the dumb mandrell

i just told wendy about how when we were kids, jenni trunell, sister #2 and i would play The Mandrell Sisters. we would play this a lot. it was one of our favorite games, besides grease. we played grease a lot too.

i liked playing grease better than the mandrell sisters. because when we played grease i always got to be sandy. when we played mandrell sisters i had to be irlene. somehow this was some slight to me, irlene was stupid. though i really didn’t have any burning desire to be barbara or louise either. i just really didn’t want to be irlene.

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6 Comments

  1. heather 23.Mar.04 at 10:11 am

    wasn’t irlene the cute one?

  2. jodi 23.Mar.04 at 10:13 am

    well sure if you like cute blondes. if you like mysterious brunettes, not so much.

  3. wendy 23.Mar.04 at 10:32 am

    irlene was the complete, totally ditzy one.

    you know, if i had to compare her to someone now, i would compare her to jessica simpson.

  4. jodi 23.Mar.04 at 10:36 am

    see? i should never have had to play the role of irlene. clearly i should have been barbara, but i think it had something to do with height. jenni was shorter so she got to barbara and sister #2 has black hair so she got to be louise. now you can see why i always wanted to play grease. or happy days where i got to be pinky tuscadero.

  5. Thomas 23.Mar.04 at 3:07 pm

    Yeah, well you never had to play Laverne and Shirley; My sister as Laverne, my niece as Shirley and I as an amalgamation of Lenny AND Squiggy.

    Hair gel to look like Squiggy: $3
    Jacket turned inside out to look like Lenny: $15
    Polaroid pictures to use as blackmail: $18
    Destroying your little brother’s sense of self worth and enslaving him through most of his adolesence: Priceless

  6. Wendy 23.Mar.04 at 4:06 pm

    we played a lot of New Kids on the Block. I was always Jonathan, because I was the tallest one.