Rudies

[colinandersson]

What does the term Rudies mean?

[Dee]

Rudies came from the name of Janis' publishing company, Rude Girl.

[colinandersson]

Rudies came from the name of Janis' publishing company, Rude Girl.

Oh dear, I was brought up to stay away from rude girls...:)

[Eva]

But not this one, Colin! This one is the one and only Janis Ian herself. And we, as fans, are of course called Rudies.

Eva

[marjan]

Ha .. I could have told you the same as Dee and Eva did, but alas they beat me to it ;) .
Don't mind thought you are a Rudie the minute you sign in at this message board.

[Rickster]

Colin, Here's how the term "Rude" as in Rudies came about. Read Below :)


In 1966, at the height of "Society’s Child", Janis was taken to lunch by a reporter from Associated Press, who were doing a national story on Janis. The lunch was at fashionable New York theatre eatery Sardi’s. Janis ordered London broil, and was served three small slices, along with two baby carrots and a few string beans. Looking from the menu price to the dish, Janis exclaimed “That’s insane! My mother could feed the family for a week on this!!”
Afterwards, the AP lady complained to Janis’ manager that she was “not a very nice girl, not nearly as nice as Shirley Temple. In fact, she’s quite a rude girl!”
Janis has always enjoyed that story.

[colinandersson]

Colin, Here's how the term "Rude" as in Rudies came about. Read Below :)


In 1966, at the height of "Society’s Child", Janis was taken to lunch by a reporter from Associated Press, who were doing a national story on Janis. The lunch was at fashionable New York theatre eatery Sardi’s. Janis ordered London broil, and was served three small slices, along with two baby carrots and a few string beans. Looking from the menu price to the dish, Janis exclaimed “That’s insane! My mother could feed the family for a week on this!!”
Afterwards, the AP lady complained to Janis’ manager that she was “not a very nice girl, not nearly as nice as Shirley Temple. In fact, she’s quite a rude girl!”
Janis has always enjoyed that story.

Good for Janis! The AP lady sounds rude to me.

What is London broil?

It reminds me of my first meal in a French restaurant in France. My pork arrived and I waited. John asked why I wasn't eating and I told him I was waiting for the veg. he said the 3 green beans and the tomato sliced, artfully place around my pork, was my veg. I was not impressed. Not a bit. I am celiac so don't eat carbs but I did that night-I was hungry after my 'starter'!(they must have terribly small pigs in that area of France.) Fortunately not all restaurants in France served Nouvelle Cuisine. Fancy people paying all that money for such a spoonful of food just so they can appear posh.

[aabram]

This reminds me a story my mother once told me :) about the time she didn't want to eat her porridge at breakfast. (she was a small girl at the time) When told she had to eat it and to think of all the starving people in Third World Countries who would be grateful for such a meal. At that, she threw her porridge out of the window, and said "Here then, they can have mine!!!" :D

[Eva]

think of all the starving people in Third World Countries who would be grateful for such a meal.
Good for her, Annabel. Yes, it was said to me many times too. Unbelievable, but I used to be a skinny kid and I even got a special diet because I didn't eat enough.

I always felt there was something wrong with the 'starving people' reasoning. Like for instance that they seemed to think that me picturing starving children would make me build an appetite or something...

And there was something else which I couldn't pinpoint then. Now I can and I really don't like it that they did this guilttrip on me to get me to eat. Emotional blackmail. Enough to kill an appetite, isn't it?

Sorry, I went off topic again.

Eva