Seems like Taschen will try their hand at any sort of sexually-oriented coffee table book. Now they've got one out on big butts.

Guess who made the cut? You got it! Our very own Bettie Mae Page.

Check it out on the Cool Hunting blog:

http://tinyurl.com/2aglb5j

Since Bettie couldn't make it into a book of big tits, it's a worthy inclusion to have her in a book of big butts!?!?!

Herb

Taschen's big butt book has inspired the Bettie Scouts to wax rhapsodic about butts -- especially Bettie's! Since they've been reading this thread, and then posting their thoughts to Yahoo's Bettie Scouts Group, here are their posts for anyone not in that group. I'll post them to reflect the thread/discussion generated.

Prepare yourselves to be immersed in the ultimate Bettie body adoration from her original authorized fan group:


From Rick Volkmar (who seems to consider Herb's above post a dig against Bettie's butt, when it's anything but [pun intended?!?], as Herb is one of Bettie's greatest appreciators -- all parts included):

> Thou shouldst not speak ill of Bettie's peerless posterior.
> A pox and a plague on any who know not its perfection.
> Yea, verily - I say this unto thee.



"Frog Frog" cross-posted to Rick:

> Can I have an "Amen"?



From Packard to Rick Volkmar:

> I did not think he was speaking ill. Her butt was not what one would call small,
> nor average. A well shaped, good sized derriere on a woman is sexy. What do
> you say, fellas and ladies?



From Working Antique:

> It was perfectly proportioned to the rest of her.



"Rouge Rose Entertainment" reinforced Working Antique's post:

> I wish there were more butts like hers. I am tried of seeing little boys'
> butts on women today. We need to start a call for curves to return to fashion.



More agreement for Working Antique's perceptions -- from Packard:

> Yep... a big butt suited her perfectly.



A more "analytic" post from Jack Russell:

> Big is relative. Bettie's backside best suited her hourglass figure. And it
> wasn't flabby or unduly soft. That was one tight caboose.



Packard seconded Jack Russell:

> Yup... her big butt was a thing of beauty.



Working Antique threw in a bonus comparison vis-a-vis Raquel Welch:

> By way of comparison, I just saw a post from one of Raquel Welch's high school mates.
> She said Raquel was a beauty queen even then, and she measured 33-23-33 in her
> senior year of high school. I do believe Bettie had similar proportions.

(Coincidentally, Raquel is on Oprah today, discussing her image as beauty icon vs. who Raquel Welch is as a person.)

More thoughts from the Bettie Scouts of America:

"PJLW" from across The Pond noted:

> Is nothing about our Bettie sacred, anymore ?


Responding to Rick Volmar's above remarks, James Friedman said:

> Am in 100% agreement with you in that.

> Bettie "Big Butt"?

> Asses

< Ponderous query: Did James mean "asses" or "asset" for Bettie?!? >


Packard's cross-post:

> So what's wrong with a big ass?? It looks great on her.



A body size analysis from Working Antique:

> Bettie's behind was not oversized.
> She was just lusciously endowed for her era of the Fifties.
> The idealized pinup girl of the day measured 36-24-36. That's a 12 inch "hip spring"
> as it was called in the girdle trade of the day.
> My high school "Dream Dates" of the early Fifties typically measured 34B-22-34 and
> would be happy to be 36 in the posterior.
> They'd pack all that lust backside into a tight girdle so they would slip it into a pencil
> skirt so tight that they'd have to slide into a chair, and they'd have to sit in a straight-
> backed chair when so attired. If they sat into an overstuffed chair or sofa, they needed
> help to get back up again.
> It was lovely, and they were, simply stated. Butt-Luscious.
> And so was Bettie!
>
> Take a look at this example of an early 1950s beauty donning her Original Edition 1953
> Warner Merry Widow.....the same garment my High School Dream Girl imprinted me with.
> See how it emphasized both her bosom and her behind:
>
> http://www.archive.org/details/PeepingTomsP

< FYI: In case you're wondering why Bettie Page was inserted into the discussion on the page where that video appears (if I'm remembering correctly): When the video was originally posted, it was wrongly assumed to be our Bettie because the loop designates the model's name as Betty Blue. >

And Scoutmaster Steve Brewster weighed in:

> In the humble opinion of the Scoutmaster, Bettie had the
> perfect behind, the benchmark. Any bigger would be "big"
> and any smaller would be "small".
> Bettie forever...
> Scoutmaster Steve

Packard offered these Bettie posterior poses to support his contention.

Don't just ogle Bettie's bottom! Chime in with your views!

Surely, this Forum is brimming with derriere aficionados!

Un-BP-lievable! Dragging Bettie's initials into the BP oil spill, some blogger -- who clearly is out of touch with why Bettie is in the book of big butts and not big boobs -- has declared her the revamped icon for BP.

You can't make this stuff up, kids! Read it for yourselves!

Posted here:

http://kinetic.seattle.wa.us/blogs/blog79.html#bp

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Posted June 21, 2010
BP begins comeback

Changing name to Bettie Page because Americans love huge boobs

(Houston) Troubled energy giant British Petroleum began what is likely to be a long journey to win back public trust today, with company officials making emotional public apologies followed by the unveiling of a multimillion dollar image campaign.

Robert Dudley, a BP managing director now in charge of the Gulf oil cleanup, sought to portray the depth of BP's regret in personal terms.

Dudley told reporters: "BP is like a family. A big, close, loving family."

"Speaking for everyone in that family, I wish to reiterate how really really sorry I am that we, metaphorically speaking, accidentally backed over our American cousins' kitten with the mini-van," he said.

Dudley was then joined by CEO Tony Hayward and a dozen other senior executives, all of whom offered apologies and wept prior to sharing a group hug.

Then with a great flourish, Dudley unveiled the first item in an advertising campaign BP hopes will repair its relationship with American customers.

"This is the first day of an exciting future for BP, as we move forward under our new name: Bettie Page," Dudley said, and drew the sheet from a new company logo.

Based on a photograph of the iconic 1950-60s pinup model, Dudley said Bettie Page was chosen as a symbol after extensive market research. "It confirmed Americans love huge boobs. And here at BP, well, we want the public to think of us as the biggest boobs of all," Dudley said.

Given the above fun-with-Bettie's-boobs to take a jab at BP, plus a tweet to the BETTIE PAGE REVEALS ALL Twitter page about the oil spill, let's take a look back to the origin.

To do so, we have to flash back to Bettie's modeling days. On September 10, 1956, Life magazine ran a photo spread about drilling in the Gulf to create the rigs. Had the "visionaries" for that project known then what we know now, would that project have gone ahead or been deep-sixed?

If interested in reading the text in this article, you would do best to download the pages to your hard drive and read them from there. Otherwise, you'll discover you're immersed in the eye test from hell.

In the true spirit of a broken PR blow out preventer, BP - British Petroleum trying to resurrect its irreparably oil-stained image as BP - Bettie Page - a truly hilarious spoof on how desperate oily old BP really must be.

In the interests of full disclosure: the Bettie/BP initials association -- and the above graphic -- aren't new or novel. It was at least a year or two ago that I originally saw the above BP logo placed atop Bettie's boobs. Someone merely resurrected it when BP got into the current disaster.