# Is it as gross as it seems for Paris to have spoken? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 8, 2009, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-as-gross-as-it-seems-for-paris-to-have-spoken/502275 "2009-07-08T00:02:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2009, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-as-gross-as-it-seems-for-paris-to-have-spoken/502275/61 "2009-07-08T19:48:28Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > My wife has a white father and black mother. if you met her you’d never know she was half black. Rashida Jones. I was stunned to learn she was Quincy Jones’ kid. While she doesn’t look as flawlessly Aryan as her mother (Peggy Lipton), I still don’t see anything in her that suggests African anything. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2009, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-as-gross-as-it-seems-for-paris-to-have-spoken/502275/62 "2009-07-08T20:05:48Z")
> [@Rhythmdvl](#): > > Um, for those poking sharp sticks at Stoid (or appearing to poke sharp sticks at Stoid), note that the OP wasn’t really an angry screed but more of an IMHO-type conversational question. To be fair, she originally placed it in the Pit. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2009, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-as-gross-as-it-seems-for-paris-to-have-spoken/502275/63 "2009-07-08T20:17:43Z")
I wonder what any of the Jackson’s do during actual week? Do any of them have jobs? Do they just hang out in their homes, travel, go shopping? ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2009, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-as-gross-as-it-seems-for-paris-to-have-spoken/502275/64 "2009-07-08T20:43:09Z")
The daughter actually reminds me quite a bit of Madonna’s kid, [Lourdes](http://cdn.picapp.com/ftp/editors/1/d/6/6/65.JPG). ---
**Author:** ![smee\_goan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f07891/32.png) [@smee\_goan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smee_goan)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2009, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-as-gross-as-it-seems-for-paris-to-have-spoken/502275/65 "2009-07-08T21:07:59Z")
> [@Rigamarole](#): > > You must have never listened to his music… the kid is not his son. if the glove don’t fit, or if the dress\* is a mess, or taps foot for Barack’s Faux Paus. \*Monica Lewinsky ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2009, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-as-gross-as-it-seems-for-paris-to-have-spoken/502275/66 "2009-07-08T21:18:52Z")
> [@Hampshire](#): > > I wonder what any of the Jackson’s do during actual week? > Do any of them have jobs? Do they just hang out in their homes, travel, go shopping? I know a couple of them have had serious financial difficulties. In '08, the NYPost mentioned Randy Jackson doing odd jobs/fixing cars to make ends meet. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2009, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-as-gross-as-it-seems-for-paris-to-have-spoken/502275/67 "2009-07-08T21:29:59Z")
> [@Hampshire](#): > > I wasn’t aware of that. How long were they married for? Just long enough for him to be able to put “father” on the birth certificate? > Kind of a sneaky way of avoiding the whole adoption paperwork. You only need to be married to the mother at the moment of birth for you to be the legal father of a child born to your wife. That goes for women who flooze on their husband and have another man’s child, too. The court considers the HUSBAND to be the legal and responsible father to the child. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-as-gross-as-it-seems-for-paris-to-have-spoken/502275/68 "2009-07-09T17:10:08Z")
But who is Blanket’s mother? ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-as-gross-as-it-seems-for-paris-to-have-spoken/502275/69 "2009-07-09T17:45:39Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > But who is Blanket’s mother? I thought she was an anonymous surrogate who never even knew she was having MJ’s kid. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-as-gross-as-it-seems-for-paris-to-have-spoken/502275.md?page=3)