I was flipping through a copy of Archie's Comics today and came across an advertisement for some candy. The whole page had nothing but a small round blue candy with the caption - 'Lick This'. It evoked a memory I'd like to post.
When I was younger, and had newly purchased the comic, I saw the ad and started thinking. If perfumes could come in magazines as trials in the form of rub-on papers, perhaps candies could come in comics in the form of flavored paper.
Despite knowing within, the concept was the silliest I could come up with - I licked the blue area. I feel stupid even 7 years later...
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u read archies? wow. i sure am glad to find another person my age who reads archies. i love them. and i remember that ad, fell for it when i was 9-10 or something. licked it and then wondered maybe the taste of paper is something that people in US are making really thinking about for a candy. turned the page and found the actual ad. felt really goofy.
made cooler by abhi on July 30, 2003 2:53 PM
I love Archies - have a great collection and damn proud of it :D I still flip through the menacing stories i've gone through thousands of times before - love them more each time... reading your experience with the paper lick - thank you, i suddenly don't feel so stupid anymore... ;)
made cooler by Lime on July 30, 2003 3:33 PM
Exactly. i might have read my archies collection many many times over and i still love them. fav chars: Jug and Betty. i wish they would come up with a 512 page edition. the double digest gets over pretty fast. and i am jealous of those people in the us of a because they have those comic conventions. why don't we have something like that in India? lets have one gur ;)
made cooler by abhi on July 30, 2003 4:00 PM
Another Archie fan here, But I like jug much more, and am nuts about betty. I don't think that there is anything wrong in licking the paper, just check out the phiringi brains..god know what these people are upto :)/. Well I have never licked one till now, I will try the next edition :)
made cooler by Sarthak on July 30, 2003 4:27 PM
I like all characters - particularly Juggie for his carefree attitude and the sheer gluttony :) Betty is goody-two-shoes, hence the preference of Ronnie - who is more true to life :D I am jealous of the people in US for a lot of friggin' reasons - when do we start working on the convention, eh?
made cooler by Lime on July 30, 2003 5:16 PM
Sarthak - I guess, nothing wrong with 'trying things out' ;) only after you try and realize it wasn't worth it (do u even know how paper tastes?) - you feel so 'dumb'!
made cooler by Lime on July 30, 2003 5:23 PM
betty? isn't ron too stiffy and selfish. a little is ok but shes just too much. i like jug because hes carefree, always saving archie from the mistakes he does, is a great friend, and most of all, apart from anything to do with chow, he has his head on his shoulders. u know what 's' on his sweater means? please let me know.
made cooler by abhi on July 31, 2003 1:33 AM
hmm abt licking paper.. I didnt licked paper in that way.. but in a diffrent way.. for just to know a taste of a paper. well, my fav. comic is chacha chaudhri and champak.
u might have heard abt a bomb blast in mumbai at ghatkopar.. well, yesterday mumbai was off coz of that.. and one sad news.. today morning only I watch tv and in news channel its shown that one more bomb blast at jogeshwari.. me staying at goregaon and next station is jogeshwari only.. just a 6 - 7 kms away from my home.. now dont no what will happen.. lets see next.. hope nothing bad happens atleast on 15th August. Bharat Mata Ke Jai
made cooler by Dhaval Faria on July 31, 2003 3:25 AM
bomb which got blast at jogeshwari was an accident.. yeah accident.. one person who makes bomb for a movies.. filmi bomb.. that person stored some explosive materials in his home they got blast.
I dont no but maybe its a police who do not want to make a city under threat.. thats why might have declared it as a filmi bomb.. or who knows.. may be true..
made cooler by Dhaval Faria on July 31, 2003 3:34 AM
Another Archie fan out here :) Me love Juggie too :)
Gur, do you know about vectors? I've been working my ass off on one since the past 3 days. Just finsihed it and hence got the time to surf. Cya soon. Tc.
made cooler by Amrita on July 31, 2003 6:25 AM
Abhi: Ron is a spoilt brat - i relate greatly with that :) and she's not exactly selfish - she does a lot of charity work - she's only too posessive about Archie - thats my perspective of the character :) Juggie's real name is Forsythe - don't know if the 'S' relates to that in anyway.
Dhaval: Chacha Chaudhary - reminds me of good old 'four-year-old' days :) I have no clue about the blast - been so busy in my bubble work - will definitely checkup the story on rediff right away... But it sure as hell sounds crazy man!
Amrita: Not much about vectors - but am pretty good with graphics otherwise - lemme know if I can be of assistance!
made cooler by Lime on July 31, 2003 8:23 AM
Ronnie, well yeah shes good too but quite snobby. she'll give betty a harsh reply at the start of the story but then end up helping her towards the end. in a way yeah, shes more life like ;)
yep jug's name is forsythe, but i think its something to do with his gf or something. dunno. btw, jug head a gf way back when they were kids before he came to riverdale, Joannie Gump.
i used to like reading chacha chaudhry when i was a kid, but liked Billoo more.
amrita: if you want to make fast vector like stuff with not much need to detail, try the cutout filter in Photoshop.
made cooler by abhi on July 31, 2003 11:41 AM
Gosh! U leave the blog for one day, and next day u find it flooded...Great going guys, Let the thoughts flow :)
Well, Lime Yes I know what paper taste's like..I am one of those junkiees who can eat anything..well, how i was supposed to spend 3 hours of my exam :)
made cooler by Sarthak on July 31, 2003 11:58 AM
Abhi - Exactly what I meant, more true to life :) Its hard to find characters like Betty who're willing to give up everything for anyone - but Veronica is more commonplace, she's within most of us :) I didn't know about Joannie - man, I would love to see what she looked like- hope nothing like Big Ethel! Is this in an Archies Kids edition or something?
Sarthak - For a day? Seems like you've been away for longer really... been barely seeing you around, guess College life does that to you! Btw, I don't think paper is bad for health - considering it comes from trees anyway - right?
made cooler by Lime on July 31, 2003 12:06 PM
she was damn good. blonde with curly hair. but they met briefly. was a jug dbl digest. don't remember the no. borrowed from a library actually. i'll see if i can find it again.
paper might not be bad for health, but do u realy want to eat it?
made cooler by abhi on July 31, 2003 3:06 PM
Ya! Maybe College pre-occupied me with some stuff, but now things are looking a bit easy, but as I have just boarded the ship, The land is still far ahead...and hey, My blog exist...
made cooler by Sarthak on July 31, 2003 3:51 PM
Abhi: Wow, kinda hard to believe the woman-hater once fell in love... maybe it explains his hostility towards girls then! Don't want to eat it - but idle minds tend to wander of in funny directions :)
Sarthak: Sure, your blog exists - but you post so rarely.. its no point having a blog when you can't force yourself to write in it everyday - encourages a lot of creativity.. I believe!
made cooler by Lime on August 1, 2003 9:20 AM
Archies? I never knew you were into these? I don't even remmember how long has it been since I last read or saw one of those :P But I think I was more into TIN TIN then Archies!
made cooler by Preet on August 1, 2003 3:42 PM
Preet: I am so into Archies since.. forever! Each time I don't find something interesting enough on TV and am in bad need for entertainment - my reliable resort is it! Tintin - never developed the interest, just too serious and too long for my taste. Archies are short and crisp - a story a day makes you smiling away :P Man my poetry's getting worse by the minute!
made cooler by Lime on August 1, 2003 6:50 PM