Over at Slate.com, Seth Stevenson chimes in on Sabine Ehrenfeld, the delicious babe from the Overstock.com ads on the TV:
Admit it: You can't take your eyes off this commercial. I know that you can't, because I've read your blogs. The Web is overflowing with your rants: This ad is so annoying! This woman is so freaking hot! I can't stand this woman! What is going on with this ad? I am deeply confused! Please help me!Heh, heh. And Stevenson has done his homework on this woman:
Turns out this actress is German, and came to the States about 20 years ago. She never quite shed that last hint of accent. (Which has cost her some big roles in the past, when casting agents deemed her foreign lilt a bit too distracting.)Yes, well, although her sense of adventure and compulsive derring-do shames me to the depths of my extremely cautious and pedestrian soul, I still think Frau Ehrenfeld needs a good long spanking from Uncle Tobe.
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In addition to German and English, Sabine speaks French and Italian. She is proficient in basic tactical pistol skills, because she thought it would be a fun thing to learn. She also has a private pilot's license and 350 hours in the air. After reading the Richard Bach book Biplane, she was inspired to fly solo?in an old-style, aerobatic tailwheel plane?from California to Montana. With camping gear in the back so she could land along the route to sleep and refuel. I am not making this up.
Just my way of thanking her for increasing my blog traffic by 100 percent.