# They just aren't built like this anymore...\*sigh\* WARNING may cause severe drooling
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-just-arent-built-like-this-anymore-sigh-warning-may-cause-severe-drooling/85324
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [October 4, 2001, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-just-arent-built-like-this-anymore-sigh-warning-may-cause-severe-drooling/85324 "2001-10-04T03:23:34Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Fletch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fletch)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2001, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-just-arent-built-like-this-anymore-sigh-warning-may-cause-severe-drooling/85324/21 "2001-10-04T16:07:49Z")
Nothing to lose your head over.
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### Author:  [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2001, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-just-arent-built-like-this-anymore-sigh-warning-may-cause-severe-drooling/85324/22 "2001-10-04T16:22:33Z")
There are plenty of curvy women now, and they are considered attractive, maybe even bombshells. Yes, scrawny chicks get some attention, even fitness chicks, and athletes. More types of women are considered attractive.
Want curves and beauty? Search on “Nikki Cox” and be prepared to drool.
What is great about today is that if you like thin women, or very fit women, or really tall women, you can come out and admit it.
Yesteryear stereotyped beauty into exagerated hip and bust measurements.
Today, it’s a great mix. You can be as tall as robo-babe Gabby Reece (6’4") and be a sex symbol…or short like Shannon Miller, or stacked like Nikki Cox, or thin like Anna Kournikova.
More modern curves? How about Cindy Margolis?
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### Author:  [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2001, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-just-arent-built-like-this-anymore-sigh-warning-may-cause-severe-drooling/85324/23 "2001-10-04T16:32:34Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Fletch \*
> \*\*Nothing to lose your head over. \*\*
Isn’t that a myth/legend? I’m checking.
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### Author:  [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2001, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-just-arent-built-like-this-anymore-sigh-warning-may-cause-severe-drooling/85324/24 "2001-10-04T16:41:54Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Fletch \*
> \*\*Nothing to lose your head over. \*\*
Legend.
Snopes to the rescue:
[http://www.snopes2.com/movies/actors/jayne.htm](http://www.snopes2.com/movies/actors/jayne.htm)
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### Author:  [@Demo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demo)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2001, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-just-arent-built-like-this-anymore-sigh-warning-may-cause-severe-drooling/85324/25 "2001-10-04T17:03:33Z")
Yeah, whatever you friggin eunuchs. Jayne Mansfield was a drop-dead hottie _and_ built like a brick shithouse, to boot.
Also, most of those pictures MSK linked to were pretty crummy.
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### Author:  [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2001, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-just-arent-built-like-this-anymore-sigh-warning-may-cause-severe-drooling/85324/26 "2001-10-04T17:20:16Z")
This is odd, the IMDb lists Jayne’s height as 5’1". This must be wrong because I’ve seen the (Academy Awards?) clip with Jayne and Mickey Rooney. Mickey is listed at 5’3" and his eye level was her neck. Did Jayne have a platform or was she wearing 10" heels? Or is the IMDb a digit off (1" instead of 11")?
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### Author:  [@bdgr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bdgr)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2001, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-just-arent-built-like-this-anymore-sigh-warning-may-cause-severe-drooling/85324/27 "2001-10-04T17:45:47Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Philster \*
> \*\*Want curves and beauty? Search on “Nikki Cox” and be prepared to drool.
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Damn straight. Have you seen the picture of her on the cover of the october issue of FHM? My wife brought me home a copy of it(I love my wife, not the jealous type)
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### Author:  [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2001, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-just-arent-built-like-this-anymore-sigh-warning-may-cause-severe-drooling/85324/28 "2001-10-04T18:25:21Z")
So why the hell are _none_ of these links working? And why is it that anytime I have to hit ‘Snopes2’ it fails? Every _frickin’_ time!
Oh, and Nikki Cox _is_ quite yummy.
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### Author:  [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2001, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-just-arent-built-like-this-anymore-sigh-warning-may-cause-severe-drooling/85324/29 "2001-10-04T19:27:55Z")
From the snopes site:
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> Three of Mansfield’s five children (Mariska, 3; Zoltan, 6; and Miklos Jr., 8; all fathered by her second husband, Mickey Hargitay), survived the accident.
I believe that Mariska is now a well-known actress, currently on one of those NBC (?) crime shows - “Special Unit” (or something) is in the title? Anyway, I’ve seen her in sitcoms, etc. She’s very beautiful, but has a different figure than her mom.
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### Author:  [@Tygr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tygr)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2001, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-just-arent-built-like-this-anymore-sigh-warning-may-cause-severe-drooling/85324/30 "2001-10-04T21:18:24Z")
Holy cats.
Mariska Hargitay is Jayne Mansfield’s daughter?!?
She’s 3/4 of the reason I watch “Law & Order: Special Victim’s Unit”.
Exactly right, **yosemitebabe**. Beautiful, yes. But a 180-degree opposite from her mom, appearance-wise. She acts quite well on that show, IMHO, playing a detective who’s also the product of a rape.
