Posted on 11/07/2009 6:31:48 AM PST by massmike
Be careful out there today,men! It's Sadie Hawkins Day!
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I was wondering why the mares tried to trample me into the dirt yesterday.
Isn’t Sadie Hawkins Day on November 15th?
BTW, Al Capp used to be the darling of the liberal establishment in Cambridge, MA until he supported LBJ and the Vietnam War. He was ostracized after that. No more dinner parties on Brattle Street, no more sherry hours at the Harvard Faculty Club.
“She had hair no longer’n a hound dawgs...”
Rommel’s Birthday is on November 15th. I always thought Sadie Hawkins Day was February 29th [Leap Year].
I just saw in the Old Farmer’s Almanac this morning that today was Sadie Hawkins Day.I think the date is flexible...like Arbor Day.
Did any of you have a Sadie Hawkins dance in high school?
I am probably showing my age here but that was when the Girls asked the guys to a sock hop (really showing my age) and we dressed up in hick clothes. Girls dressed in pig tails and blue-jean cut offs and their shirt tied up in front. The guys wore overalls and checkered shirts and straw hats.
It was alot of fun and very daring to ask a boy out on a date. We always snuck off and went Jack rabbit hunting. Although illegal to shoot at night we could get 75 cents a pelt and on a good night could shoot 20 rabbits. We would have money for cigarettes and bear for a month. Couldn’t ask our parents for that kind of money since we weren’t suppose to drink or smoke.
Interesting! Your post inspired me to do some online research:
“Capp, who by all accounts was contrary and contentious by nature, was a maverick politically. He characteristically went against the grain. He was a liberal during the conservative 1950s, only to switch to conservative during the liberal, hippie-era 1960s.
... Capp began spoofing counterculture icons such as Joan Baez (in the character of Joanie Phoanie, a wealthy folksinger who offers an impoverished orphanage ten thousand dollars’ worth of “protest songs”). The sequence implicitly labeled Baez a limousine liberal, a charge she took to heart*
*(and threatened legal action,lol).
How 'bout a Sadie Frost Day ? She was a lot hotter.
It was a big deal in Cambridge, apparently, with the Brattle Street liberals. They were very angry and although he had been on the A list for dinner parties he was dropped by every hostess. Sort of like Truman Capote but for different reasons.
We had a Sadie Hawkins dance at our school too. I guess they still do. A co-worker of mine was explaining the concept of it to a doctor we work with. His son was having a Sadie Hawkins dance and not being raised here, he didn’t know the background.
At our dances we all dressed up in hillbilly clothes and the girls would ask the boys to dance. I know that all seems so quaint now because it is common for girls to ask out boys now. We would have tore our tongues out first ordinarily.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9K02ipcdMJI
His descriptions of the 60s radicals. of libs, and of cons was prescient.
From 40 years ago, and it is spot on today.
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