Barbie also had a twin sister (Tutti)....I say HAD because no one has seen or heard from her since about 30 years ago. Tutti was introduced back in 1966....Barbie must have "arranged" it so that Tutti mysteriously disappeared...which goes back to my initial thought that she is part of the mafia (Barbie Roberts is an alias for Barbara Fettuccini). She is evil incarnate, I tell you! Her madness must stop!!
RIP Tutti http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/frown.gif

Sexy Mocha, I'm LMAO! No you didn't.... http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/biggrin.gif

Ya'll crazy. RIP Tutti? You all are just too funny!

BTW, I saw a 20/20 special on Barbie (maybe 20/20) and the woman who designed her said Barbie was named after her daughter's nickname (she wanted another name closer to her daughter's real name, but that was already copyrighted). And I'm pretty sure she said Ken was named after her son. Meaning Barbie would be Ken's sister.

Assuming that's true, I certainly hope Barbie and Ken didn't get married because I ain't down with that incestuous stuff. I mean, dang, Barbie. I know Ken was the only man around, but weren't you worried about having kids with 5 eyes? Barbie was one freaky-@ss woman.



[This message has been edited by mwedzi (edited August 14, 2000).]

so you're saying there was a twin? tutti? hmm...facts of life referance.

i don't know about all this. maybe mattel is just interested in contributing to the deliquency of the american family. they're constantly switching around family roles, children...it's like a damn foster family! it's all mattel....evil toy corporation. and as far as i'm concerned, barbie is the harlot of satan!

etienne
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"I think that happiness is when you can let yourself feel every emotion you want at any time instead of being a lying little fuck." - Tori Amos

LOL! Harlot of satan? LOL! Boy oh boy!

Ok so what's up w/ this Tutti? And what's up w/ her name? Barbie and Tutti? It seems like this Tutti was destined to be outta the picture from the start w/ a name like that!!!

This is all too interesting (and hilarious)... I did a massive paper on Barbie for a Women's Studies class.

Did y'all know that if Barbie was a human being she would have to walk on all fours like a monkey? She's so ill-proportioned there would be no way her waist would hold up the upper half of her body. She would be well over six feet tall and probably have severely mauled feet from walking on her toes for 50 years, as well as some serious internal organ problems because she would have an 18 inch waist.

I gotta say the most disappointing day in this history of Barbie (to me) was the day Barbie got a VISA card and went shopping. Sad sad sad....

I worked at Toys R Us for a year as well, and let me tell you some of those discontinued Barbies were pretty umm... interesting.

And Ken gets even more strange every year. Last I saw he was a figure skater wearing some sort of shiny disco-ball lookin' shirt with tights... *shrug*

Disco/Figure Skater Ken! LMAO! I can see it now.
Wait, do they still make Ken w/ "real" hair now? Remember they came out w/ that? Like, is that supposed to make Ken popular w/ guys or something? I didn't get it, but it was sooo funny!

As a male I thought the whole topic was funny, and was reading the thread while chuckling to myself until I came across the part of etienne's post that went:

Quote:

he matched barbie's dress, whipped litle bitch that he was.

At which point I have to confess I completely lost it for a few minutes in the middle of a school computer lab! I had tears in my eyes! ROFL.

I am reasonably recogizable on campus as a Fraternity president, Greek council VP, and Student Government Rep. So everyone wanted to know what was so funny . . .

And of course I couldn't tell them that it was a web conversation about Barbie dolls, which just made me laugh harder . . .

But you are right, Ken was a little pansy, and I'm glad my GI Joe figures captured him and had him put to death years ago http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif
(the guy was sniveling to the end).

However, since he was such a pansy, and since ZChi4Life pointed out they never got married, isn't it possible that Ken was just her back-up? As Chris Rock put it: "penis under glass".

Poor bastard . . . to be strung along for 20 years! What a tease! (although she did "keep" the deadbeat loser) http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif

(Sorry, couldn't resist commentating, its a nice break from planning Recruitment, Dues schedules, and disciplinary hearings)

[This message has been edited by James (edited September 16, 2000).]

