Was she dropping her other kids off at breakdancing lessons?

What in tarnation is a barncoat?

@AuntPeniston: something cows wear so they don't get chilly.

@AuntPeniston: right...? barncoat?

@AuntPeniston: barncoats come in every suburban price range from ll bean to burberry

Richard, when you introduce her to the creative underclass, I think it's only proper to call her Mrs. De Lesseps. You can't let the help call her by her first name.

@AuntPeniston: Fake tanning cream for rednecks?

@hamburgerhotdog: spilled my coffee; good one. cows also have those cute little outdoor huts to take a nap in if they get tired on the way back to the barn

Is there a Sniglet or Hezism for "that permanently embarrassed look assumed by teenaged girls with reality show mothers"?

And just to clarify: I mean no disservice to Mexican people. I am only referencing her long-suffering housekeeper, Rosanna.

Maybe she should spell her name Louann. The "o" adds a classy littke French touch, non?

Who, um, may not be Mexican. I am a horrible person.

"little" French touch...

Well, I saw Alex McCord at the C-town in Windsor Terrace wearing a pleated gown and ordering a half pound of American cheese.

Wearing a barncoat and cheese sniffing sounds like a euphamism for cow tipping.

@hamburgerhotdog: @Notyourmother: @if_i_only_had_a_heart: Having grown up immediately adjacent to a barn you'd think I might know. I guess I failed to absorb the rich cultural influences that surrounded me.

@Notyourmother: if by French you mean manly, then yes, yes it does

@Richard: Wow, she is more like Karen on Will and Grace than I thought.

@pre555soul: Velveeta and Wonder Bread which she tried to pass off as camembert and pain quotidien.

@Richard: You're just like Cher Horowitz.

@Bell County:Momortification?

Richard, is she really worse than any of the other ones? They'd be just as off-putting had they married pseudo-royalty.

@hamburgerhotdog: Excuse you, countesses have break dancing instructors come to their chateaus. Dropping one's kids off at lessons is so declasse. (why can i not do accents in html...shameful)

@Richard: I know its hard to tell, we all tend to either clean houses or be day laborers and have burritos and tacos for lunch.

Fortunately Mexicans like Jennifer Lopez and Che Guevara show us that we can have a profound impact on society. Oh wait.

You hate LuAnn the most? Out of all of them? Like even more than Ramona? REALLY?

To me, she almost wins by default.

@Itsjustcatnip: Attention Whorror?

@contradicto: I sincerely (really) apologize. I am ill and struggling through and obviously making mistakes.

Ok, I am just going to say it. I love LuAnn..she is strange, but whatever. At least she isn't a screaming social climber like the siamese twins

@Richard: Don't worry about it. I thought it was hilarious.

@pre555soul: I saw Alex McCord at Fairway in Red Hook pinching the crackers.

@contradicto: did Hennifer Hropes steer me wrong all this time?

Please, don't get so worked up about Luanne; you need your strength (apparently). Actually, I found her less hateful than Ramona and Alex. I am still hoping for a McCord sighting on Smith Street--perhaps at Stinky Brooklyn?

Oh yeah, and I looked up barn coat. So that's what they're called!

I also naively assumed Rosanna was Mexican (and I am Mexican) but her accent was completely Filipina. Ethnically ambiguous or not, I felt bad for the tiny woman. LuAnn was actually my favorite housewife on episode one but after that I was conflicted. Have to love the breakdancing lessons in her townhouse, though.

@hamburgerhotdog: Thank you for explaining that so quickly. I was worried I wouldn't be able to sleep tonight!

Why are there napkins and matchbooks covering posts so I can't read them. Damn fancy dancy advertisers! Anyone else having this problem? And I can't close the ad--no little x to click.

@hamburgerhotdog: Yes, sometimes we'll opt for enchiladas.

@Richard: As an apology, I will accept a star. thanks.

Oh, Richard. You had me at "googly eyes and a tiara."

@Doolittle: Me too!

Has anyone ever seen LuAnn's television show for one of those random Hamptons channels? Plum maybe? It is called something like "The Countess's Hamptons" or something equally ghastly. No joke, she reminds me of a third rate segment host on KARE-11 in Minneapolis.

It says here that the Count is involved in "microfinance," which I understand to mean that he dispatches liveried thugs to beat up desperately poor Bangladeshis. Something to consider: Luann's barncoat was probably paid for with thousands of tiny interest payments.

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I hate, hate LuAnn too. I ran into her once and she kept telling me how she was a countess in the most obnoxious condescending way. "We are Count and Countess . . ." Her husband was sitting back just letting her do this bullshit. I really want to know what this Suez Canal aristocracy bull is about. Please Richard, try to get the story on when Sir Count Alex's family bought that stupid title. Hate her. All the women on that show were HORRIBLE.

She must have been shopping for Taco Night...but will she be there?

@Hortense de Beauharnais: Has anyone bothered to tell her that we don't have a formal system of aristocracy here in this country? And that the only "Count" we love is a number fetishist made out of fur?

Rosanna was Filipina. Like Dale from Top Chef.

@contradicto: Let them eat Entenmann's cake!

@AuntPeniston: Barncoats are to the 1990s what Leisure Suits were to the 1970s and what Duran Duran and Madonna outfits (that you could eventually buy at Sears and J.C. Penney's) were to the 1980s . . . [www.llbean.com]

@AuntPeniston: having not grown up next to a barn, i only know what i learn from clothing catalogs. i do not know if a barn coat is actually worn in or near a barn. i just know what the catalogs call it

@iamrulalenska: taco night certainly sounds like a euphemism for something

@AuntPeniston: Happy to be servicey: [www.llbean.com]

I knew my Connecticut prep school education would come in handy one day!

@Nic Fit: i found will and grace to be an infinitely sad show and laughing at karen was like laughing at a sad crazy person ... it made me uncomfortable

@LittleLolly: so you seem to be informed on the subject of barn coats; are they actually worn in or near barns, or are they just like topsiders and worn mostly to the mall?

I saw Bethenny and Jill sniffing cheese quesadillas at Qdoba.

@hamburgerhotdog: entenmann's tiny chocolate covered donuts ... oh man

Maybe I missed it, but aside from wearing a hipster squaw top to the bars on the Lower East Side with people young enough to be her children, she never mentions her Native American heritage on the show.

It would be great if Rosanna was the one to get the spin-off show.

@if_i_only_had_a_heart: Believe it or not, but those who reside in horse country have been known to wear them near the barn. Usually, the wearer of said barncoat is drining a G&T and ordering the stableboy to do a better job of mucking out the stalls.

Those who reside in Jersey, tend to wear them to the mall.

@LittleLolly:

HEY. There is lots of horse country in Jersey. Watch it.

Now back to Countess bashing.