Hi. The cartoon above is pretty hard-ass, isn’t it? Wincingly broad-brush, arguably less than fair, kinda … mean. It’s been around on the Web for years, seldom circulated, but it was summoned up Saturday by professor Robert Reich, the former U.S. Secretary of Labor, liberal economist, and now the deeply knowledgeable, deeply reasonable and rational, urbane, genteel, gentlemanly host of a successful Substack newsletter. Reich re-used that cartoon on Saturday. It startled me, under his name.
I am one of four kids who were all quite blonde when we were small. My parents both had dark hair (although both had been blonde as children). Because of my dad's work, we moved around a lot and each of us was born in a different state. Routinely, people would ask my mom "Wow, where'd they get that blonde hair?" and she'd say "Oh, we have a very loyal milkman!" I was in college before it dawned on me that she was not insinuating that milk makes you have light hair.
I can’t help it, I read Trump and I can’t believe it. A private ex-Pres meeting with an autocrat bastard calling him a great man. It seems backwards, what a world.
The first time I heard the milkman joke, it related the (I’m sure it’s apocryphal) story of Art Linkletter asking one of the kids during the “Kids Say the Darnedest Things” segment of his show, “Do you look like your mom or your dad?” With the answer, “I look like the milkman!”
Old Will didn't mince words, did he ? Your use of the term "husky" brought to mind the new f-word, which at one time, was viewed as a compliment and a sign of health and success, but now (in polite company) tends to exist as euphemisms. For women we have "Rubenesque'', ''curvy'', "big-boned," and the ever popular, "voluptuous." For males, there's that "husky," "chunky," "burly," and "beefy." Not so surprising, I suppose, in a time when worth is too often measured by girth.
With your vast knowledge (or is it half-vast ?) --- let's call it the "Weingarten of Things " --- and now that I'm a fondling member --- I demand you consider occasionally "interviewing" noteworthy personages from the past, in addition to your contemporary ambush interviews.
Gene, if you want to get into better shape, you may wish to ask Pat to introduce you to some of her exercise routines. I assume that Pat remains a dedicated gym rat.
It's all well and good to take the msm to task for equating batshit crazy (that would be Orange 1 and his grove) and Joltin' Joe --- certainly a topic to be explored ad nauseum --- but I'm shocked, I tell you, shocked, that there's been nary a word so far about (per Nike) "...the most advanced uniforms in the history of M.L.B., which are lighter and more flexible," the see-through pants of which leave little to the imagination. Presumably this is an unannounced effort to attract more hetero females and gay men to the game --- or not. Wouldn't now be surprised to see a more pronounced bulge in player stats.
I am one of four kids who were all quite blonde when we were small. My parents both had dark hair (although both had been blonde as children). Because of my dad's work, we moved around a lot and each of us was born in a different state. Routinely, people would ask my mom "Wow, where'd they get that blonde hair?" and she'd say "Oh, we have a very loyal milkman!" I was in college before it dawned on me that she was not insinuating that milk makes you have light hair.
If the milkman and the baker's coming here, how come mum's still going down to the shop?
Q: What's the difference between a sperm and an actuary ?
A: The sperm has a one in ten million chance of becoming a human being.
And yes, there is an acutarial joke book --- more or less.
If the customer service rep wasn’t Indian, I’d swear he was an exJesuit philosophy major.
I can’t help it, I read Trump and I can’t believe it. A private ex-Pres meeting with an autocrat bastard calling him a great man. It seems backwards, what a world.
You wouldn't want a milkman like Milkman Dan.
https://www.redmeat.com/max-cannon/nourishing-nectar-nubbins-3433308
Once you read Dana Milbank's book The Destructionists, you'll consider that political cartoon to be mild.
The first time I heard the milkman joke, it related the (I’m sure it’s apocryphal) story of Art Linkletter asking one of the kids during the “Kids Say the Darnedest Things” segment of his show, “Do you look like your mom or your dad?” With the answer, “I look like the milkman!”
Let me have men about me that are fat,
Sleek-headed men and such as sleep a-nights.
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look,
He thinks too much; such men are dangerous
-- Julius Caesar, Act 1, Scene 2
Old Will didn't mince words, did he ? Your use of the term "husky" brought to mind the new f-word, which at one time, was viewed as a compliment and a sign of health and success, but now (in polite company) tends to exist as euphemisms. For women we have "Rubenesque'', ''curvy'', "big-boned," and the ever popular, "voluptuous." For males, there's that "husky," "chunky," "burly," and "beefy." Not so surprising, I suppose, in a time when worth is too often measured by girth.
With your vast knowledge (or is it half-vast ?) --- let's call it the "Weingarten of Things " --- and now that I'm a fondling member --- I demand you consider occasionally "interviewing" noteworthy personages from the past, in addition to your contemporary ambush interviews.
Re: Willy Wonka—the OP on Substack was comparing it to Biden, yes
Gene, if you want to get into better shape, you may wish to ask Pat to introduce you to some of her exercise routines. I assume that Pat remains a dedicated gym rat.
In Aussie accent: "If the milkman and the baker are coming here, why is Mum still going to the shops?"
I wonder if good friend and trusted neighbor Fred Berfel was a milkman?
It's all well and good to take the msm to task for equating batshit crazy (that would be Orange 1 and his grove) and Joltin' Joe --- certainly a topic to be explored ad nauseum --- but I'm shocked, I tell you, shocked, that there's been nary a word so far about (per Nike) "...the most advanced uniforms in the history of M.L.B., which are lighter and more flexible," the see-through pants of which leave little to the imagination. Presumably this is an unannounced effort to attract more hetero females and gay men to the game --- or not. Wouldn't now be surprised to see a more pronounced bulge in player stats.
The milkman comic: last lines, I think: More to the point, the milkman and the baker coming in (gesture) how come Mom still goin' down to the shops?