Look, to be fair to Miss Pansy Trubshawe, cricket is complicated and how can you expect to understand more than one other thing if you understand it well?
Mrs_Peel+13
I briefly had a handle on cricket rules after seeing the movie Lagaan , but now I’m confused again.
RuncibleSpoon+10
the only things i know about cricket come from Lagaan
which i watched because there’s a scene parodied from Lagaan in Kal Ho Naa Ho
both are awesome and should be watched. even if you don’t wind up learning much about cricket or restaurant running.
builtahouse+2
All I know from Lagaan was slightly reinforced by Dil Bole Hadippa? Which is like the “She’s The Man” version of Lagaan? Rani Mukerji’s drag is ludicrous, but in a transcendently-bad-Amanda-Bynes way.
neMagistra+17
My knowledge of cricket is cobbled together from Lagaan, various Dorothy Sayers novels, and Life, the Universe and Everything. There’s so much of that book I didn’t get as a child because all the cricket jokes went over my head, and it’s basically Douglas Adams writing one extended cricket reference.
I was so happy that my hodgepodge of sources were apparently decent enough that I could understand parts of what was going on in the Cricket World Cup this year (even though I struggled to explain where I’d learned things). 🙂
bookwormV+5
Murder Must Advertise provided basically all of my cricket knowledge.
bibliophibian+46
Miss Pansy Trubshawe is but thirty-two! She has time to grow into her full powers.
metherton+18
But Mrs Violet Rumpton isn’t a spinster: presumably she’s a divorcee.
betsymore+110
Divorcee = just another word for a born-again spinster
Lindsay+19
The fact that I can think of myself as a born-again spinster gives me such joy it is incalculable. I must immediately learn whist, acquire a sharp tongue, and learn to wear reading glasses sassily. I can already converse with expertise on classical mythology, physics, and sacred music, and play the dulcimer passing well, so my spinster resume is nearly complete. And this isn’t even my final form.
Lily Rowan+33
I do believe that’s what Mrs HerFirstName indicates! (A youth spent reading old etiquette books meant I was scandalized when my grandmother said to address her as Mrs. HerFirstName.)
alula_auburn+40
Reading Miss Manners cover to cover at age 5 definitely gave me some odd preoccupations.
thelilybees+71
“Can slide down banisters at a push”. I’m putting that on my new resume.
ppyajunebug+32
I want to have tea with all these ladies and have them teach me about panto and cricket and circuses. They sound DELIGHTFUL.
threatqualitypress+96
This sounds like the premise of an Avengers movie that I would like to watch.
threatqualitypress+160
The League of Exceptional Spinsters
secondursula+41
100% would buy this comic.
Thujaplicata+20
Same here. It would bookend nicely with my Lumberjanes subscription.
secondursula+7
Yes! I feel like the oldest oldster when I talk about comics, but I cannot help it! I had to walk both ways in the snow! The only representation we women had was She-Hulk and a few of the X-Men. Well, the best of the X-Men, but still. The 80s were mostly a barren wasteland, you guys. Kids these days have such great comic book options. I just want to shake them all by the lapels and tell them to appreciate it.
Still, there’s always room for improvement. The League of Gentlewomen is crying out to be written/illustrated.
PonyAlong+2
Thirded!
Es_Petal+9
Kickstarter, anyone?
typewriterandgramophone+7
The League of Gentlewomen!
Unreadaethel+44
While the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is having dramatic and interesting interpersonal conflicts, the League of Exceptional Spinsters is putting on its most practical shoes, getting shit done, and then having pointed, but still plausibly deniable, interpersonal conflicts.
dancingcrowdesigns+47
yes thank you! I wrote a convincing paper that had the Lord of the flies been about girl scouts they would have been sheltered, fed and amused and not entirely ready to leave when found.
Unreadaethel+40
“We thought you children would have – ha, ha! – killed one another by now over scarcity of resources and the difficulties of creating a stable society.”
“But that would have been horribly inefficient. We’re not stupid, we’re twelve.”
In this version, all of the Girl Scouts are actually the one with glasses from The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.
janekathy1+14
Oh gosh, I just consciously realized we always discussed/were taught Lord of the Flies as a “what if [human] children were…” But duh it was what if boy children. Augh. Because masculine = human right. Damn.
