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Thread #59494 Message #953941
Posted By: Little Hawk
16-May-03 - 02:54 PM
Thread Name: BS: Any comic book readers here ?
Subject: RE: BS: Any comic book readers here ?
Good point about Big Ethel, Mario. Your analyses of both Veronica and Betty are spot on!
Rick...man, we must have somehow been ejected from the same cosmic mould (physical dissimilarities notwithstanding)...
We are such fools when we're children. How could I have ever thought that Veronica or my Dad's secretary (Edie) or Karamaneh (the daughter of Fu Manchu) or even Mary Perkins could have fallen for me? A shy weird kid with an unnatural fixation on Vanguard Recording Company folksingers....a neighbourhood curiosity who talked to himself while playing endless games of rubber-ball toss, against the wall: "Mantle's now at bat...George throws that vicious slider...Mantle strikes out!"
And Pamela Ford? Ha ha, don't make me laugh! Why would the most popular girl in grade eight want to even be seen with a Coke bottle-lensed bookworm, the class "brain" whose only claim to fame was that he could score 100% on 98% of his tests and remember all 50,000 stamps in his collection?
So why didn't I just try to hang out with Maureen McCauley, Thelma Amos, Irma Kowalchuck, or Jane Elliot (other nurds like myself) or fantasize about lesser cartoon women...like Minne Mouse? I'm sure there were perfectly nice girls in "AstroBoy", or "Slenderella", or "Miss Mannerisms".
Ahhhhhh, the human condition.
(I'm intrigued that you also had an Irma Kowalchuck in your school. Amazing...)
- LH