Comments on: That’s funny, she doesn’t LOOK tru-ish…

By: Elyrest

Elyrest — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:50:13 +0000

”How many JAPs does it take to change a light bulb?” — “Two. One to open a bottle of TAB, and one to call Daddy.”

Morris K - Thanks for the laugh! I haven’t heard that joke in years and I don’t think it’s been told in years. That TAB reference really dates it.

By: Morris Keesan

Morris Keesan — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:40:25 +0000

In 1989, when we first visited Japan, we came across a clothing store called “Club JAPS”. My wife still has her “Club JAPS” t-shirt, which says that the business was inspired by “upper-class Jewish-American young ladies”. I don’t recall the exact text, but they clearly didn’t get the idea that “JAP”, as applied to those young ladies, was a disparaging term.

By: Morris Keesan

Morris Keesan — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:37:01 +0000

Powers (#28), the phrase “Jewish Princess”, or “Jewish American Princess” (or “JAP”) is probably older than most of us here. It’s certainly something I was familiar with more than 40 years ago, and I can still recall many of the JAP jokes we used to tell in the late 1960s and early 1970s (”How many JAPs does it take to change a light bulb?” — “Two. One to open a bottle of TAB, and one to call Daddy.”).

By: Igelino

Igelino — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 15:18:23 +0000

Hey Bill, about the Heavy-Handed setup, with Ruthie, it’s likely they said Jewish Princess at the party, and that Ruthie didn’t have an idea what it meant so she substituted a word she knew. Ruthie does that a lot.

By: mitch4

mitch4 — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 14:18:39 +0000

Powers (#28), I don’t think the two expressions are particularly linked.

The “doesn’t look” one is just out there and is part of “did you know so-and-so is Jewish”? There was a piece on This American Life some time ago about Canadians in the U.S. who find themselves doing that all the time (identifying their celebrity or personal-acquaintance fellow-Canadians), and the narrator explained in in terms of the well-known Jewish equivalent.

Some time ago I came across a British site devoted to identifying Jews among political or entertainment celebrities. (Unfortunately, it seemed to be anti-Semitic in intent, even though it kept a careful step back from “Look how deeply they have infiltrated”.) Did you know Gina Bellman is [half-]Jewish? No — funny, she doesn’t look Jewish!

By: Powers

Powers — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 14:05:53 +0000

… okay…. but whence comes the trope? Where did this “Jewish Princess” thing come from, and more importantly, the “She doesn’t look Jewish” response?

By: Proginoskes

Proginoskes — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 07:14:41 +0000

@ 14, and 18:

Now, let’s really offend some people out there.

I want a nasty little Jewish princess
With long phony nails and a hairdo that rinses
A horny little Jewish princess
With a garlic aroma that could level Tacoma
Lonely inside
Well, she can swallow my pride

I want a hairy little Jewish princess
With a brand new nose, who knows where it goes
I want a steamy little Jewish princess
With over-worked gums, who squeaks when she cums
I don’t want no troll
I just want a Yemenite hole

I want a darling little Jewish princess
Who don’t shit about cooking and is arrogant looking
A vicious little Jewish princess
To specifically happen with a pee-pee that’s snappin
All up inside
I just want a princess to ride
Awright, back to the top…everybody twist

I want a funky little Jewish princess
A grinder; a bumper, with a pre-moistened dumper
A brazen little Jewish princess
With titanic tits, and sand-blasted zits
She can even be poor
So long as she does it with four on the floor
(vapor-lock)

I want a dainty little Jewish princess
With a couple of sisters who can raise a few blisters
A fragile little Jewish princess
With Romanian thighs, who weasels n lies
For two or three nights
Wont someone send me a princess who bites
Wont someone send me a princess who bites
Wont someone send me a princess who bites
Wont someone send me a princess who bites

(lyrics by Frank Zappa, of course)

By: Nicole

Nicole — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:11:39 +0000

Bill @ 23

Or you could go with the updated Bi-atch

By: Lola

Lola — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 01:11:58 +0000

Is there some special meaning to the limp wrist in the last panel?

By: turquoise cow

turquoise cow — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 22:57:25 +0000

Bill - True, and I suppose that would be accurate. It just doesn’t seem as witty….