Can anyone tell me where "DUMB BLONDE" originated from?

Answer 1

northpole

Answer 2

Eve was a blonde. Since she ate the forbidden fruit in the garden of eden and caused the fall of mankind, she became known as a dumb blonde.

Answer 3

Idiots obviously. NATURAL blonds make up a very, VERY small percentage of hair colors in the world. Virtually all the blonds that people call "dumb blonds" are in fact fake blonds. So nearly every person that has been labeled a dumb blond is in fact a brunette.

Answer 4

Probably the heavy chemicals associated with bleached hair. I made sure to have good ventilation when I did mine, but I'm guessing that the smell of the peroxide and bleach reacting must have had something to do with the myth. It's actually not that harmful--it can burn your eyes and lungs but not damage brain cells. That won't happen unless the mixture is ingested (and I've yet to hear of anyone doing that.)

Answer 5

Your "examine Spelling" function is: A. A decrease back-sliding Theist who isn't listening their better skill. B. An Agnostic who hasn't made up its recommendations as to what's real. C. An Atheist who has determined that ideal spelling is the opiate of the thousands. attempt yet another function for checking the spelling, because you'll likely not get the function to consider you, in spite of your religious decision may be!

Answer 6

i think it comes from american jokes as my friend told me that story some years ago.

the story is about a group a blonde being told a jokes in front of the heaven gates and the ones that laugh will be sent to hell but if not they will be sent to heaven.
as the gad told the jokes, only the blonde do not laugh and were sent to heaven. but after entering the heaven, the blonde started to laugh crazily and the god ask them. they told that they just have understand the jokes told before. (^_^)

Answer 7

My only guess is that ‘dumb blonde’ could have been an extension of the earlier term ‘dumb Dora.’

DUMB DORA: 1) [late 19th century] (U.S.) a pretty but empty-headed woman, often a member of the chorus line. a) said to have been coined by Anita Pines, the first woman stage manager of a burlesque theater. b) U.S. cartoonist T.A. (‘TAD) Dorgan (1877-1929) contributed this term for a ‘scatterbrained young woman’ to the language. ‘Dumb Dora’ was originally the name of a dizzy cartoon character he invented. <1922, in ‘Dialect Notes V,’ page 147: “‘Dumbdora’—a stupid girl.

it first appeared in print in 1936 and might have been an extension of the older expression ‘dumb Dora.’ Since then I found some new info relating to Marylnn’s question and I also got to wondering about the difference between ‘blond’ and ‘blonde.’
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First the ‘blond/blonde’ question. I don’t know if there are others who were unaware of what gives with this spelling difference, but I certainly had no idea. I had never paid much attention and had assumed that the ‘e’ on the end was another one of those American/British differences in spelling. That was until I realized that the play ‘Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,’ which was clearly American, had that pesky ‘e’ at the end.
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Here is the usage note on the BLOND/BLONDEissue in the Random House Unabridged Dictionary:

The spelling BLONDE is still widely used for the NOUN that specifies a woman or girl with fair hair: ‘The blonde with the baby in her arms is my anthropology professor.’ Some people object to this as an unnecessary distinction, preferring BLOND for all persons: “My sister is thinking of becoming a blond for a while.” As an ADJECTIVE, the word is more usually spelled BLOND in reference to either sex (‘an energetic blond girl; two blond sons’), although the form BLONDE is occasionally still used of a female: ‘the blonde model and her escort.’ The spelling BLOND is almost always used for the adjective describing hair, complexion, etc.: ‘His daughter has blond hair and hazel eyes.’
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After looking through several usage guides, I concluded: For the adjective the ‘e’ is a vestige of the French feminine ending and this carried over to the British English spelling so that the adjective ‘blonde’ most often refers to women and ‘blond’ to a men. In American English, however, the adjective ‘blond’ is used for both men and women. When it comes to the noun, however, ‘blonde’ refers to women and ‘blond’ refers to men. Garner’s ‘Modern American Usage’ (2003), however, advises “to avoid appearing sexist, it is best to refrain altogether from using this word as a noun. In fact, some readers will find even the adjective to be sexist when it modifies ‘woman’ and not ‘hair.’

At least for American English, I think the advice offered by Davidson’s Watchwords (2001) is probably good for those who care about this sort of thing:

BLOND OR BLOND: As nouns, write ‘blond’ for males, ‘blonde’ for females. As and adjective for either sex, write ‘blond.’
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Now that this weighty question is resolved, on to the origin of DUMB BLONDE. The February 3 mailing of Today in Literature (http://www.todayinliterature.com/refer.asp), which I highly recommend, was on H. L. Mencken and his friend Anita Loos, author of the 1925 best-seller Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. The article begins: “On this day in 1931, the Arkansas state legislature passed a motion to pray for the soul of H. L. Mencken. One of Mencken's Laws was "Nature abhors a moron," and one of his favorite pastimes was to attack the South for being especially ruled by the "booboisie"; upon finding itself elevated to "the apex of moronia," Arkansas had apparently had enough. . . ” – I wont reproduce the whole article here, but it IS good, so you might want to check it out.

“Mencken and Arkansas inspired Anita Loos to the 1925 best-seller, ‘Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.’ Loos was Mencken's friend, a brunette, and unhappy with his preference for a blonde over her. When enlarging him to her prototypical dumb Gentlemen, she took his Arkansas as the home of her Blonde: The name of my heroine Lorelei Lee was invented although her birthplace was not and Mencken himself had a hand in that. For I wanted Lorelei to be symbol of our nation's lowest possible mentality and remembered Mencken's essay on American culture in which he branded the state of Arkansas as ‘the Sahara of the Bozarts [[(i.e. beaux art)]].’ I therefore chose Little Rock for Lorelei's early years; Little Rock, which even today lives up to Mencken's choice as a nadir in shortsighted human stupidity.”
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After reading this article, there is little doubt in my mind that ‘brunette’ Loos’ 1925 novel was indeed the birthplace of the concept, if not the actual words, ‘dumb blonde.’ Before her creation of Lorelei and the emphasis on her denseness and the hair color, it is doubtful whether there was any connection in our consciousness between ‘dumb’ and ‘blonde.’ And, of course, the 1949 Broadway play ‘Gentlemen Prefer Blondes’ and the 1953 hit movie of that name starring Marilyn Monroe as the stereotypical ‘dumb blonde,’ further reinforced the concept.

Answer 8

I think it started with threes company sit com,and Susan summers.

Answer 9

Have you meet any blonds?

Answer 10

Peroxide kills brain cells.

Answer 11

the media