# Hey kids!! Help solve a Dagwood and Blondie mystery! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 4, 2001, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-kids-help-solve-a-dagwood-and-blondie-mystery/60816 "2001-04-04T19:21:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2001, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-kids-help-solve-a-dagwood-and-blondie-mystery/60816/21 "2001-04-05T15:48:03Z")
I had a hard time catching my breath while reading this thread…it’s a privilege to hang out with people like you who are even more twisted than me. 🙂 > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eve \* > Somewhere, Newt Minow is smiling . . . The scary part is, I know who the hell you’re talking about. ---
**Author:** ![Chef\_Troy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Chef\_Troy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chef_Troy)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2001, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-kids-help-solve-a-dagwood-and-blondie-mystery/60816/22 "2001-04-05T18:35:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Robot Arm \* > **In the Bumstead’s neighborhood, “hear little Emily play her accordion” is the code phrase for a three-way…** This gives new meaning to the phrase “Dagwood sandwich.” ---
**Author:** ![RonA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@RonA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RonA)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2001, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-kids-help-solve-a-dagwood-and-blondie-mystery/60816/23 "2001-04-05T20:59:20Z")
Then that may explain the code in today’s strip, where Dagwood buys a shaver “guaranteed to work underwater”… ---
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2001, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-kids-help-solve-a-dagwood-and-blondie-mystery/60816/24 "2001-04-05T21:27:34Z")
I am -definitely- going to bookmark this thread… ---
**Author:** ![Albert\_Rose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de053/32.png) [@Albert\_Rose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Albert_Rose)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2001, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-kids-help-solve-a-dagwood-and-blondie-mystery/60816/25 "2001-04-05T22:34:00Z")
When Herb borrows the “lawnmower,” what does he _really_ want? ---
**Author:** ![Wump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ed655f/32.png) [@Wump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wump)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2001, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-kids-help-solve-a-dagwood-and-blondie-mystery/60816/26 "2001-04-06T02:45:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by AlbertRose \* > \*\*When Herb borrows the “lawnmower,” what does he _really_ want? \*\* What about when he comes over for a hammer? ---
**Author:** ![DAVEW0071](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e19b73/32.png) [@DAVEW0071](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DAVEW0071)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2001, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-kids-help-solve-a-dagwood-and-blondie-mystery/60816/27 "2001-04-06T11:28:10Z")
This explains why that kid Elmo is always hanging around, too. Either the little perv is trying to sneak a peek at all the action, or else Cookie’s got a thing for little boys. Or maybe he does unspeakable things to Daisy the dog. ---
**Author:** ![Pammipoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/87869e/32.png) [@Pammipoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pammipoo)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2001, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-kids-help-solve-a-dagwood-and-blondie-mystery/60816/28 "2001-04-06T12:27:50Z")
I don’t have any new revealations about the Bumsteads’ sex lives, but I just wanted to add that this has to be the most random message board on the net. I LOVE THIS PLACE!! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2001, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-kids-help-solve-a-dagwood-and-blondie-mystery/60816/29 "2001-04-06T12:32:13Z")
And you all know that Blondie’s catering business is just a front to launder mob money, right? ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2001, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-kids-help-solve-a-dagwood-and-blondie-mystery/60816/30 "2001-04-06T13:07:33Z")
So THAT’s why he’s always late for the carpool… Just please don’t tell me all those “accidental” run-togethers with the mailman are anything other than what they seem. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2001, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-kids-help-solve-a-dagwood-and-blondie-mystery/60816/31 "2001-04-06T13:14:11Z")
Don’t worry, Biotop. Running into the mailman is just their well-choreographed, straightforward drug deal while Dagwood is rushing off to Mr. Dithers’ escort service. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2001, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-kids-help-solve-a-dagwood-and-blondie-mystery/60816/32 "2001-04-06T13:15:34Z")
