Sep 07
Click for larger imageGood Show Sir Comments: Mr and Mrs Otter, and their dotter.
Published 2001
(Average: 7.74 out of 10)
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Good Show Sir Comments: Mr and Mrs Otter, and their dotter.
Published 2001
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September 7th, 2017 at 10:42 am
“Could you scrub my back while you’re there?”
September 7th, 2017 at 12:13 pm
Are there any otter puns to make? Or do they keep getting otter and otter?
September 7th, 2017 at 12:17 pm
DRINK A. SCHLITZ
THE PUB: DANGEROUS TERRITORY
September 7th, 2017 at 1:37 pm
I would have dropped ‘The Hub’ and gone with ‘The Otterman Empire’ and given them lightsabers.
September 7th, 2017 at 1:40 pm
Since otters don’t have opposable thumbs, it must be she who is holding the staff. Makes for a pretty funny image.
September 7th, 2017 at 1:41 pm
“Sniff, sniff . . . ok who cut one?”
September 7th, 2017 at 2:03 pm
This book cover draws us one step closer to the BAENgularity… the moment a book is released with a cover that is entirely made up of eye-searing whooshing fonts.
September 7th, 2017 at 2:07 pm
@Tom Noir—Yes, I’ve been contemplating that title layout (I am clearly not being a productive worker this morning!). The contrast between its jarring intensity and the rather subdued imagery (as we all know, otters are known for their calming karma) is just another Baenificent aspect of this cover.
September 7th, 2017 at 2:13 pm
“Invade at your own risk”…what are they gonna do, nibble my bum?
September 7th, 2017 at 2:23 pm
@JP: I observe she’s not wearing as much as is perhaps appropriate…maybe the risk is to your attire and/or modesty?
September 7th, 2017 at 2:24 pm
Wait, is her eye shadow still intact after bathing???
September 7th, 2017 at 2:42 pm
@JP: I refer you to the sobering case of how Terry Nutkins lost his fingers.
September 7th, 2017 at 3:39 pm
@THX 😮
September 7th, 2017 at 4:00 pm
Now that you mention it, she does possess some rather uncanny similarities to the otters. So either she’s an otter who was turned human – explaining the lack of clothing – or they’re humans who were turned otter.
Questions, questions . . .
September 7th, 2017 at 4:14 pm
Hell is otter people.
September 7th, 2017 at 4:23 pm
At least the otters don’t have to look at her beaver…
Ba-Da-Bum! Thank you, thank you.
September 7th, 2017 at 4:55 pm
She has been ottercized by her own people.
September 7th, 2017 at 5:24 pm
@Bibliomancer—When I was looking at her staff-wielding arm, I thought she’d been otterized. So I guess otterizing leads to ottercizing. Seems appropriate.
September 7th, 2017 at 5:36 pm
I hope they have the manners to look the otter way when she gets dressed.
September 7th, 2017 at 5:49 pm
This must be what they’re looking at http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=12698
That’s two otter-themed covers in three months .Fun, fun, fun on the Otter-barn, as Kraftwerk almost sang.
September 7th, 2017 at 6:07 pm
Swims with the otters
Sleeps with the fishes
September 7th, 2017 at 6:21 pm
Here, obviously, “Hub” is a portmanteau of “Hot Tub.”
September 7th, 2017 at 6:25 pm
Perhaps she is actually a shaved beaver.
September 7th, 2017 at 7:35 pm
@Alice: “Hold off on the blurb! Hold the blurb! Holurb! Houuub! Hub!”
September 7th, 2017 at 7:49 pm
Speaking of portmanteaus (or portmanteaux) . . .
Goodshowocky
‘Twas Baenig and the smoothy beaver
gyred and gimballed in the wabe
All mimsy was the editor
And the moan came from the babe.
“Beware the Goodshowock, my friends!
The wit that bites the puns on snatch.
Beware the Admin bird and shun
The Wizard of Taggerbatch!”
And as in uffish thought they stood
The Goodshowock, with covers of Baen,
Came whiffling through the cyberspace
And burbled as it came!
One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal wits went snicker-snack
They left it dead (swbt), and with its head
Harumphed on back.
“And, has thou slain the Goodshowock?
Come to my ottered arms, dear mates
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!
Tomorrow’s cover we await.”
‘Twas Baenig and the smoothy beaver
gyred and gimballed in the wabe
All mimsy was the editor
And the moan came from the babe.
September 7th, 2017 at 7:50 pm
@ Alice.
I like it.
“Hot Tub: Dangerous Territory — Invade at Urine Risk…”
September 7th, 2017 at 9:01 pm
@DSWBT, BC, Yoss – Good Show Sirs!
September 7th, 2017 at 9:25 pm
I saw this on an episode of “The Otter Limits.”
September 7th, 2017 at 9:31 pm
♪♫♬
We are the otter people
We are the otter people
You’re the otter people too
Found a way to get to you … ♪♫♬
September 7th, 2017 at 10:03 pm
@BC: Awesome! 😀
September 8th, 2017 at 6:28 am
Charlize Theron in… Ottertomic Blonde.
