{"id":466,"date":"2009-10-02T19:07:09","date_gmt":"2009-10-03T00:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soupgreens.com\/?p=466"},"modified":"2009-10-02T19:07:09","modified_gmt":"2009-10-03T00:07:09","slug":"ida-vs-sports-illustrated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/?p=466","title":{"rendered":"Ida vs Sports Illustrated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scriptorium.lib.duke.edu\/sheetmusic\/b\/b06\/b0603\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scriptorium.lib.duke.edu\/sheetmusic\/b\/b06\/b0603\/b0603-1-72dpi.jpeg\" alt=\"cover of sheet music for Ida Queen of Apple Cider\" style=\"width: 99%\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Question #1: did anybody at the time not know that the dude was gay?<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/soupgreens.com\/img\/ida\/dude.tiff.png\" alt=\"\" align=\"top\" \/> Not  David Coverdale<\/td>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/soupgreens.com\/img\/ida\/davidcoverdale.jpg\" alt=\"\" align=\"top\" \/> David Coverdale<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Question #2: is it my imagination, or are these women not all that pretty?  Being in this photo was the equivalent of being the designated cupcake in a video for a hair metal band, and I&#8217;m not seeing a lot of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tawny_Kitaen\">Tawny Kitaen<\/a>s in the group.  <\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/soupgreens.com\/img\/ida\/girl1.tiff.png\" alt=\"\" align=\"top\" \/><\/td>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/soupgreens.com\/img\/ida\/girl4.tiff.png\" alt=\"\" align=\"top\" \/><\/td>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/soupgreens.com\/img\/ida\/girl5.tiff.png\" alt=\"\" align=\"top\" \/><\/td>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/soupgreens.com\/img\/ida\/girl6.tiff.png\" alt=\"\" align=\"top\" \/><\/td>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/soupgreens.com\/img\/ida\/girls2and3.tiff.png\" alt=\"\" align=\"top\" \/><\/td>\n<td>Yearbook photos<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>No, seriously, I&#8217;m not being a frat boy ragging on ordinary women for being human, because these are cover girls.  Look closely at these women&#8217;s faces &#8212; for the most part they look trapped in a regrettable yearbook shot.<\/p>\n<p>I guess the issue was health.  People used to be more or less about to drop dead at any moment.  No orthodontia, no liposuction => no Tawny.  Swimsuit models are like <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Six_Million_Dollar_Man\">the Six Million Dollar man<\/a> in comparison.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td valign=\"top\"><a href=\"http:\/\/watchtv.infinitecoolness.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width:99%\" src=\"http:\/\/watchtv.infinitecoolness.com\/sixmilliondollarman.jpg\" alt=\"\" align=\"top\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width:99%\" src=\"http:\/\/soupgreens.com\/img\/ida\/SIswimsuitissue.jpg\" alt=\"Sports Illustrated cover\"\/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question #1: did anybody at the time not know that the dude was gay? Not David Coverdale David Coverdale Question #2: is it my imagination, or are these women not all that pretty? Being in this photo was the equivalent of being the designated cupcake in a video for a hair metal band, and I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}