Barbara Walters' earlobes
Tim Howard
Maybe it was the big earrings weighing them down, but her lobes looked
twice as long as should be normal. Maybe I am not used to seeing her
hair pulled back so I never noticed. See this footage if you don't know
what I am talking about.
viking67
She's 100 years old. Everything on her sags and droops.
Maybe
I think it is the errings.
Maybe...or her short neck!
R H Draney
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>On Dec 9, 8:39=EF=BF=BDpm, Tim Howard <tim.how...@suddenlink.net> wrote:
>> Did anyone notice how long Barbara's bottom part of her earlobes are?
>> Maybe it was the big earrings weighing them down, but her lobes looked
> her
>> hair pulled back so I never noticed. =EF=BF=BDSee this footage if you don=
>'t know
>> what I am talking about.
>>
>
>I think it is the errings.
>
>Maybe...or her short neck!
Or all those affairs she's admitted to...guys need something to hang onto....r
--
A pessimist sees the glass as half empty.
An optometrist asks whether you see the glass
more full like this?...or like this?
Lucy
Earlobes never stop growing, heavy earrings or not. I used to be
fascinated with LBJ's ears. OMG, they were almost as long as his
dogs' . The ones that bother me are Ben Stein's. He does commentary
on CBS Sunday Morning and those puppies stick out, moreso than the
rest of his ears. They look like fleshy Frankenstein bolts coming out
of his upper neck. I can't pay attention to whatever nonsense he's
spouting because I can't tear my attention away from the Frankenstein
look he sports.
foxysc...@yahoo.com
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When Larry Brown coached the Sixers he used to pull on his right
earlobe during the game's stressful moments ...I always worried that
his earlobe would eventually be grossly longer than the left one.
Twibil
>
>
> When Larry Brown coached the Sixers he used to pull on his right
> earlobe during the game's stressful moments ...I always worried that
> his earlobe would eventually be grossly longer than the left one.
Hmmm.
When I was growing up, the nuns in Catholic grade schools would
occasionally tie a left-handed kid's hand behind his back to
"encourage" him to use his right hand for school work.
Mayhap you could do the same with Larry's right ear lobe?
Sally
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There's always one longer than the other. Why, my right foot is a half-
size larger than my left! And perfectly symmetrical breasts are rare,
too. (One is bigger than the other, etc.) Who's perfect?
What I hate are the long lines that can develop in pierced ears from
wearing earrings that are too heavy for too many years.
Sally
Tony Linguini
On 10-Dec-2009, Sally <Sally...@aol.com> wrote:
> On Dec 10, 10:53�am, foxyscrib...@yahoo.com wrote:
> > On Dec 10, 8:33�am, Lucy <lpfe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
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> > > On Dec 10, 2:53�am, R H Draney <dadoc...@spamcop.net> wrote:
> >
> > > > Maybe filted:
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> > > > >On Dec 9, 8:39=EF=BF=BDpm, Tim Howard <tim.how...@suddenlink.net>
> > > > >wrote:
> > > > >> Did anyone notice how long Barbara's bottom part of her earlobes
> > > > >are?
> > > > >> Maybe it was the big earrings weighing them down, but her lobes
> > > > >looked
> > > > >> twice as long as should be normal. =EF=BF=BDMaybe I am not used
> > > > >to seeing=
> > > > > her
> > > > >> hair pulled back so I never noticed. =EF=BF=BDSee this footage if
> > > > >you don=
> > > > >'t know
> > > > >> what I am talking about.
> >
> > > > >>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D_oGKfhYnC8I
> >
> > > > >I think it is the errings.
> >
> > > > >Maybe...or her short neck!
> >
> > > > Or all those affairs she's admitted to...guys need something to hang
> > > > onto....r
> >
> >
> > When Larry Brown coached the Sixers he used to pull on his right
> > earlobe during the game's stressful moments ...I always worried that
> > his earlobe would eventually be grossly longer than the left one.- Hide
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> There's always one longer than the other. Why, my right foot is a half-
> size larger than my left! And perfectly symmetrical breasts are rare,
> too. (One is bigger than the other, etc.) Who's perfect?
