Gimme Some Skin, My Friend, because I am such a sexist pig (updated)

So after a hard day of spreadsheets and meetings, I was sipping on a stein of God's Own Brew and surfing the webster. Came across Ricki's post with a video of "Walkin' 'Round in Women's Underwear" and I was inspired, so I started a-Youtubin' for more Bob Rivers. The man is a genius. But he will have to wait.

See, I didn't get far yet. In my splashpage of "Recommended for You" vids was an Andrews Sisters selection, one I hadn't heard before. Tres cool, especially since it's largely related to Harlem, for which you will have to wade through the rambling nonsense below because it's just that good and you need to work for your reward by reading this post. Because working for rewards is good for you. And because I said so.

Anyway, it reminded me of something I wanted to blog about a while back but didn't. When I embedded the video of the Lovely and Glorious Dorothy Dandridge with the Glenn Miller Band, I meant (and forgot) to mention how unusual it was back in the '30s and '40s for white and black acts to appear together. Glenn Miller must have been a hell of a guy to do that in the era of Jim Crow. Anyway, I meant to say that but forgot.

Even better, this particular Andrews Sisters video has Abbott and Costello in it, which also reminded me of something I meant to blog yesterday (when it popped into my head for some reason I can't remember). This was a bit from some Abbott and Costello movie whose title I forget. They were on a south Pacific island, and the (admittedly sexist, but still funny) exchange went something like this:

Abbott: These native girls are really pretty, I may just marry one of them.

Costello: Not me, I'm going to marry a homely girl.

Abbott: Why do you want to marry a homely girl?

Costello: A pretty girl can run away.

Abbott: A homely girl can run away.

Costello: So what?

Yeah, terribly sexist joke, but you gals can turn it around and swap sexes if you want.

Okay, kids, you've suffered enough. Here are the Andrews Sisters:



UPDAYE: Ha! Wolfwalker reminds me of an old R'n'R song in the same vein as that Abbott and Costello bit. Surprised I didn't think of it when I wrote the original post:



I never took that advice, of course. Married a pretty, beautiful lady. Which is why I do a lot of cooking and food blogging...