That’s Not Ken – IOTW Report

That’s Not Ken

Do you remember the real Ken?

20 Comments on That’s Not Ken

  1. I remember having to play with my girl cousins and their Barbies and Kens when we visited them. I ended up getting a Big Jim action figure with the Sports Camper so I could use him to push Ken to the side. He had flexible arms and the bicep would bulge when the elbow was bent.
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  2. Ken was just a party crasher to all the fun Barbie and Midge were having in their Dream House. Plus he always wanted to drive the car! No one wanted to “be” Ken, His clothes were boring.

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  3. Ken was always a bit light in his loafers, but that iteration is gayer than a pride parade. I used to steal my brother’s GI Joe to be Barbie’s boyfriend. He had abs and biceps and his articulated joints meant that he could put his arm around Barbie. Poor Ken. Nobody wanted to play with him or Barbie’s dyke sister, Skipper. Skipper was the worst.

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  4. Never played with them, but I’ll suggest that Ken was a “lady’s man”, so less emphasis on bulging muscles, as targeted as a girls’ plaything. So anatomical detail not as highly valued. There’s some tangent stories about the girls making their Barbie’s more anatomically correct, but off topic.

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  5. Does anyone here even know who J. Fred Muggs was? J. Fred Muggs was the chimpanzee sidekick to Dave Garroway one of the hosts of NBC’s Today Show back in the 50’s. Mad Magazine made fun of him back then which is the only reason I know who J. Fred Muggs was.

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  6. geoff – That’s why I called John Kerry: “J.Fred Kerry” early on, but after a while I figgered it wuz a insult to the Chimp and Kerry need more descriptors. So I changed it to Monsieur Jon Fraud Goodhair the Flip-Flopping, Not-so-Swift-Boat, Medal-Tossing, Moisturizing Metrosexual Gigolo, Cabana-Boy, Globull-Warming precognitive meteorologist, and Politically Correct, Easter Island fashion model with Churchill Downs Syndrome.

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  7. Harry, I’ve never seen a chimp with a long face like a horse before. And John
    “effin” Kerry is one of a very few Navy officers that I have absolutely zero respect for. You also forgot to add traitor to that list of disqualifications. My oldest daughter one time when she worked as a paid congressional staffer for our local congresswoman Kathy McMorris Rogers about 2008 or 2009 from eastern Washington at the US Capitol bldg. once got onto an elevator with lurch on the elevator with her and some other people, she said he was very creepy looking.

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