# Who won the Ben-Lo pool?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-won-the-ben-lo-pool/201835
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [September 15, 2003, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-won-the-ben-lo-pool/201835 "2003-09-15T23:15:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 17
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### Author:  [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2003, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-won-the-ben-lo-pool/201835/21 "2003-09-17T15:44:43Z")
Of course they would. They would not remember if one of them wasn’t a star, but they will absolutely remember this one, since both are megastars. I’m not underestimating anything.
We don’t remember Chris Judd or whatever his name was, because he was never much of a star. We DO, however, remember P.Diddlypoo, because he is/was a big star.
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### Author:  [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2003, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-won-the-ben-lo-pool/201835/22 "2003-09-17T16:08:43Z")
P. who?
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### Author:  [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2003, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-won-the-ben-lo-pool/201835/23 "2003-09-17T16:15:40Z")
:mad:
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### Author:  [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2003, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-won-the-ben-lo-pool/201835/24 "2003-09-17T21:59:17Z")
Now now, J-Lo would tell you not to be that way-Lo.
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### Author:  [@Antonius\_Block](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antonius_Block)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2003, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-won-the-ben-lo-pool/201835/25 "2003-09-18T06:47:48Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by tracer \*
> **In other words, J-lo will lay-lo.**
> …
> **If that’s the case, J-Lo isn’t going to say-Lo.**
> …
> \*\*Now now, J-Lo would tell you not to be that way-Lo. \*\*
**tracer** , something tells me that your new rhyming formation is going to go the way of the _1920’s-style death ray_- **Lo**.
Although _ **Mornington Crescent** _ seems to have survived for several decades, so who knows?
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### Author:  [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2003, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-won-the-ben-lo-pool/201835/26 "2003-09-18T15:46:22Z")
I saw the funniest thing in a supermarket check-out aisle last night.
It was a cheap one-shot magazine called something like “InStyle”. On the cover was a picture of J-Lo and B-Fleck together, and the caption read:
“ **Wedding secrets:** How J. Lo is making sure her 3rd marriage will last forever.”
ObRhyme: Obviously, it was an old article about J-Lo that suffered a printing delay-Lo.
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### Author:  [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2003, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-won-the-ben-lo-pool/201835/27 "2003-09-18T16:16:30Z")
And J.Lo was her name-ho…
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### Author:  [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2003, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-won-the-ben-lo-pool/201835/28 "2003-09-18T16:26:25Z")
**Tracer** – not a one-shot, a weekly, called _In Touch_, and I’ve grown inordinately fond of it, due to their coverage of reality TV personalities.
They did mention in the course of the article (how could I resist buying it?) that J-Ho had dragged Ben and another friend off to look at wedding dresses with her, and modeled option after option after option. The comment – and I don’t recall whether it was an editorial comment or quoting “someone close to the couple” – was that it seems J-Ho was unaware of the bad luck traditionally ascribed to letting the groom see the wedding dress in advance of the ceremony.
Hee!
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### Author:  [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2003, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-won-the-ben-lo-pool/201835/29 "2003-09-18T19:43:00Z")
Sounds like she also was also unaware of the bad luck traditionally ascribed to taking a man clothes shopping with you.
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### Author:  [@The\_Controvert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Controvert)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2003, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-won-the-ben-lo-pool/201835/30 "2003-09-18T21:21:22Z")
J.Lo J.Lo Bo BayLo
Banana Fanna Foe FayLo
Fee Fie Moe MayLo
J.Lo!
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### Author:  [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2003, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-won-the-ben-lo-pool/201835/31 "2003-09-18T23:19:08Z")
B-Fleck B-Fleck Bo B-Fleck
Banana Fanna Foe FeeFleck
Fee Fie Moe MeeFleck
B-Fleck!
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### Author:  [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2003, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-won-the-ben-lo-pool/201835/32 "2003-09-18T23:33:39Z")
I can’t even read that, let alone try to pronounce it.
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### Author:  [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2003, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-won-the-ben-lo-pool/201835/33 "2003-09-19T00:07:06Z")
I just discovered that “J-Lo” is pronounced almost exactly like “Jell-O”.
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### Author:  [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2003, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-won-the-ben-lo-pool/201835/34 "2003-09-19T00:11:28Z")
**tracer** , are you aware you have a Jennifer Lopez obsession?
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### Author:  [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2003, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-won-the-ben-lo-pool/201835/35 "2003-09-19T00:24:04Z")
Actually, no – I have a Jennifer-Lopez’s-name-abbreviated-as-J-Lo obsession. I’ve never actually listened to this woman’s music. Most of what I know about her comes from that _South Park_ episode.
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### Author:  [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2003, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-won-the-ben-lo-pool/201835/36 "2003-09-19T00:59:14Z")
Did you know she made movies too? And was on TV?
I know, I know… I’m enabling, aren’t I?
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### Author:  [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2003, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-won-the-ben-lo-pool/201835/37 "2003-09-19T05:08:06Z")
I actually **saw** _Gigli_ in the theaters. But only so I could [see for myself how bad it was](http://www.hit-n-run.com/cgi/read_review.cgi?review=53631_rogermw).
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