Today, a true classic from 10 years ago. I ran across some discussion on the Web the other day about A&J. No, I did not Google myself! I used Bing. A few years back I had drawn Janis getting dressed, much as in the strip above. She was slipping into a camisole in the process of donning a heavy cable-knit sweater, and the very lowest sliver of her right breast was depicted. Big deal? Well, apparently. It generated a lot of internet discussion (“Underboob” it was repeatedly called.) and even a newspaper column about whether this was “appropriate” for the comics. I don’t have time to post a link to the cartoon, but I have every faith that if you watch the comments below there will be one within the hour. So, I ask, why is it okay to show any and all of the female breast above the nipple (after 5 p.m., of course!) but not anything below? Besides, I truly was not trying to be lascivious. I grew up reading comics 50 years ago. The women in The Heart of Juliet Jones and Apt. 3-G rarely wore anything but underwear! And the paper was chock-a-block with illustrations of lingerie available in the Atlanta department stores. Trust me on that one. Besides, there is a double standard at work here. I could draw Arlo in his drawers a hundred times and not generate one comment. I’m not saying this is strange; I’m just saying it is true. It is also true, I guess, what our mothers told us when we were young: “If you get a bad reputation, well… that’s it!”
Black Is the Old Black
By Jimmy Johnson
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62 responses to “Black Is the Old Black”
Why not just fig leaves? Or cod pieces like ancestors?
The other kind of chicken raising: http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2015/03/i_love_it_one_familys_place_in.html#incart_river
No prediction yet, but pretty active. emb
http://www.nps.gov/features/yell/webcam/oldFaithfulStreaming.html
Yep, Rick, over the years having an all-female staff has led to me learning things I didn’t know I didn’t know.
Jackie, that must have been an interesting bar to visit.
Denise – yes, it IS great! I used to irritate my children when they were young by telling them to “Look it up!” They thought I was copping out. Perhaps I was, at times. But my main motivation was to expose them to the joy of learning. I think it stuck more with my daughter than my son.
Now, if I find myself wondering about something, I do look it up. As an example, I worked an online jigsaw puzzle this morning. It was a picture of three (beautiful!) Scottish kittens. Then I thought – what is different about Scottish kittens? Lo and behold, there is a breed of cats, originating in Scotland in the early 1960s, that have ears that are folded, pointing forward. Fascinating!
Called Scottish Fold cats, most original name!
Ghost she had degree in psychology and walked around with the surgeons at UT burn hospital in Dallas Went to St Louis and pay was half So she started as bunny suit wearing cocktail waitress at huge new casino Went upstairs to VIP room for high rollers and got to wear same uniform as barman Lasted longer than anyone and I am betting psych degree paid off Expensive club to join since it bases on your losses
Jackie – your comment about your daughter’s preferences reminded me of a story my sister-in-law told recently. She had friends over for dinner and prepared her standard baked chicken breast concoction. Her young guest was a bit bewildered when she began to cut it – she’d never had chicken with bones before.
Daughter won’t buy or touch boned meat so no deboning either. I will point our I have 4 hours of college credits in slaughtering and cutting up meat products, in other words, butchering, as well as meat judging on hoof and cut up, And on college judging team.
Debbe – Lots and lots AND LOTS of fog last night and this morning. I-65 was closed both ways, as I’m sure you’ve read about by now. Yes, the warm weather needs to stay. I want my windows open!
Mmmm. Bacon.
Galliglo in Ohio:
Thanks for that origin! I had never heard that before.
Still, I don’t see how a clam could be happy – starfish will still be after him.
Also, I’ve never seen a clam smile, be it high tide, low tide, rip tide, or Tide.
I don’t know, in the parts of the web I go to, guys love underboob. It’s a novelty I suppose, a relatively new entry into partial-breast-baring fashion. That’s probably why the stick-in-the-mud folks don’t like it, it’s something they haven’t seen before, haven’t gotten used to.
On a closely related note, my all time Jimmy favorite is the strip for 08/06/2004. (It’s on the Comics site.)
That’s how I first realized that that very short head baker at the place I’d get my coffee and pastry from in the morning (she was emptying the lower levels of what they call a speed rack) was also a very attractive woman.
We’ve been married now for twelve years…