EmmaGoodEgg

Why Archie Won't Marry Veronica

Hands-up anyone who has NEVER read an Archie comic book in their life. Well, at least those I know do. My father used to buy Archie comics when I was younger and well-thumbed copies of it were strewn about our home, often in the kitchen and bathrooms (it was our choice of great bathroom reads). The hero of the comic is namesake Archie Andrews, all American ginger-head high school student. He lives in a fictional town called Riverdale and goes to Riverdale High School. His best friend is Jughead, a slothful cute boy who ambles through life devouring hamburgers. His other best friend is Betty Cooper. Blond, all American sweetheart. Betty's best friend is Veronica Lodge, the spoiled dark-haired heiress who has Archie eating out of the palm of her hand. Then there are the great secondary characters of Moose and Midge, Reggie Mantle the III, Dilton Doiley, Miss Bernice Beazly, to name but a few. Their names are enough to bring a little cheer. To this day my sisters read Archie comics over Tabasco and a splash of Indo Mie.

So this is the landmark 600th issue of Archie which the folks over at comicbook.com say will set the tone for the wedding of the century. Where for years Archie has been flitting about through high school like a teenage butterfly between Betty and Veronica, finally proposes to Veronica. There's outrage in the forums on the prospect of Archie marrying Veronica and not long-suffering Betty. But let's see what you think:

poll by twiigs.com

These Shoes Are Made For Lovin'

LOVE doesn't even begin to describe how I feel about these shoes.

A Little Fug For The Monday Blues

Go Fug Yourself's write-up on a photo of Salma Hayek and Karl Lagerfeld will make you laugh until it hurts.

New On Planet Frivolous

Some clever people have come up with a swell program that can transform your picture into a yesteryears 'yearbook' version on www.yearbookyourself.com. This is what I came up with:

MimiGoodEgg, 1962

And in 1984...

A good start to Monday morning I say.

Ramadhan Specials @ Simpur

Just what we need during the fasting month, a listing of restaurants in Brunei and their Ramadhan Specials!  Click here to satisfy your cravings.

Usain Bolt Post-100m Finals

No one says it better than Philip Hersh in his 'You can't accuse Bolt and not Phelps, can you?' story at the LA Times Blogs about Usain Bolt's jaw-dropping record-busting 9.69 secs win in the Beijing Olympics 100m Men's Finals. 

Photo by Matt Dunham, Associated Press

Guess-The-Google

I google anything and everything.  Thanks to Tina @ My7thLife.net I have to make time for another obsession.  Guess-The-Google is an online game created by Grant Robinson.  The object of the game is to guess a keyword.  On each round, a grid of 20 images appear.  If you were doing an image search, what keyword would you enter on Google to get these images.

Simple, swell and probably addictive.

My Inner Bimbo

Well yes.  I am a MissBimbo addict, hence the lack of posts.  I have even coerced Bobby in the act.  He tells me where my bimbo is going and I happily dress her appropriately.

This is me in France going to the Louvre.

Willow and I look fabulous!

That's my boyfriend Pete Dirty (Doherty).  He's a junk rockstar and gives me 150 Bimbo Dollars and day and 100 Bimbo Attitude points a day.  I'm a little bit chubby because one of the goals on the previous level was "You've found work as a plus-size model. To gain those vivacious curves, you need to weigh more than 154 Lbs".  This is such an awesome game.

But I gotta change my bimbo name though.  Somehow a bimbo called EmmaGoodEgg doesn't ring true to the ears. 

more at twiigs.com...

Ps/ Willow doesn't need a poll because Willow already has a bimbo name.

Miss Bimbo

Bimbo is defined by the freedictionary.com as "vacuous" or "as having an exaggerated interest in her sexual appeal". There's been some adverse publicity online about an internet game called Miss Bimbo, whose target audience are impressionable teens, aiming to be the the coolest chick on the online block by choosing the right clothes, having the most money, keeping the right boyfriend and staying thin. You know, think Paris Hilton.

Although my teenage years have long past, I've registered myself to see what the hype is all about. I entered a fake birthdate because I think one's chances of being a bimbo decreases with age but I could be wrong. After you register your bimbo, the game sets goals for you to achieve. My bimbo's goals were these:

While I think renting an apartment shows a degree of independence and undertaking some training shows commitment, traits that should be feted...buuut I can't go to the next stage and unlock new clothes et al, if I don't style my hair blonde and with pigtails. I also need to feed my bimbo. But not too much. There is a target weight for my 5 feet 6 inches gal. And apparently you can opt for some plastic surgery in higher levels of bimbo-ness (Level 11 - Bigger is better. Have a breast operation).

As you can see, I haven't figured out how to dress my bimbo. I'm slightly worried that she's going about in her knickers and unable to find a boyfriend because I get bimbo points for finding a sugar daddy.

What do I think of missbimbo.com? Its a pretty harmless site if you are an adult. For someone's whose faced peer pressure and discovered, perhaps painfully, that it ain't all that. The administrators have since taken off the diet pills option, quite rightly I thought. The site should restrict urderaged girls and instead promoted to adult females (I could see a Facebook version of it). Women who like a bit of frivolity and know that plastic surgery are best left for the hollywood types, what you wear can matter but you gotta watch what you eat, won't take it too seriously and might enjoy it for a while.

more at twiigs.com...

Postcards From Your Momma

New on Planet Frivilous!

A website that showcases emails lovingly sent from techno-savvy moms out there to their darling children. Maybe that doesn't sound like much fun but it is.

To wit:

The Manic Mom

The Quirky Mom

The FaceBook-ing Mom

The Confused Mom

The Scary Mom

Screenshots gratefully grabbed from here.

Ps/ I'm surfing the site for fun and laughter and a little bit of paranoia...