Tom McAllister: this newspaper headline is the 1930 version of encountering an incomprehensible trending story about some Twitch streamer with 4 million followers

this newspaper headline is the 1930 version of encountering an incomprehensible trending story about some Twitch streamer with 4 million followers

Waiting on Ashley Feinberg to write a detailed explainer of the Boop-Doop girl

Boop-Doop Girls was another term for flappers. Blondie (from the comic strip Blondie) was originally called Blondie Boopadoop, and the strip followed her sex crazed lifestyle. Dagwood gave up millions in railroad money so he could marry her.

From January 29, 1933:

TIL!

Are you telling me her full married name is Blondie Boopadoop Bumstead

And I thought that strip was boring and depressing before I knew this.

Boring and depressing gets you 94 years and counting

This is why Mutt & Jeff was cancelled, it was boring but not depressing

It is now, but it had its moment at the start

Wait what

Oh yeah, the Bumsteads were railroad tycoons, and gave Dagwood an ultimatum that it was either his money or Blondie, and he chose Blondie.

Yeah I was blown away when I discovered that because it's a vastly better premise for a strip than the suburban blandness that strip has been since...before my parents were born, I guess

Welp, that’s a rabbit hole to crawl down later. Thanks!

Fun fact: both Nancy and Popeye also started as flapper strips. Nancy's aunt Fritzi and Olive Oyl being said flappers.

damnit, you beat me to it bsky.app/profile/nick...

is Boop-Doop Girl the new drip king or is she just getting rizzed up by Big Suit Man?

I smell toast

I thought I could only use slurp juice on a single ape

may i be expelled?

Does the body of the article also just say "Is Baby Gronk the new Drip King or is he just getting rizzed up by Livvy"?

Repeatedly, like Jack Torrence's typewriter page.

He went to that haunted hotel to write a novel and he did, g-ddamnit!

Love this quote from the boop-doop girl: “Maybe I’ve been more booped-against than booping.”

Have to admire her commitment to the bit

youtu.be/Z9FiYtZ-TFY?...

Revived in Some Like It Hot by Marilyn youtu.be/jNFbL8qIf64?...

Marilyn Monroe - I Wanna Be Loved by You. Some Like It Hot (1959) 4Kyoutu.be Digital Restoration I wanna be loved by you, just you And nobody else but you I wanna be loved by you, alone! Boop-boop-a-doop! I wanna be kissed by you, just you Nobody else but you I wanna be kissed by you, alone! I couldn't aspire To anything higher Than, to fill the desire To make you my own! Boop-boop-a-doop, boop-boop-a-booh! I wanna be loved by you, just you And nobody else but you I wanna be loved by you, alone I couldn't aspire To anything higher Than, to feel the desire To make you my own Bup-bum, butle-doodle-dum-bum! I wanna be loved by you, just you Nobody else but you I wanna be loved by you Ba-deedly-deedly-deedly-dum! Boop-boop-a-doop!

Yeah when I learned the Boop-Doop Girl was Helen Kane I was like, “Oh, I actually know the people in this story better than any TikTok or Twitch drama”

Which Twitch star will have an homage in a musical comedy film in 2053?

is Boop-Doop Girl the new drip king or is she just getting rizzed up by Big Suit Man?

Sounds like DC Comics characters. I'd totally read a comic about Boop-Doop Girl vs. Big Suit Man.

Have to see just how big this suit is

Boop Doop Girl in the front row, scowling

This is not my beautiful house. This is not my beautiful boop doop girl My god. What have i done

came here for this. leaving happy.

It's Spider-Verse Kingpin's suit, but the man is normal-sized.

... But this is still a contender for the best newspaper headline ever (recording an unexpected 3-1 win for Caledonian Thistle against Celtic)

better even than

And thus we see the difference between UK and US journalism.

I hope whoever came up with this is proud of themselves (sincere)

had to have been the highlight of their day

It’s literally written in a transatlantic accent.

The phrase “money business” ONLY exists in transatlantic accent

Boop-Doop Girl Challenge: Post video of you at karaoke doing Punk Rock Girl but with Boop-Doop instead

One Saturday I took a walk through Manhattan I met Big Suit Man there And he gave me fifty grand

I read that in J. Jonah Jameson's voice