I DARE YOU! Read my note to Meredith Vieria about her new job!

[Radio_Lady]

Hello Meredith,

Best wishes for your new beginning at the "Today" show. I can't think of a better person to take this on. Those of us women who started in TV before you did are just thrilled!

Here's my first job at WTVJ, Miami (1957): (MORE BELOW)



By the way, I wear no underwear at all, but do sometimes wear crotchless pantihose -- or I cut out the crotch to allow "air up there." This was at the suggestion of a female French obstetrician who delivered my daughter in 1968 at the New York Infirmary, E. 19th Street, NYC. I haven't had a yeast infection in years... and my husband thinks it's sexy to go without undies!

In peace,

(Actual name here) Radio_Lady (35 years in radio and TV -- I worked around the corner from Barbara Walters in the 1960s, as production assistant to Dick Carson on the "Tonight" show unit when it was in New York City.)

Still volunteering at Oregon Public Broadcasting, Portland, Oregon at age 66!

Send her your message at: http://abc.go.com/theview/hosts/vieira.html

[Blue-Jay]

1. I heard on the radio that she doesn't wear any underpants.

[Radio_Lady]

3. That's what they say -- and she apparently said it on the air, too.

I think she said it in the context that she doesn't wear underpants AND pantihose together. I took it a step further years ago. Guess what? It worked!

Urologists and gynecologists have been making this suggestion for years. They also suggest taking showers, not baths, because of the possibility of bacteria from the water lodging inside and creating problems.

And then there are the people who suffer from this vaginitis or bacterial vaginosis (most women have had bouts of it and so have I).

Here's a site discussing the causes of these female problems:

http://www.msu.edu/~eisthen/yeast/causes.html

[Suich]

2. Way too much information!!!

Did you see this gem from Matcom?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=4997925

LOL!

[Radio_Lady]

4. Sorry if it's TMI for you, Suich.

Are you old enough to remember Brooke Shields in the Calvin Klein ads:

"Nothing comes between me and my Calvins..."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_Klein

That ad campaign caused quite a stir in its day.

"The jeans were famously advertised with a commercial featuring a 15-year-old Brooke Shields cooing in 1979/80 that "nothing comes between me and my Calvins" and “I’ve got seven Calvins in my closet, and if they could talk, I’d be ruined.” Controversial advertising, including a series of ads featuring adolescents in sexually evocative poses, has been a recurring theme for the company."

[Radio_Lady]

5. Everybody else, DOUBLE dare you!

To tell the truth, I do wear panties under my jeans (if I'm going horseback riding -- just about the only time I wear jeans, BTW). Started wearing skirts and dresses exclusive about ten years ago and decided to keep on doing that, winter and summer.

Cute note: My granddaughter wanted to know if she could ride horseback side-saddle, like the little girls did in the olden days. She's really into the American Girl dolls, books and clothes.

www.americangirl.com

[Suich]

6. I'd forgotten all about those ads!

I was born in '43. and I do remember them!

:hi:

[Radio_Lady]

7. Oh, yeah, baby. I'm a gal from 1939... and proud of it!

Next month (May 31) is my 67th birthday -- and I don't know how I got this far without underwear, but I did.

Oh, I do wear a bra. Star Jones Reynolds said she was 40 years old, but her breasts think that they're only 20 (now that
she had them "lifted.")

My breasts are almost 67, but they think they're 87, except when I lie down. Then, they're pretty nice! No lumps, bumps, or implants.

OT: Go to this web site. It's in Spanish, and what I can make out is that they make BOLSAS (bags) in Mexico City, Mexico -- for special occasions. Very festive. Is this your site?

http://www.suich.com/home.html

In peace,

Radio_Lady

[Suich]

8. No Espanol but I'll find someone to translate for me!

A long time ago, someone told me to put a mirror flat on a table and bend over and look in it...that was what I was going to look like in 20 or 30 years. I did it once and never again!

When I know you better, I'll tell you stories my stepmom told me about her travels with my Dad in Russia, re: underwear.

I'm not a Starr Jones fan...since she had surgery, she looks a bit odd to me but maybe I just have to get used to it.

Peace and beads...Susan

[Radio_Lady]

9. All women who lose 150 pounds look different. I notice she looks

different also, but so did most of the other women over the years that "The View" was on.

I hardly recognized Katie Couric or Meredith Vieria when I saw their TV clips from 15 or more years ago.

And me? Well, hell -- I look more and more like my mother every day!

Mom, Dad and me in the 1940s in Florida.