AACK! The Cathy Poll

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Which is the most "Cathy" of the titles of books of Cathy strips? (I cut this off at 2000, after that they were clearly getting less Cathy.)

Poll Results

OptionVotes
I think I'm having a relationship with a blueberry pie!, ISBN 0553013378, (1981) 4
Shoes: Chocolate For The Feet, ISBN 0740705555, (2000) 4
Abs of Steel, Buns of Cinnamon, ISBN 0836236831, (1997) 2
Thin Thighs in Thirty Years, ISBN 0836220811, (1986) 2
I Want to Be the Person I Used to Be Repulsed By, ISBN 0449222446, (1993) 2
Cathy Twentieth Anniversary Collection, ISBN 0836225236, (1996) 1
Why Do the Right Words Always Come Out of the Wrong Mouth?, ISBN 0836218086, (1988) 1
A Mouthful of Breath Mints and No One to Kiss, ISBN 0836211200, (1983) 1
Stressed for Success, ISBN 0449210170, (1986) 1
Eat Your Way to a Better Relationship, ISBN 0836219872, (1983) 1
The Family thigh problem begins with the mouth, ISBN 044921916X, (1990) 1
What's a Nice Single Girl Doing with a Double Bed??!, ISBN 0553013165, (1981) 1
Another Saturday Night of Wild and Reckless Abandon, ISBN 0836212010, (1982) 1
I'll Pay $5,000 For a Swimsuit That Fits Me!!!, ISBN 0449212483, (1987) 1
$14 in the Bank and a $200 Face in My Purse, ISBN 0836218205, (1990) 1
The Worse Things Get, the Better We Eat, ISBN 0449219178, (1991) 0
Only Love Can Break a Heart, But a Shoe Sale Can Come Close, ISBN 0836218930, (1992) 0
Between love and madness lies the shoe department, ISBN 0449220370, (1992) 0
Dancing Through Life in a Pair of Broken Heels, ISBN 0553091905, (1993) 0
Revelations from a 45-Pound Purse, ISBN 0836217225, (1993) 0
I'd Scream Except I Look So Fabulous, ISBN 0740700065, (1999) 0
Confessions to My Mother, ISBN 0836287886, (1999) 0
I Am Woman, Hear Me Snore, ISBN 0836268210, (1998) 0
Girl Food, ISBN 0836231732, (1997) 0
Cathy; Reciped and Foodstyles of the Stars, ISBN 0836221273, (1997) 0
Shop Till You Drop Then Sit Down And Buy Shoes, ISBN 0836210689, (1996) 0
Understanding the "Why" Chromosome, ISBN 0836204239, (1995) 0
Like Mother, Like Daughter, ISBN 0836230493, (1993) 0
The Child Within Has Been Awakened But The Old Lady on the Outside Just Collapsed, ISBN 0836217616, (1994) 0
Run for Your Life...The Man Is a Cow, ISBN 0449220362, (1991) 0
Reflections, A Fifteenth Anniversary Collection, ISBN 0836218779, (1991) 0
What Do You Mean, I Still Don't Have Equal Rights??!!, ISBN 0836211588, (1980) 0
It Must Be Love, My Face Is Breaking Out, ISBN 0836211839, (1982) 0
Cathy's Valentine's Day Survival Book, How to Live through Another February 14, ISBN 0836212045, (1982) 0
How to Get Rich, Fall in Love, Lose Weight, and Solve all Your Problems by Saying "NO", ISBN 0836219864, (198 0
Climb Every Mountain, Bounce Every Check, ISBN 0836212177, (1983) 0
Men Should Come With Instruction Booklets, ISBN 0836220552, (1984) 0
Sorry I'm Late. My Hair Won't Start, ISBN 0449209253, (1985) 0
Wake Me Up When I'm a Size 5", ISBN 0836220692, (1985) 0
My Cologne Backfired, ISBN 0449209288, (1986) 0
The Salesclerk made me Buy it, ISBN 0449209261, (1986) 0
A Hand To Hold, An Opinion To Reject, ISBN 0836220927, (1987) 0
It must be something in the ink. ISBN 0449214311, (1987) 0
Two Pies. One Fork, ISBN 0449212491, (1987) 0
May I borrow Your Husband and Baby?, ISBN 0449216349, (1988) 0
My Granddaughter Has Fleas!!, ISBN 0836218558, (1989) 0
Sue the Hairstylist, ISBN 044921771X, (1989) 0
It isn't smog. It's eyeshadow!, ISBN 0449217728, (1990) 0
The Cathy Chronicles, ISBN 0836211162, (1978) 0


Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 25 August 2022 03:31 (two years ago)

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— Haus of Decline (@hausofdecline) April 1, 2022

frogbs, Thursday, 25 August 2022 03:35 (two years ago)

it's gotta be Thin Thighs in Thirty Years

aegis philbin (crüt), Thursday, 25 August 2022 03:44 (two years ago)

I love that so many of these have shoes or references to shoes in the title. Shoes, am I right, ladies? ACK!

