March 27, 2005

Just because I have my standards they think I'm a bitch. Who you calling a diva?
posted by Wolof 19 years ago
  • I don't need to read this; I have the "stardom glow." Tell the eyebrow specialist to fetch my La Mer, Raoul. The rest of you- Begone!
  • Alas, no mention of the Gabor sisters?
  • Oh bees, we can't remember anything before last year.
  • Well, it does mention divas Bette Davis and Cleopatra. The article made me doubt my own understanding of the word flounce, so I looked it up in the dictionary. Also, I couldn't help but agree with Ms. Strident.
    She wants what? During the American television premier of Prince of Tides, Streisand thought the adverts were too loud, so she phoned the NBC network to complain.
    The ads always seem louder to me than the program's volume, and when I adjust it I need to readjust it back up when the program starts again. If I had Jeff Zucker on speed-dial, I'd give it a try too.
  • 250 thread count? Poor little peasant. 4oo hundred thread sings against our silky skins...skin & fur, but whatever. Bite me you nobody.
  • I demand that MoFi be repainted to match my socks.
  • Fun, but shoddy writing. The 250-thread count sheets has to be wrong, and Mariah Carey is not Canadian. Brr. Don't try to pin her on us!
  • Bring me some fruit and a tapeworm. And don't look at me.
  • I agree, livii: if I can afford 200 count sheets on my salary... I wonder if they mean 1250 count? If I ever got famous I'd get a diva rap -- I'm allergic to the detergent hotels use in their linens, so I'm just about to the point of bringing my own. I guess to really get the diva rap I'd have to have the hotel maids put on my linen while feeding me grapes, lighting white candles and avoiding eye contact. Hmmm...
  • MonkeyFilter: Repainted to match your socks. MonkeyFilter: Better than fruit and a tapeworm. MonkeyFilter: Lighting white candles and avoiding eye contact.
  • Okaaay, but really how messed up does being in the public eye constantly make you?
  • livii, that's all I recall about the story, too. I shot off an email to the paper's editor. Our diva is Celine Dion. Sheesh.
  • Maybe it's 250 count Egyptian or pima cotton? That can get pricey. But do they ever feel nice.
  • Livii, had the same yeaghhh reaction as you re: Mariah Carey :-) To cleanse my mind of that unsettling pedigree, i ponder this (which i just found out last week): Samantha Bee is a Canadian, and she's an alumni of....University of Ottawa!!!!
  • I was recently tempted to try a higher threadcount (200-250) set of sheets, but then I got jersey ones instead for less. So soft.
  • I wonder if they mean 1250 count? I dunno, there. That seems too high a thread count for sheets. As in, there isn't enough room in this physical universe for that many threads in a finite space of bedsheet. As in, 1250 count sheets would probably fold in on themselves, creating a space-time vortex that none but the most experienced sleepers could hope to escape from. Still, some people probably find that sort of thing comfortable.
  • Not to be a diva, but I personally sleep on 600 count and have seen 1000. I fear the 1250 count. It would be like sheets coated with teflon.
  • I've pretty much switched to 200+ thread count Egyptian or Pima cotton...mmmm... I aspire to the 600 thread sheets, but I'm doing the best I can on what I make. Life's too short for scratchy sheets. I've heard of 1600 thread count sheets, but I couldn't tell if the person mentioning them was trying to be funny. Bear Guy: would such sheets allow one to tesser, as in travel through the tesseract? That would *rawk*
  • Mariah Carey In London this week to promote her new album The Emancipation of Mimi, the 34-year-old Canadian Mariah Carey is Canadian???
  • ...would such sheets allow one to tesser, as in travel through the tesseract? Funny you should mention that, meredithea. Word on the street is that Wamsutta scientists are trying just such experiments. Let's hope they don't inadversantly open a rift into another dimension filled with hellish creatures. But hey, those wacky fabric scientists (fabricologists?) are always up to something, y'know?
  • You've got to watch those fabricologists. They only work with two objectives: 1) soft, comfyness and 2) armageddon.
  • here's some 1200 thread count sheets... insane. anyone ever try beech sheets? very soft!
  • I used to date a woman that worked at Christies, and in the early 1990s they hosted a Barbara Walters interview of Barbra Streisand. Ms. Strident made them change the set because she doesn't like the color red and they'd picked a red carpet. Ms. Walters wore a red pantsuit for the interview.