# Maryanne or Ginger? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 24, 2011, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maryanne-or-ginger/575871 "2011-03-24T17:55:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2011, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maryanne-or-ginger/575871/81 "2011-03-26T01:31:49Z")
> [@Nzinga\_Seated](#): > > Aha! So _that’s_ why you didn’t think a young Elizabeth Taylor was beautiful. You like 'em a bit more…[interesting.](http://www.kalynjohnson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/mrs-howell.jpeg) _shudder_ I didn’t actually say I’d vote for her. :eek: I voted Maryann. That innocent, corn-fed Midwest schtick wins out every time over the ball-cutting bitch persona. And I also think Bailey was the better-looking girl on _WKRP in Concinatti_, not that Loni Anderson plastic-surgery-gone-bad monstrosity. Speaking of Dawn Wells, I seem to recall she got busted for driving while stoned on pot a couple of years ago. I think her mugshot is somewhere on the Web. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2011, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maryanne-or-ginger/575871/82 "2011-03-26T03:22:40Z")
[Yup.](http://ll-media.tmz.com/2008/03/12/0311_dawn_wells_mugshot-1.jpg) Something appealing about her even in that pic. ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2011, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maryanne-or-ginger/575871/83 "2011-03-26T05:24:07Z")
Ginger was a slut. She always looked like she’d be sticky. She would do Mr Howell for his money and Mrs Howell for her social status. If you did Ginger, you’d have to go from the bedroom to the VD clinic and then to the police station to report your money and credit cards stolen. She’s the type to get her self pregnant on purpose than demand money for an abortion, then not use the money to abort the child, then have the child, then demand child support for the kid, then deman hush money to keep the illegitimacy of the child quiet. Then after getting the money she’d dump the kid on a door step, where it would be undoubtedly found and raised by the Three Stooges Ginger was a gold digger, an opportunist, a fraud, and a diseased ridden tramp. And the above is the GOOD side of Ginger ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2011, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maryanne-or-ginger/575871/84 "2011-03-26T09:28:39Z")
Wow. I thought\* I\* over-analyzed _Gilligan’s Island_\* and such\*\*. - I think Gilligan is the guardian of purgatory, and the castaways are all dead. Or, possibly Gilligan is dead, and the adventures on the island are the [Bardo](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bardo). \*\* Ask me about Glinda, I dare ya’. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2011, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maryanne-or-ginger/575871/85 "2011-03-26T18:05:19Z")
Quoth **tdn** : > [@](#): > > Yeah, but too bad she was banging the professor the whole time. > > I mean, we all know she was, right? > > Right? All the better! (yeah, guess who I identified with on that show?) And while we’re at it, Kaylee over Inara (or Zoe or River). ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2011, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maryanne-or-ginger/575871/86 "2011-03-26T20:07:23Z")
> [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](#): > > Julie Newmar as Catwoman. No, not as Catwoman – I always preferred her as the Devil in the “Of Late I Think Of Cliffordville” episode of Twilight Zone. She had the cutest little horns… ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2011, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maryanne-or-ginger/575871/87 "2011-03-27T11:20:36Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > I just always have to go with the character archetype. Ginger would only be with me to try to get something out of me. If Maryann acts like she likes me, I know it’s real. > > Plus, I prefer slightly insecure to highly confident. I can have friends that are the latter, but I can only get close to the former. I actually randomly found the word I wanted for the above. Mary Ann is more coy. I like that. Ginger’s just too in your face. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2011, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maryanne-or-ginger/575871/88 "2011-03-27T21:28:29Z")
I like Maryann for many of the reasons already mentioned. Her biggest plus: she’s the kind of girl you can bring home to Mom. ---
**Author:** ![Erdosain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/erdosain/32/7284_2.png) [@Erdosain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Erdosain)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2011, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maryanne-or-ginger/575871/89 "2011-03-28T22:09:24Z")
> [@Markxxx](#): > > Ginger was a gold digger, an opportunist, a fraud, and a diseased ridden tramp. > > And the above is the GOOD side of Ginger I’ll be in my bunk. ---
