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Pretty? Maybelle? Er ... my objection to it is on the grounds of unnecessary ugliness. The only way to make it worse would be changing the y to an e and achieving Maebelle. And then there's the eye makeup - OK, Maybelline is worse. But Mabel is just lovely, certainly pretty but elegant and restrained too.

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My beloved copy of The I Hate To Cookbook is falling apart but still contains the chapter on the lunches where every guest brings something. Its subtitle is Have You Tried Maybelle's Peanut-Butter Aspic? Which pretty well says it all.