# The Glory (Hole) That Is Bobby Trendy! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 14, 2002, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-glory-hole-that-is-bobby-trendy/123881 "2002-08-14T19:02:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2002, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-glory-hole-that-is-bobby-trendy/123881/1 "2002-08-14T19:02:03Z")
if you have been pointing and laughing at _The Anna Nicole Show_, you will be familiar, in a horrified, cobra-and-mongoose way, with her fey decorator, Bobby Trendy. Behold his [web site](http://www.bobbytrendy.com/), where you will find furnishings that are\* too tacky for Anna Nicole Smith\*. ---
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2002, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-glory-hole-that-is-bobby-trendy/123881/2 "2002-08-14T19:36:29Z")
A. There’s _no such thing_ as too tacky for Anna Nicole Smith. B. I perused his sight and, although few and far between, there were some items that didn’t make me gag. One does wonder, though, who on earth would buy the Cupid’s Chair. ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2002, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-glory-hole-that-is-bobby-trendy/123881/3 "2002-08-14T20:07:43Z")
I liked several of his sofas and some of the chairs, especially the Purple Swirl Arm Chair In Belgium Velvet. ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2002, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-glory-hole-that-is-bobby-trendy/123881/4 "2002-08-14T20:09:37Z")
“And new in our ever popular French Brothel line…” ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2002, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-glory-hole-that-is-bobby-trendy/123881/5 "2002-08-14T20:14:55Z")
Of course, to get the whole glorious “Drag Queen Space Alien Brothel” effect, you have to see and hear Mr. Trendy himself. I do hope he becomes a continuing character on\* Anna Nicole\*—or, better yet, gets his own show! ---
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2002, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-glory-hole-that-is-bobby-trendy/123881/6 "2002-08-14T21:29:32Z")
Now that’s a band name if I ever heard one! ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2002, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-glory-hole-that-is-bobby-trendy/123881/7 "2002-08-14T21:46:27Z")
His prices aren’t all that bad. Come on, Eve, be honest…wouldn’t one of those look nice on your stoop? ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_Wright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Steve\_Wright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_Wright)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2002, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-glory-hole-that-is-bobby-trendy/123881/8 "2002-08-15T10:07:04Z")
How … sweet … of you to share that with us, **Eve**. The high-pitched whining sound in the background is, of course, Charles Rennie Mackintosh turning in his grave. ---
**Author:** ![OxyMoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e9a140/32.png) [@OxyMoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OxyMoron)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2002, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-glory-hole-that-is-bobby-trendy/123881/9 "2002-08-15T13:55:47Z")
Y’know, I see one very good thing about it: it appears that every blessed fabric he works with is highly inflammable. So one fine evening, Anna might be freebasing (_come on, you know she’ll get there if she hasn’t already_) and destroy his entire _oevre_. And the damn dog, too. (Although not her son, who by rights should be growing up someplace very far away from his “mother.”) ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2002, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-glory-hole-that-is-bobby-trendy/123881/10 "2002-08-15T14:38:33Z")
Puh-lease. **Oxy**. If proximity to Bobby Trendy himself hasn’t caused those fabrics to burst into flames, _nothing_ will. ---
**Author:** ![OxyMoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e9a140/32.png) [@OxyMoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OxyMoron)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2002, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-glory-hole-that-is-bobby-trendy/123881/11 "2002-08-15T20:42:22Z")
Ouch. Since there is no inducement on the planet (including, but not limited to, methods employed by Chilean secret police) sufficient to make me watch the show, I wasn’t aware of Mr. Trendy’s, um, disposition - I mean, he’s a decorator with frosted hair, but then so are the (slightly) butch Designer Guys. Speaking of which, anybody checked out that muscle mary who’s got his own show on HG? I think it’s called “With Style,” or some such thing. He’s sort of the love child of Tom of Finland’s [Kake](http://gay.ru/science/history/images/nazi14.jpg) and [Billy Haines](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0140275681/qid=1029442177/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-6191032-4159909). ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2002, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-glory-hole-that-is-bobby-trendy/123881/12 "2002-08-15T21:24:06Z")
Oh, he’s _hilarious!_ I’ve only seen his commercials, but he will always be “Muscle Mary” to me from now on. ---
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2002, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-glory-hole-that-is-bobby-trendy/123881/13 "2002-08-15T21:44:15Z")
Whoa. Are you saying the Designer Guys _aren’t_ gay? Wow. And to think I was going to start a thread asking if they were a couple or not. JuanitaTech, returning her gay-dar to Nordstrom for a refund. ---
**Author:** ![OxyMoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e9a140/32.png) [@OxyMoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OxyMoron)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2002, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-glory-hole-that-is-bobby-trendy/123881/14 "2002-08-16T20:26:34Z")
Juanita, all I said was that they were “(slightly) butch” - that ain’t enough to make 'em straight :D. It just puts them a bit to the right of Paul Lynde. (Oh, all right - _quite_ a bit to the right…but you get my drift.)