Comments on: Beware the Green Hand of Syphilis! http://www.printeresting.org/2008/11/06/beware-the-green-hand-of-syphilis/ The thinking person's favorite online resource for interesting printmaking miscellany. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:15:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: jean c. http://www.printeresting.org/2008/11/06/beware-the-green-hand-of-syphilis/comment-page-1/#comment-151 jean c. Sun, 16 Nov 2008 23:15:14 +0000 http://printeresting.wordpress.com/?p=1528#comment-151 depending on the year of the poster, I would guess the "bag of trouble" is supposed to be a french woman (cigarette, beret, hairdo) of potentially loose morals (sultry look and plucked eyebrows), and that the poster was aimed at american soldiers stationed in france during world war II. was "a bag of trouble" a more common everyday phrase then than it is now... ? or would it have had the ickily literal reading that I think we're giving it in 2008? depending on the year of the poster, I would guess the “bag of trouble” is supposed to be a french woman (cigarette, beret, hairdo) of potentially loose morals (sultry look and plucked eyebrows), and that the poster was aimed at american soldiers stationed in france during world war II.

was “a bag of trouble” a more common everyday phrase then than it is now… ? or would it have had the ickily literal reading that I think we’re giving it in 2008?

]]> By: kvh http://www.printeresting.org/2008/11/06/beware-the-green-hand-of-syphilis/comment-page-1/#comment-152 kvh Fri, 07 Nov 2008 02:38:05 +0000 http://printeresting.wordpress.com/?p=1528#comment-152 a hat-box of the clap? a hat-box of the clap?

]]> By: amze http://www.printeresting.org/2008/11/06/beware-the-green-hand-of-syphilis/comment-page-1/#comment-153 amze Thu, 06 Nov 2008 20:10:30 +0000 http://printeresting.wordpress.com/?p=1528#comment-153 Prior to seeing that poster, I had no experience with the phrase, "a bag of trouble". One can only assume it's a reference to the woman's bohemian lifestyle (note her cigarette and beret). I wonder what other ills we can package and carry with us? A sack of sorrows.. A tote of planar fasciitis.. Prior to seeing that poster, I had no experience with the phrase, “a bag of trouble”. One can only assume it’s a reference to the woman’s bohemian lifestyle (note her cigarette and beret).

I wonder what other ills we can package and carry with us? A sack of sorrows.. A tote of planar fasciitis..

]]> By: kvh http://www.printeresting.org/2008/11/06/beware-the-green-hand-of-syphilis/comment-page-1/#comment-154 kvh Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:35:10 +0000 http://printeresting.wordpress.com/?p=1528#comment-154 Mercy, she sure looks like a bag of trouble... Mercy, she sure looks like a bag of trouble…

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