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Click for full imageGood Show Sir Comments: When you wake up – again – tied-up, drugged, beaten … blame the UFOs!
Published 1967
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Good Show Sir Comments: When you wake up – again – tied-up, drugged, beaten … blame the UFOs!
Published 1967
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April 26th, 2017 at 1:18 pm
These aliens really don’t get the concept of ‘elbows’, do they?
(I read this first as ‘The Miss from ISIS’. Is that wrong of me? Is there a jihadi version of Napoleon Solo as well?)
April 26th, 2017 at 1:25 pm
Laziest go-go dancer … ever!
April 26th, 2017 at 1:37 pm
She’s close to the Man from U.N.C.L.E. He’s like the Brother from Another M.O.T.H.E.R.
April 26th, 2017 at 1:48 pm
The blurb writer will be happy to know, the book did get me.
April 26th, 2017 at 1:49 pm
Odds are it’s Wandl the Invader behind it all…
April 26th, 2017 at 1:52 pm
I have the feeling that this is actually a far better cover than the book deserves.
April 26th, 2017 at 2:54 pm
Stefanie Powers’ lawyer on the phone for you, Mr Tralins.
April 26th, 2017 at 3:20 pm
“So I said, like, whoever you are, if you’re gonna tie me up and like beat me and all, at least, like, tie me up so that I can still do my nails, willya?”
April 26th, 2017 at 3:47 pm
Is that logo silhouette supposed to be a bullet? a lipstick? a dildo?
I can’t decide.
April 26th, 2017 at 4:31 pm
@B’mancer: remind me not to be around if you ever load a gun.
April 26th, 2017 at 4:51 pm
Mr. Tralins obit. Interesting.
http://www.tampabay.com/news/obituaries/robert-tralins-wrote-banned-and-bordello-books-as-well-as-stories-that/1097642
April 26th, 2017 at 5:07 pm
Where’d the rest of her cape go? Because she’s apparently wearing one.
April 26th, 2017 at 5:31 pm
@Anna T.: It unravelled around her upper arms. You know how it is, you pull on a thread and next thing you know you’re tangled up in really flimsy yarn.
April 26th, 2017 at 7:25 pm
@Anna: She’s tied by her neck to the background… o_O
April 26th, 2017 at 8:52 pm
Skin tight catsuits, buffed nails, faux bondage, dildo bullets, cute names like The Miss from S.I.S.—that’s all well and good for the OLD danger game. But what are we gonna do about the NEW
danger game?
April 26th, 2017 at 9:11 pm
Good job it’s not the Bitch from S.C.U.M..
April 26th, 2017 at 9:47 pm
Huh. The author was an interesting guy. Shame he didn’t write more “serious” work.
As for this cover, sheesh. The missing cape, her air of ennui, the weird joints, the excessive and not very grammatical text… Did the aliens design this?
And the Miss isn’t ever going to get out of even that flimsy “tied-up” stuff if she keeps her gloves on all the time. But she’s a proper lady, she is, always wearing her matching gloves.
@B’mancer: yes.
April 27th, 2017 at 8:07 am
And the 1967 winner of the Creepiest Basement-Dweller Blurb of The Year Award goes to…
April 28th, 2017 at 11:05 pm
I can’t take UFOs seriously named like a poorly-branded circus.
April 29th, 2017 at 2:23 am
Was “ring-a-ding” (the slang phrase) used that late by anyone save Sinatra? I think of it as being earlier. Makes the cover tacky AND out of date.
ETA: I can’t find a dictionary cite as to the year, but Sinatra’s album came out 6 years before this book.
The UFOs should have been groovy or far out.
September 24th, 2021 at 10:33 am
Her life can’t be as exciting as Electra Woman.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqB36FsglEE
September 24th, 2021 at 11:22 am
@fred
Ah, Sid and Marty Krofft. That sort of explains it. Though for a while I was convinced it was a very clever modern parody like the “if Game of Thrones had been made in the 90s” thing.
September 24th, 2021 at 1:46 pm
Can anyone find out what S.I.S. is an abbreviation for?
My first hunch was Secret Intelligence Service, but that seems too practical and mundane for this type of book. Better candidates for an “S” letter are softcore sadism and sex.
@GSSxnb: At Marvel comics, Stan “The Man” Lee was in the habit of giving everyone nicknames. Artist John Romita was dubbed John “Ring-A-Ding” Romita, at least for a while. (I think the nickname changed later.) Anyway, Romita joined Marvel sometime around 1966, so the “Ring-A-Ding” thing was in use at least that late.
It does show how older writers are often badly out of date with their slang. I remember Marvel using the catch phrase “What a revoltin’ development this is!” It dates back to a radio program called “Life of Riley,” which began airing in 1941.
September 24th, 2021 at 2:52 pm
@Tor – Society for International Security
Sounds more like a group that runs the Met Gala than a spy agency
September 24th, 2021 at 5:41 pm
Ring-a-ding isn’t in my Partridges Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, 7th Ed..
September 24th, 2021 at 5:59 pm
fred, it’s in Urban Dictionary. But as usual with that anyone-can-contribute site, there are a lot of definitions that aren’t cool, jake, copacetic, spot on or kosher.
September 25th, 2021 at 4:35 am
“If the UFOs don’t get you – this book will”
‘The Ring-a-Ding UFOs’: the one reading experience that can be equated to being anally probed.
September 25th, 2021 at 6:14 am
Once again, the blurb needs a teesny tiny puncuation tweak:
It’s Lee Crosley
The Miss from Sis,
back at the old danger
game . . . Tied-up
drugged, beaten-
by whom?* . . .but
ever undaunted!
*by Bob Tralins
September 25th, 2021 at 6:18 am
Now I’m picturing ring-shaped UFOs.
Possibly ending up over stakes like a ring toss or horseshoes.