From: jhb@calmasd.prime.com (Jim Bishop)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: Re: Dietrich, Madonna, etc.
Date: 16 Oct 92 00:51:11 GMT
Organization: -

In article <1ba3rhINNe4l@mizar.usc.edu>, 
adolphso@mizar.usc.edu (adolphson) writes:
> In article <1992Oct11.193719.7150@reed.edu> 
> nelson@reed.edu (Nelson Minar) writes:
>> In article <1992Oct11.155144.16907@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> 
>> gsmith@lauren.uucp (Gene W. Smith) writes:
>> >Is Tammy Faye Bakker an icon because we know who she is? 
>>
>> No, she's an icon because of *what* she is. That mascara, that dress,
>> those tears, her husband who takes it up the ass! Pathos incarnate.
> 

Tammy Faye isn't an icon.  At best she's a popular Halloween costume
of several years back.  Nelson, I'm surprised at you, being from
Houston you must realize that she's nothin' special.  (Of course,
maybe you never went to a Baptist church service.)

> I can think of very little that's more entertaining than these
> Christian broadcast wackos.  I used to watch Jim and Tammy Faye,
> um, religiously, and howl with laughter.  Jimmy Swaggart was
> another.  
> [Part of Swaggart story deleted, but the following was left because
>  it is just too funny not to repeat.]
> Then he worked in a rant against homosekseeality and child
> beastality that was truly lunatic -- I mean, are people who 
> grow up in homes with chandaliers and who later in life become
> rock stars really that much more prone to child beastality?

Did anyone else notice that *THE GAZE* disappeared from soc.motss
about the time that Jimmy Swaggart was arrested in Palm Springs?  If
you don't remember the *THE GAZE*, as I recall, he was the guy that
used to go to Swaggart revivals and put on a hooded costume of death
and stand up in the middle of the service and point at Swaggart until
someone carried him away.  A real party kinda guy.  I remember him
because we was so...so...so different and his posts used to originate 
from the town where I live.  He also used to post some bizarre poetry,
at least I thought it was supposed to be poetry.  Anyone know what
happened to *THE GAZE*?

> 
> *Way* back in the early '70s there was a local LA religious
> husband and wife team who were a lot like the Bakkers.  I don't
> remember their names, but a friend of mine always referred to
> the wife as the Dancing Doll.  She had a gigantic platinum
> beehive with spitcurls, and she wore lots of black eyeliner
> and frosted pink lipstick and she always dressed in pastels
> and wore big fake sunflowers made of fabric in her hair and
> pinned to her bosom and she used to jump up and down all the 
> time.  She was absolutely hilarious.  I think the Tammy Faye
> look for women is one of the dangers inherent in the fundie 
> lifestyle.

I used to watch Dolly Parton and Porter Wagner on Sundays back in the
Wichita in the late-60's.  They used to do their own soap commercials
right in the middle of a set of songs.  Dolly used to hold up these
flower-printed towels and Porter would twang, "Why what lovely flaars,
Dolly" and Dolly would hold the towel in front of her like her arms
weren't long enough to keep it from draping across her humongous
breasts and giggle, "Why thank ya Pote-duh, I got 'em in a box of
Breeze". (I think it was Breeze.)  Anyway I always felt like the early
mom and pop T.V. evangelists were trying to copy these two hicks.  I
remember thinking that if they can be on T.V., anyone can.

Jim
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