, but I’m hoping she’ll go quickly. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-heather-mills-by-proxy/396718/52 "2007-03-21T18:34:14Z")
[QUOTE=Elza B] Well, yeah…but since when do super-fans think rationally like that? [/QUOTE] “Fan” is one of those words that comes by its etymology honestly. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Wee\_Bairn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-heather-mills-by-proxy/396718/53 "2007-03-21T19:38:16Z")
[QUOTE=Shirley Ujest] Didn’t Princess Diana get a buttload less in her settlement from Charles for enduring a much longer marriage than this UBW? [/QUOTE] Yes, But Beatle money puts Royal family money to shame 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-heather-mills-by-proxy/396718/54 "2007-03-23T05:13:39Z")
[QUOTE=Beadalin] So what makes her a bad person or a gold-digger? The fact that she married and divorced (or will divorce) Paul McCartney? [/QUOTE] I’m a little confused as well. I don’t follow celebrity gossip, but I seem to remember prior to their marriage that she was a model? It’s been a while, but I could have sworn that she had a pretty decent income herself. ---
**Author:** ![jabiru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-heather-mills-by-proxy/396718/55 "2007-03-23T05:22:32Z")
[QUOTE=PunditLisa] Oh, and a lot of viewers probably aren’t old enough to remember when Paul was cute. [/QUOTE] Whaddya mean “was”? ---
**Author:** ![Qwisp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qwisp/32/397_2.png) [@Qwisp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qwisp)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-heather-mills-by-proxy/396718/56 "2007-03-23T14:47:03Z")
[QUOTE=jabiru] Whaddya mean “was”? [/QUOTE] I agree totally and so does my daughter who is turning 18 in a week. She told me last night that she’s glad the skanky ho Heather is gone, now she can have Sir Paul all to herself. We were hoping her leg would fly off during her dance and nail one of the judges. ---
**Author:** ![Caridwen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c89c15/32.png) [@Caridwen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caridwen)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-heather-mills-by-proxy/396718/57 "2007-03-23T15:13:03Z")
[QUOTE=Qwisp] I agree totally and so does my daughter who is turning 18 in a week. She told me last night that she’s glad the skanky ho Heather is gone, now she can have Sir Paul all to herself. We were hoping her leg would fly off during her dance and nail one of the judges. [/QUOTE] Aw, that’s cute. :rolleyes: Does she have her eye on any other 65 year old men? Do people really refer to him as Sir Paul? ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-heather-mills-by-proxy/396718/58 "2007-03-23T22:45:39Z")
[QUOTE=CanvasShoes] I’m a little confused as well. I don’t follow celebrity gossip, but I seem to remember prior to their marriage that she was a model? It’s been a while, but I could have sworn that she had a pretty decent income herself. [/QUOTE] “pretty decent income” compared to mine, sure. “pretty decent” compared to McCartney? not even in the same continent, I think. ---
**Author:** ![ENugent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/4af34b/32.png) [@ENugent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ENugent)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-heather-mills-by-proxy/396718/59 "2007-03-23T22:58:56Z")
[QUOTE=Sarahfeena] Typically on game shows, the policy is that celebrities who are on the show play for a charity. Is this not the same on _Dancing with the Stars_? How much cash do they win? [/QUOTE] They win nothing but a hideously ugly trophy. Heather Mills is donating her appearance fee. ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2007, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-heather-mills-by-proxy/396718/60 "2007-03-24T06:09:17Z")
[QUOTE=Larry Mudd] Okay, now we have an attribution. Can we have the decoder key that will allow us to get some semiotic content out of it? It must mean _something_; it’s got words in it. [/QUOTE] Semiotic content is not integral to the definition of popular music, but merely a property that may or may not be present in a given work. However, in the given lyrical snippet the meaning is as follows: The narrator is expounding upon the personality and motivations of a woman and her life choices. He makes no claim on whether she pursues relationships with men purely because of their wealth, but he also notes that she is not to be found in the company of indigent men. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-heather-mills-by-proxy/396718.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-heather-mills-by-proxy/396718.md?page=4)