When Alma danced for the rogues in the Peanut Gallery, she removed the customary jewel from her navel and inserted an actual peanut.
(An almeh, refers to a learned woman, high in status and educated in the musical and literary arts; European travellers mistakenly applied this term to any female entertainer. By 1850, it came to be associated most closely with the ghawazee, or Egyptian dancing girls who were often also prostitutes.)
Jack whispering to John, “Geez man, we were ripped off, my wife wears less than this just cleaning the carpets, washing the dishes, hanging the laundry, and dusting at home.”
Though she was born a poor dancing girl, / Fatima was a gem, a treasure, a pearl! / And a handsome young Dervish / Saw her dance with a flourish! / They married, and happily ever after, they whirled!
"Category:Leopold Carl Müller" site=commons.wikimedia.org
(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, and Yandex search engines) in the browser address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and choose the first Category: found, and once there find the text string Admirers, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this painting.
Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3064 (January 18, 2023) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment, and using the dropdown menu (even larger if you trim what’s after .png from the URL). I have added a comment there (awaiting Mr. Melcher’s approval) pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. First work by this artist used here.
The flight attendants at Middle East Airlines had to come up with new ways to get people to pay attention to the safety instructions at the beginning of each flight.
Solstice*1947 over 1 year ago
Queried, “Why are you such a big fan, sir?”
then An almée’s admirers each answer:
“She can rhythmically make
her firm abdomen shake.”
An Egyptian (legit) Belly Dancer.
BE THIS GUY over 1 year ago
Rena was working her way through Cairo U.
rmremail over 1 year ago
Asmaa was planning to enter the Miss Morocco pageant.
rmremail over 1 year ago
Look! She’s wearing pants, and you can see her face! I told you Morocco was decadent.
Say What Now‽ Premium Member over 1 year ago
“This is a wild bachelor party. Don’t tell my wives about it.”
ronaldspence over 1 year ago
“How do we handle a problem like Maria?”
sergioandrade Premium Member over 1 year ago
“Your Daddy was a preacher and your Momma was a dancing girl!”
Funny_Ha_Ha over 1 year ago
Those Iranian strip shows leave much to be desired.
PraiseofFolly over 1 year ago
When Alma danced for the rogues in the Peanut Gallery, she removed the customary jewel from her navel and inserted an actual peanut.
(An almeh, refers to a learned woman, high in status and educated in the musical and literary arts; European travellers mistakenly applied this term to any female entertainer. By 1850, it came to be associated most closely with the ghawazee, or Egyptian dancing girls who were often also prostitutes.)
https://womblegrinch.tumblr.com/post/188296775100/leopold-carl-müller-1834-1892-an-almées
bobpeters61 over 1 year ago
The winner of the air fiddle contest.
Call me Ishmael over 1 year ago
A hot Circassian houri/
Elicited rage and fury/
When she pranced, preened, and “peeled”/
On the athletic field/
At the University of Missouri .
Egrayjames over 1 year ago
Early in her career, Gypsy Rose Lee did some gigs she really wasn’t proud of, but as she said, “I had to start somewhere.”
lagoulou over 1 year ago
Not the same here without Ish…
jdculhane46 over 1 year ago
Wild time, playing “air violin”
aerotica69 over 1 year ago
It’s a scam, man. She calls it the dance of the seven veils, but she’s wearing twenty.
Rev Phnk Ey over 1 year ago
“She is doing It wrong. It’s the ‘left foot in, the left foot out’ before shaking it all out.”
wincoach Premium Member over 1 year ago
Jack whispering to John, “Geez man, we were ripped off, my wife wears less than this just cleaning the carpets, washing the dishes, hanging the laundry, and dusting at home.”
Call me Ishmael over 1 year ago
A slavegirl in old Baghdad/
Initiated a fad/
By performing a dance/
In a pair of long pants -/
And driving the onlookers mad !///
But a fad is a fleeting thing/
Not unlike the flowers in Spring/
And the fad soon passed/
And it left her bare-a$$ed/
So she went back to wearing a string..///
In her sad, fading final year/
She/was sold to an old Emir/
Then put on the market/
For a frayed Persian carpet/
And a camel with only one ear…
Bookworm over 1 year ago
Though she was born a poor dancing girl, / Fatima was a gem, a treasure, a pearl! / And a handsome young Dervish / Saw her dance with a flourish! / They married, and happily ever after, they whirled!
MuddyUSA Premium Member over 1 year ago
She might do better with a bare belly………..
The Wolf In Your Midst over 1 year ago
Nusreen’s one-woman “Three Stooges” tribute was missing a certain something.
greenlynn Premium Member over 1 year ago
“Sedahgive?”
Radish the wordsmith over 1 year ago
Yeah, but let me tell you people
Little Egypt doesn’t dance there anymore
She’s too busy mopping and a taking
Care of shopping at the store
Cause we’ve got seven kids
And all day long they crawl
Around the floor
Singing, yeah, yeah,
Gitchee gitchee gitchee
Bill D. Kat Premium Member over 1 year ago
I’ve read all the comments and still don’t get this. What DOES rhyme with massage and how is that relevant to the gag???
Buzzworld over 1 year ago
“Her shadow puppet skills leave a lot to be desired.”
Ken Holman Premium Member over 1 year ago
Apparently it is called “belly dancing”, but I’ll tell you it isn’t my belly that is dancing right now!
Ken Holman Premium Member over 1 year ago
It’s the new way to cheat a pedometer.
mabrndt Premium Member over 1 year ago
An Almée’s Admirers or Egyptian Dancer:
Paste (including the quote marks)
"Category:Leopold Carl Müller" site=commons.wikimedia.org
(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, and Yandex search engines) in the browser address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and choose the first Category: found, and once there find the text string Admirers, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this painting.
Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3064 (January 18, 2023) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment, and using the dropdown menu (even larger if you trim what’s after .png from the URL). I have added a comment there (awaiting Mr. Melcher’s approval) pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. First work by this artist used here.
anomaly over 1 year ago
First use of the ‘slow clap’ and the crowd tries to figure out what it means.
d1234dick Premium Member over 1 year ago
Salome finishing up her dance, was too modest to take off any clothes so her tips were very low.
mshaw Premium Member over 1 year ago
“The Almeh Admirers,” 1882
gopher gofer over 1 year ago
the boys gathered for “chess club” every wednesday afternoon…
Call me Ishmael over 1 year ago
For Thursday:
“Bonjour, Monsieur Courbet!/
What brings you out this way?”/
“I’m pursued by creditors/
And condemned by editors-/
For a painting they call “risqué ..///
It’s “L’origine du Mond/
Which everyone says goes beyond/
The bounds of good taste/
And must be replaced/
By something that’s a lot more blonde..
Pocosdad over 1 year ago
The flight attendants at Middle East Airlines had to come up with new ways to get people to pay attention to the safety instructions at the beginning of each flight.