And in the role of Paula Abdul ... advertising's own Mary Lou Quinlan!

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Never got around to writing a post yesterday about Just Ask a Woman’s Mary Lou Quinlan being one of the judges on Simon Cowell’s latest show, a series called American Inventor, in which people—most of them truly desperate—go before an American Idol-like panel who decide whether their invention has what it takes to be … America’s Next Top Model! (Oh wait, sorry, it all gets so confusing after a while.) Anyway, we were going to make a crack that Mary Lou, as the only woman on the panel, would be assuming the role of Paula Abdul—not realizing, until we watched the show last night, how right we were.

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