Betty or Veronica?

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In Archie comics, who did you prefer? Blonde Betty Cooper or Brunette Veronica Lodge?

Me, I liked Veronica better. Yeah, she was a bitch. She was mean. That's why I liked her. Plus I was a kid with straight black hair like Veronica's, and I didn't like the implication that having dark hair automatically made you the bad girl.

Of course, Betty was sweet, good, smart, played sports and knew how to fix cars and so obviously deserved Archie, dolt though he was. But she was so lame. She baked cookies and pies for him, tutored him, knit sweaters, etc. just to get his attention. Then she cried when he stood her up time and again for the "vixen" Veronica. Uh, yeah.

See if the question was, who should Archie choose, obviously Betty. Because he's a dolt. I know it was set up for the reader to root for Betty in all her blonde goodness, but bleh. *I* wanted to be Veronica! She was rich, she wasn't afraid to get angry, and she often did. But she couldn't have been all that snooty if her best friends were all middle class.

What's funny is a girl I grew up with adored Betty and loved all the stories that ended with Betty winning in the end. Consequently she's the bitchiest, most "Veronica" type person I know.

― Jasmine U. (Jasmine U.), Thursday, 31 July 2003 14:51 (twenty-two years ago)

why choose?

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 31 July 2003 14:53 (twenty-two years ago)

This question has been asked before. I still like Cheryl Blossom the best, because she was a redhead and hated both Betty and Veronica.

― Larcole (Nicole), Thursday, 31 July 2003 14:58 (twenty-two years ago)

why choose?

Why not? :-)

Ah then. Ginger or Mary Ann? I choose Mary Ann (this time the "good" one.) Methinks I obviously have an identity thing with the brunettes.

I still like Cheryl Blossom the best, because she was a redhead and hated both Betty and Veronica.

Cheryl was relatively new to the series, no? If not, I wish they made more books on her.

― Jasmine U. (Jasmine U.), Thursday, 31 July 2003 15:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Couldn't stand either of them, though I'm more like Veronica sometimes than I want to know;>

Betty: too much of a doormat. At least, Veronica took chances to go after what she wanted. Even if it was other girls' boyfriends.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 31 July 2003 16:26 (twenty-two years ago)

midge

― thomas de'aguirre (biteylove), Thursday, 31 July 2003 18:01 (twenty-two years ago)

ethel, actually

― thomas de'aguirre (biteylove), Thursday, 31 July 2003 18:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Ethel is, by far, the coolest.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 31 July 2003 18:12 (twenty-two years ago)

How come more chixxorz didn't crush on Jughead?

― Millar (Millar), Thursday, 31 July 2003 19:13 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.vegalleries.com/filmationopc/00arch04.jpg

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Thursday, 31 July 2003 19:20 (twenty-two years ago)

At least, Veronica took chances to go after what she wanted. Even if it was other girls' boyfriends.

I just love the logic in that statement. :-)

― Jasmine U. (Jasmine U.), Thursday, 31 July 2003 19:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Thought you would;>

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 31 July 2003 19:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I prefer Jughead.

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 31 July 2003 20:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I prefer Coach Clayton. Or Professor Flutesnoot.

― Mandee, Thursday, 31 July 2003 20:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Jughead is way too indie rawk, he would probably listen to Pavement.

― Larcole (Nicole), Thursday, 31 July 2003 20:54 (twenty-two years ago)

And something about him whispers "Pitchfork".

― Larcole (Nicole), Thursday, 31 July 2003 20:56 (twenty-two years ago)

INFIDEL!

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 31 July 2003 20:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Jughead listens to Kraftwerk, duh

― Millar (Millar), Thursday, 31 July 2003 21:01 (twenty-two years ago)

i prefer betty, of course. veronica looked like a girl who didn't believe in douching.

― Tad (llamasfur), Thursday, 31 July 2003 21:01 (twenty-two years ago)

And when Jughead got to college he got a backpack and a bag of weed and started listening to hiphop and IDM 24/7 on headphones everywhere he went. You KNOW this, people.

― Millar (Millar), Thursday, 31 July 2003 21:02 (twenty-two years ago)

The weed mushed his brain and he passed out on the college steps

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 31 July 2003 21:04 (twenty-two years ago)

jughead = simon trife

― Tad (llamasfur), Thursday, 31 July 2003 21:04 (twenty-two years ago)

and why the hell was it that jughead always wore that silly crown, anyway?

― Tad (llamasfur), Thursday, 31 July 2003 21:05 (twenty-two years ago)

He had the magic stick.

― Larcole (Nicole), Thursday, 31 July 2003 21:06 (twenty-two years ago)

He had the magic stick.

i'm so happy that dan didn't get here first ...

