Keith Urban

[phillygirl]

I think I may be in love with him. Mitt Romney better watch out, he's got some serious competition.

That is all.

[Gingersnap]

If Nicole Kidman could survive Tom Cruise, she can surely beat you into a bloody pulp.

[phillygirl]

If Nicole Kidman could survive Tom Cruise, she can surely beat you into a bloody pulp.

She was much younger during her Cruising. And you know those Hollywood types...she might not want to fight.

I would, however, insiste that he get a haircut.

[Norm dePlume]

I knew it wouldn't be long before Urban violence broke out in the thread.

[phillygirl]

I knew it wouldn't be long before Urban violence broke out in the thread.

Racist.

[Gingersnap]

She was much younger during her Cruising. And you know those Hollywood types...she might not want to fight.

I would, however, insist that he get a haircut.

She's tougher than she looks. She's an Aussie. Plus, no more Botox.

I say she takes you in the 7th round (and looks great doing it, as would you in abject defeat).

[phillygirl]

She's tougher than she looks. She's an Aussie. Plus, no more Botox.

I say she takes you in the 7th round (and looks great doing it, as would you in abject defeat).

She's been living the good life for too long. She's gotten soft. I take her in the 4th.

[Gingersnap]

She's been living the good life for too long. She's gotten soft. I take her in the 4th.

You're dreaming. Everybody knows that Kidman is a runner. Boxing is all about stamina. Besides, she has better stylists.

[phillygirl]

You're dreaming. Everybody knows that Kidman is a runner. Boxing is all about stamina. Besides, she has better stylists.

Runners are soft. Sure, they can outpace me. Sure they can outdistance me. But I can always hobble her with a well placed kick to her hair stylist's blow drying arm. Those locks need a lot more help than mine do. And I doubt she's eaten a cheeseburger this decade.

[Gingersnap]

Runners are soft. Sure, they can outpace me. Sure they can outdistance me. But I can always hobble her with a well placed kick to her hair stylist's blow drying arm. Those locks need a lot more help than mine do. And I doubt she's eaten a cheeseburger this decade.

Maybe. But you can't run in 4 inch heels AND keep your double-sticky tape attached to your breasts. I like you. I like you a lot but this is not your métier. I saw 'Dead Calm'. She's both athletic and tricky.

[Frostbit]

You're dreaming. Everybody knows that Kidman is a runner. Boxing is all about stamina. Besides, she has better stylists.

Philly's from ::cough:: Philly. Stamina don't mean shit. It's all in the cheating. Kidman will be minus an ear in 30 seconds.

[phillygirl]

Whew...for a minute there I was buying into Ginger's argument. Then I remember I can simply make Nicole see Tom's face every time she looks at Keith and "poof" he's mine!

[Gingersnap]

Whew...for a minute there I was buying into Ginger's argument. Then I remember I can simply make Nicole see Tom's face every time she looks at Keith and "poof" he's mine!

You wish. She sees Tom in every issue of 'People', 'In Touch', 'The Enquirer', etc. You could flood the arena with 'Risky Business' and she'd laugh in your face.

[Adam]

FWIW, you should know that you do face some stiff, and, well, sorry, but frankly younger competition: Taylor Swift is literally the girl next door. Her rather palatial estate is within shouting distance of Urban's Green Hills home. Quite a nice lady in her own right: she briefly lived across the street from my brother just before she hit it really big, and then she quickly moved from the high-rent district to the really high-rent district about a mile away. Made small talk over the mailbox with her a couple of times when I was keeping up my second-eldest brother's house while he was off teaching in Romania and not making anything remotely like the money that his neighbor across the street was. Then again, he doesn't look nearly as good in a strapless, sequined gown, so there's that.

You should also know that, at least from public appearances, Urban and Kidman are apparently a very happy couple. They are seen rather regularly out and about in Green Hills and seem very much in love. I've passed by them in a restaurant a time or two, but my eldest brother runs into them socially with some frequency. They are apparently looking to enroll their eldest in, effectively, Country Music People's Children's Academy, better known as Ensworth, where my nieces and nephews have attended. In a bit of a rather interesting coincidence, I used to maintain a rather dumpy little duplex that was right next to the Ensworth campus many moons ago, something that my mother bought as an investment for the purpose of sticking her finger in my father's eye: she wanted to prove that she could be a landlord, and Dad wanted nothing to do with it. Well, guess who wound up being the actual landlord....

I used to watch Ensworth football games from time to time from the roof of the duplex, which looked directly onto the fifty-yard-line of the school's football field at the time. They were a small little school for a few somewhat wealthy people (student body was something like 80 at the time). Then one of the Mandrell sisters sent her kids there and everything changed. There's a certain amount of irony attached to the fact that Sarah Cannon, a/k/a Minnie Pearl, lived about four doors down from the school in a nice, but not outrageously affluent, neighborhood at the time.

Ensworth bought the lot and the duplex for a rather princely sum for half an acre and a 3200-square-foot squat ranch-style duplex, which they eventually moved off the property and took over the land itself for a sports field. Glad I never had to mow that.



[/reminiscent ramble]

[phillygirl]

I called him first. Taylor's out. Keith knows enough not to be the chorus in her megabillion hit.