September 8th, 2017 at 8:32 am
HARRY OTTER
And The Lady of the Lake
September 8th, 2017 at 8:47 am
I thought the photo was terribly out of focus.
Then I realized it was actually the art.
Possibly by the time my eyeballs got down to the otter and dotter, the fonts had already damaged them.
“Dangerous territory”? What are they gonna do, cute us to death?
This is apparently a collection of 10-12 shorter works. One hopes they weren’t all about otters and damsels. Or too heavily “edited” by Flint.
@DSWBT: that work is included in this one; no telling whether the critters are actually more meerkat or more otter. Or where her bikini went between 1971 and 2001. Or when she got the bleach job. Or how @Tag Wizard’s previous “pole weapons” and “spear” became “walking stick”.
@BC: good poem, sir!
September 8th, 2017 at 1:10 pm
There has to be a contractual clause at Baen, stating that
“The required minimum number of words in a blurb is 5 (five).”
‘Cos someone really phoned in that blurb…
September 8th, 2017 at 1:48 pm
@AR: a remarkable observation, but can you turn it into a haiku?
September 8th, 2017 at 4:04 pm
@DSWBT—
word requirement,
to grace the sci-fi cover
at minimum, five
September 8th, 2017 at 4:14 pm
Next to the S in ‘Dangerous’ there’s a tiny missile flying off to the right. Have the otters got ICBMs and only use the spears to fool their opponents into thinking that they’re cure and defenceless?
September 8th, 2017 at 4:48 pm
@Tat Wood—I think that tiny rocket is North Korea playing missile games to freak out the otters. “We are not in fear of your puny weapons. We have SHAD—Spear High Altitude Defense—and will annihilate you, furry vermin!”
September 8th, 2017 at 5:27 pm
@B.Chiclitz: if that’s so then the two otters and a girl not wearing much have swum from the US to Seoul. Possibly in under four minutes if the missile is still on an upward trajectory.
That’s a story I might consider reading.
September 8th, 2017 at 6:48 pm
@Tat Wood—I hear the Supreme Leader does that routinely, although for the sake of the mental health of aquatic life, I hope he wears more than she is wearing.
September 8th, 2017 at 11:28 pm
That right eye of hers is over sized and doesn’t quite track with the left one.
September 11th, 2017 at 4:47 am
@Yoss: Look, she was raised by otters with ICBMs, which implies nuclear material. It’s surprising she’s not even
otterodder-looking.September 24th, 2017 at 1:46 am
It’s a slow week-end, so I’ll go for the low-hanging fruit: has no one else observed that Mr. Otter and Mrs. Otter and their dotter are in the wotter?
September 24th, 2017 at 6:07 am
This just seems so desperate and sad…
“Invade at your own risk! This is dangerous territory, this is! We know how to swim! And we have otters!
Er… KILLER OTTERS OF DOOM!! WITH POINTED STICKS!!!
…hey guys, do you think we scared them off?”
September 24th, 2017 at 12:34 pm
@RachelJotter: it is essential that one be able to defend one’s self from pointed sticks. And fresh fruit.
September 25th, 2017 at 7:25 am
@Rachel: Soooo dangerous! Pointy sticks* and aquatic mammals. And a sign that says “BEWARE OF OTTER”.
The only danger is if while you’re going “aww, how cute!” they really do have an ICBM… but then they’d nuke someone far away. And you’d still be standing there laughing at otter and dotter.
Unless dotter is in fact part of the Great Mermaid Conspiracy…
*Not walking sticks.
November 18th, 2017 at 4:56 pm
Been reading the site for a while and at last feel brave enough to post a comment …
I remember these stories from when they were first published in Analog in (I think) the late 60s.Ms Otter-dottir and the otters live on a colony panet that’s mostly shallow sea. Her name is Nile Etland and she has a PhD and does research stuff. The otters are her helpers. Human size and have proper hands etc. ISTR that one of them is called Sweeting. The planet has been landed on by an alien race with Bad Intentions. Dr Etland and the otters discourage them. In the course of that Sweeting proves to be adept at underwater demolition with high explosive.
Not great literature but quite good fun.I have something of a soft spot for Schmitz (anyone who can invent the gorgeous alien psi assassin Pagadan in one of his other stories must have something).
November 18th, 2017 at 9:56 pm
@Longtime_Lurker – Lurk no more! Welcome to the yakfest.
November 20th, 2017 at 1:34 am
@L_L: One. Of. Us.!
Thanks for the info about the plot. Seems the cover doesn’t even have the “that’s actually a scene in the book” excuse.
So the previous non-Baen cover was not only less-gaudy, but more accurate.
Quel surprise.
October 15th, 2021 at 2:31 am
Real-life sea otters are masters of demolition, fortunately they don’t know about high explosives.
June 30th, 2023 at 5:12 pm
‘invade at your own risk’….is there a legal form you have to sign? Do they show you gruesome high school driver’s ed class type footage of previous invasion attempts to try and dissuade you from the attempt?