Sex, drugs, and rock and roll
Blondie, 3/3/06
I think we should take a break from the rampant gay sex innuendo in Rex Morgan, M.D., and take a look at the rampant drug lingo in Blondie. I was in a bowling league for the better part of a decade and never, ever heard of anyone bowling a couple of “lines.” I think we all know what Herb and Dagwood were doing with some “lines” without their wives before the censors got their hands on this strip. Soon the comics will no doubt be rife with drug innuendo:
- Sally Forth to Ted Forth: “Say, Hillary’s at her friend’s; do you want to go out back and ‘pull’ some ‘weeds’?”
- Leroy Lockhorn to nameless acquaintance: “Loretta used to really get to me, but now I make sure to ‘ride’ the ‘horse’ before I get home, and I’m too blissed out to worry about anything.”
- Dot Flagston to Ditto Flagston: “Let’s get f’ed up on PCP and try to ram mom’s station wagon into a cop car.”
Tsk.
Lazlo
March 6th, 2006 at 2:36 pm
I actually use that term to refer to bowling, but it’s always “roll a few lines” and not “bowl.” FWIW.
Bigfoot
March 6th, 2006 at 2:45 pm
The problems will start as soon as Herb & Dagwood get home…especially with the evidence of their “lines” lingering in Herb’s voluminous mustache.
lilybdcsa
March 6th, 2006 at 2:45 pm
Yep…we always used to say “lines” when we were bowling. How was I to know what we REALLY meant. No wonder it was so much fun.
marky
March 6th, 2006 at 3:35 pm
It sounds like a certain blogger may be jealous of a certain cartoon character who was inducted into a certain bowling hall of fame.
“Jealousy often takes the form of unfounded accusations intended to malign the character of an innocent individual.”
-Sigmund Freud
Ron
March 6th, 2006 at 4:10 pm
I always thought bowlers measured things in “frames” rather than “lines,” but I guess that doesn’t have the same ring to it.
nate
March 6th, 2006 at 5:12 pm
Dennis: Hi Mr. Wilson, whatcha drinkin’?
Mr. Wilson: GED OUTTA HERE YA SUMBITCH!
Jim Bim
March 6th, 2006 at 6:27 pm
Don’t remember people talking about bowling a few lines, but I worked at a bowling alley where they had paper for scoring the games and the games were referred to as “lines”, as in lines on the paper. So you’d price things out in lines, like telling someone it was $2 per line. I can imagine people that were in to bowling would talk about bowling or rolling a few lines.
dalton
March 6th, 2006 at 9:11 pm
I think they just got a few letters mixed up. Everyone knows it’s blow a few lines.
jeanne
March 6th, 2006 at 10:21 pm
“I always thought bowlers measured things in “frames†rather than “lines,†but I guess that doesn’t have the same ring to it.”
There are ten frames in a line.
Mibbitmaker
March 7th, 2006 at 1:52 am
#1: That sounds like someone getting pot and cocaine mixed up. Huh, maybe THAT’s how crack was invented!
Topic heading:Aw, Josh, you crossed out the GOOD ones!
JB
March 7th, 2006 at 5:39 am
According to the “Bowler’s bowling dictionary” (http://www.icubed.com/users/allereb/dict.html) a line is a game of bowling, so I’m afraid the Blondie comicists are quite correct…
DavidS
March 7th, 2006 at 10:51 pm
This really just shows how old the writer is. People did refer to a game as a “line”, but in the 1940’s or so.
Dee
March 9th, 2006 at 3:34 pm
Well, heres perhaps what happened: After realizing there was no way they could get out of seeing the movie with there wives, they drugged them with a postdinner cocktail, filled with the usual barbituates that blondie takes to help her forget that she’s married to a man who would rather bowl with a seventies pornstar lookalike then spend time with her in a movie theatre. They gleefully hop over to the bowling alley, dagwood arriving home just in time to find blondie sobbing over her state of life. Lets not forget, of course, the fact that the paper boy looks to much like dagwood if you know what i’m saying.
TB Tabby
September 22nd, 2006 at 3:36 pm
That reminds me of a Kids in the Hall sketch I once saw. It was just Scott Thompson talking about a dream he had in which he was partying and having fun with various actors & actresses, and kept making references to “doing lines.” Except I had never heard the term “doing lines” before, so I thought he was talking about lines of dialogue. I was thinking, “Do these people really like to rehearse in their spare time?”
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