>
> What I hate are the long lines that can develop in pierced ears from
> wearing earrings that are too heavy for too many years.
>
> Sally
I just figured Barbara began signing off by signalling her mother a la Carol
Burnett.
DTSmith
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> I just figured Barbara began signing off by signalling her mother a la Carol
> Burnett.
Maybe it means she's doing Tom Dreesen. (he does it too)
Lucy
>
> What I hate are the long lines that can develop in pierced ears from
> wearing earrings that are too heavy for too many years.
>
> Sally
Those creases are genetic, not caused by earrings. My brother has
'em, too, and has never worn an earring in his life. The creases also
seem to be an indicator of future cardiac problems. <shrug> I read
that somewhere.
-- Lucy
Sally
The pierced holes weighed down by the earrings cause long holes. I
agree there are creases, too, but that wasn't what I was talking
about. As far as the connection to heart disease, I've noticed one or
two creases on my ears, so maybe I have some chance of a heart
attack...imagine all the afl folks who will be studying their ear
creases as a result of your post. :) I can see them jockeying for a
good position in front of the mirror right now. I read the same thing,
that it's an indicator of what you said. How much can you worry? As it
is, I'm trying to fix my cholesterol, LDL, etc. to keep my chances
slim of getting a heart attack. Green tea is good for that, as is
Niacin (the no-flush kind.) Flaxseeds are great for weight loss, and
that counts too.
Sally
Tim Howard
Wow. I love it that my trivial post has turned into a trivial long thread.
Alan Page
"Tim Howard" wrote...
> Wow. I love it that my trivial post has turned into a trivial long
> thread.
13...now 14 posts does not make a thread long in afl.
You need over 100 posts in this newsgroup to get near to being long.
But then, the post was about long...earlobes.
--
Alan
~WWWWW~
What a Wonderful Web We Weave
Sally
Maybe we can stretch this thread out till we reach 100.
Sally
Alan Page
"Sally" wrote...
> Maybe we can stretch this thread out till we reach 100.
I haven't seen a certain someone around here in some time that is
capable of such feats.
Tom Wolper
> "Sally" wrote...
>> Maybe we can stretch this thread out till we reach 100.
>
> I haven't seen a certain someone around here in some time that is
> capable of such feats.
>
Tim Howard
Sally
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Glad to see you picked up on my subtle cue.
Sally
James Langdell
10. You can stir you coffee with them
9. You've trained them to pick up the newspaper from your driveway
8. They're able to receive broadcasts of CSPAN-3
7. Guys from the Guinness Book of World Records are camped out on
your lawn
6. You can fit a garden hose through the piercings
5. You need to wear three staggered pairs of earmuffs to stay warm
4. You're earlobes are registered with a tissue donation agency to be
shipped directly to Prince Charles, just in case
3. You used to be employed as a life model by artist Basil Wolverton
2. Your earlobes are tattooed with the lyrics to "The Star-Spangled
Banner" -- all four verses
1. You accidentally got hired into a bloodhound pack, but you stick
around because you needed the work
--James
Suzanne Femmer
Thanks for making me laugh!
Suzanne
garyd
Actually, those are probably fake earlobes made from extra skin after
one of her facelifts. When they do facelifts they often have to remove
the earlobes. I noticed that Paul Simon lost his ear lobes after his
face lift and now I've noticed that he now has earlobes again. I also
noticed that Jane Fonda has the same phenomena as Barbara Walters.
Tim Howard
Do your ears hang low?
Do they wobble to and fro?
Can you tie them in a knot?
Can you tie them in a bow?
Can you throw them o'er your shoulder like a continental soldier?
Do your ears hang low?
Do your ears hang high?
Do they reach up to the sky?
Do they droop when they are wet?
Do they stiffen when they're dry?
Can you semaphore your neighbour with a minimum of labour?
Do your ears hang high?
Do your ears flip-flop?
Can you use them for a mop?
Are they stringy at the bottom?
Are they curly at the top?
Can you use them for a swatter?
