# Resolved: Courtney Love is the skankiest female celebrity ever **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 24, 2004, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-courtney-love-is-the-skankiest-female-celebrity-ever/241859 "2004-04-24T23:50:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2004, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-courtney-love-is-the-skankiest-female-celebrity-ever/241859/1 "2004-04-24T23:50:04Z")
I’d missed her appearance on Letterman when it was on the first time, but it was on the other night, so I taped it. Egads! Could there be a skankier woman in the public spotlight today? No. Christina Aguilera is manufactured skank. Courtney is 100% gen-yoo-wine natural skank. She falls into the “if she were the last woman on earth and I were the last man the human race would die” category. Holy crap, she’s gross. If she doesn’t scare kids into not doing drugs, nothing will. Now I have to go boil my eyeballs and scour my brain. Kudos to Dave for surviving this hell-spawned demon-child. ---
**Author:** ![Hyperelastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Hyperelastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hyperelastic)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2004, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-courtney-love-is-the-skankiest-female-celebrity-ever/241859/2 "2004-04-25T00:10:35Z")
Remember a few years ago, around the time she played Andy Kaufman’s girlfriend in “The Man In The Moon” or whatever it was called? She cleaned up for about six months, dressed conservatively, etc., and started looking pretty tasty. But it didn’t stick. She is definitely high on the skankometer these days. Would that be pronounced skankOmeter or skankomEEter? ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2004, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-courtney-love-is-the-skankiest-female-celebrity-ever/241859/3 "2004-04-25T00:14:09Z")
> [@Hyperelastic](#): > > Remember a few years ago, around the time she played Andy Kaufman’s girlfriend in “The Man In The Moon” or whatever it was called? She cleaned up for about six months, dressed conservatively, etc., and started looking pretty tasty. But it didn’t stick. She is definitely high on the skankometer these days. > > Would that be pronounced skankOmeter or skankomEEter? Skank-AH-meter. And she would cause one to burst into flames. ---
**Author:** ![legion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/838e76/32.png) [@legion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/legion)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2004, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-courtney-love-is-the-skankiest-female-celebrity-ever/241859/4 "2004-04-25T00:21:54Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > I’d missed her appearance on Letterman when it was on the first time, but it was on the other night, so I taped it. > > Egads! Could there be a skankier woman in the public spotlight today? No, but it’s all Kurt’s fault. After supping at the table of a true God, what other way is there but _down_? ---
**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:** [April 25, 2004, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-courtney-love-is-the-skankiest-female-celebrity-ever/241859/5 "2004-04-25T00:38:53Z")
I kind of miss her Kurt-era kinderwhore look, don’t you? That was so over the top it was amusing. Now, she’s merely… ACK. Just thinking about her makes me feel like I need a shower. ---
**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:** [April 25, 2004, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-courtney-love-is-the-skankiest-female-celebrity-ever/241859/6 "2004-04-25T01:23:47Z")
> [@Hyperelastic](#): > > Remember a few years ago, around the time she played Andy Kaufman’s girlfriend in “The Man In The Moon” or whatever it was called? She cleaned up for about six months, dressed conservatively, etc., and started looking pretty tasty. But it didn’t stick. She is definitely high on the skankometer these days. > > Would that be pronounced skankOmeter or skankomEEter? I thought it was earlier, when she played Althea Flint, wife of Larry Flint in _People vs. Larry Flint_. Remember? She was nominated for an Oscar, and was dressing really classy. Then she slid back down. What a skank. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2004, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-courtney-love-is-the-skankiest-female-celebrity-ever/241859/7 "2004-04-25T02:13:40Z")
As much as I find threads with "Resolved: " at the beginning kind of pretentious, it’s hard to argue in this case. Courtney Love outskanks them all. Christina Aguilera isn’t a true skank so much as a young woman in a skank phase, just trying on skankness as if she were shopping for identities at Identity Mart or Life Paths ‘R’ Us. Skank appears to be in Love’s blood. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2004, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-courtney-love-is-the-skankiest-female-celebrity-ever/241859/8 "2004-04-25T02:21:23Z")
> [@Snooooopy](#): > > As much as I find threads with "Resolved: " at the beginning kind of pretentious, it’s hard to argue in this case. I hesitated using “resolved” at first, but I can’t for the life of me think of anyone who can outskank this woman. ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2004, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-courtney-love-is-the-skankiest-female-celebrity-ever/241859/9 "2004-04-25T03:03:57Z")
Let me be the first to float another suggestion: Paris Hilton takes skank to levels 99.999% of us can’t afford. All of that money, breeding, and incredibly expensive clothing, and she still manages to look like she smells of cigarettes and Strawberry Boone’s Farm. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2004, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-courtney-love-is-the-skankiest-female-celebrity-ever/241859/10 "2004-04-25T03:10:36Z")
> [@Jenaroph](#): > > Let me be the first to float another suggestion: Paris Hilton takes skank to levels 99.999% of us can’t afford. All of that money, breeding, and incredibly expensive clothing, and she still manages to look like she smells of cigarettes and Strawberry Boone’s Farm. Well, at least she wears decent, albeit slutty, clothes. I’d imagine Courtney smells like stale Newports, Jack Daniels, sweat (not womanly perspiration), and possibly vomit. Not her own. ---
