The Cellar / Notable Women

**Posted by BigV** 2/24/2021 7:18 pm

sex, gender, disposition....

comic demonstrates you don't need a penis to be a dick

**Posted by fargon** 2/25/2021 7:39 am

These are some Badass Girls.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20180926-akashinga-all-women-rangers-in-africa-fighting-poaching

**Posted by Gravdigr** 2/25/2021 11:28 am

BigV wrote:
...you don't need a penis to be a dick

QFHSTA

Quoted for holyshitthat'sawesome.

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 3/14/2021 4:01 am

Notable is applicable...

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 4/15/2021 3:56 am

The NYTimes piece starts out...
"Collaborating with devoted colleagues, Dr. Kariko laid the groundwork for the mRNA vaccines turning the tide of the pandemic."
I'm nominating that for the understatement of the year.
Her journey to the US with spouse, child, a PhD, and money hidden in a teddy bear. Bouncing around Philly begging for work, sure the mRNA would work decades before anyone would believe her. Her husband saying with all the nights and weekends spent in the lab she was making a dollar an hour. A real life superhero.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/08/health/coronavirus-mrna-kariko.html

Last edited by xoxoxoBruce (4/15/2021 3:57 am)

**Posted by griff** 4/15/2021 6:18 am

I thought we hated immigrants now?

Seriously, what a great story.

**Posted by Gravdigr** 4/15/2021 9:03 am

griff wrote:
I thought we hated immigrants now?

Wait, that's not a thing anymore? Dammit, I can't keep up with this stuff...

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 4/16/2021 10:46 pm

I think we still hate some of them I just don't know which ones, look what Dr Kariko went through. I guess we can hate 'em and still acknowledge when they do good, before denying a patent and deporting them. I don't know, I've got other people to hate.

The thread is Notable Women. Note: somewhere there is a painting growing old.

She's unhappy because all her costumes from the 70's when she was 106 lbs don't fit anymore but she can't bear to part with them. I imagine those costumes wouldn't fit if she had gained 6 ounces.

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 4/18/2021 9:36 pm

Another notable for perseverance...

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 4/21/2021 9:13 pm

And another...

**Posted by BigV** 4/22/2021 6:09 pm

Both are admirable! Obviously, imbued with an inner strength (that I myself do not possess). Just wow.

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 4/27/2021 7:44 pm

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 4/27/2021 7:46 pm

And for a change of pace...

Still notable however.

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 5/04/2021 11:47 pm

Very notable...

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 5/10/2021 11:14 pm

I heard of MM using her stardom as a social wedge, or hammer, several times to fight social injustices...

**Posted by griff** 5/11/2021 5:58 am

Some things have gotten better.

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 5/14/2021 3:24 pm

And of course the Unsinkable Molly Brown...

**Posted by henry_quirk** 5/15/2021 9:48 am

xoxoxoBruce wrote:
And for a change of pace...

Still notable however.

Eight days?

The glove cleaner is better

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 5/16/2021 11:36 am

Yes Sir, still notable. Probably any quicker than 8 days would cast suspicion on her.

Here's a notable badass...

**Posted by Gravdigr** 5/16/2021 1:15 pm

henry_quirk wrote:
The glove cleaner is better

Uh, whut?

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 5/17/2021 11:44 am

I found this picture and because the way the caption was worded I searched to see if there was a Wanderwell brand car.

What a rabbit hole that turned out to be.
Aloha was a Canadian who holds the Guinness record for first woman to drive around the world.
Although technically she was part of a group and left the group for weeks on a couple occasions.
The website says she was a member of the French Foreign Legion. That’s bullshit, only one woman and it wasn’t her.
https://www.alohawanderwell.com/
But then it got very interesting. How she met Walter, their travels, their marriage, how they financed this lifestyle, and his murder.
https://www.alohawanderwell.com/murder-wanderwell-yacht/
Killed an evening searching. LoL

PS it was a Model T Ford.

**Posted by Gravdigr** 5/17/2021 12:11 pm

That's a fairly well-disguised T.

**Posted by Gravdigr** 5/17/2021 12:21 pm

Gravdigr wrote:
henry_quirk wrote:
The glove cleaner is better
Uh, whut?

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 5/17/2021 11:45 pm

One of the last matriarchies in the world...

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 5/29/2021 5:05 pm

Notable and damn lucky...