Mar 31
Click for larger imageMarvin Comments: It seems there is some arse in his future.
Published 1958
(Average: 5.89 out of 10)
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Marvin Comments: It seems there is some arse in his future.
Published 1958
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March 31st, 2020 at 11:31 am
Sequel to Binliner?
March 31st, 2020 at 12:30 pm
There’s the future where everything looks blue; the one where everything looks red; then there’s the green one. You get the picture.
March 31st, 2020 at 1:17 pm
Tic-Tac-Joe
March 31st, 2020 at 2:06 pm
Corgi Books – the favorite treat for your best friend!
March 31st, 2020 at 2:07 pm
John Richards: Learnt about Cubism. Didn’t learn how to draw feet*.
*Picasso could totally draw feet even if he sometimes had non-standard views on where they should be located.
March 31st, 2020 at 2:25 pm
Followed by Pantyliner.
March 31st, 2020 at 2:44 pm
Kenneth More – Time-Master.
March 31st, 2020 at 5:33 pm
Have to call bullshit on this. Tom Swift would be the one to build and use the Electro- Atomic Trebuchet Time Slinger.
March 31st, 2020 at 6:09 pm
“You’d be surprised what some men will do to catch sight of a beautiful body.”
March 31st, 2020 at 6:23 pm
@Fred: its a UK imprint, costing half a crown, so ‘catapult’ means a Y-shaped bit of wood with elastic, hand held to propel pebbles through windows, as used by either the original Dennis the Menace* or the American one. ‘Slingshot’ doesn’t work as a verb.
And Tom Swift would run a mile from a naked lady.
(*By a whole seven hours – the one in The Beano was officially revealed on the same day but America’s in a later time-zone.)
March 31st, 2020 at 10:55 pm
A wondrous future where a naked woman refuses to face him, so a small dog brings him some cheap reading material.
@Tat: “Slingshotted” might also be the verb, and that’s dreadful. The first “slingshot maneuver” for spacecraft didn’t happen until the next year, and I don’t think the term was in common parlance till decades later, when we started sending so many probes to the outer planets.
Mind you, if you’re launching an entire human through an entire chain of futures, you might need a proper medieval-sized catapult. A Dennis-sized one isn’t going to even be enough to launch the corgi.
March 31st, 2020 at 11:03 pm
@Tat W—Tom Swift might indeed flee from a naked lady, but I’m not so sure about that randy little Tom Swift Junior.
March 31st, 2020 at 11:08 pm
Can someone explain why the “f” in “Master of Science fiction” is lower case? You think maybe they wanted us to believe the author had earned an advanced science degree but then had to ‘fess up sotto voce? Like, hey, it’s CHARLES ERIC MAINE! MASTER OF SCIENCE . . . er, fiction.
April 1st, 2020 at 12:07 am
Perhaps he was catapulted using the device depicted on the cover of A Maze of Death?
April 1st, 2020 at 2:33 am
Guyliner?
April 1st, 2020 at 11:17 am
@Hammy: Not on THAT guy, and definitely not in 1958!
April 2nd, 2020 at 11:41 pm
Tom Swift must have been with a lady at least once to produce Tom Jr.
But they remained fully clothed in the dark, maybe.
Or Jr. is just a clone produced by manly science, none of that associating with girls nonsense.
April 3rd, 2020 at 2:08 am
Tom Swift Junior comes from the same factory that gave the famously celebate Cliff Richard a son in ‘Thunderbirds Are Go!’ and also somehow produced simulacra of Hank Marvin, Tony Meehan, Bruce Welsh and Jet Harris.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VmC4VowqDM they cut this bit when they show the film on American telly, even though it’s the main thing we remember).
April 3rd, 2020 at 5:27 pm
I watched Thunderbirds are Go! many times on UK t.v. while growing up and I’d forgotten the Cliff jr. & the Shadows bit. Hard to understand how. Hilarious now. Possible inspiration for Elon Musk. He was upset that his engineers couldn’t launch the guitar. The moon is a banana and Cliff has smoked it.
It’s incontrovertible proof that the first man on the Moon was British and he got there in a Rolls Royce.
April 3rd, 2020 at 10:13 pm
@Tat: for once I can only cheer the American censors. That’d scar the children for life, it would, as well as adding nothing to the plot of Rescuing Internationally. Ads for plastic toys and sugary cereals can only have been an improvement.
And also, because we are all about the pedantic here, the Dennisi would have been launched 5 hours apart, not 7.