Comments on: Clara Bow

Clara Bow

stupidsexyFlanders — Tue, 07 Sep 2004 00:09:25 -0800

Did you know that eating is one of the fondest things Clara Bow is of? Ripping the It Girl a new one, circa 1931.

By: drezdn

drezdn — Tue, 07 Sep 2004 00:12:16 -0800

Of course she's not a sneak, because he's the sneak

By: iconomy

iconomy — Tue, 07 Sep 2004 05:07:15 -0800

On the second page I thought it said "No romance. No dildoes." Interesting read. I really like the typeface and the drawings. And of course, the delightful 'Did you know that eating is one of the fondest things Clara Bow is of'. Paul Jarvis must have been a tiny bit Pennsylvania Dutch.

By: taz

taz — Tue, 07 Sep 2004 05:21:54 -0800

That's too funny, ico! I thought exactly the same thing. What's a "didoe", I wonder?

By: pmurray63

pmurray63 — Tue, 07 Sep 2004 05:38:05 -0800

Main Entry: di·do Pronunciation: 'dI-(")dO Function: noun Inflected Form(s): plural didoes or didos Etymology: origin unknown 1 : a mischievous or capricious act : PRANK, ANTIC -- often used in the phrase cut didoes 2 : something that is frivolous or showy I have to admit I did a double-take when I saw it myself.

By: iconomy

iconomy — Tue, 07 Sep 2004 06:38:29 -0800

Well, I think we've all learned something here today.

By: crunchland

crunchland — Tue, 07 Sep 2004 06:50:41 -0800

How quaint! and The Star or the Enquirer have carried on the tradition after all these years. Just ask Kirstie Alley.

By: acrobat

acrobat — Tue, 07 Sep 2004 07:08:06 -0800

I don't get it. Is the bad syntax in the title deliberate or what?

By: crunchland

crunchland — Tue, 07 Sep 2004 07:17:19 -0800

click the link. it's a quote from the caption on the second page.

By: soyjoy

soyjoy — Tue, 07 Sep 2004 07:31:24 -0800

Probably the convoluted caption was not written by Jarvis himself. I still don't get how they thought the sentence would work. And yeah, I read "dildoes" the first time too. I thought, OK, finally this is gonna get to the good stuff.

By: chicobangs

chicobangs — Tue, 07 Sep 2004 07:53:16 -0800

Unfortunately, the anti-Bow bacilli course through the blood of our newspapers even today, where feasting upon the curve-troubles of the newest ingenues are one of the fondest things they are of. The yellow press has been raking muck for as long as there's been a star system. It's as inextricable from the rest of pop culture as "behind-the-scenes" interviews, stunt weddings, and all the other didoes (I'm using it in a sentence so I'll remember it) that keep the starmaker machinery well-greased. Nice find. (I loved Clara Bow, Brooklyn accent and all. Mrrrow.)

By: iconomy

iconomy — Tue, 07 Sep 2004 08:17:42 -0800

I also love that they called her hotsy-totsy. That's one of the fondest terms that I am of.

By: raygirvan

raygirvan — Tue, 07 Sep 2004 09:48:41 -0800

I still don't get how they thought the sentence would work. I wonder if it was a typesetting error, as it can be corrected just by moving "fondest": "Did you know that eating is one of the ~~fondest~~ things Clara Bow is fondest of?" Either that or Yoda wrote it.

By: soyjoy

soyjoy — Tue, 07 Sep 2004 10:25:18 -0800

Yeah, I get that that's how it should be. But it seems as if it had been moved on purpose, as though they were trying to avoid ending the sentence with "fondest of," but then didn't notice that the result was even stupider and still had "of" at the end of it.

By: cortex

cortex — Tue, 07 Sep 2004 13:42:57 -0800

Where's languagehat? Out back smoking? Dammit! I wonder if there's actually some sort of regionalism or something to support that grammar. Once I found out that people are willing to say things like "I do that a lot anymore," I decided I could believe anything.

By: realjanetkagan

realjanetkagan — Tue, 07 Sep 2004 14:52:10 -0800

ssFlanders---Thank you! This is such wonderfully over-the-top writing.... I love it. No, I didn't misread "didoes" as "dildoes" but I did have to heft out the OED, which adds to the "pranks and capers" def by saying it's "U.S. slang." "I also love that they called her hotsy-totsy. That's one of the fondest terms that I am of." posted by iconomy at 8:17 AM PST on September 7 I'm old enough that "hotsy-totsy" was slang I picked up from my grandad, who was the manager of a band during the Big Band swing era (and who taught all us kids vaudeville routines when gramma wasn't around.) Jarvis here is trying to be hipper than hip and tossing out all the latest slang phrases...and ya wanna bet he's as far behind the curve as any magazine or newspaper columnist today tossing around, say, "gangsta"? Some day, many years from now, some magazine or newspaper columnist will proudly show off his up-to-the-minute MeFi slang by using iconomy's "That's one of the fondest terms that I am of," little knowing that he's not just ten years out of date on the MeFi slang, and completely ignorant of the fact that we're about to riff for weeks on a typo that some copy editor didn't catch back in the thirties!

By: chicobangs

chicobangs — Tue, 07 Sep 2004 15:19:12 -0800

Admittedly I'm eighty-three, but I use "hotsy-totsy" all the time, especially when some pert young number struts across the sidewalk in front of my porch, just as bold as you please. Oh, missy! Rattle my teeth, why don't you! Yee-heh! Heh!

By: iconomy

iconomy — Tue, 07 Sep 2004 16:34:33 -0800

Realjanetkagan, I've been speaking and writing like that all day today...hehe. It's fun! I don't remember hotsy-totsy, but I do remember snazzy- my FIL uses it when talking about something which he holds in really high regard. Like, if you show him a really hotsy-tosty pair of argyle socks. He'll whistle under his breath and say, "Hey, they're really snazzy", with awe in his voice. And he'll mean it.

By: kenko

kenko — Tue, 07 Sep 2004 17:11:30 -0800

"snazzy" is outmoded? Man ... at least no one's yet given me a look of incomprehension when I've used it (as has happened with several other phrases I thought were, maybe not current, but at least known).

By: turaho

turaho — Tue, 07 Sep 2004 17:56:48 -0800

I can't decide if this article was more the bee's knees or more the cat's pajamas.

By: soyjoy

soyjoy — Tue, 07 Sep 2004 20:07:42 -0800

I must also dissent from the view that "snazzy" is archaic. It's not hip, by any means, but it sure ain't no "hotsy-totsy." However, I must also note that iconomy is one of the fondest Mefi posters I am of.

By: iconomy

iconomy — Wed, 08 Sep 2004 04:19:18 -0800

You're pretty snazzy yourself there, Mr. Hotsy-Totsy.