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Good Show Sir Comments: Faux-nan knows how to bring the Ting!
Published 1972
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Good Show Sir Comments: Faux-nan knows how to bring the Ting!
Published 1972
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July 21st, 2016 at 10:58 am
The WTF? demeanours of the dinos is what makes this cover.
July 21st, 2016 at 11:35 am
OK. I’ve seen enough tiny dinosaurs now to add a new tag: dino-mites.
Send me links to more of these critters and I’ll tag ’em and bag ’em.
July 21st, 2016 at 12:00 pm
‘Thane of the Two Swords’? Is that supposed to be him on the cover?
July 21st, 2016 at 12:05 pm
It just hit me…that because Akira Toriyama never wrote sword-n-sorcery…and Lin Carter never wrote Dragonball Z…the world forever will have a void…
*drinks cuppa and stares out window*
July 21st, 2016 at 12:08 pm
♫ Hold me closer, tiny dinosaur
You’ll be roadkill on the highway ♫
July 21st, 2016 at 12:58 pm
Modesty Stegosaurus?
July 21st, 2016 at 1:09 pm
Thane of Two Swords: warrior, hero, toy dinosaur collector.
July 21st, 2016 at 1:11 pm
Big deal Thane, Thongor can also count to two.
http://omerveilles.com/couverture-1711-carter-lin-thongor-et-le-magicien-de-lemurie.jpg
July 21st, 2016 at 1:13 pm
Look at the awkward way he holds both swords. Maybe he needs to put one down and work on his technique. Walk before you crawl.
July 21st, 2016 at 1:35 pm
Two things, my lord, must thee know of Thane of the Two Swords. First…he has swords…
July 21st, 2016 at 1:55 pm
I’ll wager he’d have a lot easier time crossing the Abyss of the Ages if he’d sprung for the full human leg prostheses instead of the mismatched toy dinosaur model, even if he is saving some gold in the short term.
July 21st, 2016 at 3:22 pm
I think I can see the reflection of the artist in one of the swords…rookie mistake.
July 21st, 2016 at 3:26 pm
‘Thane’, a good old Anglo-Saxon title. If his mum called him that, rather than the local king, it’s like the boy called ‘Marshall’ who never got picked to play football in the school playground. Or, at best, Screaming Lord Sutch.
Or Queen Latifah.
(Or Prince, in which case the dinosaurs must be minuscule).
July 21st, 2016 at 3:31 pm
Thane the Brain there has no legs, therefore no place to hang a scabbard, therefore he has to just stand there holding those swords (can’t put one down or he would no longer be “Thane of the Two Swords” but merely “Thane of the One Sword”), therefore the bemused tiny dinos simply have to wait for the right moment to strike at the vulnerable tickle zones under his armpits. I think they’re about to attack.
July 21st, 2016 at 3:32 pm
@Tat:
‘Mr. Thane, the doctor will see you now.’
‘It’s pronounced “Thah-NAY”.’
July 21st, 2016 at 3:34 pm
@Tag Wizard—”dino-mites” is brilliant! I know it’s a bit esoteric, but that blurb deserves a “tortured syntax” tag.
July 21st, 2016 at 5:42 pm
Is that guy a giant who eats whole dinosaurs for lunch or what?
Also, he’s clearly had some sub-par weapons training.
July 21st, 2016 at 5:50 pm
It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that ting
(doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah)
You’re just gonna fall if you got no legs at all
(doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah)
It makes no difference
If it’s one sword or two
Those little tiny dinos
Got no respect for you, ’cause
It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that ting
(doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah)
July 21st, 2016 at 6:11 pm
No, no, no, Thane! You’re supposed to jump out of a birthday cake!
July 21st, 2016 at 6:16 pm
Don’t forget to tag Lost Worlds of Cronus TW!
http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=11558
July 21st, 2016 at 7:04 pm
I think I’ve got it: instead of legs he has a little trolley and he propels himself with swords but now that he has to out-run a forest fire he needs tiny dinos to pull him along.
Having two from the same species might be a better idea; if T Rex goes faster than Steggy he’ll go round in circles and get his hair burned.
July 21st, 2016 at 11:24 pm
The dinosaurs have become quite blase about giant glowy visions of conquering barbarian heroes.
July 21st, 2016 at 11:37 pm
Dinosaur Beach features an undersized trex that just can’t compete with all the phallic imagery on the cover.
In Lights of Zetar, a tiny winged dinosaur cavorts beneath a man’s armpit.
July 21st, 2016 at 11:49 pm
Done and Done.
July 22nd, 2016 at 12:42 pm
@Tat: like this guy?
July 22nd, 2016 at 6:12 pm
Having watched a few Historical European Martial Arts videos, I can confidently inform you that wielding two swords may look badass, but one sword and a shield is much better for winning a fight.
Do we have a “dual wielding” tag?
August 12th, 2016 at 3:26 pm
More dino-mites?
August 12th, 2016 at 5:41 pm
@RachelJ: I presume that those are Zartiwegians.
NB: my spell-checker keeps flagging ‘Zartiwegians’, so the proper term may be ‘Zartivians’, or even ‘Zartiuonans’. This is what comes from having your dictionary set to American English, I suppose.
October 8th, 2019 at 9:08 am
“Tonight’s guest is ‘Two Swords’ Jackson…”
January 7th, 2023 at 9:03 pm
“Today on Barbarian Chef: forest fire grilled mini-dinosaurs! First, roughly chop your dinosaurs…”
January 9th, 2023 at 12:29 am
@Bruce may have it right. He could be standing behind a small hillock or mound (thus no legs appearing) which he’s using for a work surface upon which he will hack ye dino-mites into gobbets before cooking. I suppose he could then shish kebab them upon one of his swords.
@Tat (13): Only one of the dinos is purple, so that one might be Prince’s.
Queen Latifah and Duke Ellington adopted their names as adults, because “Dana” and “Edward” are not cool enough for rap or jazz musical stardom.
I did go to high school with a boy whose parents afflicted him with the name “Marshall Dillon”. Yes, just like “Gunsmoke”. He was, naturally, short and slight and shy and not at all sporty. Our class didn’t tease him because even as feckless teens, we knew he’d had enough.. When I met him, the first thing I said was “Wow, do you hate your parents for that name?” and we were firm friends the rest of the year.
(It was a great class: we were outside the school in a “temporary” trailer, so the usual rules were suspended. You could eat or drink and cuss, or chew tobacco. We worked out a compromise on the radio station the first week — every other day switching between rock for suburban kids and country for ranch kids. So we all learned each other’s songs and sang along. Occasionally with profane alteration of lyrics, because feckless teens.)
January 9th, 2023 at 8:55 pm
Ah, yes, I have to be careful when absently singing some old songs so that I don’t accidentally revert to the “school” lyrics.
January 10th, 2023 at 10:32 pm
@Tor: All the way back to “Jingle Bells, Batman Smells” in kindergarten.
Anything in rock or some country that was top of the charts that year, I may or may not know the actual words to. That was the last class of the day, too, so we were all mentally halfway out the door already and the atmosphere encouraged it.
I say the trailer was “temporary” because I know it was there a year or more before I arrived, and at least 5 years after I graduated. The school ended up being too small the moment it opened…