**Author:** ![Brainiac4](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brainiac4/32/3534_2.png) [@Brainiac4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brainiac4)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2004, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-courtney-love-is-the-skankiest-female-celebrity-ever/241859/11 "2004-04-25T04:25:48Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > I’d imagine Courtney smells like stale Newports, Jack Daniels, sweat (not womanly perspiration), and possibly vomit. Not her own. And just a hint of cat urine. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2004, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-courtney-love-is-the-skankiest-female-celebrity-ever/241859/12 "2004-04-25T05:58:31Z")
I think even the Osbourne kids were a bit turned off/surprised by her skankiness. And I bet they’ve met alot of skanky characters in their time (including uhm…themselves!) ---
**Author:** ![Granuaile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecccb3/32.png) [@Granuaile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Granuaile)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2004, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-courtney-love-is-the-skankiest-female-celebrity-ever/241859/13 "2004-04-25T06:35:51Z")
Kinda hijack: Last year I visited a stable and fell into conversation with a really nice older gentleman by the name of Hank. We were having a nice chat but somehow got on the subject of celebs. Hank then asks me if I’ve ever heard of Courtney Love and I said “Sure. She’s been having legal troubles.” “Well,” said Hank “I’m her Dad.” I figured the guy was a little touched, so I wound up the chat real quick and went home. Later that day I mentioned the exchange to a friend of mine who is really into the whole Nirvana thing and it went a little like this: Friend: “This guy’s name was Hank? What was his last name?” Me: “I think it was Harrison.” F: **"You met Hank Harrison? That really is Courtney Love’s Dad!"** M: F_ck off! F: COME ON!!! If you were going to lie about being a celebrity’s dad, why the f_ck would you pick Courtney Love?" ---
**Author:** ![The\_Universe\_Lashes\_Out](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8797f3/32.png) [@The\_Universe\_Lashes\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Universe_Lashes_Out)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2004, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-courtney-love-is-the-skankiest-female-celebrity-ever/241859/14 "2004-04-25T10:14:46Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > …and possibly vomit. Not her own. But we’ll never know who’s vomit it is. You can’t exactly dust for vomit. ---
**Author:** ![KidCharlemagne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@KidCharlemagne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KidCharlemagne)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2004, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-courtney-love-is-the-skankiest-female-celebrity-ever/241859/15 "2004-04-25T12:57:24Z")
I missed the first airing on Letterman as well and was happy to see that it was being rebroadcast on Friday. She’s beyond nasty–she’s outright pathetic. She is painfully self-absorbed and neurotic to the point that I wonder how she ever became a star. Her “self-confidence” is so transparently false; she’s just a little girl dying for attention and validation. I’d like to see Madonna kick her ass. ---
**Author:** ![Futile\_Gesture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f05b48/32.png) [@Futile\_Gesture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Futile_Gesture)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2004, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-courtney-love-is-the-skankiest-female-celebrity-ever/241859/16 "2004-04-25T13:34:03Z")
I thought this one had been resolved _years_ ago. She’s now holding out for the skank-longevity title as well. ---
**Author:** ![schplebordnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@schplebordnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/schplebordnik)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2004, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-courtney-love-is-the-skankiest-female-celebrity-ever/241859/17 "2004-04-25T18:45:37Z")
The spontaneous Burger King pic of her in Burger King with some random dude suckling her bare breast was a classic. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2004, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-courtney-love-is-the-skankiest-female-celebrity-ever/241859/18 "2004-04-25T19:54:11Z")
Heh. I was a good five posts into this thread before I realized it said Courtney Love in the title and not Courtney Cox. Thread took on a whole new meaning. Of course, I think Cox is pretty high up there too. Probably just seeing what I want to. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![DVsickgirlDV](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5e925/32.png) [@DVsickgirlDV](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DVsickgirlDV)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2004, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-courtney-love-is-the-skankiest-female-celebrity-ever/241859/19 "2004-04-26T01:35:37Z")
I’m not a big TV watcher, so I missed her Letterman appearance. Is it possible that someone could sum up what happened, and maybe through in a quote or two? Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2004, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-courtney-love-is-the-skankiest-female-celebrity-ever/241859/20 "2004-04-26T02:13:25Z")
> [@Brainiac4](#): > > And just a hint of cat urine. But that might imply that she drinks Sauvignon Blanc (a wine for which “cat’s pee” is not only an acceptable descriptive term, but a compliment). Courtney seems more like a Jack Daniels girl. Or Keystone Light. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-courtney-love-is-the-skankiest-female-celebrity-ever/241859.md?page=2)