Anna Nicole Smith has died. In the beginning of the article on Yahoo, she is called a pneumatic blonde. What in the world is a pneumatic blonde? About the only thing I can come up with is that it is a political correct way of calling her an air head.
According to this, which may or may not be authoritative, Aldous Huxley coined this use of pneumatic.
Wikipedia seems to concur offering this: “in Brave New World children are encouraged from a young age to play sexual games in preparation for a life of promiscuity, women take pride in being “pneumatic” and procreation is taken over by machines.”
I think, Bruce, this is not political correctness but matter of factness.
Wow, I didn’t know she died.
Oh brother. Now I guess we won’t need to watch the News for the next week or so…
She did admit to having implants, didn’t say what kind.
What a strange life she had.
You know, I don’t pay much mind to celebrities, but with all the recent press, I have noticed her. She did have a strange and intense life. I am sorry she’s gone because it seems that some day she’d have been the kind of old lady that we would all be able to learn something from.
Pneumatic as in pneumatic tyres - pumped up. It is a derogatory term meaning that her breasts look over inflated. And the reference to blonde is meant to insinuate that it isn’t her real hair colour.
These days, of course, many people believe women should be categorised by more than their hair colour and breast measurement. For example, some are excellent solicitors, scientists or doctors; some are caring mothers; some are creative writers or artists.
i still reckon not being able to say black board or white board is better than pnumatic head
Mikefule! How progressive you are. 
I was just thinking about that before reading your reply. It’s the only place I’ve heard the word in that context. Good book, that one.
If you googled pneumatic blonde yesterday you got hits mainly for Pamela Anderson and one for Jayne Mansfield.
Today ANS is there too and Bruce’s thread is the number one listing (edit: or at least it was a minute ago when I made this post. This is weird, after I made the post the google search list completely changed.)!
I did the following, not overly exhaustive or comprehensive, search:
pneumatic (blonde* or blond* or redhead* or brunette* or woman or women or babe*) not anna nicole smith
in Factiva.com, a database of some several thousand newspapers, journals, wires, etc. The first reference I found to pneumatic in the womanly sense was an August 23, 1978 article in the Canadian paper the Globe and Mail about, yes, you guessed it, Dolly Parton. The article actually spares her the pneumatic label, but uses it in comparing her to other women of her body type:
“She did it, in part, because she looks like all of those pneumatic blondes we have been told were vulnerable. Pop music loves vulnerability in women. She did it, in part, because she is an exceptionally talented songwriter…”
Side note: There are 43 stories linking the film-maker Russ Meyer and the word “pneumatic”.
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