James - thanks for the input! IMHO, men would have conversations JUST LIKE THIS about G.I. Joe, and the Star Wars and He-Man dolls (not "action figures", just suck it up and admit they are dolls). My little brother was always kidnapping my Barbies so they could be G.I. Joe's girlfriend (you see, she IS a hussy) - and I would take them back because... whatever, Barbie is about seven inches tall and G.I.Joe was about three inches tall and MY Barbie was not datin' no short short man!

The bride and groom Barbies were Tracy and Todd.

ZChi4Life - I DID have the Twirler Curl Barbie, only mine was called Golden Curl Barbie, and she came in this FINE gold lame pantsuit, and also came with a "curling iron" that was held together by one of those little round rubber bands that went on braces....

Now, I hate to admit this - but no-one ever explained to me that the copper wires in the Barbie's head were for curling purposes! (I was about seven) I didn't understand that the point was to take a lock of Barbie hair (with wires in it), roll it on the fake curling iron, and then it would be curled. And the wires got in the way - you couldn't use Barbie's little brush and comb very well with them.

So.... I cut all the wires out! They were anchored at her hairline on her forehead. Only, with my plastic safety scissors, I couldn't really cut close enough to Barbie's scalp to get the whole wire off, so they were still there, but really super short. So my Golden Curl Barbie had this little wiry mohawk ridge running along the front of her head, and the d@mned hair never would curl.

What a disappointment... I think I ended up donating that one to the G.I. Joe cause...

i TOLD you all she was a slut...now you see!

james, i can TOTALLY see a guy just falling out, reading this post! i read it all over again after it was sort of idle for a while and just started cracking up. it really is hilarious! ken WAS a whipped little bitch...everyone KNOWS he worked hard for his money and barbie just spent it on her '57 chevy, the porsche and that stupid horse that couldn't even trot. she knew what was up. and i guarantee ou that if women could get away with tha, and it was socially acceptable like it is in "barbieland", we'd all be doing it. who'd pass up shopping and vacationing in her "pool" *you know, the one you could float in the bathtub??* if her whipped little bitch of a man would be working? talk about a throwback to the fifties, but hey...we can dream, can't we?

etienne
sigma alpha iota
**the opinions expressed in this post, or topic, for that matter, do NOT reflect the opinions of SAI, cause my sisters would kill me if they knew i was writing about this...**

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"red is the color of music and has been since the very earliest of times. the caps of faeries and musicians are well-nigh always red."~*~w.b.yeats

"I think that happiness is when you can let yourself feel every emotion you want at any time instead of being a lying little fuck." - Tori Amos

This is the funniest thread I have ever read!

I have a question,
WHERE THE HECK IS BARBIE'S PARENTS?
I heard she was a testtube baby!

MsDetroit1920

[This message has been edited by MsDetroit1920 (edited September 19, 2000).]

Thats a good question girl because.....(drum roll, please!)

BARBIE AND KEN ARE BROTHER and SISTER!!!!
YEs, it is TRUE!! The original creator of the two dolls named them after her son and daughter. I was laughing so hard when I read the posts about the wedding, pregnancy, etc.
I remember those dolls.

So I guess you now know the truth. The Barbie/Ken saga is the longest running episode of Jerry Springer.
Good night to all.

OK, not to bring all this up again, but apparently she is running for president again this election cycle. She must be the mattel version of that Liberterian candidate who ran for president every cycle for like 40 years. Anyway, what I wanna know is why she gotta have the Elizabeth Dole hairdo? See link below:
http://kidscollecting.about.com/kids.../aa043000a.htm

also, apparently she has a platform at:
http://barbie.com/girls/wob/bfp/

the site is down now. I think her campaign staff pulled it down since her numbers are off in the latest Gallup poll. Apparently her perscription medicare plan needs some retooling and there were some numerical discrepancies in her social security proposal that were pointed out at the last mattel debate. So I think her staff is working on the site. Since I am disgusted with both Gore and Bush, I FINALLY know who I am voting for for president! If she won would that make Ken the "first whipped bitch?"

NO F****G WAY!!

