perfect 36

[Barbara Need]

>         The same joke was used in Pogo, by Miz Beaver IIRC, and that
>likely would have been some years prior to the use in B.C. (although
>the strips did overlap for a few years).  The cartoonists'
>conflation of "perfect 36" and bust-waist-hips measurements suggests
>to me that they, at least, did not think of "perfect 36" as
>referring to a bust measurement, as that would have made for a lame
>joke.

No. That was it. I was remembering Miz Beaver.

Barbara

>John Baker
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Barbara Need [mailto:nee1 at MIDWAY.UCHICAGO.EDU]
>Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 10:31 AM
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>Subject: Re: perfect 36
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>Let's see if I can remember this correctly. There is a B.C. strip in
>which the Fat Broad describes herself as a perfect 36: 36-36-36.
>
>Barbara Need
>UChicago--Linguistics