Today, from 1996, musings from Gene’s old flame Ruth. We’ve looked at a lot of old strips over the years, and we’ll continue to do so, but I think many of us—myself included—enjoy looking at something else now and then. I’ve experimented recently with sketches and illustrations of inside information, but there’s only so much of that to go around. I’ll keep looking. It’s Friday, but at least I’m up to two posts most weeks. Maybe Summer truly is winding down.
No Doll Living
By Jimmy Johnson
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145 responses to “No Doll Living”
Why do I have no picture on the screen? There is a little small icon and I clicked it but nothing?
I was just going to say, today’s post is no doubt charming, but it’s also invisible, at least to me. And apparently to Jackie as well.
Until it’s fixed here’s the URL for the image. It will probably download to your hard disk instead of appearing in the browser.
http://arloandjanis.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/1996-09-21-barbie.tif
Yep, that’s the one I thought it was! One of my absolute favorites of all times! Now why in the world would I like that one? I never had legs like Tina Turner.
It’s that living doll image that I loved. I am getting my front teeth capped and made more perfect at my advanced age, something I have known about and been told I needed since I was in my teens. Now why would I do that?
Southern girls never outgrow dolls, do we? Love, Jackie
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Thanks for the review – I too prefer a hoppier beer.
Jackie
What cheese did you use on the fruit pizza?
local Quik Trip does a good breakfast pizza with scrambled egg and sausage.
For you fliers and sky watchers see if you can find:
Clouds Air and Wind by Eric Sloane written 1941 – simplifies some complex phenomena.
Inter-library loan maybe the only way to get it.
Will be back
Hugs to those who need it. And other just because.
“You’ll put your eye out with that thing, kid!”
[From “A Christmas Story”, not the retro cartoon.]
Nothing wrong with self-improvement, Jackie; in, as always, moderation, of course.
In keeping with our current strip about satin nighties and Ghosts preferences, this was as close as I could come to the theme! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rkgm1yGgvM&index=2&list=RDhsCdlX-5UjE
Lord, I hope that one got typed right! I need to learn how to do this. Love, Jackie
Make that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rkgm1yGgbM&index=2&list=RDhsCdlX-5UjE
That is supposed to be Moody Blues in Nights in White Satin, in case I missed it again and Mark has to link it. The most satin nightgowns I have come across lately outside of a lingerie catalog!
Love, Jackie
OK, so I am in a weird mood, I found Lady in Red in Spanish with even more satin nightgowns, all in red. Except a lot of these had migrated south already and involved a considerable amount of partial nudity and some considerable pokies! So, I decided there were those among us who might be offended by posting that one. The men among us can find it on their own! I had decided to do first white, then red, then black but I quit on the white ones. The red ones were the best, hint, hint! Love, Jackie
Jackie, did you mean https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rkgm1yGgbM ? For the white ones, not the red ones.
Janis may worry about “how she looks naked”, but she certainly shouldn’t concern herself about how she looks in Arlo’s gift gown.
Yeah I clicked it and I was able to see it off my server.
I would not want to look like Ken…because I really love my kids.
Trying out HTML code to get a link to work… Pls have patience.
Drabble Comic Strip
Image works in Internet Explorer.
Image gives a broken link symbol in Chrome.
Image just doesn’t appear at all in Firefox.
Old bear, use low fat ricotta and sweeten it slightly, like with honey or even Stevia I guess would work.
I am going to make that for breakfast tomorrow, sliced peaches and slivered almonds I think, although any fruit would work, I may throw in cherries or blueberries for antioxidants. Need to go eat something before I charge off today. House is full of healthy stuff so probably a salad with those precooked mesquite grilled chicken slices and throw in some more goodies, like tomatoes and cukes from garden, along with avocado. Boy, was I excited to find out how healthy avocado is until I found out a portion is 1/5 of a normal avocado! Love, Jackie
OF due 1415-1435 CDT, = soon. emb
I well understand the problem of getting jeans that fit properly. Up until fairly recently, I needed 36X29; now, it’s more like 34X29, but I can’t find them any more, although they used to be common. Now, nobody sells jeans with a leg less than 30, which is a tad too long for me.
Going back to the earlier discussion of Tina Turner’s legs, here they are on her stationery – https://flic.kr/p/wpt4FP
(I hope this works!)
Sorry about the picture quality – it’s a scan of a photocopy. I do think her advice is interesting.
Yes, RA, good advice from Ms. Turner. And her legs are indeed her trademark.
Jackie, your post about how short the skirts were on Tina and her dancers reminds me of a time when my group was waiting for a table at a place in Pensacola that had an outside bar that attracted studly (but short in stature…those fighter cockpits used to be small) young Naval Aviators and the local dollies that hoped to attract them, a la “An Officer and a Gentleman”, and I was amusing myself by watching the dollies arrive, usually in pairs, and make their studied entrances. The vast majority of them wore micro-miniskirts, with a few wearing staid-by-comparison miniskirts. Some of the former, inevitably worn by statuesque and awesomely leggy young ladies, were marvels of engineering that so successfully skirted (no pun intended) the line between “Wow” and “Whoops” that I felt they must surely have be designed at MIT.
Imagine the tip my Pneumatic and Pulchritudinous Hair Stylist got the day I arrived to find her wearing a version of those micro-miniskirts. 😉
OF due NOW! Lots of watchers, so it must still be in the offing.
Regarding the no-picture: I can’t open it with Chrome. But I did go back to a link that someone posted at one time for A&J archives – and there it was!
I wonder how many young women who are now suffering from self-image problems grew up with Barbie as the ideal? At one time, I converted Barbie’s measurements to an adult woman with a 24″ waist. Cannot remember the exact equivalents, but it seems as though Barbie’s bustline would have been around 50″. Sounds like some of today’s starlets, who are surgically enhanced.
Done by 6:35 CDT.
5:35, of course. Where is that “correct” button when you need it?
Gal, a writer (with apparently not enough to write about) once calculated that a real-life Barbie would be 5’9″ tall, have a 39″ bust, an 18″ waist, 33″ hips and wear a size 3 shoe. Her estimated weight would be 110 pounds, and she’d have a BMI of 16.24. Based on what she’s said, that sounds kinda like teenage Jackie, other than for the height. 🙂
Re body-image issues, I wonder if the same could be said for cartoons? Just to use one example, Daisy Mae, Moonbeam McSwine, and Stupefyin’ Jones didn’t exactly have the most realistic body proportions; nor did Li’l Abner and Tiny Yokum, for that matter.
And how did Al Capp get away, back in the day, with naming a female character “Appassionata Von Climax”?
Body image has been a problem I think forever but the aged have chsnged. Think if you were skinny scrawny little kid and the cute girls looked like Sandra See or you were chubby chunky shorty and suddenly Twiggy was the ideal?
Ironically since I lost weight I can shop on both junior and women’s departments and yesterday I was looking at Marilyn Monroe tee shirts and tops with messages like “Perfectly Lucious” and similar statents. Yet poor Marilyn had about as negative a body image as you could get. Dead all these years and still projecting negative body image. Love Jackie