There is a redheadded Barbie? yall are gonna laugh ya'lls asses of at this, but every pledge class we have goes on a scavenger hunt (yeah they're illegal, yada yada - it's stupid stuff like meet up with us and serenade our girlfriends and stuff) anyway, since I transfered to this chapter one of the items on the hunt has always been a redheaded barbie! I kid you not! Legend has it that it was put there to test the pledges creativity, because we understood that there was no such thing. But I can GUARENTEE that I WILL NOT be the one to stand up this scavenger hunt time in front of the whole chapter and tell them that, "Excuse me, but there is in fact a red headded barbie, and her name is Traci. She was friends with Barbie and married a guy named Todd!" Could you all imagine how far I'd get my ass beat down?! I wouldn't even make it out the door. I'd be rolled in the parking lot. No, they wouldn't even FIND my body.

I have a funny story about Barbie. I was the type of girl that played with GI Joes. Like everyone here has said, Barbie was a hussy so I didn't want anything to do with her. Anyway, I went to an Easter Egg hunt one year (I think I was 4 or 5 years old). The girls and boys were seperated into different egg patches, and off we went. The object was to find the Golden Egg. There were lots and lots of eggs, but if you found the Golden Egg, you got a "big prize." Well, guess what - I got the golden egg on the girls side. Well, there were two prizes - a Barbie and a GI Joe set. I got to pick my prize first, so naturally I picked the GI Joe. The grown ups were shocked and kept asking me "Are you sure that is what you want??" Of course I was sure, so I got the GI Joe and some poor boy got a Barbie. And I couldn't figure why my family was mad at me - I found the Golden Egg didn't I?

Allie http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/tongue.gif

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12dn94dst, thanks for brining this back up. It is so funny!

I am a Barbie-freak. I had HUNDREDS when I was a little girl (and a big-@ss dollhouse), and now I collect them. Yes, it's Barbie Millicent Roberts, and I forgot what Ken's last name is. I have all these books, it's madness. For some real laughs, go on ebay under "barbie". The nuttiest stuff is on there.

I think the REAL reason Barbie never married Ken is because secretly she was from the late 90's and new that she had to be an Independant Woman. She knew deep down that Ken would probably cheat on her and take her money and leave her broken hearted...therefore she played him and focused on her career ambitions (all 1,000 of them)!
For that reason (and that reason alone) Barbie is a TRUE role model (j/k).
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The girls in H.S. thought I resembled Ken. http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/frown.gif No barbies or Ken dolls for me. Only GI Joes for me.

Bucutie02,

Here it is! The "Barbie" thread!

Adding to the Barbie madness, she has a new baby sister named Krissy (I just saw the commercial). And I believe this question still remains: Where the heck are Barbie's parents?!?

Mayber her/their parents are the CABBAGE PATCH KIDS?????? http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/confused.gif

Oh yeah, how could I forget? Ken was the ULTIMATE scrub. Did he have a house? No. He just chilled around the Dream House, mooching. Did he have a car? No. He was pleased as punch to drive around in a hot pink Corvette. Did he have a job? No, not really--he would do whatever job Barbie had at the time. Ken=ultimate tagalong.

Didn't they have like a Barbie that "grew" 2 inches? Or was that Skipper? You'd move one of her arms around and she'd grow???

I had Ballerina Barbie with a crown. And 'cuz my mom was so called "pro-Black" while I was growing up, all my Barbie's were dark brown with long black hair. Somehow, Mattel did make the Black hair nappy if you tried to wash it and change the hairstyle--so I just wound up making a "cornroll braided" Barbie... They tried to make a Hispanic Barbie and an Asian Barbie...

Hey! Does Mattel have issues!!!

As far as the "groove thang" with GI Joe when he was a big man, yeah, I can understand why Barbie would want him rather than Ken, she was only thing what was under his tank... http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/rolleyes.gif And I think Ken started dating that other doll out there for gays--I forgot his name... http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/cool.gif

Did anyone have the Barbie Townhouse? Not the Beach house, but the one with the 3 levels and an elevator? It was a piece of chit!!!

I just would wanna ride my big wheel down the hill and run over my Barbies...

