Comments for Meg Favreau: Writer, Comedian, Person Who Likes Food

Comment on From Happy Living! A Guide for Brides by megfavreau

megfavreau — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 20:49:40 +0000

Ha! Carol, first of all, this is fabulous! Secondly, my mom couldn’t remember where she got her copy, and it makes me so happy to find out that they came from Rich’s. Even though the store closed down when I was a kid, I’ll still occasionally find plastic containers at my parents house with Rich’s price tags stuck to them.

Comment on From Happy Living! A Guide for Brides by Carol Webb

Carol Webb — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 22:01:33 +0000

OMG!!! My husband cleaned the attic this weekend and found MY ORIGINAL COPY of this book given to me by Rich’s Department store in 1971. I have been wondering what happened to it for years, because I remember slamming it shut and nearly running for the exits before my wedding after reading the section on housekeeping. If you did all the things they recommended needed cleaning on a daily basis, you would only have energy left to make vomit pie for dinner – AND nowhere in the book is sex even mentioned – obviously since there was no time left for THAT. Thanks for the laugh!!!

Comment on Etiquette for Young Moderns: Shutting Up by Chris

Chris — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 14:34:09 +0000

The cartoons and the retro theme are very similar to “The Unfair Sex” by Nina Farewell. You may have already come across this book, but if not, its worth a look.

I can’t do it justice but first line is: “Ever since he author’s eighteenth birthday, when she surrendered her virginity becasue she didn’t want to seem rude, she has felt the crying need of a handbook for girls – a manual on how to cope with men.”

And then she goes on to illustrate the differences in girls and guys and the conflicts that arise, including the freemasonry among males – an unhibited exchange of bits of information and lessons learned, which further increases their general know-how.

“The uneveness of the conflict is aggravated by the fact that the male, in addition to possessing superior knowledge, employs dishonorable tactics. This is not a careless accusation, but a statement of fact. Please know that no genunine full-blooded male is trustworthy.

As a result, she feels a need to write such a manual to help the green novices when they go out and run up against these trigger happy hardened troops.

Written in the 50s but still entertaining…

Comment on Little Old Lady Recipes: Coming Soon! by Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 22:09:07 +0000

Finally, I can learn the secrets of those old ladies. Cough ‘em up, you old broads!

Comment on From Happy Living! A Guide for Brides by paddy

paddy — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 21:46:56 +0000

I quite like the design on the plate in the bottom right hand corner.

Comment on Etiquette for Young Moderns: Shutting Up by WeMeatAgain

We*Meat*Again — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 13:03:18 +0000

It has been my experience that putting on dance music could solve much of the world’s conflicts.

Comment on Etiquette for Young Moderns: Shutting Up by megfavreau

megfavreau — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 15:42:22 +0000

Oh man, that’s fantastic. It also reminds me of a book I have on wedding showers that features a lot of games of that caliber. I’ll have to post some of it. One of the games consists of telling everyone “Let’s go see the monkeys at the zoo,” and then walking into another room where you’ve placed a lot of mirrors. It must provide entire seconds of fun!

Comment on Etiquette for Young Moderns: Shutting Up by Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 01:46:50 +0000

Meg, I have a book you’d love called Party Cues For Teens: A Complete Guide For the Junior Hostess that looks very much like this. Among its Icebreaker Games is to quiz everyone on the life of Abraham Lincoln. There is another where you must name every word you can remember that appears on the penny. Yes, two Lincoln-related icebreakers. Also, try the Coffeepot game, where everyone replaces a certain verb or phrase with the word “coffeepot.” Whoever is “it” has to guess the word. You can’t make this stuff up.

Comment on From Happy Living! A Guide for Brides by Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 13:28:19 +0000

This stuff was still going on in 1979? Yikes. I figured the picture was from the 50s or 60s.

Comment on From Happy Living! A Guide for Brides by bookishchick

bookishchick — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 00:29:13 +0000

Amazing. I just read this out loud to David and waited until the end to show him the picture. He said if I ever served this to him–with or without an accompanying china figurine–our relationship would immediately come to an end. “Vomit pie” indeed. So apt.