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### Author:  [@Fletch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fletch)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2001, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-just-arent-built-like-this-anymore-sigh-warning-may-cause-severe-drooling/85324/31 "2001-10-04T22:41:03Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Philster \*
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> > \*Originally posted by Fletch \*
> > \*\*Nothing to lose your head over. \*\*
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> Legend.
> Snopes to the rescue:
> [http://www.snopes2.com/movies/actors/jayne.htm](http://www.snopes2.com/movies/actors/jayne.htm) \*\*
Snopes is indeed correct. I had the misfortune to be traveling to New Orleans with my parents, same road, same area, same day and 10 minutes or so behind the Jayne Mansfield car. The first police officers who arrived on scene said something to the effect of “took their heads clean off” to other police, ambulances and news service as they arrived. I think this may be where the decapitation stories originated. There were not decapitations in the strict sense of the word.
This leads me back to my post, “Nothing to lose your head over”. No one lost their entire head.
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### Author:  [@Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speaker_for_the_Dead)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2001, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-just-arent-built-like-this-anymore-sigh-warning-may-cause-severe-drooling/85324/32 "2001-10-04T22:50:15Z")
I seriously thought you were joking…
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### Author:  [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2001, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-just-arent-built-like-this-anymore-sigh-warning-may-cause-severe-drooling/85324/33 "2001-10-04T22:52:11Z")
Mmmm… Sophia Loren…
Esprix
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### Author:  [@BlackKnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlackKnight)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2001, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-just-arent-built-like-this-anymore-sigh-warning-may-cause-severe-drooling/85324/34 "2001-10-04T23:25:50Z")
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> \*Originally posted by dlgirl \*
> \*\*But then I might be just some jealous female who wishes that guys would oooh and aaah over her figure.
> NAH! 🙂 \*\*
Well, the website listed in your profile doesn’t have a pic of your figure, but I’d be more than happy to oooh and aaah over the pic of your face. 😃
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### Author:  [@Osip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Osip)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2001, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-just-arent-built-like-this-anymore-sigh-warning-may-cause-severe-drooling/85324/35 "2001-10-04T23:38:53Z")
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> \*Originally posted by BlackKnight \*
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> > \*Originally posted by dlgirl \*
> > \*\*But then I might be just some jealous female who wishes that guys would oooh and aaah over her figure.
> > NAH! 🙂 \*\*
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> Well, the website listed in your profile doesn’t have a pic of your figure, but I’d be more than happy to oooh and aaah over the pic of your face. 😃 \*\*
I second What Black night said. You my dear have some nice eyes. If I were not 10 years older, most likely living a great distance away, and going another major Apathy/suicidal period of my life I promise you I would be your most loyal stalker/admirer 🙂
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### Author:  [@Padeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Padeye)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2001, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-just-arent-built-like-this-anymore-sigh-warning-may-cause-severe-drooling/85324/36 "2001-10-05T01:08:19Z")
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\*Originally posted by dlgirl \*
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> No. I find her quite scary. In fact, I was afraid that her boobs were going to hit me in the face.\*\*
Of all the things I could possibly be frightened of, tits are not on the list.
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### Author:  [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2001, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-just-arent-built-like-this-anymore-sigh-warning-may-cause-severe-drooling/85324/37 "2001-10-05T01:30:51Z")
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> \*Originally posted by yosemitebabe \*
> \*\*If I recall correctly, Jayne was born with her figure, it wasn’t surgically enhanced. \*\*
Surgery or no surgery, I am _quite_ sure Miss Mansfield was not born with that figure. Think about it.
😃
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### Author:  [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2001, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-just-arent-built-like-this-anymore-sigh-warning-may-cause-severe-drooling/85324/38 "2001-10-05T04:44:07Z")
I’m beyond thinking about it. I’m imagining the sound effect.
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### Author:  [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2001, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-just-arent-built-like-this-anymore-sigh-warning-may-cause-severe-drooling/85324/39 "2001-10-05T13:20:08Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Tranquilis \*
> **So why the hell are _none_ of these links working? And why is it that anytime I have to hit ‘Snopes2’ it fails? Every _frickin’_ time!**
IE or Netscape? I use Netscape now because I haven’t been able to access Snopes with IE since 9/11.
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### Author:  [@bdgr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bdgr)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2001, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-just-arent-built-like-this-anymore-sigh-warning-may-cause-severe-drooling/85324/40 "2001-10-05T13:31:31Z")
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> \*Originally posted by matt\_mcl \*
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> > \*Originally posted by yosemitebabe \*
> > \*\*If I recall correctly, Jayne was born with her figure, it wasn’t surgically enhanced. \*\*
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> Surgery or no surgery, I am _quite_ sure Miss Mansfield was not born with that figure. Think about it.
> 😃 \*\*
If she was, it must have been a c section
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