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BS: Women that could paint a house.

05 Aug 06 - 09:52 PM (#1802453)
Subject: BS: Women that could paint a house.
From: Bee-dubya-ell

Georgia O'Keefe could do the bedroom, Mary Cassatt the living room and Frida Kahlo could do the kitchen and bathroom.

Yeah, I know they're all dead, but so what? They wouldn't do it if they were still alive so what difference does it make?


05 Aug 06 - 10:06 PM (#1802459)
Subject: RE: BS: Women that could paint a house.
From: The Fooles Troupe

Sounds like a great bunch of girlfriends for Hitler - he was a house painter too...


05 Aug 06 - 11:03 PM (#1802492)
Subject: RE: BS: Women that could paint a house.
From: LilyFestre

Mary Cassatt could paint any room in my house that she wanted...love her work!

Michelle


05 Aug 06 - 11:19 PM (#1802498)
Subject: RE: BS: Women that could paint a house.
From: Liz the Squeak

I'll paint it for you - for the right amount of chocolate!

LTS


06 Aug 06 - 12:36 AM (#1802520)
Subject: RE: BS: Women that could paint a house.
From: Stilly River Sage

I painted much of my house, with the help of Moonglow. I still need to go back and add another coat in one room she painted. . .


06 Aug 06 - 12:42 AM (#1802521)
Subject: RE: BS: Women that could paint a house.
From: harpmolly

Hey, don't forget Dora Carrington! :)

M


06 Aug 06 - 04:49 AM (#1802571)
Subject: RE: BS: Women that could paint a house.
From: JohnInKansas

Try the National Museum of Women in the Arts?

If you'd like a live one, perhaps Ann Massey?

(I've got a long list of good ones, but I don't have the list separated into who's living and who's not. Ann was just the first live one I spotted.)

John


06 Aug 06 - 04:55 AM (#1802576)
Subject: RE: BS: Women that could paint a house.
From: The Fooles Troupe

Yeah John, we must be getting old - I haven't spotted too many live ones lately...


06 Aug 06 - 05:50 PM (#1802955)
Subject: RE: BS: Women that could paint a house.
From: Peace

Women can be very good in the construction trades. Not all, though. Many of you will not be old enought to remember, but there was a carpenter named Christine Keeler. One screw and the cabinet fell apart. Moving on now . . . .


06 Aug 06 - 05:56 PM (#1802960)
Subject: RE: BS: Women that could paint a house.
From: Paul from Hull

*groan*

Hang your head in shame, sir, for inflicting that excruciating pun on us...

*G*


06 Aug 06 - 08:14 PM (#1803056)
Subject: RE: BS: Women that could paint a house.
From: GUEST,John Profumo

Hey, i resemble that accusation.


06 Aug 06 - 08:51 PM (#1803078)
Subject: RE: BS: Women that could paint a house.
From: Metchosin

Oh! and didn't the other one drown? you know....Mandy Rice Davies....I think she was found bobbing up and down under a British peer.


07 Aug 06 - 02:15 AM (#1803227)
Subject: RE: BS: Women that could paint a house.
From: Liz the Squeak

Painting isn't construction... it's interior design.

25 years ago when I left school, I wanted to be a painter and decorator (as they were called then, in the days before Laurence Llewellyn Bowen and Handy Andy) but no-one would take a female apprentice.

How different life could have been if they had....

LTS


07 Aug 06 - 05:38 AM (#1803291)
Subject: RE: BS: Women that could paint a house.
From: The Fooles Troupe

Liz,

did you say 'inferior design'?


07 Aug 06 - 08:37 AM (#1803372)
Subject: RE: BS: Women that could paint a house.
From: Liz the Squeak

Wash your ears out Toolesdroop!

LTS


07 Aug 06 - 07:52 PM (#1803981)
Subject: RE: BS: Women that could paint a house.
From: The Fooles Troupe

oooooooooooo...

put your fingers in the corners of your mouth, pull your lips apart and say

"Ship of Fools"....


hmmm...

I typed "fingersin" - spellchecker suggested "finger sin" .. wonder what THAT is?


08 Aug 06 - 12:46 AM (#1804129)
Subject: RE: BS: Women that could paint a house.
From: GUEST,Billy

I once met a woman of low repute who said to me, "I'll do anything you want for $250 if you can express it in three words or less."
I said, "Paint my house!"


08 Aug 06 - 07:35 PM (#1804829)
Subject: RE: BS: Women that could paint a house.
From: Bert

Toolesdroop! LOL Squeaks.

Christine Keeler - Gawd Peace, you're giving away your age there.

Paint a house! my wife Tree could build one and daughter Rachael wouldn't be far behind, she has her own tiling business.


09 Aug 06 - 06:51 PM (#1805666)
Subject: RE: BS: Women that could paint a house.
From: Folkiedave

I had a woman paint the porch at the back in red.

She came after an hour and said she had finished - but she reckoned the porch was a BMW.