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Old 05-08-2003, 04:36 PM
Eliphalet Eliphalet is offline
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what was Blondie's maiden name?

From the Blondie website:
http://www.kingfeatures.com/features...ndie/about.htm

"From flapper and playboy to pop culture icons. It was way back in 1930 when Dagwood Bumstead first met Blondie. (Consider yourself a true fan if you know Blondie's maiden name.) "

OK, so what was Blondie's maiden name?
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Old 05-08-2003, 04:40 PM
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Blondie Bumstead is the former Blondie Boopadoop.
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Old 05-08-2003, 04:40 PM
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Boopadoop. She was a flapper with a well off husband, Dagwood, whose family thought she was too common for him. Eventually that aspect of the strip went by the wayside.
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Old 05-08-2003, 05:46 PM
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Blondie Boopadoop entered the world nearly 70 years ago, on Sept. 8, 1930, the featured character of a new comic strip by Murat Bernard "Chic" Young (1901-1973). A flighty flapper, at first she dated playboy Dagwood Bumstead, son of the millionaire J. Bolling Bumstead, a railroad magnate, along with several other boyfriends. The comic strip floundered, however, until Young decided to have the couple fall deeply in love. Desperate to wed Blondie, in spite of his father's objections to her lowly social status, Dagwood went on a hunger strike until the elder Bumstead grudgingly acknowledged their relationship. He did, however, refuse to continue to support his son. The couple married on Friday, Feb. 17, 1933, and Dagwood, now disinherited, stripped of his wealth and family connections, was nonetheless blissfully happy with his sparkling, vivacious, yet unfailingly practical new bride. Americans, caught up in the woes of the Great Depression, immediately took to Chic Young's humorous daily reminders that love, not money, conquers all.
Judging by Dagwood's eagerness to start on the honeymoon, he was quite the horndog in his youth.

Betty Boop, Blondie's half-sister, shortened the family name when she entered show business.
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Old 05-08-2003, 06:31 PM
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Judging by Dagwood's eagerness to start on the honeymoon, he was quite the horndog in his youth.

Well lets face it - Blondie is a major babe! Although I always thought Daisy Mae was way more hot! (What was Lil' Abner thinking?)
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Old 05-08-2003, 10:29 PM
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Sister of Betty Boop.
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Old 05-09-2003, 01:48 AM
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Sister of Betty Boop.
Is this true? Or was this just a question?
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