A very modern bird

"Jane" isn't going to stand for any of the traditional nonsense. Remember, spex=sex. I don't remember the last time I had to establish how shortsighted Shelley is - it might be 2005/6, so for the sake of the record, she's VERY shortsighted.


24 comments on “A very modern bird

  1. Shelley is always so full of energy. George is so whise ♡!

    1. Wiser than he knows…

  2. So I’m a little confused. Seems Jane and Paul are already an item. So is Shelley somehow standing in for the real Jane, who is currently “indisposed” temporarily? Or is this a few weeks or months after Shelley’s arrival in 1963? Or am I not supposed to ask?

    1. Would Jane Asher and Paul have been an item if he’d been working at NEMS, not a pop star? Would they have met at all?

      1. I looked this up the other day out of boring literal-mindedness, and Wikipedia says that they met in London in ’63 when Asher interviewed the band. She was from Middlesex, so she probably wasn’t hanging around Liverpool much. So if the band haven’t taken off yet here, well, handwave handwave.

        Incidentally, Asher was (a) just 17 (though the way she looked was way beyond compare…), but (b) already a successful actress by then. I’m imagining Shelley succeeding in her mission, and Paul then meeting the real Jane Asher, getting confused for a bit, and saying something about an older impersonator.

    2. I’m assuming we skipped ahead a little after Shelley arrived in the ’60s.

      1. We’ve had a big banner saying “1963” and I don’t think we’ve had anything to contradict that since.

        1. It’s still 1963, but let’s just say this sequence of events isn’t happening the day after she arrived in that year.

  3. BTW, Nemulon is speaking literally when he says, “On your side.”

    1. I would buy a Nemulon if you could tell it “Point me in the direction of a coffee” and it would tell you where to go. Or, wait, maybe I do already have a device for that.

  4. Again a really brilliant move to have the future altered so when Shelley carries her mission neither she(nore the audience) are distracted by the Beatles’ personas when they actually are famous.

  5. For a moment there, I thought you meant “2005/6” as her visual acuity measurement.

    1. I had the same thought. Lordy, those are some poor peepers.

      1. On the contrary, 2005/6 Would mean she could read text from 2005 meters away that a normal person could only read from 6 meters. An amazing superpower!

        1. Dr. Boots' List

          I’m no optometrist, but that sounds right enough to me!

  6. I finally got out of denial about my eyesight and got contacts when I realised I couldn’t recognise my best friend from across the street. A fairly narrow street at that.

    1. Had he been given a make-over? Like in ‘She’s all that’? And you simply couldn’t believe it was him?

      1. Not as far as I could see. So, possibly, I guess …

  7. Best sex I ever had was with a gal who wore coke-bottle-bottom glasses. Blind as the proverbial bat without them, she was.

    I wonder if there’s a connection.

  8. Married a nearsighted gal myself, maybe there’s somefin to it

  9. Okay I did some Jane Asher research. I knew Paul had a steady girlfriend at the beginning who left him because he was being a rock star, didn’t make the connection! She sure was a “rum bird”! That hair!

  10. SchadenfreudePersonified

    Men never make passes
    At girls who wear glasses –
    Or so I have heard it is said.
    They say it quite rightly
    They’re very unsightly,
    But NO-ONE wears glasses in bed!

    (DorothyParker – herself a glasses wearer. As am I )

  11. Bats aren’t blind, some moles are but even then they get around just fine.

  12. I admit wearing glasses in bed for sex is a no brainer—you don’t unless you are doing porn.

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