Comments on: Where’s Charley?

By: Todd

Todd — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 20:56:57 +0000

I work in a job where most my co-workers are women, and I can imagine many using almost any slang term for “charlies”, but I don’t know if they would use those words with their mother.

And as a male with a very healthy appreciation for the female form, I have no problem saying that b-cups cannot be just great, but, on a fit woman, are unsurpassed.

By: Lorraine

Lorraine — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 13:36:37 +0000

@ Morris Keesan #48–no. No, vanilla can NEVER be called “great”.

By: David L.

David L. — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:03:17 +0000

Powers #29

Not only is Gran shown as being significantly taller than she is shown in the weekday story arcs, in this strip at least, she is shown as being a significantly better-looking eighty-something than in the weekday panels.

Remember the comment on one of the weekday panels wondering how the young hottie Edie/Eva/Edna became “the scary gnome Gran”? There was also a comment to the effect to those who look good at 25-30 may well look good for their age to the day they die.

I’m going to go out on a limb - which Mr. McEldowney could saw off behind me any day - and suggest that when the current weekday story arc finally drops back into the present, there will be a reunion at some point, for which Gran’s appearance is being modified.

By: Morris Keesan

Morris Keesan — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 11:27:10 +0000

paperboy #40, “can average be called “great”?”. It’s not [just] size that matters. Average-sized charlies can be called great if they have great shape, firmness, pertness, etc.
It’s sort of like saying, “That’s not chocolate. Can vanilla be called ‘great’?”, and the answer is of course yes, for people who prefer vanilla and don’t like chocolate.

By: chuckers

chuckers — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 09:45:55 +0000

@43, “Are you bragging or complaining?”

@33 I think the word you are thinking of is “Bristols”

By: ty

ty — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 01:04:05 +0000

Now that Two and a Half Men has brought the locker room into the living room, non-sensical singular nouns can apply to lady parts as well, specifically the hoo-ha.

By: mitch4

mitch4 — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:05:23 +0000

K K Skipper, artist of comic “Pink Parts”, tweeted http://www.holytaco.com/users-guide-boob-terminology

By: Sal

Sal — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 23:32:37 +0000

Carl # 24, you’re right this is no place for a biology quiz

By: Mark in Boston

Mark in Boston — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 23:02:23 +0000

I’ve got a loverly pair of coconuts …

By: mitch4

mitch4 — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 22:36:23 +0000

Paperboy #37 says: “You can use practically any singular term (”hee-haw”) and when ascribed to a male it SEEMS to be about the pen!$” Okay, but there is also the tradition of three being symbolic of the male genitalia — particularly when construable as 3 = 2 + 1 as in “Meat and two veg”.

On the same track, paperboy #35 says “A lot of plural things, when ascribed to a woman, SEEMS to refer to breasts.”. A couple years ago, Elisabeth Röhm was appearing regularly on the TV program “Law and Order”, and I used to challenge fans of the show to identify what made her almost unique among American actresses. As a hint, I would say it’s not just some one thing, it’s a pair! And that always made it sound like some sort of breast remark. [For what it actually was, note that another American actress with this feature is Mädchen Amick. It wouldn’t be quite as obvious if you were just hearing me say these names, not seeing them written out. And for the record, it turns out Elisabeth Röhm was born in Germany, and if we counted her as German this feature would be far from rare. But IMDB saith “She was born in Germany, but her parents moved back to New York before she turned 1 year old” so I will count her American.]

I really don’t care for the term “boobs”, but it does help with an old political joke / riddle. There was actually a newspaper picture of Dolly Parton standing between President Reagan and Vice President Bush. You would show somebody that picture [or just describe it as i have done] and ask what that is a picture of. The answer, with a misleading termination contour and a pause, was: “That’s a picture of two really big boobs. …. And a country singer!”