THANKS FOR THE MAMMARIES
Truth, freedom of expression, and lack of censorship seem to be good ideas, but…. there’s something to be said for the more subtle, understated ways of yesteryear.
Let me re-introduce you to Marilyn Monroe. When guys got a look at her, they often went
MMMMMMM
Back in the 1950s, and early ‘60s, there were a coterie of female movie starlets labelled as sweater girls. They primly, modestly, covered up what they had, but emphasized it by stuffing it into tight sweaters.
This was a time when female celebrities’ costumes were measured in yards of fabric, not yards of bare skin poking out. Someone asked, “What’s the big deal about sweater girls?? Take away their sweaters, and what do they have?”
As one of many such, the English language took the word milch from German. In German, it is the noun, milk. In English, it became the adjective, milk. When a dairy-cow has been bred, delivered her calf, and is ready, again, to provide milk, she has been ‘freshened.’ She is referred to as a milch-cow.
The Germans also gave us a delightful, sweet, white wine, called Liebfraumilch – dear/beloved-woman/wife/lady-milk. It’s good that there is no actual milk involved, so that der frau would need to be a milkmaid, and the cream come from her cows. A woman, working in a big office, had to put a note on her Tupperware container of liquid in the communal lunchroom refrigerator – To whoever is using this to cream their coffee; This is my breast milk, that I pump for my baby.
Well, that was an outstanding post, if I do say MMMMMM myself.
Nice sweaters. But trust me, when you’re on my side of the fence and have to haul the ‘freshened cream’ around on a daily basis? It’s hard to understand the obsession.
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My dear wife has the same problem. Plus, Big-Girl bras are hard to find, and expensive. You have my sympathy. 😳
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“There is nothing like a dame!” — South Pacific
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In the old days – yeah!!
Mixed crews on Naval vessels have just created a new problem…. or the same old one on the high seas. 😯
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Deja mmmmoo! 🐮 😂😂
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It’s a good thing I didn’t say that. 😉 🙂
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Marilyn Monroe was one of the first actresses to lift weights.
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Fascinating! Of these five, I would have bet that the most likely candidate would have been Jayne Mansfield. Her bodyguard/later husband, Micky Hargitay was a body-builder like Arnold. 🙂
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Yes, she was known as the “Working Man’s Monroe” too. I will look in some of my brother’s old bodybuilding magazines to see if I can find any photos of Jayne lifting weights.
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😀
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