I am almost absolutely sure that Barbie is much older than the Cabbage Patch Kids . . . and why they were popular is beyond me . . .

It occurred to me as I was reading . . . and then I saw someone else mention it . . .

The REAL reason they never married . .

Drum roll Please . . . Ken is Gay!

Let's look at the evidence:

Keen Fashion sense, good dresser with stylish toys.

Hair always perfect.

Wears predominantly light airy clothing like pastels.

ALWAYS wears the appropriate outfit to the event, activity, sport (like you can get us straight guys to do that, puuuuulllleeeze! You're lucky if we don't wear white socks to your formal).

And finallly . . . Always hangs around at her beck and call without getting any!

Its funny, some female Mattel designer was looking to make the perfect male companion to go with the perfect girl . . . and she unconsciously makes him gay. It makes you want to weep.

No wonder women aren't happy with men, they want straight Kens http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif.

I think Ken was either Barbie's gay friend from high school or her hair dresser turned best friend/therapist.

But it is suspiscious that Barbie really doesn't date at all . . . I mean sheez, you think she would learn to balance her careers and social life a bit to allow emotional attachment. Bad role model http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif.

three pages of posts and no one mentioned my favorite??

BALLERINA BARBIE--God I loved those toe shoes!! (OOOOPS AKA MONET just saw you had her too)

See now my Barbie had a little somethin somethin on the side with my Sonny Bono doll. Yup. Child of the 70's that I am. Cher and Ken were doin' it and Barbie and Sonny were doin it--in different wings of the dream house, of course.

I had a serious Barbie problem. Dream House. Town House. Camper. Three foot long Motorhome. Pool. Cars. My Barbie was one seriously spoiled chick. Must've been all Sonny's royalty checks. He just loved to serenade Ballerina Barbie (who would dance while he sang of course) "Babe, I got you Babe..."



[This message has been edited by amycat412 (edited March 06, 2001).]

LOL, James you are too funny!!! My favorite barbie is also ballerina barbie, she is the only one i have left!

Thats hillarious James LOL http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif No wonder the talk shows are doing such good business. Look how long Oprah has been on. What a marketing ploy by Mattel. http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif

Kevin

[This message has been edited by Miami1839 (edited March 06, 2001).]

Ohhh i had the Barbie townhouse..with the elevator..lol lmaoo this thread is sooooo funny..Like some of u said earlier, my barbie was a whore, lesbian, and a sex feind.. when she would get mad at ken, she would have a three some with todd and tracie or whoever was around..She would even let skipper watch..lmaoo

This has got to be the FUNNIEST THREAD I have come across so far!! I am sitting here LMAOCMEO http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/biggrin.gif http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/biggrin.gif. AKA_Monet, running over your Barbie dolls; you know you were dead wrong for that http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/biggrin.gif http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/biggrin.gif

Man, it was HORRIBLE!!! It was made of cardboard, OK?!! Oh, it was horrible.

HEY!

Why are all the Sistah's sayin' they had the cardboard Townhouse with the elevator??? :P

Was that the "ghettofabulous hood rat" Barbie tryin' to be hard??? http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/biggrin.gif

Oh, and I'd throw my Barbies across my swimming pool and see if they swam. Somehow, their legs kept falling off??? http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/rolleyes.gif http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/wink.gif

Yes, she WAS in a band.. it was called "Barbie and the Rockers". How do I know? Because I had a skateboard-scooter with their pics plastered all over it! http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/biggrin.gif

Barbie has 4 sisters Skipper, Stacy, Kelly, & Krissy. Ken has 4 brothers all the same sizes.

Barbie has been in several bands. Barbie and the Rockers, some fifties band, and a few others.

Barbie is blone, brunette, and African-American.

Ken has too had jobs! He was also an astronaut, teacher, doctor, military, etc.
Midge is the redhead, and she got married to Alan.

Skipper has actually gotten older. She started out looking like Stacy does now, she's grown about an inch and developed boobs too!

LOL http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif . I had the lunch box with them on the front! Barbie and the rockers gave Jem and the holigrams a run for their money!