I recently discovered that there were three Cathy primetime specials. I've felt a very powerful urge to watch them all.

Beautiful Bean Footage Fetishist (Old Lunch), Thursday, 25 August 2022 14:46 (two years ago)

This is all just the same book re-released with different titles, right?

Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 25 August 2022 14:54 (two years ago)

I Want to Be the Person I Used to Be Repulsed By is a powerful title

flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 25 August 2022 15:01 (two years ago)

I started listening to a podcast on the history of Cathy a while back. It seemed promising, but the host dropped some super ill-informed opinions about other newspaper strips in the first ep so I immediately bailed, but a less proudly ignorant version would be interesting, I think

rob, Thursday, 25 August 2022 15:04 (two years ago)

I Want to Be the Person I Used to Be Repulsed By is a powerful title

From 1993, Cathy's grunge phase.

Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 25 August 2022 15:06 (two years ago)

that does kind of sound like a Hole song title

rob, Thursday, 25 August 2022 15:08 (two years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAFKRNr7g1E

Mar - a - Lago, or 120 Days of Sodom (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 25 August 2022 15:28 (two years ago)

Jamie Loftus did a good podcast on Cathy last summer: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-aack-cast-by-jamie-loftus-83922273/

I meant to look deeper into the strip after that, but never got around to it.

peace, man, Thursday, 25 August 2022 17:05 (two years ago)

Went with $14 in the Bank and a $200 Face in My Purse over Abs of Steel, Buns of Cinnamon.

peace, man, Thursday, 25 August 2022 17:07 (two years ago)

I’m reading through all of these and realizing one of my friends is basically equal parts Cathy and Daria

castanuts (DJP), Thursday, 25 August 2022 17:15 (two years ago)

that does kind of sound like a Hole song title

Riot Grrrl or Grrrled Cheese Sandwich?, ISBN 0836204239, (1995)

Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 25 August 2022 17:17 (two years ago)

Can Pee Girl Get Shoes to Go With The Belt?

Beautiful Bean Footage Fetishist (Old Lunch), Thursday, 25 August 2022 17:32 (two years ago)

lol

peace, man, Thursday, 25 August 2022 18:00 (two years ago)

Cathy AACK!er

Led By Honkies (Bananaman Begins), Thursday, 25 August 2022 18:14 (two years ago)

Guisewite started doing cartoons again during lockdown, they are still extremely Cathy:

https://www.instagram.com/cathygwite/

(also, Cathy's mom celebrated her 100th birthday this year!) (the real Cathy's mom that is, but I guess the one from the comic strip by extension)

soref, Thursday, 25 August 2022 18:28 (two years ago)

I like Cathy and do not wish this to come across as mean, do not think she should be mocked for her sincere desire to show solidarity with people who are suffering, but I would have loved it so much if she'd included a speech bubble so one of the Ukrainian refugees was saying AACK!

https://www.instagram.com/p/CamtjIolgKi/

soref, Thursday, 25 August 2022 18:37 (two years ago)

Can you post the image, for people who don’t have Facebook accounts?

Vance Vance Devolution (sic), Thursday, 25 August 2022 18:44 (two years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Tuesday, 30 August 2022 00:01 (two years ago)

Many good options, but went with Abs of Steel, Buns of Cinnamon.

a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 30 August 2022 01:22 (two years ago)

but I would have loved it so much if she'd included a speech bubble so one of the Ukrainian refugees was saying AACK!

Supplying AACK integrated systems to Ukraine could turn the tide of the war

Led By Honkies (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 30 August 2022 10:43 (two years ago)

A Hand To Hold, An Opinion To Reject - no idea what this means, but it speaks to me.

pplains, Tuesday, 30 August 2022 15:03 (two years ago)

I Want to Be the Person I Used to Be Repulsed By is a powerful title

― flamenco drop (BradNelson)

transition goals tbh

Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 30 August 2022 16:01 (two years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Wednesday, 31 August 2022 00:01 (two years ago)


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