#smashthepatriarchy
Mrs_Peel+23
“an Avengers movie that I would like to watch”
Dunno, I’ve been burned before…
Unreadaethel+7
Did you see the one with Ralph Fiennes and Uma Thurman? It was on The Weather Channel at one point, because you can only do so many variations on weather forecasts.
Mrs_Peel+4
Unfortunately, yes… The Weather Channel seems like a somewhat appropriate place for it.
Unreadaethel+4
Yeah, it was…a thing.
dancingcrowdesigns+17
I still (STILL!!!) think an Avengers movie should contain Mrs Peel and John Steed and an unbrella, in roughly that order. I have not yet resigned myself to the Avengers the rest of the world references.
But really the above list would do very very well with Mrs. Peel and John Steed and an umbrella in an Avengers movie of my own imagining…
Unreadaethel+1
I mean, that happened. Sean Connery was even in it. Granted, it wasn’t a terribly good movie, but it exists.
dancingcrowdesigns+1
regardless of goodness, I am possessed of a deep (DEEP!!) need to see that movie. I thank you for new knowledge!
Right now being “fully informed on circuses, pantomime, and Toad of Toad Hall” sounds way better than the legal marketing seminar I “get” to go to next month.
hey_lady+15
My occupation is legal marketing, and I would also prefer to be fully informed on circuses.
saffiedarling+2
On a multi-hour tax law interactions phone hook-up as I type.
Rapunzel+2
love your username 🙂
Ordinarily+16
Just a bit more than two years before I can become a spinster!
Making a list of all my attributes now…. I probably will also need a “modesty vest”
dancingcrowdesigns+5
Thank you for a new book to read.
Es_Petal+13
What is the cutoff age for spinsterhood? I quailify at 37, surely – I must be firmly on the shelf by now?
HotDoom+16
As long as they’re over 18, I, uh, don’t mind taking the baton from Miss. Hedgecome in coping the older boys. Like she, I will stand for no nonsense and I am a stickler for deportment. COME AT ME BROS.
v_d_budenmayer+13
I, too, might need to be pointed in the direction of a modesty vest.
dakimel+43
This Gertie is a smart girl. Plucky.
Everyone should box-index her ‘Aunts,’ I think. Even though none of mine are spinsters (and only one divorcee in the bunch, oddly), here they are:
Mrs F F, mid-eighties, has maintained a perfect mahogany-red beehive for over forty years; if she were orthodox we would suspect a wig; fluent Yiddish, top-notch brisket Mrs S G, age redacted, still fleet-of-foot (though not so fleet of foot as that swing-dancing new man of hers) Mrs D S, still in her sixties, Orator and MENSA member with an uncanny knack for appearing with her large prearranged party in whichever restaurant my family happens to pick for a spontaneous meal out Mrs G D, married fifty years this fall, and no one in the family knows how long her hair is, as she eloped here from Germany with it in braids that are still crowned on her head to this day; her slow aging and mysterious hair length may be connected, but our grasp of German folklore isn’t strong enough to discover the link Mrs G W, good witch, neo-matriarch, always has apples, today is her birthday (possibly every day is her birthday) Mrs C W, mystic
dancingcrowdesigns+20
I had great-aunts, all on my mother’s side.
Alice was my grand-mother and could identify birds and flowers, and remember rhymes, poetry and random doggerel Susan was a fisherman and could catch and clean anything Isabella illustrated her own stories with ink drawings Mary Lee intimidated ALL of my generation, was properly a spinster, worked as a driver in WW I, wrote a prize-winning book about it, working at GE for WW II, wrote articles about that, taught people to skate on the Chestnut Hill Reservoir using a chair, drove an enormous red convertible that would fit all the cousins, kept a big gray horse at the summer place to ride, and used hat pins well into the 1970s.
On my father’s side was nothing but great-uncles and they were all school teachers, so.
dakimel+7
Okay, where do I sign up to transmogrify into Mary Lee?
bookwormV+3
Gertie is (as far as I am aware) Gertrude Maclean, who founded the Universal Aunts organisation which, to my surprise, still exists! http://www.universalaunts.co.uk/history.html
knittingBAMF+2
I’m in! Spinsterdom is badass.
