# Patently unattractive, yet sexy/appealing anyway... **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 31, 2000, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patently-unattractive-yet-sexy-appealing-anyway/47879 "2000-12-31T06:39:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2001, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patently-unattractive-yet-sexy-appealing-anyway/47879/61 "2001-01-04T18:02:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TwistofFate \* > \*\*[Allyson Hannigan.](http://alyson.actressarchives.com/) > > mmmmm… willow… \*\* Well, sure, she’s hot, but I bet you couldn’t find a person on these boards who’d call her ‘patently unattractive.’ 'Cause she’s, like, hot. ---
**Author:** ![scottws](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@scottws](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scottws)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2001, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patently-unattractive-yet-sexy-appealing-anyway/47879/62 "2001-01-04T20:08:26Z")
Tonya Harding. Good for a weekend snowed in with several cases of beer and a whirlpool. ---
**Author:** ![Opengrave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/919ad9/32.png) [@Opengrave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Opengrave)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2001, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patently-unattractive-yet-sexy-appealing-anyway/47879/63 "2001-01-04T22:09:27Z")
[Julia Sawalha](http://www.cadfael.demon.co.uk/jsas/)who played Saffron on Ab Fab (before she got married and gained lots of weight) ---
**Author:** ![Inanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7feea3/32.png) [@Inanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inanna)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2001, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patently-unattractive-yet-sexy-appealing-anyway/47879/64 "2001-01-04T22:30:56Z")
Nick Cave Harvey Keitel John Malkovich My friend thinks Kid Rock is oddly attractive (his little belly, she says), but doesn’t like his music. ---
**Author:** ![tbea925](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dc4da7/32.png) [@tbea925](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tbea925)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2001, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patently-unattractive-yet-sexy-appealing-anyway/47879/65 "2001-01-05T01:21:44Z")
Already mentioned before - Laura Dern, Natalie Merchant. Also - Kathy Griffin (better than Brooke), JK Rowling, Melissa Etheridge, Beth Nielsen Chapman, Taylor Dayne, Carly Simon, Justine Bateman. And, although they’re already considered DDG: Sara Sant’Ambrgio (Cellist with the Eroica Trio, dad’s with the STL Symphony), Amy Pietz, Mitzi Kapture. ---
**Author:** ![McKenna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/db5fbb/32.png) [@McKenna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/McKenna)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2001, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patently-unattractive-yet-sexy-appealing-anyway/47879/66 "2001-01-05T01:34:36Z")
I’m on a **Married With Children** kick this week. [David Garrison’s Gallery, from my Welsh friend Ade’s website](http://www.tattat.force9.co.uk/gallerdg.htm) In case you can’t remember, he was the little polite witty guy with the huge nose who was married to Marcy first. And I’ve seen him onstage quite often and he is just the cutest little thang! But a very intelligent man and always changing his personality totally for the part. His casual evil in RANDY NEWMAN’S FAUST was a delight. Rowan Atkinson, in a beard, looks decent from certain angles. Head-on is another story. Stephen Fry too. ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2001, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patently-unattractive-yet-sexy-appealing-anyway/47879/67 "2001-01-05T08:28:41Z")
Opengrave, she has lost a good part of that weight and is back on our screens, playing an Aussie Barmaid in “Time Gentlemen Please”. And she is hot. And I know Alyson Hannigan is hot. but you wont find alot of men who think she is. Their loss… mmmm… Sorry, Just had another “Willow” moment… ---
**Author:** ![Chronolicht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3bc359/32.png) [@Chronolicht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronolicht)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2001, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patently-unattractive-yet-sexy-appealing-anyway/47879/68 "2001-01-05T09:55:51Z")
Any woman who is smart and witty and compassionate. Time will slowly dismantle the carapace while that effervescent sparkle peers out. You know what I am talking about. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2001, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patently-unattractive-yet-sexy-appealing-anyway/47879/69 "2001-01-05T10:17:53Z")
“The mind is the house of questions and the heart is the house of answers.” - Carlos Santana \ But I don’t think he’s at all unattractive. ---
**Author:** ![zen101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c68b51/32.png) [@zen101](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zen101)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2001, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patently-unattractive-yet-sexy-appealing-anyway/47879/70 "2001-01-05T10:43:05Z")
Fairuza Balk The singer from Garbage Ani DiFranco Alanis Most tall chunky women turn me on for some reason completely alien to me. Guys I would do or have doen if I were gay or a woman and had the chance- John Candy David Blaine Larry Niven Tom Waits ---
**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:** [January 5, 2001, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patently-unattractive-yet-sexy-appealing-anyway/47879/71 "2001-01-05T10:46:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TwistofFate \* > \*\*Opengrave, she has lost a good part of that weight and is back on our screens, playing an Aussie Barmaid in “Time Gentlemen Please”. > > And she is hot.\*\* [http://www.egroups.co.uk/message/julia-sawalha/519](http://www.egroups.co.uk/message/julia-sawalha/519) Ooh! You ain’t kidding! ---
**Author:** ![zen101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c68b51/32.png) [@zen101](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zen101)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2001, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patently-unattractive-yet-sexy-appealing-anyway/47879/72 "2001-01-05T10:55:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TwistofFate \* > > And I know Alyson Hannigan is hot. but you wont find alot of men who think she is. Is she the one who did it with a flute in American Pie? Yea, flute fuckers are hot as a group. I’d certainly do suck face with her. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![RawkStah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/46a35a/32.png) [@RawkStah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RawkStah)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2001, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patently-unattractive-yet-sexy-appealing-anyway/47879/73 "2001-01-05T23:08:01Z")
Ms. Hannigan – absolutely! I don’t see how she could be unattractive to anyone, but, eh. She will be mine someday… 😉 Others that have been listed: Laura Dern – the shorts she wore in ‘Jurassic Park’… Damn! Lynne Russel from Headline News Henry Rollins (even tho I’m straight) Some that I don’t think have been listed: Jewel – because of her wacky snaggletooth. Kirsten Dunst – certainly not conventional beauty. Photographs poorly, but, seeing her on screen – knockout! Martha Stewart – I just think that she’s pretty easy on the eye. The lead actress in ‘Run, Lola, Run’ – not attractive to start off with, but she grows on you (stop giggling). Kim Gordon from Sonic Youth and Kim Deal from The Pixies/The Breeders – there’s a law in rock and roll that if your bass player is female, she’s gotta be hot. Vitamin C (former lead singer from Eve’s Plumb) Polly Jean Harvey – but not all the time. Kind of like Uma Thurman. That’s all I can think of right now. Altho, I am not traditionally hot… 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/patently-unattractive-yet-sexy-appealing-anyway/47879.md?page=3)