Can you use them for a blotter?
Do your ears flip-flop?
Do your ears hang out?
Can you waggle them about?
Can you flip them up and down as you fly around the town?
Can you shut them up for sure when you hear an awful bore?
Do your ears hang out?
foxysc...@yahoo.com
So funny James! - and I had to google Basil Wolverton so I've learned
something
new this last day of 09.
Sally
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So you couldn't tell us who Basil Wolverton is? I have to look him up
now. James is a riot, no doubt about it. And his wife Danine is a
darling woman, too.
Happy New Year. Now...to look up Basil Wolverton...
Sally
R H Draney
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>On Dec 31, 9:42=EF=BF=BDam, foxyscrib...@yahoo.com wrote:
>>
>> So funny James! - and I had to google Basil Wolverton so I've learned
>> something
>> new this last day of 09.
>
>now. James is a riot, no doubt about it. And his wife Danine is a
>darling woman, too.
>
>Happy New Year. Now...to look up Basil Wolverton...
According to http://www.googlism.com:
basil wolverton is
basil wolverton is the basil wolverton home page
basil wolverton is bald mr
basil wolverton is bald
basil wolverton is here
basil wolverton is an american comic book artist
basil wolverton is a nationally
Feeding the website another name for comparison purposes:
alan kalter is getting sick of campaign 2000
alan kalter is obviously one of the sexiest men alive
alan kalter is cracking them up
alan kalter is on your right
alan kalter is on the executive committee of the morris animal foundation and is
a member of the detroit zoo board of directors
alan kalter is the show's announcer; what colour is his hair?" easy
James Langdell
So, did you find out why I might have mentioned that artist in the
context of excesses of skin? Though I have to admit the samples of his
faces I've looked at since posting this message tend to have very
tight and neatly packaged ears, to heighten the contrast of what
mayhem is happening in other part of the character's anatomy.
--James
Sally
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Yeah, yeah, I checked him out and he is an artist whose work I didn't
want to see right before bed, lest I have nightmares. Good grief! What
had this man been through to draw such pseudo-facsimiles of human
features? Was he an abused child, or suffer from some personality
disorder or both? I should have known you had a good reason for not
posting examples of his cartoons. The poor, poor man. From now on,
James, I trust your judgment on unpublished material.
God would not have approved of such mutations of his handiwork. If the
editors of MAD used his work, they must've done so between heaves into
their waste baskets or in the bathroom.
Of course, creativity is in the eye of the beholder. But THIS stuff
looks not like Picasso's form of abstraction, but freaks from a
Science Fiction horror comic book. Give me Katy Keene, Superman and
Lois, Love comics, Archie...Betty and Veronica, et al. This Basil was
a commercial artist who made the film "Carrie" look like a Shirley
Temple movie. So, James, what is beauty, anyway, except that which is
contrasted by ugliness? The opposite of Basil Wolverton would be Roy
Lichtenstein's blow-up of one of the frames from a love comic, with a
cartooned woman looked exaggeratedly lovely, struggling in the ocean's
waves, with tears rimming her eyes as if frozen there, saying, "I
don't care. I'd rather sink than call Brad for help." (I tried to copy
the picture a couple of times, but it won't work for me.) Here's a
link for you to scroll down until you pass the Campell's soup
can...http://www.realitysandwich.com/ouroboros_0
The title of Lichtenstein's work is, appropriately enough, "Drowning
Girl." I had read the original story in a love comic...the whole
thing. So when I saw that an artist had taken just one frame and blown
it up, I had been expecting it. Those love comics were pop art, and
Lichtenstein was the one picking up on the commercial art as pop art,
like Andy Warhol did. Wait. When I say he "blew it up," I mean, he
painted it on a larger scale, but made sure it looked exactly like a
frame from a cartoon. He acknowledged the source. It was great. Great.
