Mar 26
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Click for larger imageWe received two different covers of the same book last week. You know what that means:
It’s a Two-Fer Tuesday: Operation Time Search Party!
FluffyGhostKitten Comments: “Rhodes is that way.”
The Bookkeeper Comments: Let me defend myself! Unchain me! Give me a salt shaker!
Published 1977, 1981
(Average: 7.69 out of 10)
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March 26th, 2019 at 9:46 am
1: If that ever does shit a brick, I wouldn’t be in the least surprised. Or want to be sailing under it.
2: Losing a lettuce is easier than bringing it back.
March 26th, 2019 at 12:28 pm
1. “Don’t look up!”
2. Perhaps the funniest thing I’ve ever encountered on GSS is trying to imagine Commonweal magazine’s idea of a high tension thriller!
March 26th, 2019 at 12:34 pm
“Losing a man is easier than bringing him back.”—Mae West
March 26th, 2019 at 1:01 pm
“Losing a man is easier than bringing him back” — Melisandre
March 26th, 2019 at 2:13 pm
The cover blurbs on book reprintings SHOULD be interchangeable and not cause a laugh riot.
March 26th, 2019 at 2:33 pm
“The Colonoscopy of Rhodes”
March 26th, 2019 at 2:50 pm
#1 “Hey guys I’ve just had a great idea about where we can mount our defensive cannon.”
#2 “What are you going to do? Slime me to death?”
March 26th, 2019 at 4:27 pm
1. This shows the origin of the phrase ‘poop-deck’.
2. “Losing a man is easier than bringing him back” – Miss Piggy.
March 27th, 2019 at 12:06 am
#1: so this is set during that brief period Rhodes was run by Martians with absolutely no taste in hats?
#2: the worst part of being fed to the giant slugs is the anticipation. The loooong anticipation.
Can’t quite see how the guy is tied up: is his hair chained to the bullhead’s nose ring?
March 27th, 2019 at 12:51 am
Goodnight, Danny Trejo.
March 27th, 2019 at 2:09 am
@Francis Boyle @7:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL4daLoOybw
Now imagine that piece of wood is your junk.
March 27th, 2019 at 3:20 am
1. I don’t recall Rhodes being made out of empty fancy perfume bottles.
2. You’d have to spend a LOT of time searching for the point at which people and ridiculously huge slugs existed simultaneously. Or is the man very small?
I can only conclude that both covers were modeled using the contents of a toy chest and random objects around the house on a wet, cold afternoon when nobody wanted to go out to play. Being dolls would explain why both the Colossus and the slug sacrifice are dickless and non-papillial.
March 27th, 2019 at 3:28 am
“Losing a man is easier than bringing him back . . . especially after he’s been rasped to death by a giant slug.”—Jessica the Naturalist
(Who seems to be having way too much fun rasping away at that poor junk wood.)
March 27th, 2019 at 6:17 am
@BC: Perhaps Naturalist Jessica had just suffered a bad break-up and was imagining what @Bruce suggested.
Or maybe she’s an avid woodworker.
Or she just could be one of those disgustingly perky people.
(Having had to deal with one during my recent medical misadventures…)
Broken leg update: Still hurts. All the good drugs are gone. Seems to be working better, though I’m not allowed to walk on it still. 1-kilo Mad Max brace ever more annoying.
March 27th, 2019 at 6:56 am
@Bruce
Tell this guy.
March 27th, 2019 at 12:27 pm
@GSSxn—perhaps a skillfully applied slug-rasp could help with the itching? Best wishes for continued recovery!
March 27th, 2019 at 3:39 pm
In the second book it looks like the slug punched the guy in the gut with one of it’s tentacles, and somehow managed to cause his tummy to cave in…That must have been one super (but slow) punch!
March 27th, 2019 at 5:13 pm
@Anti-Sceptic: One Punch Slug?
March 27th, 2019 at 11:10 pm
@A-S, Bruce: LOL.
@BC: I’m certain slugs aren’t covered by my insurance.
(I’m discovering the limits of my insurance coverage every day. Insert Munch’s “The Scream” here.)
I am allowed to shower and thus occasionally vigorously scratch the area around the incision. And I certainly do. Scratching was the first thing I did when I got the cast off.
March 28th, 2019 at 8:05 pm
@BAM #18….Yes, I think you could be correct.
March 29th, 2019 at 11:25 pm
The helmet on the Colossal Statue guy looks far too small to contain his head.
And, for the second book, the agonized victim’s chest is bizarrely hollow, and I mean bizarre. He seems to be shrinking away from the touch of the tentacle to a ridiculous degree.
As an artist, though, I’m in love with all the detail in the bubbles of the giant slug’s slime. Very good rendition there.
September 25th, 2019 at 12:33 pm
Guide: “And now we’re passing beneath the famous Colossus of Rhodos… and if you look up, you can just make out the famous Balls of Rhodos… and now we’re right underneath the Anus of Rhodos…”
September 25th, 2019 at 11:21 pm
It was the start of Giant Football Season, so the Colossus of Rhodes practiced his referee signals. Here he indicates “First Down”.
(The sword indicates this decision won’t be overturned easily, even though he’s signaling with the wrong arm.)
Either that or he’s about to turn left and is informing the city behind him.