― Tad (llamasfur), Thursday, 31 July 2003 21:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Ok, Tom, I think you're projecting a little too much on Jughead.

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 31 July 2003 21:10 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm so happy that dan didn't get here first ....

He's late! Where are you, mighty Captain Underpants?

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 31 July 2003 21:10 (twenty-two years ago)

no, i think that Tom is OTM re juggy.

― Tad (llamasfur), Thursday, 31 July 2003 21:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Stop ruining my jokes, you Fight Club zombie blow job doppleganger freak show.

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 31 July 2003 21:11 (twenty-two years ago)

i didn't know that there was a joke involved here to ruin!

― Tad (llamasfur), Thursday, 31 July 2003 21:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Oooh! Burn! I will get you for that!

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 31 July 2003 21:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Smackdown! Place your bets!

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 31 July 2003 21:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Jughead sure as hell never wound up all emo like Reggie did

― Millar (Millar), Thursday, 31 July 2003 21:15 (twenty-two years ago)

no more zombie blow-jobs

― Tad (llamasfur), Thursday, 31 July 2003 21:16 (twenty-two years ago)

i bet reggie ended up becoming a deadhead or got into dave matthews band when he was in college.

― Tad (llamasfur), Thursday, 31 July 2003 21:16 (twenty-two years ago)

duh, reggie's a stroke

― nnnh oh oh nnnh nnnh oh (James Blount), Thursday, 31 July 2003 21:19 (twenty-two years ago)

that'll work, too.

― Tad (llamasfur), Thursday, 31 July 2003 21:20 (twenty-two years ago)

No way. Reggie's in grad school at Georgetown now doing Int'l Relations and he still listens to the Promise Ring in his room all the time. I saw him last week at the Black Cat, he was in the back, sideburns the size of Alaska, talking to the 4' tall chick in the plaid skirt.

― Millar (Millar), Thursday, 31 July 2003 21:20 (twenty-two years ago)

so is reggie a neo-con or a realist?

― Tad (llamasfur), Thursday, 31 July 2003 21:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Reggie's a real-con

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 31 July 2003 21:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm pretty sure Veronica ended up me.

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 31 July 2003 21:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Whoa.

― Millar (Millar), Thursday, 31 July 2003 21:26 (twenty-two years ago)

no, yer just betty pretending to be veronica.

― Tad (llamasfur), Thursday, 31 July 2003 21:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Whoa.

― Millar (Millar), Thursday, 31 July 2003 21:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Maybe I'm Betty pretending to be Veronica in a Cheryl Blossom wig while wearing Josie Pussycat's clothes?

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 31 July 2003 21:33 (twenty-two years ago)

I suppose I was Dilton? For a bit?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 31 July 2003 21:42 (twenty-two years ago)

That explains a lot.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 31 July 2003 21:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Cheryl Blossom ROWR!

― Dan I., Thursday, 31 July 2003 22:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Cheryl Blossom ROWR!
http://www.prologistic.ca/archie/archie/cher/cheryl.gif

― Dan I., Thursday, 31 July 2003 22:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Tad, douching is nasty, unhealthy and wrong. Girls who douche don't believe in themselves. Sorry lil' things.

Veronica, always Veronica.

― Texas Sam (thatgirl), Thursday, 31 July 2003 23:13 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.blondie.com/dailies/blondie.20030717.gif

― Leee (Leee), Thursday, 31 July 2003 23:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Or her daughter!

― Leee (Leee), Thursday, 31 July 2003 23:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Veronica in the tool shed with a claw hammer.

― Scaredy Cat, Thursday, 31 July 2003 23:37 (twenty-two years ago)

if i want cartoon totty it's Velma every time. jinkies!

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 31 July 2003 23:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Blondie obv has had work done = she's not staying around for Dagwood!

― Leee (Leee), Thursday, 31 July 2003 23:40 (twenty-two years ago)

This thread is so wrong on so many levels. (This, btw, is something I said long before it got used on a bloody car commercial.)

And I *heart* "Blondie", most especially when Blondie went and started her catering business. I have over a month's worth of backreading on that comic strip and other comic strips I keep up with, but I still consider that a current fave.

― Just Deanna (Dee the Lurker), Friday, 1 August 2003 08:44 (twenty-two years ago)

[betty = archetypically cancerian female, veronica = archetypically leo female]

It is funny that Veronica never had any other outrageously wealthy friends. What no one remembers, though, is that in so many strips, Betty was as conniving, selfish, manipulative as Veronica could be - often times in tandem with Veronica - when it came to using her feminine wiles to get someone or something (don't u remember all those girls vs boys strips - if Betty truly was a "good" girl she would have served as a moral, conscience-like voice towards Veronica, but instead she often came up w/ the slickest plans to one-up Archie, Jugs, etc, and relished the subsequet display of female superiority - they won nearly every time!).

