10 pounds of potatoes into a 5 pound sack… 😀
As most of my readers are of the male persuasion, trust me that the biggest mistake most women make is buying a bra that’s too small. Yes, I watched Oprah that day just to see women in bras. As a child, I waited for the Sears catalog to arrive and pretend I was looking at the Toys when I’d be studying the women’s lingerie! Hey, I was 10, okay?
Today’s comic title is a lyric from a Stevie Wonder song called “Uptight (Everything’s Alright)” from 1966 (I was 9!). Seemed to fit… oooh, the puns just keep rolling off the keyboard today!
God it must be hard to be a woman.
Between the clothes, the underwear, the makeup and the bodily functions, I have a great deal of respect for the women out there who have not gone completely crazy. I mean, as guys, we can toss on a sweatshirt, jeans, a baseball cap, skip shaving and we’re ready to go. Toss in a little porn now and then, and we’re just happy campers.
Look at Sarah Palin… spending $150,000 on just clothes? One good suit, two shirts and a package of clean underwear and we men would be good to go for about a month. All that for under $500! I’ll take the rest in small bills please…
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Any politician in the US who expects to get into the white house spends more than $500 on clothes per year for both years before their election (repeat for any term they run.) $150,000 may be on the high side, but they all dress nicer than your average guy.
To be clear, in the past two years I spent $0 on clothing. That’ll probably change soon as I have been wearing out socks lately, but I bought decent quality stuff years ago and it doesn’t need replacing that often. Though, it looks like that’s going to change as my normal vendor for quality clothing apparently has changed their business model to selling cheap clothing like everyone else. :/
But putting more realistic numbers on women’s clothing… my ex is about as frugal as I am. We paid $200+ for a single bra in 2008, because she’s built more like Lorraine up there than Robyn. The single shopping trip where we finally got her properly fitted cost over $1000 (which just happened to happen in 2007 or 2008 if I remember correctly. It was at least at a time when people were commenting on Sarah Palin’s wardrobe costs), all we got were two sports bras and two regular bras. Bras are not as durable as the clothing I wear. ‘Durable’ and ‘comfortable’ are opposing constraints for load bearing garments.
She did her best to buy from the men’s department for stuff because the same thing from the women’s department would generally run double what it cost in the men’s department. However, being built more like Lorraine up there, there wasn’t that much she could get from the men’s department. Dressing professionally doesn’t really permit wearing oversized men’s Ts, and men’s pants don’t support those kinds of curves.
These days, she’s in lower management, which means she generally needs to wear semi-formal attire in the office. With her figure, that basically means everything has to be tailored. Guys with figures as far from standard as hers can still frequently get away with buying off the rack, people don’t give them crap if their suits are baggy around the waist. I don’t get to see the price tags these days, but I know it’s not cheap. (I mean, I probably *could*, if I were interested enough. We’re still friends and finance hasn’t ever been a point of contention between us. But I’m not there giving my credit card at the end of the transaction.)
Oh, I dig how expensive a professional’s wardrobe can cost. Suits costing $1,000+ is not uncommon. I’m just glad that being self-employed the past 35 years has meant I can get away with wearing jeans and modestly inexpensive dress shirts. Today, I wear nothing but rock t-shirts, jeans, and gym shoes. And yes, good bras are not cheap.
“Torture devices”?? 😀
MAN, “1977” is a classic already!
I’ve taken some time to check out some golden moments of the crew’s history: the Caprice (what’s up with Jeff’s hair, heheh!), the mystic frog (is Bud still a mutant?), Bud’s sister (looks a lot like his girlfriend), Debbie…
WHAT?! NO TOILET PAPER?! SON OF A (BOOM!!!)!
Huahahahaha!
Thanks a lot for this great comic. You should print it!
Have a nice weekend.
You are more than kind, my friend! I never really know how to take glowing compliments like yours, so I’ll just say “far fucking out, man!”
I’m just gettin’ my “legs” with the storylines and such. Wrote out about a half dozen “mini” storylines the other that should take me well into 2009… so for now 1977 will last longer then the actual year!
I know, Jeff’s hair sucked in the beginning, and I can’t draw women for crap so they all look a like to me (and, well, to others too!) 🙂 Keep on rockin’ and 1977will be there for a while to come!
Thanks again for you support! 🙂 And a print version will be coming in 2009… I’m getting my shit together for that now. Oh boy!
A Print version? Awesome, dude!
If she keeps on wearing a bra that size, it WILL be a torture device.
I actually know some guys who would probably do well to get a bra 😛
Man breasts are gross… and those guys need to cover them up, man!
I’ll take you as a “yes” vote for a print version! 🙂
I’m putting together some extra stuff of them playing some gigs for the print version, something to break up the non-stop series of strips… I also don’t format each strip the same, so that drives printers nuts! I love doing that! 😀
Just don’t have ’em buy shoes. 🙂
Great stuff, man. You’re one of my regular stops. Thanks!
Thanks, man! I’m glad your all diggin’ it… it makes me laugh and it’s cool someone else gets to laugh as well!
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PS: No shoes for our rock chicks… rest assured of that…