Oh my goodness I don't think I have ever laughed so hard in my life! I always thought something was a bit off in that family, and now we know that Ken and Barbie's incestuous relationship is relevant Springer material! I had a ton of Barbies when I was little; my favorite was Tropical Barbie, and her hair was down to her feet. However, I thought it was a little too long, attempted to trim it but made it uneven, so by the time I had it evened out she looked like Susan Powter! I think I gave all of my Barbies to the Goodwill...I feel sorry for the poor kid with my buzzed Barbie! http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/biggrin.gif

AXID4life...that is toooooooooooo funny. I did the EXACT same thing with my tropical barbie. And of course I thought I could cut it perfectly straight across and then realized it was, what would now be known as, layered. So I kept chopping and chopping and chopping. Poor Barbie's hair was so short it looked terrible.

I still think this might be . . .
 

The all time best post in the funny category in Greek Chat history!

Over 70 posts about Barbie dolls, that taught me more than I ever wanted to know about a species of doll I wouldn't have been caught dead with as a child. Well, my future daughters might benefit . . . although I may not admit the source of my knowledge;)

You weren't the only one who had that barbie, I had her too!! She came with a heart stamp I think(or were they lips??)

OK, I was just thinking about this thread because yesterday becuase my brother-in-law's mother emailed me the following. Too perfect:

> > 1. Bifocals Barbie. Comes with her own set of
> > blended-lens fashion frames in six wild colors
> > (half-frames too!), neck chain and large-print
> > editions of Vogue and Martha Stewart Living.
> >
> > 2. Hot Flash Barbie. Press Barbie's bellybutton and
> > watch her face turn beet red while tiny drops of
> > perspiration appear on her forehead. Comes with
> > hand-held fan and tiny tissues.
> >
> > 3. Facial Hair Barbie. As Barbie's hormone levels
> > shift, see her whiskers grow. Available with teensy
> > tweezers and magnifying mirror.
> >
> > 4. Flabby Arms Barbie. Hide Barbie's droopy triceps
> > with these new, roomier-sleeved gowns. Good news
> > on the tummy front, two mu-muus with tummy-support
> > panels are included.
> >
> > 5. Bunion Barbie. Years of disco dancing in
> > stiletto heels have definitely taken their toll on Barbie's
> > dainty arched feet. Soothe her sores with the pumice
> > stone and plasters, then slip on soft terry mules.
> >
> > 6. No-More-Wrinkles Barbie. Erase those pesky
> > crow's-feet and lip lines with a tube of Skin
> > Sparkle-Spackle, from Barbie's own line of exclusive
> > age-blasting cosmetics.
> >
> > 7. Soccer Mom Barbie. All that experience as a
> > cheer-leader is really paying off as Barbie dusts
> > off her old high school megaphone to root for Babs and Ken, Jr.
> > Comes with minivan in robin-egg blue or white and
> > cooler filled with doughnut holes and fruit punch.
> >
> > 8. Mid-life Crisis Barbie. It's time to ditch Ken.
> > Barbie needs a change, and Alonzo (her personal trainer)
> > is just what the doctor ordered, along with Prozac. They're
> > hopping in her new red Miata and heading for the Napa
> > Valley to open a B&B. Includes a real tape of "Breaking up is hard to do."
> >
> > 9. Divorced Barbie. Sells for $199.99. Comes with
> > Ken's house, Ken's car, and Ken's boat.
> >
> > 10. Recovery Barbie. Too many parties have finally
> > caught up with the ultimate party girl. Now she does Twelve
> > Steps instead of dance steps. Clean and sober, she's going to
> > meetings religiously. Comes with a little copy of The Big Book,
> > a six-pack of Diet Coke, and a pack of cigs.
> >
> > 11. Post-Menopausal Barbie. This Barbie wets her
> > pants when she sneezes, forgets where she puts things,
> > and cries a lot. She is sick and tired of Ken sitting on the
> > couch watching the tube, clicking through the channels. Comes with
> > Depends and Kleenex. As a bonus this year, the book "Getting In
> > Touch with Your Inner Self" is included.