Betty was just much more indirect in her bad-girlness than Veronica; it was all disguised under a charade of seemingly selfless behavior, but it was still there nonetheless. Therefore, she is twice as dangerous! Betty was unscrupulous imo, and wanted everything Veronica wanted as well, but just never exhibited it so openly; Veronica was more open and honest and forthright in her diva-dom, and somewhat unfairly criticized for it.

Plus, Betty was always jealous of Veronica's fabulous wardrobe... far from perfect, that dirty blonde!

― Vic (Vic), Friday, 1 August 2003 10:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Interesting theory. Betty probably has dark roots. She's the peroxide queen! ;)

― Jasmine U. (Jasmine U.), Friday, 1 August 2003 13:44 (twenty-two years ago)

How come more chixxorz didn't crush on Jughead?
-- Millar (tmilla...), July 31st, 2003 3:13 PM. (later)

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I seem to remember several plots where Jughead got ahold of some magic pin that he stuck to his hat that made all women fall madly in love with him. He would always get all pissed off because he only wanted to eat. Anyone else remember this?

― NA (Nick A.), Friday, 1 August 2003 17:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I remember that! Was it a pin, or maybe a magic jewel or something that he thought would replace those 2 odd shapes on his hat? And I also thought it was odd that Jughead liked food better than girls, and spent more time with his dog if anything.

― Jasmine U. (Jasmine U.), Friday, 1 August 2003 18:06 (twenty-two years ago)

three years pass...

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a346/amanda854/1689poster.jpg

― kenan, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

No one I know has ever picked Jennifer over Bailey.

― Eazy, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:47 (nineteen years ago)

ok that is awesome

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

you know bailey was a tiger in the sack right? i mean you can just tell. jennifer was some sort of arm-candy trophy wife for old dudes. no thanks.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:52 (nineteen years ago)

uuh, who were bailey and jennifer?

― Jibe, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

WKRP GET YOUR GAME RIGHT

― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/insight2042/tvpics17.jpg
bailey

― kenan, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

FUCKING HOTT.

― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

and jennifer is loni anderson, but we don't need a picture of that because there's something crepey about her and nothing tops bailey

― kenan, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

bailey fan page

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

did not work :(

― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.clothmonkey.com/images/bailey4.jpg
http://www.clothmonkey.com/images/bailey12.jpg
http://www.clothmonkey.com/images/bailey19.jpg

― kenan, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

there we go, more or less

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:32 (nineteen years ago)

nothing tops bailey

I would watch this spinoff.

― Eazy, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:33 (nineteen years ago)

god you guy sknow what? I forgot how fucked up season 5 of newsradio was. Maura Tierney married The Tick. What the hell, people.

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:39 (nineteen years ago)

that makes perfect sense to me

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:40 (nineteen years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a6/Newsweek_March_21_1966.jpg/453px-Newsweek_March_21_1966.jpg

― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:43 (nineteen years ago)

POLL

― s1ocki, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

Dave Foley never gets the gurl.

― David R., Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

dave foley IS the girl

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

Lately I've been watching News Radio on DVD. Maura was teh hotness in season 2.

― C. Grisso/McCain, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:46 (nineteen years ago)

ts: maura or beth?

― kenan, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

beth better personality wise, lisa better looking, it's a hard decision to make

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:58 (nineteen years ago)

maura tierny in a landslide. that cigarettes and honey voice gets me every time.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:58 (nineteen years ago)

also, it's become apparent that i really REALLY need to get myself a girlfriend.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:58 (nineteen years ago)

dave foley IS the girl

whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa?

― David R., Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:59 (nineteen years ago)

jerking it to sitcom characters while watching the sitcom is a pretty 19 y.o. thing to do kevin

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:04 (nineteen years ago)

tom while that it true you are so far from being OTM i can only call you BOT from here out.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:07 (nineteen years ago)

chicago man loses ability to type, film at 11.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:07 (nineteen years ago)

yeah but... need i remind you...

http://www.clothmonkey.com/images/bailey19.jpg

― kenan, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe you should just call me "B"

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

kenan, i have images turned off so i don't know if you posted one after that or not so....

b- you got it.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:12 (nineteen years ago)

I kind of dislike Betty anbd Veronica both. Veronica is a privleged ass and Betty is a masochistic polygymist to keep chasing Archie like that. I like Jughead best, altough I theorize he is either gay or a foodsexual as he never seem into women at all. I do like when Sabrina is in the comics though, shes OK. Regie is an ass too, and Moose is a controlling bastard. Poor midge

― Latham Green, Thursday, 1 March 2007 22:13 (nineteen years ago)

Veronica or Mac?

― milo z, Thursday, 1 March 2007 22:14 (nineteen years ago)

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