The Perils of Parties

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[cheesygirl.livejournal.com]

I love the srs little bespectacled "Science" guy in the Lifebuoy ad. SCIENCE!!

[laurel-hardy.livejournal.com]

I love his buttons on the shoulder smock. I miss those! I'm kind of surprised he's not wearing the regulation 'round mirror with a central hole the better to look down your throat' thingy. So WHEN did actual deodorants get introduced? Can we have a theme for deodorants/antiperspirants?

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

He makes a great icon, too!

[cheesygirl.livejournal.com]

Awesome!

[laurel-hardy.livejournal.com]

He does! I wonder if there are formal names for the different styles of drawing characters like this. I mean, he borders on the style of the Chance and Community Chest cards from Monopoly (my favorite is "you've won second prize in a beauty contest!") but slightly more realistic.

[write-light.livejournal.com]

<3

[murakozi.livejournal.com]

So Sue stays up all night partying and skips meals, yet it's her typewriter that's to blame for her being all tired and worn out?

[wolflantern.livejournal.com]

Well, to be fair to Sue, I learned to type on an old late-1930s manual typewriter - and it's actually pretty hard work (you have to hit the keys pretty hard to cause the key to hit the ribbon and paper firmly enough to deposit an adequate amount of ink onto the paper.) So depending on how old and how well or poorly-maintained the old typewriter she's using is, I could see her having sore or tired wrists/hands after a long day of typing.

[laurel-hardy.livejournal.com]

Even worse with short pinkies! P's and Q's were a bitch! I had to swing the elbows out and up to get enough leverage. The first typewriters I played with resided in the attic, no doubt passed down from the grandparents. Beautiful old things with super sturdy bodies that held heavy beveled glass sides in place so you could see the inner workings.

[franklanguage.livejournal.com]

Yeah, my mom had an old gunmetal Royal and I could only hit the keys hard enough with one hand.

[mellzie-1963.livejournal.com]

So Grace goes to the dance, gets nervous because boys won't dance, so now boys won't dance because she's stinky, and she is supposed to...what, exactly? Leave, go home, take a bath, and go back to the party?

[laurel-hardy.livejournal.com]

She's supposed to suffer alone (well, her and her B.O.) until she wises up.

[reynardo.livejournal.com]

Holy hellfire and brimstone - that's my Dad's old typewriter, the one *I* learned to type on! I was devastated when I heard he'd thrown it out a couple of years ago.

His was called the "Remington Noiseless Portable" - and I suppose, for some people, 8kg of typewriter counts as "portable", and one you can't hear if you have a heavy metal concert in the next room counts as "noiseless". It took me *years* to stop pounding on computer keyboards because that was how I'd learnt.