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| 2006-12-18 |
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| Posted by:Fred |
| #16 Sure I have, Old Patriot! Down in the Cotswalds in 1987, arrived after the restaurant had closed for the evening. Got a cheese sandwhich on stale white bread -- barely a step up from Wonderbread, I might add, except that Wonderbread is never stale -- and a club soda, because their kitchen was closed, too. Thank goodness for cream teas, else I wouldn't have survived the next few days! But Mr. Wife didn't mention that the beer was flat... (I never developed a taste for the stuff, I'm afraid, which seems to leave more for him) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2006-12-18 20:50 |
| #15 surely one doesn't actually drink flat beer? TW, you've obviously never been to a back-country English pub... |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2006-12-18 19:30 |
| #14 As for the flat beer, the hair was rinsed in it as a setting lotion. Very effective, if a bit sticky, whether for pin curls or on rollers. Probably attracted things, though, if not rinsed out again at reasonable intervals. /end surely one doesn't actually drink flat beer? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2006-12-18 18:51 |
| #13 It wasn't bras they replaced, it was boned corsets. Bras weren't actually invented until later, if I recall my undergarment history correctly. Then, once they could breathe and didn't have to worry about bits popping out, they could dance the quickstep and the charleston with enthusiasm and aplomb. The first round of women's liberation, dontchaknow. ;-) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2006-12-18 18:46 |
| #12 Hence the Thundering Herd Monicker. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2006-12-18 17:54 |
| #11 Fred, hence the Trojan moniker? |
| Posted by: Broadhead6 2006-12-18 17:45 |
| #10 It takes lots of flat beer to make that hair stay so nicely tousled and curled. Do ya drink it or wash it in it? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2006-12-18 17:16 |
| #9 "The more I see of men, the better I like dawgs" |
| Posted by: Shipman 2006-12-18 17:14 |
| #8 It takes lots of flat beer to make that hair stay so nicely tousled and curled. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2006-12-18 13:43 |
#7 from the Clara Bow collection |
| Posted by: RD 2006-12-18 12:23 |
| #6 I wear Bow Ties. |
| Posted by: DragonFlyUFGator 2006-12-18 11:42 |
#5 It is not true, however, that Clara Bow was the inventor of the tie of the same name.  |
| Posted by: Fred 2006-12-18 11:01 |
| #4 Not too sure what the diffo is between the "flat look" and today's anorexic ideal. Clara was not flat-chested. She was the inspiration for Betty Boop's looks (her voice was Helen Kane). She was also reputed to have "laid everything but linoleum," to include the entire USC football team. |
| Posted by: Fred 2006-12-18 10:55 |
| #3 It certainly would have depressed the hell out of me. "Flat look" indeed (spit)! |
| Posted by: mac 2006-12-18 09:07 |
| #2 She goes back to pre-Depression times. In those days, fashionable women would replace their bras with thick cloth that would squash the breasts. It was called: "the flat look." Maybe it caused the Depression. |
| Posted by: Sneaze Shaiting3550 2006-12-18 05:57 |
| #1 Ah Clara, the famous "It Girl". Wotta dish. Unfortunately, she had a pretty sad life story. |
| Posted by: Scooter McGruder 2006-12-18 00:36 |