BS: Bare Bellies, and Uncle Bud

Subject: BS: Bare Bellies, and Uncle Bud
From: Jeep man
Date: 29 Oct 02 - 08:30 PM

My uncle Bud, a wise man and my hero, sent me another letter and I
thought I might share it with you. I hope this doesn't get me into trouble like the last one.

He writes;

Dear Nephew, I take pen in hand to say howdy and bring you up to date
on our doins. (We, meaning me and your Aunt Sudie.)

Me and Sudie was in the Wal Mart the other day to get some dog food
and to look at all the new things for sale since our last visit. We get lots of entertainment at the Wal Mart. We started noticing that the young girls all seemed to be not quite dressed, or not fully clothed. It seems they had all forgot the part that goes over the belly button and below. I said,"Sudie, look at that", and she said "Well I Swann, I think them girls need to go back and put on the rest of their clothes. I wonder if their mothers know?"

That was answered pretty quick as a mother and what looked like two teen aged daughters walked by. LAW, you could even see the top of their bloomers. And the mother acted like it was all right.

I said, "There must be something going one. I'll find out". I finally found a sales lady and asked her about it. She said, "Why that is the way the young girls everwhere are dressing. Its all the rage"

I said,"Don't people think that is tacky and trashy to dress that way?"

She said, "Its probably just a fad and will soon pass. It seems to me like their learning about family values and morals might be coming out of the TV set. I doubt they would dress that sloppily if mom and dad did their job at home, and said NO."

I said, "I Declare." I guess I just don't get out of the house enough to know whats happening.

When me and Sudie got to the house, I said, "Sudie, is there any chance that you are going to dress like that?"

All she said was,"Bud, git the dog food out of the car and put it in the barn." So I did.

Remember Nephew, Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before. Uncle Bud

Subject: RE: BS: Bare Bellies, and Uncle Bud
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 29 Oct 02 - 08:33 PM

I can't help thinking they must get very cold. Girls are much tougher than blokes when it comes to putting up with physical discomfort.

Subject: RE: BS: Bare Bellies, and Uncle Bud
From: khandu
Date: 29 Oct 02 - 08:45 PM

Funny how we change with the advancement of age. When I was a teen, I loved the bra-less girls with their hip-hugging bell-bottoms. Even after I married, I enjoyed my wife dressing a bit risque (for a couple of years, anyway!).

Now that I have turned into my Dad, I am a bit shaken by the garb of the youngsters. I have become the fuddy-duddies I once railed against.

I don't know, I guess those scantily-clad young ladies of today will become fuddy-duddies when they get older!

Tell Uncle Bud he ain't alone!

khandu

Subject: RE: BS: Bare Bellies, and Uncle Bud
From: Sorcha
Date: 29 Oct 02 - 09:02 PM

LOL! When I was young I had a cute tummy/tush too...and wanted to show it off. No More!

Subject: RE: BS: Bare Bellies, and Uncle Bud
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 29 Oct 02 - 11:28 PM

I figure that at this stage of my life there's not a snowball's chance in Hell that I'll ever get to do anything more than look at any woman less than fifty years old. That being the case, I try my very best to hold up my end of the bargain. If a young woman wants to show it, I try my very best to be sure to look at it.

Bruce the Dirty Old Man

Subject: RE: BS: Bare Bellies, and Uncle Bud
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 30 Oct 02 - 01:20 AM

Gods love 'em...

They can wear as little as they want... I'll be right there watchin' 'em...

Subject: RE: BS: Bare Bellies, and Uncle Bud
From: Amos
Date: 30 Oct 02 - 01:57 PM

IT's a funny perrennial battle, isn't it -- on the one side, those who are "mature" try hard to keep the young things from attracting excessive amounts of admiration, especially from males -- and on the other they fight like hell to garner as much as they possibly can, as though they want nothing more in the world. SIgh. What a funky playground this planet is!! :>)

A

Subject: RE: BS: Bare Bellies, and Uncle Bud
From: katlaughing
Date: 30 Oct 02 - 02:17 PM

Bee-dubya-ell - is there some magic spell which turns all women into some kind of ogre on the half-century?:-) Just remember there is nothing which makes up for experience...

katnotquitethereyetbutsurenotfeelingunattractive!

Subject: RE: BS: Bare Bellies, and Uncle Bud
From: Midchuck
Date: 30 Oct 02 - 02:42 PM

Kat, based on my very limited experience, younger women are better for looking, and older for doing. I think Ben Franklin said the same.

