Sep 10
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Click for larger imageIt’s a Two-fer Tuesday:
The Sun Grows Cold: Someone Remind the Cover Artists
Pish Posh Comments: The Sun Grows Cold But We Refuse to Put On Jumpers
Good Show Sir Comments: The Sun Grows Cold But Still We Melt
Published 1972, 1974
(Average: 7.00 out of 10)
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(9.25 out of 10)
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September 10th, 2019 at 9:24 am
#1:”We must solve this problem or lose our tans.”
#2: “I just flew back from the sun, and boy are my arms tired.”
September 10th, 2019 at 9:56 am
1: “And here we are in Mallorca… and this is when we holidayed in Crete… oh, and here’s where the sun grew cold…”
2: This artist can’t draw for toffee. But he can draw toffee.
September 10th, 2019 at 9:57 am
BERK! FEED ME!
September 10th, 2019 at 10:25 am
@THX 1139: I think it’s meant to be ice, although it does look more like toffee, candle wax, or possibly soft-serve ice cream.Also, the sun seems to have turned into a supermassive black hole (if I remember “Interstellar” correctly [1]). Perhaps they tried topping it off the cooling sun with fresh fuel and they overdid it by a few thousand stellar masses?
[1] Looks like I did: https://www.wired.com/2014/10/astrophysics-interstellar-black-hole/
September 10th, 2019 at 12:18 pm
1. [It was just like my old sick dying pet dog] I couldn’t put it down! — [Super] Mario Puzo
2. These Halloween candles are creeping me out.
September 10th, 2019 at 12:55 pm
1. “Hey Babe, thanks for keeping my shady side warm.” , said young Albert Finney.
2. So much for Endless Summer. No sun, no surf, and the surfer turns to sand.
September 10th, 2019 at 1:06 pm
‘ Successful on its galvanic terms.’ – Kirkus Review
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/howard-berk/the-sun-grows-cold/
Wonder what an unsuccessful on its galvanic terms book would be like.
September 10th, 2019 at 1:36 pm
Well we’ve got cheesy bad and pretentious bad. You pays your money and you takes your. . . wait a minute I’m not paying money for either of these.
September 10th, 2019 at 2:32 pm
Cover #2 brings back childhood memories… of toy soldiers and matches…
September 10th, 2019 at 3:26 pm
@ARY: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HB0HcINjWs
September 10th, 2019 at 4:09 pm
Howard Berk. A one hit wonder gets a two-fer.
September 10th, 2019 at 6:05 pm
” . . . I couldn’t put it down.”—Mario Puzo
Dell finally figures out how to infuse superglue into its covers.
September 10th, 2019 at 6:31 pm
1. They printed it upside-down: it’s supposed to be waxworks of Val Kilmer and Susan Oliver dropping onto an airstrip to stop it cracking when ice forms.
2. If they’d shown the brass monkey fron the front we’d know exactly how cold it was.
September 11th, 2019 at 12:14 am
No.1 Could do with a ” Am i bothered,thou , does this face look bothered ” tag .
September 11th, 2019 at 1:19 am
Cover 2: “I’ll stop the world and melt with you” sounded a lot better as a song lyric.
September 11th, 2019 at 3:30 am
#1: The sun grows cold, and we have a giant game of Guitar Hero. We’ve lost our shirts at it.
September 11th, 2019 at 5:46 am
1.
Sex will never
Be the same
When the sun grows cold
On hunk and dame
2.
Do you dream
Of being svelte?
The sun grows cold
And soon you’ll melt
—Burma Shave
September 11th, 2019 at 12:18 pm
Q: What that’s huge gadget hanging over the heads of the nude couple on cover #1?
A: IBM’s prototype smartphone from 1972.
September 11th, 2019 at 11:52 pm
@BC: GSS! I was enjoying the verses and the last line was perfect.
Isn’t Berk an insult in British? Could that have inspired cover #2? The melting person could be looking at the text and saying “Howard, you berk!”
September 12th, 2019 at 12:43 am
@GSS xn: Berk is Cockney rhyming slang, “Berkeley Hunt”. Though curiously, a berk is not really what that rhymes with, they’re more like a galoot.
September 12th, 2019 at 1:56 am
@THX, GSSxN: I thought it was ‘Berkshire’ (which doesn’t even sound like ‘berk’). The voiced plosive labial makes it more satisfying to say than ‘jerk’, the US equivalent in terms of offensiveness. (Yes, obviously a word with that derivation ought to be more scathing but, after a while, everyone forgot where it came from and it became a sort of G-rated swear-word for school playgrounds and sitcoms.)
Gene Barry never sussed that we were all laughing at him.
September 12th, 2019 at 11:42 am
@Tat: I just looked this up in an actual book, and it says it could derive from either Berkeley or Berkshire. The swear remains the same!
August 18th, 2020 at 12:59 am
“…So this is us – oh, sorry about the alien invasion, er, you saw that on the news, right? Yeah, the hotel cancelled the bingo right off. Great shame.”