Well, now thats twice I have read a thread and been impressed by the kind of crowd fellow dopers keep.
Eve and Eden, they even have similar names.
They didn’t simply have stories of celebrity brushes, but stories were they paled around with extremely cool famous people. They were also immortalized by these artists. Eve in Polyester (Isn’t that the smellovision Flick?) and Eden in a Slug original.
I guess Eden wins, though. I mean Slug had a crush on her. I have my doubts that John Waters spent his nights dreaming of Eve. (No offense to Eve, I just figure had different way to spend his evenings.)
Oh jeepers, I can’t believe I’m in this thread with Eve! Clearly, she wins Impressive Famous Doper by a landslide. Three-time published author? Television personality? Movie expert and critic? All-around rapier-wit? I hope that someday I have even ONE of these accomplishments.
But yeah, in the “cool name connoting a beautiful utopia” contest, I’m up there
Let’s not forget David B., who has a VERY impressive magazine column (a lot more intelligent than my sarcastic blatherings!), and Ukulele Ike, who is one of the top book editors in New York.
Well, if we’re going to mention magazine columns, how about puttin in a good word for our own Cecil Adams? And speaking of editors, let’s not forget Ed Zotti.
Man, if I was the Chairman of the Board at REXALL, I wouldn’t waste my damn time moderating a Straight Dope Message Board, I’d be living large in a penthouse love nest, surrounded by buxom and scantily-clad pharmacists pouring me champagne and applying the Dr. Scholl’s…