Unreadaethel+2
It’s one of those “drunk with a good friend” movies. I actually love it, every so often, with wine.
ETA: in reply to mrs_peel, in re: Avengers.
janelee
Oh gosh, I just consciously realized we always discussed/were taught Lord of the Flies as a "what if [human] children were…" But duh it was what if boy children. Augh. Because masculine = human right. Damn.
::off to find out what Halma is::
Report back please
Probably this: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Halma
Look, to be fair to Miss Pansy Trubshawe, cricket is complicated and how can you expect to understand more than one other thing if you understand it well?
I briefly had a handle on cricket rules after seeing the movie Lagaan , but now I’m confused again.
the only things i know about cricket come from Lagaan
which i watched because there’s a scene parodied from Lagaan in Kal Ho Naa Ho
both are awesome and should be watched. even if you don’t wind up learning much about cricket or restaurant running.
All I know from Lagaan was slightly reinforced by Dil Bole Hadippa? Which is like the “She’s The Man” version of Lagaan? Rani Mukerji’s drag is ludicrous, but in a transcendently-bad-Amanda-Bynes way.
My knowledge of cricket is cobbled together from Lagaan, various Dorothy Sayers novels, and Life, the Universe and Everything. There’s so much of that book I didn’t get as a child because all the cricket jokes went over my head, and it’s basically Douglas Adams writing one extended cricket reference.
I was so happy that my hodgepodge of sources were apparently decent enough that I could understand parts of what was going on in the Cricket World Cup this year (even though I struggled to explain where I’d learned things). 🙂
Murder Must Advertise provided basically all of my cricket knowledge.
Miss Pansy Trubshawe is but thirty-two! She has time to grow into her full powers.
But Mrs Violet Rumpton isn’t a spinster: presumably she’s a divorcee.
Divorcee = just another word for a born-again spinster
The fact that I can think of myself as a born-again spinster gives me such joy it is incalculable. I must immediately learn whist, acquire a sharp tongue, and learn to wear reading glasses sassily. I can already converse with expertise on classical mythology, physics, and sacred music, and play the dulcimer passing well, so my spinster resume is nearly complete. And this isn’t even my final form.
I do believe that’s what Mrs HerFirstName indicates! (A youth spent reading old etiquette books meant I was scandalized when my grandmother said to address her as Mrs. HerFirstName.)
Reading Miss Manners cover to cover at age 5 definitely gave me some odd preoccupations.
“Can slide down banisters at a push”. I’m putting that on my new resume.
I want to have tea with all these ladies and have them teach me about panto and cricket and circuses. They sound DELIGHTFUL.
This sounds like the premise of an Avengers movie that I would like to watch.
The League of Exceptional Spinsters
100% would buy this comic.
Same here. It would bookend nicely with my Lumberjanes subscription.
Yes! I feel like the oldest oldster when I talk about comics, but I cannot help it! I had to walk both ways in the snow! The only representation we women had was She-Hulk and a few of the X-Men. Well, the best of the X-Men, but still. The 80s were mostly a barren wasteland, you guys. Kids these days have such great comic book options. I just want to shake them all by the lapels and tell them to appreciate it.
Still, there’s always room for improvement. The League of Gentlewomen is crying out to be written/illustrated.
Thirded!
Kickstarter, anyone?
The League of Gentlewomen!
While the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is having dramatic and interesting interpersonal conflicts, the League of Exceptional Spinsters is putting on its most practical shoes, getting shit done, and then having pointed, but still plausibly deniable, interpersonal conflicts.
yes thank you! I wrote a convincing paper that had the Lord of the flies been about girl scouts they would have been sheltered, fed and amused and not entirely ready to leave when found.
“We thought you children would have – ha, ha! – killed one another by now over scarcity of resources and the difficulties of creating a stable society.”
“But that would have been horribly inefficient. We’re not stupid, we’re twelve.”
In this version, all of the Girl Scouts are actually the one with glasses from The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.
Oh gosh, I just consciously realized we always discussed/were taught Lord of the Flies as a “what if [human] children were…” But duh it was what if boy children. Augh. Because masculine = human right. Damn.
