# What a doll!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-a-doll/625902>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 22, 2012, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-a-doll/625902 "2012-06-22T01:39:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-a-doll/625902/1 "2012-06-22T01:39:33Z")

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Browsing Retronaut, found this bit of [weirdness](http://www.retronaut.co/2011/09/cynthia-1932/)– a store mannequin who became the toast of the town in the '30s.

Have you heard of this, **Eve**? Is this a true story?

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**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-a-doll/625902/2 "2012-06-22T02:18:21Z")

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It must be a pretty comprehensive hoax because they even made up a phony [Wikipedia page](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynthia_(Gaba_girl))about it.

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**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-a-doll/625902/3 "2012-06-22T12:57:25Z")

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Oh, that’s not Cynthia–Nicole Kidman’s just had too much Botox again.

(I have never heard of this, but I \*love \*it! Maybe I could write her bio . . . )

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**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-a-doll/625902/4 "2012-06-22T17:37:49Z")

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> [@Eve](#):
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> (I have never heard of this, but I \*love \*it! Maybe I could write her bio . . . )

I’d buy a copy.

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**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-a-doll/625902/5 "2012-06-22T17:40:38Z")

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> [@twickster](#):
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> I’d buy a copy.

That would \*double \*my current sales average!