But I tend to be with BWL and Clinton on the looking part.

My days have been numbered with figures of gold.
My thoughts were of women and fortunes untold.
The gold turned to ashes and scattered at will,
But the women remain and I love them all still.

- "Strawberry Roan" (the Jim Ringer one, not the cowboy one)

Subject: RE: BS: Bare Bellies, and Uncle Bud
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 30 Oct 02 - 02:44 PM

Kat -

No.... All I was saying is that, at my age, the young ones are for looking only. The older ones are for the real stuff.

Bare-bellied young women are sorta like sports cars. They're fun to look at or dream about, but, when it comes right down to it, I'd rather have my pickup truck.

Subject: RE: BS: Bare Bellies, and Uncle Bud
From: jimmyt
Date: 30 Oct 02 - 03:03 PM

So, Kat, I guess BW thinks 50ish women are... never mind! Not a flattering image? Fine wine maybe, but a Ford F150?

Subject: RE: BS: Bare Bellies, and Uncle Bud
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 30 Oct 02 - 03:38 PM

Thank God blokes don't do this as a rule. Not a pleasant thought. Not a pretty sight.

Subject: RE: BS: Bare Bellies, and Uncle Bud
From: Tinker
Date: 30 Oct 02 - 03:49 PM

McGrath I've got to disagree on that one.... I still think the boys in the NBA only started wearing those long,baggy,ugly,shorts when they realized how much women were enjoying the show.

As for times changing... I found a box last month marked "maybe later" (clothes I packed away after my first baby) Halters and cutoff jeans that I wouldn't let my daughter look at never mind wear... guess that makes me worse than my mom...

Subject: RE: BS: Bare Bellies, and Uncle Bud
From: katlaughing
Date: 30 Oct 02 - 04:34 PM

Um...somehow this feels like a backhanded compliment. Women over 50 look like trucks which is the preference with which to do things; BUT, if you just want some jazzy thing to look at, they've got to be younger? *bg*

Most of the young women I see wouldn't be fit as a witch's broomstick, something I don't find attractive no matter how they are dressed or not. So, what is the allure? Especially when compared to some of the absolutely beautiful women there are who are over 50. This whole societal bullshit of people being beyond attractive after a very young age of 50 has to go!

Also, don't be so sure that they don't find older men attractive, esp. men with experience. My SO, when I was 21-24 was 20 years older than me. Taught me much, much more than anyone my own age could have, in many different arts, shall we say?

kat

Subject: RE: BS: Bare Bellies, and Uncle Bud
From: Tinker
Date: 30 Oct 02 - 04:57 PM

Kat, I've got to agree. In my twenties dressing was all part and parcel of presenting a package that was still very much in development. Now that I'm past my mid forties I can honestly say that who I am now speaks much more loudly than what I wear.

Some of us are concidering a Crone celebration at next years Getaway... might we tempt you Kat ????

Subject: RE: BS: Bare Bellies, and Uncle Bud
From: Amos
Date: 30 Oct 02 - 04:57 PM

IT's not about looks, guys. It is about reality. The ones who look purely like Youth Ad 101 usually have no staying power and no sense of the world. Makes them less attractiuve by far defacto, regardkess of glamopr quotients which are just a bunch of Maya anyway....

Subject: RE: BS: Bare Bellies, and Uncle Bud
From: katlaughing
Date: 30 Oct 02 - 05:06 PM

Tinker, if there is any way, at all, that I can save enough pennies, I would love to be there. Having just become a homeowner last Spring, we now have quite a few other places for pennies.:-) Crones' Celebration. I LOVE it!

JeepMan, sorry about the drift, but WiseWimmin can't let something like that slip by, ya know?*bg*

Subject: RE: BS: Bare Bellies, and Uncle Bud
From: Jeep man
Date: 30 Oct 02 - 05:27 PM

I am enjoying this very much. Especially the comparison between girls and pickup trucks. Probably the general consencus is youth and inexperience is nice to look at but give me someone who will stay the course and take the lumps with me as well as the sweet times. Jim

Subject: RE: BS: Bare Bellies, and Uncle Bud
From: Amos
Date: 30 Oct 02 - 05:47 PM

Right on the money Jeepman....staying power is probably the most important criterion if you're gonna try and accomplish much of anything. And glamour, if present, is a wonderful asset if subordinated to the smarts and emotional strength. Otherwise, it's a distraction, if not a curse.

