# Who should be the SDMB celebrity muse? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 14, 2005, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-sdmb-celebrity-muse/312562 "2005-07-14T19:29:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-sdmb-celebrity-muse/312562/1 "2005-07-14T19:29:49Z")
Suppose that the SDMB had to pick a lovely female-type muse from its pool of favorite celebrities. Who would it be? Based on previous discussions, I think the winner would be picked from one of the following: [ul] [li]Emma Peel/Diana Rigg[/li][li]Bailey Quarters/Jan Smithers[/li][li]Kaylee Frye/Jewel Staite[/li][/ul] So who’s it gonna be? ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-sdmb-celebrity-muse/312562/2 "2005-07-14T19:39:42Z")
I vote for Mrs. Peel, played by the elegant Diana Rigg. Never has a woman kicked so much butt while remaining ladylike. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-sdmb-celebrity-muse/312562/3 "2005-07-14T19:41:41Z")
Of those three I’d have to go with Emma Peel/Diana Rigg. Emma could kick ass when needed, and Diana had a good career after _The Avengers_ (including _Medea_ on B’way a few years ago). Kaylee/Jewel I’m not familiar with, and Bailey was just a wage slave in a third rate radio station while Jan’s career went nowhere and her husband left her for Barbra Streisand. If I could nominate a fourth, it would be _The Bride_ (real name Beatrice Kiddo)/Uma Thurman from _Kill Bill_ 1 & 2. Beautiful, dangerous, clever and yet compassionate. ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-sdmb-celebrity-muse/312562/4 "2005-07-14T19:42:46Z")
I must admit that when I read the title of the question, my first thought was “Why, **Eve** , of course.” ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-sdmb-celebrity-muse/312562/5 "2005-07-14T19:45:27Z")
I have no idea who Bailey Quarters is. But I first thought of **Eve** too, and I don’t mean the rapper. ---
**Author:** ![MoodIndigo1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e8c25b/32.png) [@MoodIndigo1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MoodIndigo1)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-sdmb-celebrity-muse/312562/6 "2005-07-14T19:49:33Z")
Another vote for **Eve**. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-sdmb-celebrity-muse/312562/7 "2005-07-14T20:00:50Z")
Joining the pile-on… **Eve** was my first thought as well. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-sdmb-celebrity-muse/312562/8 "2005-07-14T20:29:02Z")
[blushes prettily] I’m really more Margaret Dumont than Emma Peel, though . . . (Of course, _I_ vote for Joan Crawford) ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Tan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/charlie_tan/32/12582_2.png) [@Charlie\_Tan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Tan)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-sdmb-celebrity-muse/312562/9 "2005-07-14T20:39:03Z")
Paris Hilton. I’m kidding… I’m ki… Ouch. Aow. Don’t hit me. Stop it. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-sdmb-celebrity-muse/312562/10 "2005-07-14T20:55:04Z")
> [@The Gaspode](#): > > Paris Hilton. > > I’m kidding… I’m ki… Ouch. Aow. Don’t hit me. Stop it. Off topic: I knew a girl many years ago, she was a counselor at camp when I was a child. I suppose she’d be in her 50s now. Her name was Paris, and she said her parents named her that because that’s where she was born. I wonder if she curses Paris Hilton today for spoiling her interesting name. Please resume. ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2005, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-sdmb-celebrity-muse/312562/11 "2005-07-15T03:24:11Z")
> [@pinkfreud](#): > > I must admit that when I read the title of the question, my first thought was “Why, **Eve** , of course.” Damn! I came in here specifically to mention **Eve**. I should’ve known I’d get beaten to the punch. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Liz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/liz/32/17737_2.png) [@Liz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liz)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2005, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-sdmb-celebrity-muse/312562/12 "2005-07-15T03:28:28Z")
> [@Kat](#): > > Damn! I came in here specifically to mention **Eve**. I should’ve known I’d get beaten to the punch. > > :smack: Sigh, yes. Throw my vote in the basket for **Eve** , as well. ---
**Author:** ![FisherQueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@FisherQueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FisherQueen)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2005, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-sdmb-celebrity-muse/312562/13 "2005-07-15T04:22:11Z")
Well, let’s be logical about this. Our muse has to be: 1. stunningly beautiful 2. astoundingly intelligent 3. funny as all hell Yep, I think it’s got to be **Eve**. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2005, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-sdmb-celebrity-muse/312562/14 "2005-07-15T04:30:54Z")
Eve. Honeylamb. Darrrrling. Sweetchecks. I vote for Diana Rigg, the perfect woman. I must. I am seething from last night’s episode of Top 10 on Nick at Nite, on TV’s Top Ten Perfect Ten: The Women. Heather Locklear was #1. They could have done a top ten just from the 1960s, but no. No Diana Rigg, Mary Tyler Moore, Julie Newmar, Carolyn Jones, or even Sheila James. They weren’t even on the ballot! And they picked Ginger over Mary Jane. I was livid, livid I tell you. Pamela Anderson, Lucy Liu, Kim Catrell, Jessica Alba? This is Nick at Nite? Must… take… matters… into… my… own… hands. [Emma](http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Pagoda/2318/emma10.jpg). [Emma](http://www.staylace.com/films/indexfiles/a/avengers.jpg). [Emma](http://pageperso.aol.fr/peelrigg/diana_rigg_emma49.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2005, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-sdmb-celebrity-muse/312562/15 "2005-07-15T05:50:35Z")
> [@Exapno Mapcase](#): > > Must… take… matters… into… my… own… hands. Poor… choice of… words… ---
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2005, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-sdmb-celebrity-muse/312562/16 "2005-07-15T06:19:43Z")
My immediate thought was **KellyM** , though it might have been **Kaitlyn** while she was still with us. ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2005, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-sdmb-celebrity-muse/312562/17 "2005-07-15T06:34:25Z")
Wait a minute now, so you’re telling me that I can’t nominate Christopher Walken? ☹ ---
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2005, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-sdmb-celebrity-muse/312562/18 "2005-07-15T07:17:52Z")
> [@FinnAgain](#): > > Wait a minute now, so you’re telling me that I can’t nominate Christopher Walken? ☹ Muses are by definition female, **Finn** , so I’m afraid Christopher Walken is out. ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2005, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-sdmb-celebrity-muse/312562/19 "2005-07-15T07:19:55Z")
Shows what you know. They didn’t haaaave to be female, just many of them happened to be. As a matter of fact, they were: Calliope, Clio, Erato, Euterpe, Melpomene, Polyhymnia, Terpsichore, Thalia, Urania, and Christopher Walken. So there. ---
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2005, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-sdmb-celebrity-muse/312562/20 "2005-07-15T07:49:24Z")
> [@FinnAgain](#): > > Shows what you know. They didn’t haaaave to be female, just many of them happened to be. As a matter of fact, they were: Calliope, Clio, Erato, Euterpe, Melpomene, Polyhymnia, Terpsichore, Thalia, Urania, and Christopher Walken. You know, you’re absolutely right, but you have to remember I did my Classics A Levels in 1976. Just looked up the old syllabus (of which I keep a copy handy in my Kowloon office, just in case, you never know - forewarned is forearmed and all that) and indeed “Chris Walken” (abbreviated for some reason) is right there. Another notch on the belt (stick, staff, wooden notchable thingie, whatever - I suppose, more precisely) of the Goddess of the War on Ignorance, Athene, maidservant of the gods and mother of Cecil.