# The World's Greatest \_\_\_\_\_\_ Is A Female. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 9, 2005, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worlds-greatest-______-is-a-female/289208 "2005-02-09T15:51:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worlds-greatest-______-is-a-female/289208/41 "2005-03-21T08:13:22Z")
(Another Susan Butcher fan here…) World’s best performer on film: Meryl Streep in _Sophie’s Choice_ ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worlds-greatest-______-is-a-female/289208/42 "2005-03-21T10:00:47Z")
Lassie, the world’s greatest dog, was female. ---
**Author:** ![calm\_kiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worlds-greatest-______-is-a-female/289208/43 "2005-03-21T10:20:34Z")
> [@Case Sensitive](#): > > Lassie, the world’s greatest dog, was female. Only Lassie was played by a series of male dogs (5 I think). She was a bloody good bitch, even if she was in drag. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worlds-greatest-______-is-a-female/289208/44 "2005-03-21T17:58:36Z")
> [@mojave66](#): > > Plus I’d give the “Greatest Computer Scientist” award to Ada Byron Lovelace. Benjamin Woolley, in his 1999 [biography](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0330484494/qid=1111428882/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-1910303-2680626?v=glance&s=books) of Lovelace, gently debunks the view that she in fact was the first programmer, arguing instead that, as a somewhat shoddy mathematician, she merely expanded and clarified work that Charles Babbage had already done. [More here](http://www.g4tv.com/techtvvault/features/27659/Ada_Lovelace_Countess_of_Controversy_pg4.html). ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worlds-greatest-______-is-a-female/289208/45 "2005-03-21T21:49:31Z")
> [@calm kiwi](#): > > Only Lassie was played by a series of male dogs (5 I think). > > She was a bloody good bitch, even if she was in drag. 😃 Heh heh. I was waiting to be pulled up on this. How did they hide their dicks? ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2005, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worlds-greatest-______-is-a-female/289208/46 "2005-03-22T03:10:23Z")
The thick coat of collie fur hid things pretty well. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2005, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worlds-greatest-______-is-a-female/289208/47 "2005-03-22T17:16:08Z")
Concert clarinetist: [Sabine Meyer.](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000026D4F/qid=1111512739/sr=2-3/ref=sr_2_3/102-3869398-2112152) [sub](No relation to [Sabine Ehrenfeld.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=305526))[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Tracy\_Lord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@Tracy\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tracy_Lord)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2005, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worlds-greatest-______-is-a-female/289208/48 "2005-03-22T21:21:37Z")
Vocalist! Ain’t nobody can hold a candle to Ella. ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2005, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worlds-greatest-______-is-a-female/289208/49 "2005-03-22T21:47:55Z")
> [@Sam Stone](#): > > Allison Fisher couldn’t crack the top 100 on the men’s tour. She tried to make it on the men’s snooker tour and couldn’t. > > The best women pool players in the world play about the level of decent collegiate male players. The highest recorded run by a woman in straight pool is around 86 balls. The highest recorded run by a man is 526. Men routinely score runs over 100. Yeah, but they probably weren’t playing bar rules. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2005, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worlds-greatest-______-is-a-female/289208/50 "2005-03-22T22:16:41Z")
> [@Tracy Lord](#): > > Vocalist! Ain’t nobody can hold a candle to Ella. I mean, what was with that big loser Enrico Caruso? ---
**Author:** ![Tracy\_Lord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@Tracy\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tracy_Lord)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2005, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worlds-greatest-______-is-a-female/289208/51 "2005-03-22T22:42:47Z")
> [@MaxTheVool](#): > > I mean, what was with that big loser Enrico Caruso? Pffft. No kidding! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worlds-greatest-______-is-a-female/289208.md?page=2)