Friday, April 19, 2013

Are You a Nice Girl?

Are you a nice girl?

Click on the list below (to enlarge) and tell us if you follow these tips for good grooming etiquette.


Source: The Woman’s Home Companion, August 1940
[via Wearing History]

23 comments:

  1. Is the "ring around the tub" part negotiable? Uh, I'm asking for "a friend."

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    1. LX: Mistress MJ might let your "friend" off the hook if the ring is composed of rubies and sapphires.

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  2. You mean i have to stop test driving the bananas and cucumbers?

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    1. PRINNY: Which part of “Other customers might like to buy fresh” don’t you understand?

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  3. I am more or less completely vile. Hell, I work with black ink on a daily basis, of course I'm going to leave a trail of black marks wherever I go.
    But I do smell nice.
    Sx

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    1. MISS SCARLET: Better black marks than skid marks.

      *casts disapproving glance at Mitzi*

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  4. I've left a few brown marks on hotel towels, I am afterall on holiday and I expect a little luxury, spanish toilet paper can be a little bit rough on the buttocks.

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  5. By those standards, at least, I find I am EXTRAORDINARILY nice. Huh. *wonders where she went wrong*

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    1. NATIONS: There must be some mistake.

      Please re-read the list.

      p.s. What the hell have you been doing lately that takes time away from being HERE?

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  6. What are "sanitary containers"? Doesn't sound much like the "toilet preparations" you'd wish to put on your face... Jx

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    1. JON: And yet one splashes "toilet water" on one's face.

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    2. What you do in private, young lady, is your own concern! I swear by Spirit of Myrcia. Jx

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    1. AYEM8Y: As Thom would say, "That's the word on the street."

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  8. They left off the "you do not sprinkle when you tinkle"

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    1. COOKIE: "If you sprinkle when you tinkle, be a sweet and wipe the seat!"

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  9. Several of these points seem to be code for tampons, like "good grooming accessories...." Are we talking tampons here? I hope not.

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    1. PEENEE: You’ve given me an idea…

      Let’s start a new series here on Infomaniac entitled, “Let’s Talk Tampons.”

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    2. Where the sun never shines, Peenee.

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  10. of course, i'm a nice girl, sugar! :~) xoxoxo

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