Welcome, Madame Speaker

shando · Post by **shando** » January 4th, 2007, 4:47 pm

From one of my favorite bloggers, Digby.

Digby wrote:Nancy Pelosi wore purple today for a specific reason. It's the color of the suffragettes:

Nancy Pelosi wrote:"This is an historic moment - for the Congress, and for the women of this country. It is a moment for which we have waited more than 200 years. Never losing faith, we waited through the many years of struggle to achieve our rights. But women weren't just waiting; women were working. Never losing faith, we worked to redeem the promise of America, that all men and women are created equal. For our daughters and granddaughters, today we have broken the marble ceiling.

All those purple wearing women who came before would be proud today.

York99 · Post by **York99** » January 4th, 2007, 4:57 pm

What are the suffragettes? Some kind of ladies' dance troupe? I bet they're adorable.

shando · Post by **shando** » January 4th, 2007, 5:02 pm

Hmmm. Can't get the poster picture to look all nice. Anyway, on Digby's blog there's a nice old poster from back in the day before ladies could vote.

And remember, according to Ayn Rand and the Incredibles, if everyone can vote, then no one can.

HerrHerr · Post by **HerrHerr** » January 4th, 2007, 5:58 pm

York99 wrote:What are the suffragettes? Some kind of ladies' dance troupe? I bet they're adorable.

They're characters from a song off of The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.

They have their own city.

Jules · Post by **Jules** » January 5th, 2007, 1:00 pm

shando wrote:And remember, according to Ayn Rand and the Incredibles, if everyone can vote, then no one can.

Awwwww. And according to me, if you don't vote, you can't complain. Well, you can, but I won't listen to you.

Wesley · Post by **Wesley** » January 5th, 2007, 1:50 pm

Color wasn't invented until the 1940's, well after women's suffering was already in place.

I've seen photos from the teens and twenties, the ladies all wore black, sometimes grey or white, but mostly black. They never wore purple in those old photos.

Roy Janik · Post by **Roy Janik** » January 5th, 2007, 1:55 pm

Wesley wrote:Color wasn't invented until the 1940's, well after women's suffering was already in place.

I've seen photos from the teens and twenties, the ladies all wore black, sometimes grey or white, but mostly black. They never wore purple in those old photos.

From good ole Calvin & Hobbes:

Calvin: Dad, how come old photographs are always black and white? Didn't they have color
film back then?
Dad: Sure they did. In fact, those old photographs ARE in color. It's just the WORLD was
black and white then.
Calvin: Really?
Dad: Yep. The world didn't turn color until sometime in the 1930s, and it was pretty grainy
color for a while, too.
Calvin: That's really weird.
Dad: Well, truth is stranger than fiction.
Calvin: But then why are old PAINTINGS in color?! If the world was black and white, wouldn't
artists have painted it that way?
Dad: Not necessarily. A lot of great artists were insane.
Calvin: But... but how could they have painted in color anyway? Wouldn't their paints have
been shades of gray back then?
Dad: Of course, but they turned colors like everything else in the '30s.
Calvin: So why didn't old black and white photos turn color too?
Dad: Because they were color pictures of black and white, remember?

Wesley · Post by **Wesley** » January 5th, 2007, 1:58 pm

Just goes to prove that there is no such thing as an original joke. Well, except electing a woman to lead the Senate.

Hi-yo!

shando · Post by **shando** » January 5th, 2007, 3:30 pm

Roy Janik wrote: From good ole Calvin & Hobbes:

Calvin: Dad, how come old photographs are always black and white? Didn't they have color
film back then?
Dad: Sure they did. In fact, those old photographs ARE in color. It's just the WORLD was
black and white then.
Calvin: Really?
Dad: Yep. The world didn't turn color until sometime in the 1930s, and it was pretty grainy
color for a while, too.
Calvin: That's really weird.
Dad: Well, truth is stranger than fiction.
Calvin: But then why are old PAINTINGS in color?! If the world was black and white, wouldn't
artists have painted it that way?
Dad: Not necessarily. A lot of great artists were insane.
Calvin: But... but how could they have painted in color anyway? Wouldn't their paints have
been shades of gray back then?
Dad: Of course, but they turned colors like everything else in the '30s.
Calvin: So why didn't old black and white photos turn color too?
Dad: Because they were color pictures of black and white, remember?

Man, I love that one. I quote it about once a year. What the raw transcription doesn't capture is Calvin's beautiful walk off and then coming back into frame later since he's still thinking about it. Brilliant.