( This one is for Greg, of Midnight Garden )Have you ever wondered what happens to our super-heroes when they are a wee past their prime? One can see in the first picture that she is at her top form and ready for action.
Here she is again, on guard, and ready for the fiend's attack. Then, she was gone,disappeared, and out of the public eye. Dropped out of sight without any forwarding address, no clues to where she may have gone all those years... nothing.
Until now...
Luck would have it that a paparazzi saw her and photographed her on a street getting ready to drop into one of the local establishments for a "quick one."
Here she is:
Wonder Woman!!
Click on the photo to enlarge it. ( If you dare. ) ;-)
(Apologies to Linda, a.k.a. Wonder Woman and to Greg.)
16 comments:
Ha ha...oh, Butch, yer the best!! (You still can't make me LOL!)
It *was* Lynda who started me down the Amazon path...and ack, that 'recent' photo! I saw it somewhere recently...but not so closely compared with the "early years." What a riot...
Okay, to review...that's no LOL, but seriously ROFL!! : )
For a moment, I thought the spoof had fallen flat. ( Bombed out on another attempt at humour...) Glad you had fun with it, I did.
I tried to set up the story like they do in the comic books, save the remark about her stepping into the local tavern for a "quick one." I doubt that would have made the comic books that I would occasionally read.
I had fun putting it together and have been looking for an excuse to use that wonderful picture of the guy in WW drag. I laugh at that costume every time I look at it. Glad you did as well.
During one of Linda Carter's concerts, I was called up on stage from the audience to sing a duet with her. (We sang "Joy to the World")
Unfortunately, I, too, now look too much like that third photo.
What's up with that? Is there a connection?
Paul: LOL! I'm not talkin'...
I think it is inevitable that "gravity" and "Mother Nature's" sick sense of humour, plays a part in all of this. We know that eventually, gravity wins and we are laid to rest, but the time before that should be celebrated in what ever form makes us laugh, cry and a plethora of other emotions.
I have long since given up the idea that I would ever look like I did back in my prime. ( I certainly, wouldn't mind feeling physically like I did ) Getting old sucks at times when your mind is still young and your body can't keep up with it.
Solution: Ignore those lying eyes that try to keep you grounded by showing you the present YOU. Trust your heart and follow it where ever it takes you. I admire that fellow being able to put that costume together and wearing it in public. It's a hoot, and he has more cojones than I have just doing it. Hang in there my friend, you are not alone. ;-)
Paul: an addendum...
You know we will need a demonstration of you singing,
"Joy to the World," and with all the dance moves. You've opened "Pandora's Box." Ready when you are. Maestro, the down beat.
;-)
Hi Paul!!! Hi Greg!!!!
Hey Butch
I left you some prociutto love letters over at G's, hope you get them!
As for WW, I dressed as her in the 70's for Halloween, her show was primetime and I was smitten with her. I used to play WW with my friends and I had the invisible jet.
It made me quite powerful!!!!
Then the Donny and Marie Osmond show came on and usurped her position as favourite.
What can I say? I was a vulnerable victim of mass media, and I really enjoyed the purple shiny outfits.
xoxo
Gillian
Purple shiny outfits??? I thought that was Julie Newmar as Catwoman, not Marie Osmond! Gillian, I'm jealous you had the invisible jet (tho I did have the whole Batcave set!!)
Butch, in recent years, there was a version of Wonder Woman shown to be a gregarious, drinking rescuer of women enslaved. Just 'cause there were no men on that island, doesn't mean the Amazons didn't know how to have a good time...though I'm not sure they'd have picked up on that whole Big Hair thing...
Paul, you sang with Lynda!?!?! Oh, forget G's invisible plane, it's u I'm jealous of now!
Hi Gillian, and welcome to my blog!
( I tried leaving a comment on your blog and I got a reject email.) Now I can say I've been thrown out of the best blogs in town!! ;-) )
I been over to Gawpo's, and he seems to be out for this week so, I got your message and commented. On your blog I had mentioned that "pure of heart" wasn't my fort, though I am still trying. It's not unlike, " the toothpaste is out of the tube, can't get it back in ver well." ;-)
You need to post some pictures of you as WW, if you have them. We could put another picture in this collection and just say, guess who and let everyone figure it out. Well, I guess that won't work, I've already let the cat out of the bag.
Glad to see you stop by.
Greg: I wonder if you have your pictures of the batman cave or you in costume? This could be fun. I was Dracula once for Halloween and was living in Detroit at the time. The party was in Ontario, Ca. and I had to go through the border like this. The border guard just looked at me, shook his head and waved me through. ;-) I don't think that would be the case now a days.
Hahaha!,
What a great blog, I found you through Gillian.
I'm also in the medical field. No where near your many years of experience ;)
Lovely to read your thoughts,
Peace to you, Maithri
Maithri: Welcome and thanks for your kind thoughts.
The medical field is a noble profession no matter what a person's field isin it. I'm happy I am out of it and retired, too many "on-call" situations and as one gets older, it's hard to bounce back as fast. Leave the heavy lifting for the young. ;-)
I left a message for Gillian that I recieved an email from her site that rejected my comment. ;-) I now, can claim that I've been kicked out of the best blogs in town.
Nice to meet you and stop by again.
That twirling bit actually works... sort of. It makes everybody around you disappear.
Joe: ;-)
I would certainly give WW in the last picture, a wide-birth whilst she twirls. One could get tangled in her "Charlotte's Web" hair.
i hope that no the end for Diana
Wonderman: I'm sure Diana is safe somewhere. ;-) This last picture is not unlike an " Elvis-impostor," usually overdone and a character of the real heroine.
Thanks for stopping by.
From my experience "performing" with Linda, I learned one thing -- they never get a volunteer out of the audience to make them a star, but to ridicule them.
Butch, fortunately YouTube didn't exist then.
Greg, there's no need to be jealous.
Paul: You are right about that unless you can out sing them, then you are politely helped back off the stage. It is a no-no to show up the talent. ;-)
Oh, I don't know, it may have been a nice "keep-sake" to have a YouTube performance for your memories and to show your friends.;-0
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