Another Riddle! (But it's not so bad)

[Kareem]

A friend of mine showed me this collage of 25 famous women in history. We eventually figured them all out with outside help, see if you can get them all right:

http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/1328/womeninhistory6ib.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

And no I don't know why Oprah is in there.

[Bill Dungsroman]

Who's the hot blonde in the center, to the left of Amelia "Who Knew She Was So Hot?" Earhart? (with my luck, it's probably Lizzie Borden)

EDIT: Oops I guess that's Nadia letting one on Fonda. HAHA COMMIE ON COMMIE LESBO ACTION.

[Charles]

I do not think that word means what you think it means.

[Damien Falgoust]

Bill, it's actually Nadia Comaneci who's farting on Jane Fonda.

EDIT: Dammit, you caught it too soon.

[Squirrel Killer]

Who's the hot blonde in the center, to the left of Amelia "Who Knew She Was So Hot?" Earhart? (with my luck, it's probably Lizzie Borden)
JK Rowling.

[extarbags]

How the hell does this qualify as a riddle?

[MikeSofaer]

How the hell does this qualify as a riddle?
You need to figure out what the selection criteria are.

[Hawkeye Fierce]

Tranquility, you dropped the ball. You should have photoshopped the creepy window kid in there somewhere.

[Ben Sones]

Okay, we see 25 girls at the window; that means the chances that the 26th child is a boy are 2 in 3.

[DeepT]

One of them is a man, and an ugly one at that.

[BrewersDroop]

Top Row
1. Audrey Hepburn
2. Nadia Comaneci
3. Mother Theresa
4. Sandra Day O'Connor
5.
6.
7. Golda Meier
8. Germaine Greer

Middle Row
1. Aung San Suu Kyi
2. Jane Fonda
3. Joan of Arc
4. Margaret Thatcher
5. J.K. Rowling
6. Amelia Earhart
7a.
7b. Valentina Tereshkova

Bottom Row
1. Condaleeza Rice
2. Shirley Temple
3. Susan B. Anthony
4.
5. Coco Chanel
6. Oprah Winfrey
7. Eva Peron
8. Paula Radcliffe
9. Indira Ghandi

[Bill Dungsroman]

JK Rowling.
I dunno why I pictured Rowling as some fruity old bag. Shit, bonerz!

[Ben Sones]

Top Row
1. Audrey Hepburn
2. Nadia Comaneci
3. Mother Theresa
4. Sandra Day O'Connor
5.
6.
7. Golda Meier
8. Germaine Greer

I'm pretty sure that #6 in the top row is John Cleese.

[Squirrel Killer]

Bottom Row
1. Condaleeza Rice
2. Shirley Temple
3. Susan B. Anthony
4. Rosa Parks
5.
6. Oprah Winfrey
7.
8. Paula Radcliffe
9. Indira Ghandi
5 ch m

[Old Man Gravy]

I'm pretty sure that #6 in the top row is John Cleese.
I kept thinking, "Why's Eric Stoltz in Mask in there?"

[jpinard]

EDIT: Oops I guess that's Nadia letting one on Fonda. HAHA COMMIE ON COMMIE LESBO ACTION.

Thanks, now I've got sprite on my keyboard. :)

[John Many Jars]

...Is the picture still there? Cuz I don't see it, but recently have been suspecting that some pictures aren't showing up in Firefox on my PC.

[jpinard]

...Is the picture still there? Cuz I don't see it, but recently have been suspecting that some pictures aren't showing up in Firefox on my PC.

picture is still there.

[Elton]

7a middle row is German Chancellor Angela Merkel (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4572387.stm).

[Peter Frazier]

#6 at the top is Dame Joan Sutherland, a homely Australian opera singer.

[Elton]

So the only one left is top row #5. Looks familiar ... I checked and she doesn't appear to be Florence Nightingale, Marie Curie, Ada Lovelace, Helen Keller, Gertrude Stein, Emily Dickinson, or a member of the Women's Christian Temperance Union (although the WCTU is actually still around and promoting abstinence from harmful things on their web site, damn their prohibiting hides).

I'm stumped.

[Chris Nahr]

7a middle row is German Chancellor Angela Merkel (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4572387.stm).

Barely elected and she's already a famous woman in history? I guess the requirements for being famous are dramatically lowered if you're a woman...

[Hans Lauring]

And she's the only one that makes you think that?


Weird selection. One with important women rather than famous would have been cooler... fucking Oprah? Why not Dame Edna Average?!

[Elton]

Merkel is at least (arguably) the most powerful woman in the world at the moment. She's the new Thatcher, dontchaknow.

Jane Fonda though?? If Susan Sarandon went to Iraq and got her picture taken with some insurgents, would she belong too?

Edit: Not that I expect the thing to be a cast-iron-solid top-25 women in history. Should have had fewer obvious ones to make it puzzlier. Someone with photoshop skills, get on it.

[John Many Jars]

Oh, I see -- ZoneAlarm thinks it's a banner ad.

Damn, famous women in history are ugly. Still...I fucked 'em.

[Squirrel Killer]

You need to figure out what the selection criteria are.
People John Many Jars fucked. Missing Gary Coleman though.

[Mike O'Malley]

Gary Coleman I can understand, but OPRAH!?!?
WTF is wrong with you, JMJ?

[John Many Jars]

I just try to keep an open mind!

[Bill Dungsroman]

So the only one left is top row #5. Looks familiar ... I checked and she doesn't appear to be Florence Nightingale, Marie Curie, Ada Lovelace, Helen Keller, Gertrude Stein, Emily Dickinson, or a member of the Women's Christian Temperance Union (although the WCTU is actually still around and promoting abstinence from harmful things on their web site, damn their prohibiting hides).

I'm stumped.
Scratch:
Louisa May Alcott, Willa Cather, Kate Chopin, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sarah Josepha Hale, Sarah Orne Jewett, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Susan Warner, Edith Warner, Belle Star, and Calamity Jane.

I tried to find a pic for Hiawatha and some other Native Americans but failed :(

[BrewersDroop]

We're still missing the name of the hottie who's fifth from the left in the top row, aren't we? Like Herr DeutschesNovel and contrarybear, I've run through a list of late 19th/early 20th century women and come up blank.

[Sidd_Budd]

I'm been staring at that portrait for the last two days with her name just out of memory. The original poster said he got all of them -- let us know already so I can say, "Gah, that's who it was", and be done with it.

[Bill Dungsroman]

Yeah. Let's impose what I think ought to be called the Nellie Rule and not wait 40 pages to put the fucker to rest (by which time it's too late).

[Kareem]

Top row, 5th from the left is Emmy Noether.

[Bill Dungsroman]

Who the fuck is that?

[Kareem]

She's a mathematician. And nope I have no idea why she was included and Marie Curie wasn't :)

[BrewersDroop]

Thanks for the answer, Tranquility. I've never even heard of her. Whether that's a commentary on me, society or the person who put together the montage, I don't know.