Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for October 03, 2023

Clavicle proud.

Looks like a nephew of Chesty Bond, the iconic cartoon character who advertised Bonds singlets from 1940.

I’d like to meet the crazed marketing department that came up with Chesty the Chipmonger!

It isn’t, that’s his twin brother Crayon Cid. Generations will argue over how to pronounce the second C.

What’s the letter on your shirt, there, Richard? Go ahead and show it to us…

Chester the pester.

…good old Charlie Chip had a chip on his shoulders against Chesty…

About the comic strip stamps: Several artists did strips (on the same day, I think) where honoring newspaper comics with stamps was the subject. I thought this meant it had happened and went to the post office to ask for them, only to find out they did not exist. When they were issued (the following year?) I bought some, of course.

And when they were issued, Charles Schulz did a series of strips where Sally thought that since the USPS had drawn pictures of comics on stamps, she could just draw pictures of comics on the envelopes and they would go through the mail. No. Snoopy looked at them and thought “She drew Popeye better than they did.” This was Schulz being snarky because they didn’t use a drawing by Segar, Popeye’s creator.

snappy dresser…

Looks like sort of a dip.

The affluent cousin of Bazooka Joe.

Chesty! HA! That’s great!!

Wonder what his sister looks like.

Just don’t call him Busty.

I’ve often wondered, because I’m kind of lame, whether ‘Nemesis’ has a verb form.

Inflation hits everyone one time or another! LOL

Keep me abreast of the news….

Why it’s young “Chesty” Pullit, great-grandson of Admiral “Chesty” Puller and grand-nephew of stripper Breasty Chesty Fuller!

This kid’s got an over-inflated ego and a head as big as a puffed-up pouf.

That banty rooster strut of his makes Cagney look like a cripple.

Someday, somebody’s gonna shove that C into his A …

1945 was a great year … AND I’ve outlived Chesty …!

( so there’s THAT … except for eBay )

I’m intrigued. I think I need to know more of Chesty’s backstory…

You had me at ….. Wait for it…nemesis

Ah, yes. A nemesis (namesis, maybe?) I recognise, but because I was the chestier of the pair of us.

formerly known as the chesterizer

A nickname that’s inexplicably fallen out of use.

If I recall correctly, one of the characters in the Old Maid card deck I had as a kid was named Chesty. Given the variability of OM characters over time, I cannot verify this, but in a deck of the times not far from or of the WW II era, such a name is quite possible….

Chesty the Chestmaster.

Since she hasn’t been mentioned yet (gosh I hope I looked at all the comments), I’m going to mention Chesty Morgan, a burlesque performer back when “burlesque” itself was an ironic name because the classic burlesque genre didn’t survive the 1950s. Chesty got some bemused notoriety by becoming a professional at interrupting big league ball games and one time stealing a kiss from George Brett.

Hi Teresa!