# 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:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**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, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-kids-help-solve-a-dagwood-and-blondie-mystery/60816/41 "2001-04-07T11:49:29Z")
Just searched [Amazon.com](http://Amazon.com). I was right about the title. The author is Arthur Asa Berger. Anyway, trot down to yer local liberry and check it out. I believe it comfirms Blondie’s maiden name, if not her kinky sexual predilections. Oh, BTW, thans, **SuaSponte** , for starting this thread. It’s entertaining as hell! ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2001, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-kids-help-solve-a-dagwood-and-blondie-mystery/60816/42 "2001-04-07T16:02:51Z")
Yup. The flapper [Blondie Boopadoop](http://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/0006/blondie1.html) married the millionaire-heir playboy Dagwood Bumstead in 1933, prompting his disinheritance by his father J. Bolling Bumstead. Witness Dagwood’s eagerness to leave for the honeymoon and you will see he was a horndog from the start. ---
**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, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-kids-help-solve-a-dagwood-and-blondie-mystery/60816/43 "2001-04-07T16:31:34Z")
Can you blame him? I mean, given that they were married in 1933, Blondie’s gotta be pushing 90 or so by now. And she’s still got a body that won’t quit! What a rack! She must have been really hot stuff back then. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2001, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-kids-help-solve-a-dagwood-and-blondie-mystery/60816/44 "2001-04-08T01:06:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by DAVEW0071 \* > \*\*What a rack! She must have been really hot stuff back then. \*\* Nah, Blondie was a flat-chested flapper with rolled stockings back in the early thirties, the epitome of that period’s primo Eye Candy. Her boobs probably started growing after WWII, when the national predilictions began turning towards the Seriously Knockered, and she’s maintained her Russ Meyer-sized pair to this very day. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_and\_I](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Cat\_and\_I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_and_I)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2001, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-kids-help-solve-a-dagwood-and-blondie-mystery/60816/45 "2001-04-09T18:40:58Z")
This was a screwup in production. Blondie had a calendar in her hand when it was originally shot, but Daisy ran off with it. That made her miss a cue. Then when they reshot it, she had no calender to use, but it slipped by. They didn’t catch it until all the family had left for the day, so it stayed in. ---
**Author:** ![SuaSponte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/67e7ee/32.png) [@SuaSponte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuaSponte)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2001, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-kids-help-solve-a-dagwood-and-blondie-mystery/60816/46 "2001-04-09T20:05:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ukulele Ike \* > Nah, Blondie was a flat-chested flapper with rolled stockings back in the early thirties, the epitome of that period’s primo Eye Candy. > > Her boobs probably started growing after WWII, Good lord, is there nothing the Bumsteads haven’t done?! From the timing, it sounds like Blondie was probably the first woman in American to get breast implants. Maybe that’s why Blondie got into money-laundering. Those things couldn’t have been cheap. Sua ---
**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 9, 2001, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-kids-help-solve-a-dagwood-and-blondie-mystery/60816/47 "2001-04-09T20:55:32Z")
The breast implants were paid for by the out-of-court settlement after Daisy was exposed to radiation from atomic bomb testing (although one of Daisy’s puppies did become the first joint champion of the Westminster Dog Show and Iditarod). Blondie started money laundering to pay for her addiction to horse tranquilizers. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-kids-help-solve-a-dagwood-and-blondie-mystery/60816.md?page=2)