From strong drink, faithless friends, fickle women, and the terrors of the North, good Lord preserve us, as the old prayer goes.

I could have that wrong, of course, memory not being what it used to be...

A

Subject: RE: BS: Bare Bellies, and Uncle Bud
From: GUEST,Kim C no cookie
Date: 30 Oct 02 - 05:48 PM

Weeeeeelllllll...

I bought my first pair of hip-hugger jeans ever, last year, at the age of 34. I like them very much. However I usually wear a top that covers my belly button!

I started belly dancing at 33. I have all the great fun clothes to go with it and I enjoy wearing them. Mister also enjoys me wearing them. I don't usually go to the Wal-Mart in my belly dancing clothes, though.

From the movie Ride With the Devil:

Her (pretty girl nursing baby): How long you gonna stare?

Him: Long as I can.

Subject: RE: BS: Bare Bellies, and Uncle Bud
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 30 Oct 02 - 07:34 PM

34? That's still a teenager.

Subject: RE: BS: Bare Bellies, and Uncle Bud
From: Tinker
Date: 30 Oct 02 - 08:21 PM

Kat, I'm suddenly not so sure how back handed the compliment is... One summer in my early twenties was spent in Fort Worth selling dictionaries. I remember thinking that if the guys spent as much time and energy caring for their women as they spent on their trucks...

Perhaps it really is a compliment ..... But I'm still a woman and a Yankee

Morticia shared the following at Getaway. ( Had to add some music here.)

Magazines say be skin and bone
But big girls never have to sleep alone
We don't disappear when we turn on our sides
There's plenty of suspension for that bumpy ride....


Sixteen Stone ( Tune 16 Tons)

Subject: RE: BS: Bare Bellies, and Uncle Bud
From: GUEST,Kim C no cookie
Date: 31 Oct 02 - 01:53 PM

Sometimes I feel like a teenager! Is that a bad thing? ;-)

I don't, however, show my underwear in public.

Subject: RE: BS: Bare Bellies, and Uncle Bud
From: katlaughing
Date: 31 Oct 02 - 02:06 PM

Love the song, Tinker! Thanks to you and Mortee! And, you may be right about that truck love thing.:-)

KimC, wear them proudly! I've got a pair of hiphuggers, too and they are some of the most comfortable pants I own, as long as I cover my "mature goddess" belly.:-) And, I think it's great to feel like a teenager, at times...but I also love having more experience.

Subject: RE: BS: Bare Bellies, and Uncle Bud
From: EBarnacle1
Date: 31 Oct 02 - 02:31 PM

My current lady once asked me if I thought that she was fat. My answer was twofold: 1) I don't judge others by criteria I can't be judged by and 2) Even with that as a caveat, you are not.

Older women have developed into people, not just duh kidz. It is similar to the line about faces: At 20 you have the face you were born with; at 50 the one you have earned. Either way, relax and enjoy what is there.

I do know it is more pleasure hugging a matured woman than a young'n. I wouldn't skip either one. It's even more fun when they hug back.

Subject: RE: BS: Bare Bellies, and Uncle Bud
From: Maurice Mann
Date: 31 Oct 02 - 02:44 PM

I often feel like a teenager - just too old to catch one
Mo

Subject: RE: BS: Bare Bellies, and Uncle Bud
From: GUEST,Kim C no cookie
Date: 31 Oct 02 - 04:15 PM

Yeah, kat, what is it they say about knowing back then what you know now? ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Bare Bellies, and Uncle Bud
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 01 Nov 02 - 03:58 AM

Dear Uncle Bud,
I know, it's shameful, there was a table of young ladies at my jazz club recently, all bare shoulders and bellies, not a liberty bodice between them. One even had the temerity to ask me to dance, I'd have said "yes" (though I rarely dance)but her guide dog pissed up my leg.
RtS

Subject: RE: BS: Bare Bellies, and Uncle Bud
From: EBarnacle1
Date: 01 Nov 02 - 11:03 AM

Is the Uncle Bud whose comment started all this the same one who found it a treat to beat his feet in the Mississippi mud?

Subject: RE: BS: Bare Bellies, and Uncle Bud
From: Hrothgar
Date: 01 Nov 02 - 11:44 PM

I don't mind if they dress like that. I just find it a challenge not to drool on them.