**Author:** ![Arkcon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Arkcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arkcon)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2011, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maryanne-or-ginger/575871/90 "2011-03-28T22:32:10Z")
Maryanne and Ginger and Ms. Howell, just to say I did it, then the hole, in the bottom of the boat. (a stand-up comedian gave me that one) and if Gilligan thinks he can swing that curvy ass in that hammock, back and forth, night after night, year after year, without something happening, he’s very much mistaken. 😛 No but seriously, if they’re stuck on an island for years, the swapping should have been endless and very varied. If we’re not going for the ultra family friendly. I never saw _Survivor_, and I know the duration is much shorter, and they know they’re going home. But do personal, physical relationships form and swap during the course of the show? ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2011, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maryanne-or-ginger/575871/91 "2011-03-28T22:41:16Z")
> [@Omar\_Little](#): > > Why choose? > > Do both. I’m past three-ways, thanks, but I’m fairly certain that Ginger was doing Mary Ann the entire time anyway. She’s not the type to go long without sex, and the four men on the island were all disqualified as suitable regular bedmates for one reason or another. I can easily see her deciding to persuade Mary Ann into outraging God and Fred Phelps, and just as easily imagine Mary Ann going along. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2011, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maryanne-or-ginger/575871/92 "2011-03-29T01:21:12Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > She’s not the type to go long without sex, and the four men on the island were all disqualified as suitable regular bedmates for one reason or another. Don’t forget there was some sort of big monkey that appeared from time to time, although Gilligan may have been tapping that himself. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2011, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maryanne-or-ginger/575871/93 "2011-03-29T04:11:03Z")
> [@](#): > > Don’t forget there was some sort of big monkey that appeared from time to time, although Gilligan may have been tapping that himself. Yeah, someone else already mentioned the Skipper. ---
**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maryanne-or-ginger/575871/94 "2011-03-30T13:23:09Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > What? No love for [Agent 99](http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=2&sqi=2&ved=0CCkQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FBarbara_Feldon&rct=j&q=Agent%2099&ei=UY6MTc3TGKqZ0QGbxeW_Cw&usg=AFQjCNEj06Vhlwig7eVbmHAbKB92jqJoTw&cad=rja)? Or the ultimate 60s TV woman, [Laura Petrie](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dick_Van_Dyke_Show)? > > I think [Wrangler Jane](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F_Troop) at least needs mention. > > Also, I find Paris fairly repulsive. It is her personality but also her looks are not desirable to me compared to most any Hollywood beauty. I don’t know if it’s just me, but each link you provided goes to a wikipedia page, not to a picture of your actresses. I don’t have a problem with any of those women. All fine choices. However, I must protest your harsh words for Paris. I can appreciate that she’s not your type (don’t understand it, but to each his own). However, the fact that she appears everywhere in media should tell you that a LOT of people find her attractive. I don’t know what it is, exactly… I just find her to exude sexuality from every fiber of her being. Her eyes… her body… she’s got that something special that pushes her to the top of my personal list. Kind of like Gina Gershon. They both have this slutty, sexy look to them that hits the part of my brain that interprets these things and short-circuits it. sorry for the hijack Oh, can we have a rule that we cannot post pictures of aging bombshells please? That current picture of Tina Louise was not right. If someone posts a current picture Mary Tyler Moore AND/OR a Priscilla Presley AND/OR Sarah Jessica Parker, this thread could get ugly fast. ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maryanne-or-ginger/575871/95 "2011-03-30T17:24:32Z")
> [@Stink Fish Pot](#): > > Sarah Jessica Parker I cannot see that name and not think of a phrase I saw here on the 'dope: Beaver Tail Boobs. ---
**Author:** ![Jake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maryanne-or-ginger/575871/96 "2011-03-30T19:02:59Z")
Aren’t we forgetting Zena and Gabrielle? I’ll take Gabby anytime! ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2011, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maryanne-or-ginger/575871/97 "2011-03-31T03:02:34Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > Also, I find Paris fairly repulsive. It is her personality but also her looks are not desirable to me compared to most any Hollywood beauty. Agree that Paris is one ugly skank. ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2011, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maryanne-or-ginger/575871/98 "2011-03-31T11:19:53Z")
And she has exactly two facial expressions: Vacuous smile and unconscious. There’s a youtube video somewhere that’s a collection of a bunch of photos of her: All the identical expression. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maryanne-or-ginger/575871.md?page=4)