[kittygilchrist]

Hey Singles, it is time for girl's choice!
There will be a LIL Abner and Daisy May festivity Thursday. I'll be playing cymbals with the drum and twirler corps and will try to meet up with singles near the windmill.
Post here if you plan to come and let's connect with friends and see if we can get the guys up and dancing.

Ps I am in today's paper on 9a beside the bass drum..

[tomwed]

I never heard this story before.

from wikipedia
Original story[edit]
In Li'l Abner, Sadie Hawkins was the daughter of one of Dogpatch's earliest settlers, Hekzebiah Hawkins. The "homeliest gal in all them hills", she grew frantic waiting for suitors to come a-courtin'. When she reached the age of 35, still a spinster, her father was even more frantic—about Sadie living at home for the rest of her life. In desperation, he called together all the unmarried men of Dogpatch and declared it "Sadie Hawkins Day". A foot race was decreed, with Sadie in hot pursuit of the town's eligible bachelors. She specifically had her eye on a boy who was already in a courtship with the cute farmers daughter Theresa. She was the daughter of the areas largest potato farmer Bill Richmand and unlike Sadie, had a lot of courtship offers. Stud-muffin Adam Olis was her target and because the engagement of Miss Theresa and Adam wasn't offical he was included in the race. With matrimony as the consequence of losing the foot race the men of the town were running for their freedom. Turned out Adam Olis was in 4th place out of 10th leaving John Jonston Sadies' catch of the day. it seems likely that the concept's origins lie in an inversion of the myth of Atalanta, who, reluctant to marry, agreed to wed whoever could outrun her in a footrace.

"When ah fires [my gun], all o' yo' kin start a-runnin! When ah fires agin—after givin' yo' a fair start—Sadie starts a runnin'. Th' one she ketches'll be her husbin."

The town spinsters decided that this was such a good idea, they made Sadie Hawkins Day a mandatory yearly event, much to the chagrin of Dogpatch bachelors. In the satirical spirit that drove the strip, many sequences revolved around the dreaded Sadie Hawkins Day race. If a woman caught a bachelor and dragged him, kicking and screaming, across the finish line before sundown—by law he had to marry her.

[manaboutown]

This sounds like great fun.. Wish I was there!

My high school used to hold a Sadie Hawkins dance every year. I was inevitably surprised by which girl asked me to the dance. They were all girls I thought of as friends but had not considered dating. I always had a good time at the dances. One year my date and I won the outhouse door and had to truck it out of the room!

[chachacha]

where is the windmill???

[tomwed]

[bkcunningham1]

Originally Posted by kittygilchrist

Hey Singles, it is time for girl's choice!
There will be a LIL Abner and Daisy May festivity Thursday. I'll be playing cymbals with the drum and twirler corps and will try to meet up with singles near the windmill.
Post here if you plan to come and let's connect with friends and see if we can get the guys up and dancing.

Ps I am in today's paper on 9a beside the bass drum..

I saw that photo in today's paper and I thought it recymbaled you.

[kittygilchrist]

Originally Posted by bkcunningham1

I saw that photo in today's paper and I thought it recymbaled you.

😛😛 yes!

[karengfw]

Originally Posted by kittygilchrist

Hey Singles, it is time for girl's choice!
There will be a LIL Abner and Daisy May festivity Thursday. I'll be playing cymbals with the drum and twirler corps and will try to meet up with singles near the windmill.
Post here if you plan to come and let's connect with friends and see if we can get the guys up and dancing.

Ps I am in today's paper on 9a beside the bass drum..

Aww, this would be a Hoot! Sorry I cannot make it tomorrow. I bet you are cute! Please let me/us know when you will "march again", cutie kitty...