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
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145 responses to “No Doll Living”
That was supposed to be image not aged.
Beside, Barbie was all plastic. Like some of today’s “reality” stars. Ugh!
A store chain called The Fresh Market just opened a location here. Stopped in today to check it out. Lots of attractive things for sale. Jackie, they had freeze-dried fruits and veggies to replace chips. Even whole okra done that way. They had a bin filled with hazelnut flavored whole-bean coffee that smelled terrific. Nearly too crowded to navigate, but I will go back.
Dearest Ghost, I found myself standing near, maybe beside, Alan Shepard at a get together of some kind. We didn’t actually meet, but I was surprised to see how short and slight he was. Told Chris afterward and he reminded me that Shepard had been a flier and also the astronauts needed to be small to fit into those capsules.
True that, Charlotte.
Debbe 😉 Just in case you’ve forgotten that you already guessed the name of the movie, here is Clue #5.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uS2nWLz-AbE
Looks like Arlo is having to replenish carbs and protein after his previous night’s date with a smokin’ hot woman wearing a sexy nightgown.
Is that why we made early morning eggs, bacon and pancakes, etc. At ungodly hours, like 3 a.m.? I ask, as it has been a long time since I dated anyone who replenished proteins and carbs. Love Jackie
Jackie, there are actually three versions of “The Breakfast of Champions”…
1. Wheaties (the cereal, not the beer)
2. A six-and-a-half ounce green glass bottle of Coca Cola with a pack of salted peanuts poured into it
3. Replenishing carbs and protein
Love, Ghost
And how was it I got stuck with cooking? Just saw a funny kitchen sign today that said “If you want breakfast in bed, sleep in the kitchen”. Probably an oldy moldy?
Good morning Villagers…
Not much to rant about this morning.
Steve, regarding the deer, coincidence? I think not, I would say it was for your friend. Amen.
Happy Caturday
Emb…you’re welcome
GR 😉
The TIP comic
http://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/
is different from the BlogSpot posted Thur., which has not changed.
Peace, emb
Jackie, I know a hilarious one-liner related to that, which I unfortunately cannot repeat here. Perhaps you’ve heard it…it begins with, “If I’m so liberated…”.
Debbe 😉 In memory of The Days of the Orange String Bikini. 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGjky5U64LM
Well, that certainly got my heart started this morning…
OF due 1145-1205 CDT. URL above. emb
Just read the article and saw photos of Sharon Stone in nude that is big news this morning. Would put link but they are nude! I imagine Ghost has already seen? The rest of you just Google name. At 57 she seems comfortable with body image but so would I if I looked like that. Love Jackie
No, Jackie, I haven’t seen the photos of Sharon Stone, but I’d suppose they are appropriate for an actress who seems best remembered for showing the world her lady-parts in a movie. Her mother must be so proud.
OF due soon, 1308-1328 CDT. URL above. emb
My my my! You are in a chivalrous mood this morning, Ghost! I thought she looked lean and limber and spare, but that was just me and wishful thinking.
It’s one p.m. here and I am up, dressed totally and ready to go shop some more. I have missed breakfast and brunch, so this becomes a late lunch! I messed around last night until even the fast food chains were closed, got low blood sugars, no rescue food in car, ended up eating a kids meal portion with a sugar free banana milk shake. Not my best choice, then came home and ended up exercising until wee hours of morning.
Ain’t never gonna look like Tina Turner, Sharon Stone or even Marilyn but the legs are gonna be better when I have those knees replaced! I have officially shrank and am now five feet one inch.
Hey, I liked the part of the Sharon Stone interview where she said her butt looked like a bag of flapjacks! Love, Jackie
Sharon Stone, eccck. Attitude, attitude, attitude. Who wants to be around a gal that contemptuously celebrates the notion that all men are knuckledraggers who are immediately incapacitated by the display of her assets? I echo Ghost’s sentiments, and I shan’t go looking for her photos.
I also hat-tip Our Humble Author for replicating something that apparently is wildly popular, but I just find strange: legs on a female that are impossibly long. The general rule of thumb is that the length from ankle to knee, from knee to hip and from hip to shoulder will all be about the same. Ruth’s imaginary legs in panel two have a stretch in them from ankle to knee. OHA watches such details and gets them right.
Now where it gets weird is when actual humans try to replicate the look. Stevie Nicks did so on the cover of “Belladonna;” I presume that the boots she is standing in had a platform or something partway up, because she is a tiny drink of water and certainly not the longshanks she is trying to be. Nancy Sinatra did it as well in a pose that has her propped up on one arm on the ground, and her white go-go boots have been loosened and moved to where her foot is in the middle of them, and her legs have the “illusion” of being a few inches longer. That sort of business never revved my motor, so I find it odd that happens as much as it does.
Thank you Evan from all the munchkins like me who are almost without legs! I am so short but my daughters are even shorter, one is not even five foot tall.
An interesting thing about my cross country drive recently was that I was crossing paths with the bikers going to South Dakota or was that North Dakota? Sturgis. Anyway, I often cross their riding territories. In the ladies rooms there would be all these really long legged, skinny jeaned but top heavy long haired blondes who seemed to be part of the biker group. Mostly young women.
But the older women riders did not look like this. Just the young ones.
And unfortunately I saw few male riders who matched Ghost’s description of himself but then these were Harleys mainly.
Just observation. Love, Jackie
Not really a fan of Ms. Stone, Jackie. Did that show through? 🙂
I suppose there was really never anything wrong with her looks, for whatever that’s worth. I understand that she has dealt with and survived some physical problems, but then, so have you. So have I. So have a lot a people. That doesn’t, by my lights, entitle us to be self-absorbed, airhead, Hollywood types who will do most anything for “attention” in the furtherance of their “careers”.
BTW, Jackie, I took my Mom to her orthopedist this week for her 3-month knee injection. I was discussing with him a new knee replacement product and procedure that allows the preservation of the ACL and PCL where the ligaments are still healthy, as well as more healthy bone, giving it a much more natural feel during walking, running, etc., following surgery. He said that didn’t used to be an issue, as most of his replacement patients were in their 70s and 80s. But now it is, as more and more people in their 50s and even 40s are requiring it. I think he is one of only a couple of dozen orthopedic surgeons currently using that particular product (the Biomet Vanguard® XP), but there may be someone in your area that uses the same or similar product and procedure. Might be worth asking about.
Also, maybe the surgeon can add that missing inch back when he does your knees. 🙂
Saw the Sharon Stone photos yesterday. They are actually fairly classy…
Old Bear mentioned the book “Clouds Air and Wind by Eric Sloane written 1941” above – there are a few copies on Amazon starting in the $56 range. I just got the one they had for $28, sorry! 🙂
Thanks for the suggestion!
Rusty, I am a big fan of Eric Sloane, not weather so much as his fine drawings and paintings. Diary of an Early American Boy, A Museum of Tools — hand tools for carpentry and all sorts of work, say 200 and more years ago; A book about early barn construction, lots of drawings, and more. But about weather, he painted a wonderful mural in the Air and Space Museum in Washington. It’s huge and goes way up. Clouds, then into space I think. I’d better look it up!