Considering "Drowning Girl" was an example of deconstruction, that art
form lasted quite a while...into the eighties, at least. What has
become "in" after deconstructionism (I think,) is art that involves
the artist's person in the art--as a living person. That may have
started with Cindy Sherman in her photography, but hey, I'm not here
to lecture. I just had a huge crush on an art professor in college and
got interested in the subject. I don't personally define a real person
standing naked, or lying naked on a bed while people walk around the
"work" to be art I can relate to. Read up on a woman named
Sonnabend...she had defining artistic taste. Here's her obit: Oh,
yeah. And Happy New Year!
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/24/arts/24sonnabend.html
Sally
James Langdell
be with us on today's panel, but let's get started.
Yes, your take on Basil Wolverton's typical drawings (e.g., violent
disgust) is a valid one. It's what he was going for in the drawings
your search turned up. What he delivered to Mad Magazine in the 1950s
at least has the excuse that this is what the editors were seeking
from him -- meet the challenge of how ugly could he possibly make
faces.
And, yes, he did write and draw science fiction horror comic book
stories, such as the Spacehawk series that started in 1940. But other
comics by him (such as Powerhouse Pepper) were more lighthearted
wackiness.
In his later decades, he became involved with Herbert Armstrong's
Worldwide Church Of God (remember Armstrong's screaming radio show,
The World Tomorrow?). Wolverton produced a lot of artwork for that
church's Plain Truth magazine and other publications. A collection of
such drawings was recently collected in a book called The Wolverton
Bible. One part of that side of Wolverton's art I'd seen before was an
extensive series his depictions of apocalyptic scenes from the New
Testament book of Revelation. Very seriously, don't look at these just
before bedtime!
As to Lichtenstein, his paintings based on comic book panels had the
effect of directing attention to the emotion packed into the source
material. But a case can be made that Lichtenstein's renderings
removed a lot of the nuance and artistry of the skilled and creative
people who produced the originals (such as John Romita for many of the
romance comics and Joe Kubert for many of the war scene). Sadly, the
reaction of the art world seemed to be to devalue (and not identify by
name) the artists who created the original panels, instead praising
Roy for transforming into real art something they regarded as
valueless trash.
Here's a web site that has matched up a large number of Lichtenstein's
paintings with the original panels from comic books. Judge for
yourself what was lost or added in translation:
http://davidbarsalou.homestead.com/LICHTENSTEINPROJECT.html
And, thank you Sally, for that link to a fascinating obituary for
Ileana "The Iron Marshmallow" Sonnabend.
--James
Sally
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You made some good observations about how the art world received the
work of Lichtenstein's work, and you even knew the name of John
Romita. Have you ever thought of going on JEOPARDY? No kidding. You
seem to be well-informed, deeply informed about just about everything.
Btw, you're welcome for the Ileana Sonnabend link. When I lived in NY,
I went to the Castelli-Sonnabend Gallery a few times. Also, btw, I
took a nap today and have had the most violent, gory "dream" of my
life. It had to happen, James. And, of all people, it was about
Princess Di. Ach, I think it was about her suicide attempts more than
her death. Don't worry. Better that I got those toxic images out of my
brain during sleep, not while awake.
Sally
sboli...@gmail.com
> Did anyone notice how long Barbara's bottom part of her earlobes are?
> Maybe it was the big earrings weighing them down, but her lobes looked
> twice as long as should be normal. Maybe I am not used to seeing her
> hair pulled back so I never noticed. See this footage if you don't know
> what I am talking about.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oGKfhYnC8I
Wiseguy
news:9eefa988-a401-4519...@googlegroups.com:
You're confusing 'to' and 'too.'
It is customary to start a sentence with a capital letter and end with a
period.
You misspelled 'earring.'
Cind...@verizon.net
R H Draney
>
>I notice this too, every day on The View. Her ears looked deformed but I be=
>lieve her lobes have stretched because she has worn heavy ear rings and I d=
>o not think her ears are pierced. She needs to get her ears fixed if she is=
picture of Jennifer Love Hewitt on her "Bare Naked" CD and pointed out her
unnaturally long toes, which I'd failed to notice....
But if Dave Barry won't say it, I will: "Barbara Walters' Earlobes" would be a
great name for a rock band....r
--
Me? Sarcastic?
Yeah, right.