Rule 5 Saturday - Warehouse Women

Rule 5 Saturday rolls around again, and time to select victims subjects!  After rolling two twenty sided dice and consulting an obscure table, know only to me, I've settled on the Women of Warehouse 13.  If you don't follow it, I'm not surprised.  Warehouse 13 is one of those cheap sci-fi shows that is summer fare on the Sci-Fi Channel, on Friday Monday night.

Joanne Kelly as Mika Bering

The theme?  Do you remember the very end of the first Indiana Jones movie, where they took the fabled and deadly magic Ark of the Covenant, stuck it in a box, and piled it in a huge warehouse full of similarly anonymous boxes?  Warehouse 13 is that warehouse.

An amusing cast of characters keeps track of the items (called "artifacts") in the warehouse (which turns out to be an artifact in itself).  A couple of Secret Service agents are assigned to track down missing artifacts, and of course, on of them is a woman, Myka Bering, played by Joanna Kelly.  Possessing an eidetic memory, she plays the straight, responsible woman.

Allison Scagliotti, aka "Claudia Donovan"

The other woman most closely attached to the Warehouse is Claudia Donovan, played by Allison Scagliotti, who plays (and I quote wiki who stole it from promo material, I'm sure):

"a young, hip, brilliant techno-wiz" who earns a job at Warehouse 13 after discovering too many of its secrets

It's also clear she will play a more significant role in the Warehouse's future, should the Warehouse (the series I mean) survive.

Leena

Genelle Williams plays Leena, the proprietor of the local bead and breakfast, and a psychic with the ability to "read peoples auras".  Whoopee! Since the Warehouse is located out in Bumfuck Univlle, South Dakota (do you think they'd trust it in Washington DC, and besides, I think it's beyond their control), all visitors have to stay with her.  Needless to say, people who visit the Warehouse aren't exactly normal.

H. G. Wells

H. (Helena) G. Wells is a recurring character played by Jaime Murray.  A British agent from a former incarnation of the Warehouse (in England).  Bronzed (think Han Solo and Jabba D. Hut) for improprieties, she was freed by Leena.  At some points villain, and at some points heroine, she is currently presumed dead after an act of self sacrifice.  But death is rarely permanent when magic is part of the plot...

And then, there's Mrs. Frederic, the real boss...

She told me if I was going to do this, I had to include her, or else...

Found by the DaleyGator for their Rule 5 Journey with Kadie Ann Johns.  Be sure to see their Daley Babes, fresh daily, too.  William Teach at Pirate's Cove links with his weekly "Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup" and link collection. Rule 5 Sunday done come on Sunday this week at the Other McCain, with "Every Rose Has It's Thorn."

The Olympic Babe Page

I'm starting to see "Hot Babes of the Olympic" type posts pop up here and there (not to mention my own feeble attempts , so I though I'd start a page to celebrate and direct you all to notable ladies of the 2012 Olympiad.  I'll update this page as I find things, so come back often.

First up, from Paraguay, the noted spear chucker (and model) , Leryn Franco.  More photos here:

Next, Australian Pole Vaulter, Melanie Adams:

U.S. Women's Volleyball Jen Kessey:

Isabelle Gulden, Sweden, Handball:

Jacque Carvalho, Brazil Volleyball:

Wizbang's Olympic Babe du jour, Logan Tom, USA Beach Volleyball:

Another Wizbang Girl, Darya Klishina, Russian Long Jumper

Olympic athletes tattoos; warning, some of these are male!  Anastasia Davydova, gold medal winning synchronized swimmer:

Jewish American Princess Aly Raisman brings home the gold, and incurs a $10,000 debt to the IRS to the strains of 'Hava Nagila':

Wizbang's Girl du jour is Staphanie Rice, the swimmer from Australia:

Wizbang's Olympic babe for 8/2/12 Emilia Pikkarainen, swimmer from Finland:

While not exactly the height of babedom, the Chinese Badminton pair, Wang Xiaoli and Yu Yang, 2012 World Champions,  made the news by being disqualified for throwing a match to better their position later in the tournement:

Similarly Korean pairs Kyung Jung and Ha Na Kim:

and Jung Eun Ha and her partner Min Jung Kim

and Indonesian couple Meiliana Jauhari and Gresia Polii were also tossed:

I blame whoever made the rules that allowed throwing games to be potentially advantageous.

Rebecca Soni incurred a debt of almost $10,000 to the US government, by winning the Gold Medal in the 200 meter breaststroke (and setting a new world record).  But she couldn't have done it without Obama's stimulus spending, so she owes it to him.

Gold Medal winning Chinese diver Wu Minxia (now there's a name to conjure with), won the gold, and was then told that her grandparents had died the year previous, and her mother was being treated for breast cancer.  No personal distractions allowed in the the Chinese program:

Wizbang add Jennifer Ennis, British track and field start to their collection:

Urska Zolnir (top) from Slovenia beat China's Xu Lili (bottom) to win the Gold in Judo.  She's not that cute, but I thought if I didn't include her, she might hurt me...

Wizbang's Olympic Babe of the Day is Ivet Lolova, Bulgarian sprinter.

Playing now in the Beach Volley Ball Quarterfinal, Sara Goller, for Germany:

Wizbang's Olympic Chick of Yesterday was Christine Sonali Merril, Track and Field, Sri Lanka.

and their babe of today was Lolo (Lori) Jones, US track and Field.

Rule 5 Sunday done come on Sunday this week at the Other McCain, with "Every Rose Has It's Thorn."

Rule 5 Saturday - American Beauty - Mena Suvari

Oh, look.  It's Rule 5 Saturday again already, and here I am without any good excuses to pick one girl over another.  So I'll just reach into the grab bag, and grab....

Mena Suvari

With a name like that she's got to be a furriner, right?  Well not exactly.  She was born in 1979 in the very smallest state, Rhode Island.  Her father was Estonian, and her mother half-Greek, though, which presumably accounts for the exotic name. 

Probably best known for her role as the forbidden teen love interest in "American Beauty" (1999), (NSFW link) and also for her role in "American Pie" (1999) and it's successors, she has over 30 films to her credit.

She is also a model and clothing designer, so she'll have something to live on when her good looks fade...


 Just kidding.  Anyway, that's all, folks, just more Mena below the jump.

Thanks to Wombat-Soccho, who picked this up in generic "Rule 5 Monday" this week at The Other McCain. And to the Classical Liberal, who scooped it up with "Debt Bomb" and other Rule 5 posts.