# Laverne or Shirley **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 26, 2000, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/laverne-or-shirley/15182 "2000-03-26T19:48:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![PatrickM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7feea3/32.png) [@PatrickM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickM)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2000, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/laverne-or-shirley/15182/1 "2000-03-26T19:48:00Z")
Inspired by Nick at Nite and because Ginger v. Mary Ann has been done to death, given the choice between Milwaukee’s Laverne DeFazion & Shirley Feeney, who would you rather go out with? Personally, I go for Laverne because she’s funnier and Shirley’s too uptight. ---
**Author:** ![Bluepony](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Bluepony](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bluepony)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2000, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/laverne-or-shirley/15182/2 "2000-03-26T19:57:00Z")
Wow, what a choice. I’ll probably just stay home and wash the car. I’ve dated women that have had a lot of their qualities. They fall under the single category of Dates From Hell. * * * _…send lawyers, guns, and money…_ ``` Warren Zevon ``` ---
**Author:** ![meek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce73a5/32.png) [@meek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meek)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2000, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/laverne-or-shirley/15182/3 "2000-03-26T19:57:00Z")
Ew! - And the other choices are? It’s kind of like asking the ladies if they prefer Squiggy or Lenny. But a big plus, they both work at a brewery! Shirley was cuter. But she’s no Jenny Picalo. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2000, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/laverne-or-shirley/15182/4 "2000-03-26T20:03:00Z")
Not a hijack, but in order to let the distaff side participate too, can we discuss the relative merits (splort) of Lenny and Squiggy? Although I realize there may be ladies who’d have an opinion on Lavern and Shirley too. Actually, given a choice between the four of them, I’d take Laverne. She didn’t take no crap off nobody. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5f8ce5/32.png) [@The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Peyote_Coyote)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2000, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/laverne-or-shirley/15182/5 "2000-03-26T20:11:00Z")
I give the same advice I gave on the Mary Ann & Ginger thread: Screw 'em both. ---
**Author:** ![ChiefScott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2000, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/laverne-or-shirley/15182/6 "2000-03-26T20:24:00Z")
If push came to shove, I’d go out with Shirley while risking the incurred wrath of the Great Ragu. But I’ve still a fond spot in my heart for Pinky Tuskadero… * * * Voted **Best Sport** And narrowly averted the despised moniker **Smiley Master** Forward deployed until 18AUG00 ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2000, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/laverne-or-shirley/15182/7 "2000-03-27T02:10:00Z")
It’s the Big Ragu, not the Great Ragu. It is the Great Gazoo (Flintstones) ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2000, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/laverne-or-shirley/15182/8 "2000-03-27T02:48:00Z")
Shirley, but not by much of a margin. Neither on of them struck me as particularly appealing, and the show was on at a time when my hormones were at full battle alert, so that’s saying something. I remember Pinky Tuscadero, who was smokin’! Sadly, Roz Kelly, who played Pinky, was in the news last year, accused of shooting her neighbor’s cars and her neighbor’s apartment after a car alarm woke her up in the middle of the night. I am not without sympathy to the impulse, but still… I also remember Pinky’s sister Leather Tuscadero, who was interesting, if not exactly smokin’. I saw the actress that played her, Suzi Quarto, in a production of _Annie Get Your Gun_ in London in 1989… she was more a singer than an actress, I might point out, both as regards her _AGYG_ and _Happy Days_ gigs… kind of a Melissa Etheridge type for the 80s. - Rick ---
**Author:** ![Sycorax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@Sycorax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sycorax)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2000, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/laverne-or-shirley/15182/9 "2000-03-27T04:42:00Z")
Between Lenny and Squiggy - I’d go for Lenny - Squiggy was just too weird including his voice (and that curl in the middle of his forehead - yuck). As for Laverne or Shirley - I always liked Shirley more, maybe because I’m a lot like her - personality-wise - but I’m much more attractive! 😃 (and my real name is Shirley). ---
**Author:** ![Trout\_Mask\_Replica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a88e57/32.png) [@Trout\_Mask\_Replica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trout_Mask_Replica)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2000, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/laverne-or-shirley/15182/10 "2000-03-27T05:35:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by PatrickM: > \*\*Inspired by Nick at Nite and because Ginger v. Mary Ann has been done to death, given the choice between Milwaukee’s Laverne DeFazion & Shirley Feeney, who would you rather go out with? > \*\* Neither. They’re both old enough to be my mom. * * * TMR You will buy the ukulele, and touch every place. ---
**Author:** ![kawliga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ea666f/32.png) [@kawliga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kawliga)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2000, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/laverne-or-shirley/15182/11 "2000-03-27T10:08:00Z")
Shirley, I suppose. But only if she and Laverne were the last women on earth. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2000, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/laverne-or-shirley/15182/12 "2000-03-27T12:29:00Z")
> [@](#): > > It’s the Big Ragu, not the Great Ragu. It is the Great Gazoo (Flintstones) Well actually, it’s the _Big Ragoo._ As evidenced by his branded jacket. Or at least, I think so. * * * [The Legend Of PigeonMan](http://www.hotkey.net.au/~guanolad/pigeonman/) - **Shadow of the Pigeon** - Weirdo of the Night ---
**Author:** ![rubes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@rubes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rubes)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2000, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/laverne-or-shirley/15182/13 "2000-03-27T14:17:00Z")
OK, now this is a subject dear to my heart. I think one can find out a lot by who they would do if the choices weren’t so clear, such as: Alice from the Brady Bunch, or Carol, the secretary from the Bob Newhart show? Mrs Garrett (fact of life, Different Strokes) or Weezie (Jeffersons) Miss Hathoway (Bev Hillbillies) or Ethyl Mertz (I love Lucy) The Skipper (Gilligan’s island) or Archie Bunker (All in the Family) Boss Hogg (Dukes of Hazard) or Danny DeVito (taxi, et al) I think these make for some interesting conversations. Sorry for the Hijack. * * * Nothing is so bad that it can’t get worse. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2000, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/laverne-or-shirley/15182/14 "2000-03-27T14:23:00Z")
Big Rosie Greebaum! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2000, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/laverne-or-shirley/15182/15 "2000-03-27T14:33:00Z")
Wo. Good questions…gotta be Lenny. Hmmm,I’d have to take the Skipper, then Boss Hogg. But I used to like Rooster from Baretta myself. ---
**Author:** ![Crystalguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dbc845/32.png) [@Crystalguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crystalguy)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2000, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/laverne-or-shirley/15182/16 "2000-03-27T15:03:00Z")
Shirley. The seduction would be so challenging and so much fun. The rewards would be too numerous to mention. * * * Crystalguy