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Click for full imageBob M Comments: Professor, wait! That’s not a banana! That’s NOT a banana!
Published 1980
(Average: 7.78 out of 10)
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Bob M Comments: Professor, wait! That’s not a banana! That’s NOT a banana!
Published 1980
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August 22nd, 2013 at 9:46 am
Planet of the Capes!
Even gorillas use Powerpoint.
August 22nd, 2013 at 10:32 am
‘And, yes, I do fasten my cape with a Probability Brooch …’
August 22nd, 2013 at 11:10 am
This is a book that I could never get over the cover to read. Although it sounded conceptually interesting, the cover looked too much like “Planet of the Apes” meets the U.S. Congress (let the fun times roll…).
@Adam Roberts: My dad had this sitting on the end of one of his bookshelves, so I saw this book almost every day when I was growing up. When I learned what a “brooch” was, I thought the things holding the ape’s cape on was what the title was referring to!
August 22nd, 2013 at 11:31 am
“Order! Order! Will the meeting come to order, so we can elect the next GOP Presidential contender!”
August 22nd, 2013 at 11:59 am
“I hereby call this congress to an end. Now who wants ice cream?”
August 22nd, 2013 at 12:52 pm
Sequels included “The Chaos Clasp” and “The Tie Clip of Eternity.”
I’m GLAD they put a monkey on the cover. That title is about as electrifying as “The Trouble With Lichen”.
August 22nd, 2013 at 1:16 pm
“Get your stinking laws off me, you damn dirty congressman!”
August 22nd, 2013 at 2:09 pm
Hey. Who do I have to blow to be able to post comments around here?
I’ve been getting 403 FORBIDDEN TO POST errors for two days. Hath I offended thee?
— Bibliomancer
August 22nd, 2013 at 2:13 pm
Speaker John Boehner finally crosses the tanning-booth safety threshold.
August 22nd, 2013 at 2:33 pm
“The next human who interrupts this Seventh Continental Congress will be dodging gorilla poop!”
August 22nd, 2013 at 3:07 pm
Hey Biblio, that’s odd indeed. Admin has emailed our genteel host to find out why the server thinks you’re a confirmed spammer.
Anyway, good to have you back, even if it means pretending that this Bilbo fellow actually is you and not just your stalker in a body suit.
August 22nd, 2013 at 3:37 pm
Biblio is not the only one with a problem. For the past week, I have been unable to post from my computer. The screen just goes blank and takes my comment with it. Site comes back a second later, no post. Yesterday I got weird error codes when I tried. If this post goes through, it will be the first time in over a week. My previous posts that went through were from my smartphone.
August 22nd, 2013 at 3:39 pm
Hello world.
Anyone seen my sock puppet?
@Tag Wizard – just posted using my usual name/email. I guess your server didn’t like my North Korean gulag IP address.
August 22nd, 2013 at 3:48 pm
Sorry about the double post. Symptom of problem.
August 22nd, 2013 at 3:50 pm
Yeah that’s what I thought. Just going through the spam bin now (and welcome back Stevie). Looks like comments coming through certain IP addresses have been automatically flagged as spam rather than as the fine hams we all know them to be.
August 22nd, 2013 at 3:50 pm
@Everybody — You might not be aware that Good Show Sir has a Chinese affiliated mirror website. It has a few (tasteful) ads on it but it is a lot easier to post comments there.
Check it out
August 22nd, 2013 at 3:53 pm
Deleted your double post Stevie, so now you look crazy! Ha!
Sometimes, if the gods smile upon you, if you delete your web browsers temporary cache it seems to help!
August 22nd, 2013 at 3:53 pm
Actually I’m wondering if those Pilz jokes were what set off the spam alarm in the first place 😉
August 22nd, 2013 at 4:18 pm
@Bibliomancer 16—you are da bomb! Fell right off my chair again.
August 22nd, 2013 at 5:17 pm
@ Biblio 16: the first Fanthorpe book made me laugh out loud. That’s how shallow I am.
August 22nd, 2013 at 5:18 pm
This cover raises some interesting possibilities for a “The Happy Hooker Goes To Washington” remake.
August 22nd, 2013 at 5:23 pm
@ Stevie T: I’ve never read this book either, but according to half-remembered hostile comments on Usenet, it sets the gold standard for Libertarian nuttiness. IIRC, whales with nukes come into it somewhere.
August 22nd, 2013 at 5:27 pm
Yes, Virginia, there IS a General Urko
August 22nd, 2013 at 7:32 pm
Now both Bibliomancer and Bilbo’s master are blocked from posting comments.
I guess GSS Admin really didn’t like my competing website.
— J.R.R. “Doc” Asimov
August 22nd, 2013 at 8:59 pm
Bìblìò,
The IP addresses we see next to your comments are shared with several other regulars who have, to our knowledge, been able to post without disruption. If clearing the browser caché didn’t help then I can only conclude that your Democratically Elected Administration is intercepting comments at source and you will be welcoming their representatives to your place of residence before too long. Meanwhile our best engineer is having a blazing hot curry while the Server Gerbil topples off its wheel for the nth time.
August 22nd, 2013 at 9:15 pm
@GSS Admin: Why thank you for making me look like a raving nutter (eye twitch, nervous laughter), but posting does seem to work now. Yay. Since Bibliomancer was the other one having a problem, I was starting to wonder if you had something against us yanks!
August 23rd, 2013 at 7:09 am
“Ape shall not filibuster ape! It is ape law.”
August 23rd, 2013 at 9:34 am
@David Cowie. This book is award-winning, you know. That is, it got an award for Libertarian Science-fiction, created (and won repeatedly) by– *ahem* –none other than L. Neil Smith himself.
I expect it’s a New York Times bestseller as well. (The ever-popular “Apes in Capes†category, no doubt.)
October 7th, 2013 at 7:27 pm
Reporter: “Dr. Zaeus, what are your thoughts on stiffer gun control?”
Dr. Zaeus: “As ‘Bright Eyes’ was once known to say: ‘You’ll have to take this gun from my cold dead hands’!”
November 24th, 2015 at 8:21 pm
“I salute you, Mein Ape Fuehrer!”
November 25th, 2015 at 1:04 am
“I’ll see your Probability Broach, and raise you a Verisimilitude Stickpin!”
November 25th, 2015 at 11:02 am
LOL! This is the cover that just keeps on giving.
🙂
November 25th, 2015 at 2:32 pm
“You there, in the back!”
“Hi, thanks Cape Ape, long time fan. I have less of a question, more of a comment…”
November 25th, 2015 at 3:35 pm
“Excuse me! I didn’t agree to be in an Apple commercial.“
February 16th, 2016 at 8:52 am
“Sir! Sir! Excuse me, sir, why are you not wearing any pants?”
“Get that insolent human out of here!”
April 11th, 2017 at 2:40 pm
IT WAS THE GATEWAY TO ANOTHER LIFESTYLE–AND AN EARTHLY DELIGHT FOR GOTH
THE PROBABILITY BOSCH
October 25th, 2019 at 10:25 pm
Still, a Gorilla President couldn’t be much worse…
March 24th, 2020 at 8:11 pm
“Mr. President, why did you dismiss the early warnings about the coronavirus epidemic?”
“Fake news!”
March 25th, 2020 at 1:42 am
In L Neil Smithtopia, the free market will take care of the virus. In fact, it has already tamed it, and the virus now clears up pimples, washes your dishes, and can be used as a delicious dessert topping.
March 26th, 2020 at 1:32 am
How about as a floor wax?