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DFighter Proud to Be a Geek from Somewhere Since: Mar, 2012
#1: May 14th 2012 at 9:42:00 AM

The image has been in the article since 2009 and it really isn't that good. I see a blonde woman in a bikini holding a megaphone. Is she beautful, definitely. Though it's pretty vague (emphasis on vague) on her lack of intelligence. I say Keep Until Better Image Suggestion for now.

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#2: May 14th 2012 at 9:50:37 AM

Seems fairly textbook JAFAAC. I can vouch for her absentmindedness, but if I'd never watched Histeria before, it'd be a bit presumptuous to assume it.

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#3: May 14th 2012 at 9:52:35 AM

Quality's pretty bad, too.

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Telcontar In uffish thought from England Since: Feb, 2012
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#4: May 14th 2012 at 9:55:52 AM

The Dumb Blonde stereotype makes it clear to me that she's not exactly intelligent, along with her posture and expression. Keep Until Better Image Suggested, but the image doesn't have to be much better.

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Feather7603 Devil's Advocate from Yggdrasil Since: Dec, 2011
#5: May 14th 2012 at 1:12:54 PM

A typical Keep Until Better Image Suggested where it shouldn't be that hard to come up with one.

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#7: May 14th 2012 at 8:33:28 PM

[up] *snerk* Not bad...I think I prefer that to the current.

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#9: May 15th 2012 at 6:52:39 AM

[up][up][up] I'm for it too.

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#10: May 15th 2012 at 10:12:11 AM

Who is that, anyway?

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DFighter Proud to Be a Geek from Somewhere Since: Mar, 2012
#11: May 15th 2012 at 10:16:01 AM

[up][up][up][up][up] I can live with it.

[up] I'd like to know that too.

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abk0100 Since: Aug, 2011
#12: May 15th 2012 at 10:24:18 AM

[1]

edited 15th May '12 10:24:52 AM by abk0100

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#13: May 15th 2012 at 10:29:17 AM

Either Lori or the current pic works for me.

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FinalStarman from Clinton, Massachusetts Since: Nov, 2011
#14: Jun 22nd 2012 at 11:05:47 PM

I never watched Histeria!, and the only problem I've ever had with the current image is the quality. The Three's Company image isn't bad either. Not a big improvement, not much worse. The quality is a little higher though.

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bananasloth serial tweaker, sorry from Budapest Since: Nov, 2009
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#15: Jun 24th 2012 at 5:40:16 PM

How about Stacy from Drop Dead Diva? April Bowlby plays another brainless beauty on Two And A Half Men as well, though I couldn't find a good still of her character Kandi.

edit: Here's a confused Kandi.

edited 24th Jun '12 5:50:39 PM by bananasloth

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rodneyAnonymous Sophisticated as Hell from empty space Since: Aug, 2010
#17: Jun 24th 2012 at 6:18:05 PM

First does not look brainless. Second has a dumb expression but it's pretty mediocre. Suzanne is okay, but not great.

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goto124 Since: Feb, 2011
#18: Jun 27th 2012 at 7:58:10 AM

I'm thinking of a variation of the current image of All Women Are Lustful.

The image has 2 panels. The 1st panel shows a beautiful woman. The 2nd image shows an X-ray or the woman, pointing out that the woman has no brain.

(Yes, a bit of a pun here, but most people should be able to get it. It's pretty much universal.)

lexicon Since: May, 2012
#19: Jul 22nd 2012 at 4:38:15 PM

What about Elle Woods [1] or [2]?

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#20: Jul 22nd 2012 at 6:38:39 PM

[up]Elle isn't dumb—she's closer to Genius Ditz, so it would very misleading to use her.

So far, I like Threes Company and Two And A Half Men best, but I think we can do better. Surely there's something out there illustrating a classic dumb-blonde joke, like putting white-out on the computer screen, or shoes that say "toes go in first".

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#21: Jul 22nd 2012 at 7:03:44 PM

[up][up] The second link isn't working, and I agree with [up] that she fits Genius Ditz better than this.

edited 22nd Jul '12 7:04:26 PM by Willbyr

lexicon Since: May, 2012
#22: Jul 23rd 2012 at 11:31:23 AM

Illustrating a classic dumb-blonde joke would be focusing more on the brainless than beauty or not showing the beauty at all. I think the reason they choose the origanal picture is that walking around in her bathing suit makes her look shallow.

yogyog Since: Jun, 2009
#23: Jul 29th 2012 at 8:35:20 AM

Can we get a picture of a beuty DOING SOMETHING STUPID?

Like - Pushing a pull door, Using a bar of soap as a phone?

I dunno - any ideas?

RossN Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: One Is The Loneliest Number
#24: Aug 1st 2012 at 9:28:29 AM

How about this?

[1]

edited 1st Aug '12 9:29:39 AM by RossN

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#25: Aug 1st 2012 at 10:09:01 AM

I like that one!

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