The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for September 07, 2024

You made me look it up.

I would have set Kewpie against Mrs. Bitterbean.

Mrs. Bitterbean LOL!!! Another great name.

One of those odd expressions. Anyone know the background/source?

I heard Joey being called that on a Full House episode. He thought it was an insult, but Danny explained it’s means someone has really blonde hair.

well hope they don’t tow him away then… :J

Wilberforce, listen to the song Hair by the Cowsills. There’s a place for everyone, including me who has no head hair.

Us older folk already knew what a towhead was.

Oy! But it’s true some people need to stifle their comments. LOL

I’ve been bald for so many years that my daughter was shocked to find in an old photo that I was towheaded as a kid. The second shock from the photo was that I was dragging a huge row sack and picking cotton. She never really understood me telling her I had grown up on a family farm/cattle ranch until then.

my uncle always used to call me a “roundhead”. now that I am old I know what he meant.

tow be or not tow be…

When my brother and me were from the ages of 2-7, were towheads. Then by the age of 8, it turned mousey brown.

Wilberforce is channeling Ruthie from One Big Happy. But it does help illustrate how our idioms can be pretty random and hard for foreigners to learn. My wife taught ESL for years and she said newcomers to the US were more confused and amused by idioms than any other part of the English language. They always wanted to know how the terms or phrases evolved.

What fantasy did she come from?

Have not heard word Towhead in many a year. And I would not say that Wilberforce hair qualifies. Bitterbean sounds like an odd ball name. What’s for dinner. Bitterbeans and Ham.Over and out.

At one time in my career, I taught sixth-graders. I learned to take everything they said with a grain of salt, especially when they were talking about their parents. I often wondered what twisted stories they told parents about things I said.

Kewpie!

Mrs. Bitterbean. So, is she used in making coffee?

I was born blond but my hair was brown by the time I was three.

My mom used to use that term “toehead”. I knew it mean blond.

Definitely something she wouldn’t have said to Brutus no doubt. However, Mrs. Bitterbean must be 120 years old at least to have used that term. Your grammar school English teacher would be very proud of you for using that word…….

hope that mrs bitterbean wasn’t implying that wilbur was ropy… ☺