# Oh dear, I don't know who Edie Sedgwick was! Shame on me! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 16, 2006, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-dear-i-dont-know-who-edie-sedgwick-was-shame-on-me/376659 "2006-10-16T17:52:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-dear-i-dont-know-who-edie-sedgwick-was-shame-on-me/376659/121 "2006-10-18T11:08:47Z")
[QUOTE=The King of Soup] There’s always contention, but the squabbling seems _meaner_ now, both in the sense of nastiness and that of pettiness, and often both at once, with much less humor to make it palatable. [/QUOTE] true, dat. ---
**Author:** ![sciurophobic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cab0a1/32.png) [@sciurophobic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciurophobic)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-dear-i-dont-know-who-edie-sedgwick-was-shame-on-me/376659/122 "2006-10-18T15:01:34Z")
If anybody deserves to be the answer to a question that begins “Who the hell is” it’s Edie Sedgwick. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-dear-i-dont-know-who-edie-sedgwick-was-shame-on-me/376659/123 "2006-10-18T15:12:48Z")
Exactly, **sciurophobic**. Hell, I cede ground to no one when it comes to 60s and 70s trivia and and I needed a nudge to remember who she was: a sad footnote. ---
**Author:** ![Viridiana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ebca7d/32.png) [@Viridiana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Viridiana)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-dear-i-dont-know-who-edie-sedgwick-was-shame-on-me/376659/124 "2006-10-18T20:11:16Z")
Who are all you people? I’ve spent the last hour thinking about Edie Sedgwick and now I don’t know where I am. ---
**Author:** ![Wilson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/96bed5/32.png) [@Wilson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wilson)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-dear-i-dont-know-who-edie-sedgwick-was-shame-on-me/376659/125 "2006-10-18T22:37:01Z")
Who the hell is Cecil Adams? ---
**Author:** ![Caridwen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c89c15/32.png) [@Caridwen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caridwen)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-dear-i-dont-know-who-edie-sedgwick-was-shame-on-me/376659/126 "2006-10-18T23:19:50Z")
I guess I shouldn’t even read in the pit because when I read the thread I thought it was good natured kidding by both **RickJay** & **Lissener**. **RickJay** posted “Who the hell is Edie Sedgwick.” I thought it was sort of funny. When **lissener** posted “sometimes this board is too depressing” I thought he was joking about the posters age or making him feel old. ---
**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:** [October 19, 2006, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-dear-i-dont-know-who-edie-sedgwick-was-shame-on-me/376659/127 "2006-10-19T02:40:44Z")
One wonders how much worse this thread would have been if the question was, “Who the hell is Andy Warhol?” 😛 ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2006, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-dear-i-dont-know-who-edie-sedgwick-was-shame-on-me/376659/128 "2006-10-19T05:17:25Z")
[QUOTE=Guinastasia] One wonders how much worse this thread would have been if the question was, “Who the hell is Andy Warhol?” 😛 [/QUOTE] Even worse: Who the hell is Marilyn Monroe? Who the hell is Marilyn Monroe? Who the hell is Marilyn Monroe? Who the hell is Marilyn Monroe? Who the hell is Marilyn Monroe? Who the hell is Marilyn Monroe? Who the hell is Marilyn Monroe? Who the hell is Marilyn Monroe? Who the hell is Marilyn Monroe? Who the hell is Marilyn Monroe? Who the hell is Marilyn Monroe? Who the hell is Marilyn Monroe? ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2006, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-dear-i-dont-know-who-edie-sedgwick-was-shame-on-me/376659/129 "2006-10-19T16:01:24Z")
[QUOTE=RickJay] Holy shit! I didn’t know who Edie Sedgwick was! I mean, EDIE SEDGWICK! You know, the socialite and heiress who died of a drug overdose in 1971 and appeared in a few Andy Warhol short filks before she really got into the pills and the booze! Everyone knows who Edie Sedgwick is! I mean, it’s like not knowing who Clark Gable or Katharine Hepburn are! (By “Everyone” I mean “Very few people.”) [/QUOTE] Never heard of her. I am quite well read, watch movies and TV, read the newspaper every day, and I am a “baby-boomer”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-dear-i-dont-know-who-edie-sedgwick-was-shame-on-me/376659.md?page=6)