And whatever happend to “Baby Dumpling?” All of a sudden they have two grown kids named, what, Cookie and Alexander? Hmmm . . . Baby Dumpling goes missing . . . Blondie opens a catering business . . . Are you thinking what I’m thinking? “Sweeney Bumstead, the Demon Caterer of Suburbia?” ---
**Author:** ![SuaSponte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/67e7ee/32.png) [@SuaSponte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuaSponte)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2001, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-kids-help-solve-a-dagwood-and-blondie-mystery/60816/33 "2001-04-06T13:58:50Z")
Tastes just like chicken. ---
**Author:** ![dr\_hermes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dfb087/32.png) [@dr\_hermes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dr_hermes)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2001, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-kids-help-solve-a-dagwood-and-blondie-mystery/60816/34 "2001-04-06T23:22:18Z")
When the BLONDIE strip first started back in the dawn of time (the 1930s) she was a wealthy heiress. She gave up her foretune to marry Dagwood, then as now a faceless drone in a dead-end job. ``` There must be **something** about him that she did not want to lose. 'Dagwood Bumstead'--is that a Norwegian name from Minnesota? ``` ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2001, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-kids-help-solve-a-dagwood-and-blondie-mystery/60816/35 "2001-04-07T00:37:33Z")
**Dr. Hermes,** are you sure you don’t have it backwards? I seem to remember that Dagwood was the son of a billionare indusrialist and Blondie was a waitress. Dagwood’s family disowned him when he married Blondie. I think. ---
**Author:** ![Totoro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Totoro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Totoro)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2001, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-kids-help-solve-a-dagwood-and-blondie-mystery/60816/36 "2001-04-07T03:30:25Z")
Well, obviously this “Dawn Dittleton” is code for hot sweaty sex, and “accordion recital” means they’re going to make the kids watch. Please, please god. Smite me quickly, so as I may not burn in hell for saying that, and other things. ---
**Author:** ![dr\_hermes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dfb087/32.png) [@dr\_hermes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dr_hermes)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2001, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-kids-help-solve-a-dagwood-and-blondie-mystery/60816/37 "2001-04-07T04:22:03Z")
LouisB, you may certainly be right. Maybe it was Dagwood who came from a wealthy family and gave it up to marry Blondie. (You have to give her credit, if she married him even though he wouldn’t be rich anymore. No gold digger, she.) And what **was** Blondie’s real name? (No, not Deborah Harry) ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2001, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-kids-help-solve-a-dagwood-and-blondie-mystery/60816/38 "2001-04-07T04:25:55Z")
_ **Sweeney Bumstead ???** _ HAhahahahahaha! I’m never going to be able to read that strip the same way again! Is this Board cool, or what? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2001, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-kids-help-solve-a-dagwood-and-blondie-mystery/60816/39 "2001-04-07T07:18:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dr hermes \* > And what **was** Blondie’s real name? (No, not Deborah Harry) I read somewhere that her maiden name was Blondie Boopadoop, but I haven’t been able to confirm that. ---
**Author:** ![DAVEW0071](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e19b73/32.png) [@DAVEW0071](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DAVEW0071)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2001, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-kids-help-solve-a-dagwood-and-blondie-mystery/60816/40 "2001-04-07T11:15:38Z")
> [@](#): > > I read somewhere that her maiden name was Blondie Boopadoop, but I haven’t been able to confirm that. I concur, and I think you might find your confirmation in a tome entitled _The Comic Stripped American_. Can’t remember the author, but it might have been Asa Berger. Don’t hold me to that. I bought it a long time ago, thinking it would have some interesting stories about the evolution of individual strips and their creators. I was a bit disappointed to find it was actually more like a Masters Thesis on sociology, pointing out how the comic strips in the 20th Century hold up a mirror to the evolution of our society. Don’t know if I still have it anymore, but I’d actually be interested in reading it now. But it discusses Blondie, and I seem to recall that her name was Boopadoop, she was a waitress or chorus girl, or something (from this thread, you’d think she was a B-girl), and that she was considered beneath Dagwood’s station. He was rich, and subsequently disinherited by his family. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-kids-help-solve-a-dagwood-and-blondie-mystery/60816.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-kids-help-solve-a-dagwood-and-blondie-mystery/60816.md?page=3)