#smashthepatriarchy
“an Avengers movie that I would like to watch”
Dunno, I’ve been burned before…
Did you see the one with Ralph Fiennes and Uma Thurman? It was on The Weather Channel at one point, because you can only do so many variations on weather forecasts.
Unfortunately, yes… The Weather Channel seems like a somewhat appropriate place for it.
Yeah, it was…a thing.
I still (STILL!!!) think an Avengers movie should contain Mrs Peel and John Steed and an unbrella, in roughly that order. I have not yet resigned myself to the Avengers the rest of the world references.
But really the above list would do very very well with Mrs. Peel and John Steed and an umbrella in an Avengers movie of my own imagining…
I mean, that happened. Sean Connery was even in it. Granted, it wasn’t a terribly good movie, but it exists.
regardless of goodness, I am possessed of a deep (DEEP!!) need to see that movie. I thank you for new knowledge!
Nooooooooo don’t do it noooooooooo
You mean…. This one? https://youtu.be/kgTiFsCMCo4
Right now being “fully informed on circuses, pantomime, and Toad of Toad Hall” sounds way better than the legal marketing seminar I “get” to go to next month.
My occupation is legal marketing, and I would also prefer to be fully informed on circuses.
On a multi-hour tax law interactions phone hook-up as I type.
love your username 🙂
Just a bit more than two years before I can become a spinster!
Making a list of all my attributes now…. I probably will also need a “modesty vest”
Thank you for a new book to read.
What is the cutoff age for spinsterhood? I quailify at 37, surely – I must be firmly on the shelf by now?
As long as they’re over 18, I, uh, don’t mind taking the baton from Miss. Hedgecome in coping the older boys. Like she, I will stand for no nonsense and I am a stickler for deportment. COME AT ME BROS.
I, too, might need to be pointed in the direction of a modesty vest.
This Gertie is a smart girl. Plucky.
Everyone should box-index her ‘Aunts,’ I think. Even though none of mine are spinsters (and only one divorcee in the bunch, oddly), here they are:
Mrs F F, mid-eighties, has maintained a perfect mahogany-red beehive for over forty years; if she were orthodox we would suspect a wig; fluent Yiddish, top-notch brisket
Mrs S G, age redacted, still fleet-of-foot (though not so fleet of foot as that swing-dancing new man of hers)
Mrs D S, still in her sixties, Orator and MENSA member with an uncanny knack for appearing with her large prearranged party in whichever restaurant my family happens to pick for a spontaneous meal out
Mrs G D, married fifty years this fall, and no one in the family knows how long her hair is, as she eloped here from Germany with it in braids that are still crowned on her head to this day; her slow aging and mysterious hair length may be connected, but our grasp of German folklore isn’t strong enough to discover the link
Mrs G W, good witch, neo-matriarch, always has apples, today is her birthday (possibly every day is her birthday)
Mrs C W, mystic
I had great-aunts, all on my mother’s side.
Alice was my grand-mother and could identify birds and flowers, and remember rhymes, poetry and random doggerel
Susan was a fisherman and could catch and clean anything
Isabella illustrated her own stories with ink drawings
Mary Lee intimidated ALL of my generation, was properly a spinster, worked as a driver in WW I, wrote a prize-winning book about it, working at GE for WW II, wrote articles about that, taught people to skate on the Chestnut Hill Reservoir using a chair, drove an enormous red convertible that would fit all the cousins, kept a big gray horse at the summer place to ride, and used hat pins well into the 1970s.
On my father’s side was nothing but great-uncles and they were all school teachers, so.
Okay, where do I sign up to transmogrify into Mary Lee?
Gertie is (as far as I am aware) Gertrude Maclean, who founded the Universal Aunts organisation which, to my surprise, still exists! http://www.universalaunts.co.uk/history.html
I’m in! Spinsterdom is badass.
It’s one of those “drunk with a good friend” movies. I actually love it, every so often, with wine.
ETA: in reply to mrs_peel, in re: Avengers.
Oh gosh, I just consciously realized we always discussed/were taught Lord of the Flies as a "what if [human] children were…" But duh it was what if boy children. Augh. Because masculine = human right. Damn.
#smashthepatriarchy