Selachian posted:

Oh Come the gently caress On Russell 9/9-11/43

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The Man Flirt, and What to Do With Him---By Nell Brinkley

Pound a punching bag for the first kind-the grime. And for the other kind, softly and sweetly turn your back.

MAKE a flirt once," said a Billy to me, "a man flirt. New York is full of him. He is the worst beast in this sweet world, for he is neither man nor woman-him!

"There's two kinds of him-the com- mon street kind that any Betty knows clear to the bottom of him at one little look, and the finer, more cultured soft-clothed, soft-smiled, but just as rotten, kind, that can mingle with and be one with the very cleanest and sweetest of lady- and mankind.

"This first kind is just grime, that irritates and sickens; but the other is a hideous thing that rouses murder in you.

"And yet you can't get hold of anything to murder him over, usually. He means nothing in the world. He simply eats and sleeps and makes nothing with his hands or head, and takes his pleasure of it, and flips his fingers at the wrecks he makes of lives-women and men.

"I tell you"-and the Billy's green gray eyes winked angrily "I tell you it's every man's business to marry and have fifteen children, if he's got the money to keep 'em, of course.

"A man has nothing to do with this thing of flirting. Lady Folk do it, but "But man! Pooh! If his flirting is some way we take it, for the smiles and sighs and little tricks of it, and not for the harder-hearted thing it's supposed to mean. And Lady Folk don't often mean that harder-hearted thing.

"But man! Pooh! If his flirting is only tricks and sighs and smiles, then he's a doll baby with a wax face, and we put up our shoulders at him, and even you Lady Folk widen your dainty nostrils at him and smile.

"But when he is a man with the same bone and muscle with the rest of us; when his flirting is the big thing in his life; when he hunts his game with a man's weapons, and decoys it with the same colors that the others of us wear on our sleeves to show our one woman the love and reverence we hold in our hearts for her-ah! bah!"

So here's a flirt-a man flirt and two or three more-and the things that the Billy with the green gray eyes says she should do to him.

Pound your brother's or your Billy's punching bag for the first kind of a flirt-the grime. And when he makes you too tired, slam down your muff and push your hat back and bowl him over; and then pick up your muff and hike you off in a hury.

And for the other kind, Billy says- you'll know him, because he'll tell you all those things that other men folk when they love a Betty tell her after a long time, too soon-maybe the first time you put out your hand to him and say "how do you do"-and then, Billy says, put up your little satin chin and hunch up your shoulders and droop down the lids of your eyes and quite softly and sweetly turn your back.

And if there's any other Betty or Billy around, or maybe a big bunch of them, why then it's all the nicer. And after that, you will always see the wall on the other side through this Billy, if you're a very wise Betty.

JethroMcB posted:

Live Laugh Love

Chicken Parmigiana posted:

Scarlet O'Neil is what comics were invented for.

"I crashed into this guy so hard that he got pointy goblin ears and a hunched back! Well, as a plastic surgeon, I know my moral duty..."

The_Other posted:

From the Crabgrass Instagram

Selachian posted:

Vargo posted:

Selachian posted:

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anoesis
noun
an·​o·​e·​sis
: consciousness that is pure passive receptiveness without understanding or intellectual organization of the materials presented

Strontium posted:

Take It From The Tinkersons

JethroMcB posted:

anoesis
noun
an·​o·​e·​sis
: consciousness that is pure passive receptiveness without understanding or intellectual organization of the materials presented

Forum accident posted:

Mother Goose and Grimm

Huxley posted:

A+J

Huxley posted:

Medenmath posted:

Vintage Valiant (Mar. 17, 1963)

Selachian posted:

Closer Than We Think! 7/2/61

Powered Descent posted:

Slylock Fox

riderchop posted:

For Better or For Worse

F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:

Maybe she just really likes coffee, Slylock. Ever thought of that?

pencilhands posted:

Doomykins posted:

Cidwic with the Zapp Brannigan school of tactics.

Solution: Slylock knows that Cassandra is down bad for him and the presence of Dabney Dog doesn't hint at the threesome setup she'd use to entice him. Carla must be in the bedroom.

JethroMcB posted:

Erin's a square, Janis! Accept it!

pencilhands posted:

Kennel posted:

The fish got handsome boyfriends.