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Good Show Sir Comments: It’s a Two-Fer Tuesday – German Sex-Robot Extravaganza!
1. From the Asimov After Dark collection.
2. Miss Mavis Ming has undergone quite a transformation.
Published 1990 and 1984
Thanks to Erika for sending these in.
(Average: 6.51 out of 10)
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May 30th, 2017 at 10:31 am
#1: “Sorry, that is a bit cold, I’ll run myself under the hot tap…”
#2: You can put lipstick on a robot, but you can’t make it whistle. Is that right?
May 30th, 2017 at 11:33 am
Achtung! Die Schkwisschenmädchen haben grosse Zungeschlorppe mit die Sorayamamekka!
May 30th, 2017 at 11:59 am
@TagZauberer: Es gibt eine Eule zwischen <<Science>> und <<Fiction>>.
May 30th, 2017 at 1:21 pm
#2: Trump’s fantasy of how the meeting with Merkel went last week.
May 30th, 2017 at 1:31 pm
@BC: Some things cannot be unseen, DAMN YOU! 😉
May 30th, 2017 at 1:36 pm
Sorry, have to get back to my investigation of Alberto Vargas artwork.
May 30th, 2017 at 2:04 pm
Whoa! Miss Mavis Ming has thighs like a T.Rex. Proportional issues maybe?
May 30th, 2017 at 2:32 pm
Kirkus review of book 1.
‘How obnoxious is he? Well, among other things he likes to masturbate while being interviewed on TV.’
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/david-j-skal-2/antibodies/
May 30th, 2017 at 3:07 pm
Soundtrack for #2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkePDOeK964
@Bibliomancer: it’s perspective – she’s trying to attack the artist.
May 30th, 2017 at 3:19 pm
This soundtrack works for both today’s covers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DBc5NpyEoo
When I read today was “German Sex Robot Extravaganza” I thought to myself: I read a lot of blogs, but only GSS provides the content I need to stay informed and get through my day.
Good Show Sir!
May 30th, 2017 at 3:23 pm
Their son.
May 30th, 2017 at 3:28 pm
@DSWBT – Their son they don’t like to talk about.
May 30th, 2017 at 3:39 pm
@THX:
‘You know how to whistle, don’t you, Stevebot?
import mouth
import air
ans = True
while ans:
if lips.together == 0;
grep lips|mv /together
elif lips.together == 1;
mv air.obj /dev/null
sys.exit()'
May 30th, 2017 at 4:00 pm
The question is whether one would be embarrassed to be seen reading these on a German bus.
May 30th, 2017 at 4:35 pm
I’ve mentioned this work before, but for those Jungen und Mädchen who wish to explore this trope or meme more deeply, IMHO nobody has done it better than Zappa. Check out this little ditty from Joe’s Garage where Joe is about to enter a dark night of the soul after hooking up with a Pan-Sexual Roto-Plooker named SY BORG.
May 30th, 2017 at 4:59 pm
#1 I feel the more fleshy of the two has possibly dislocated her shoulder. Goodness only knows what’s happened to her hip.
#2 Oh wait, there’s the missing hip!
May 30th, 2017 at 6:01 pm
Is making love to a robot a common fantasy for Germans? Because judging by these covers, it is.
May 30th, 2017 at 6:39 pm
@AnnaT: I’ve visited Berlin, and everyone seemed normal enough. Mind you, I was only there for five days, so I didn’t talk to anyone about Sechs. 🙂
May 30th, 2017 at 7:09 pm
What I’m taking away from these covers is, robot sex is not all that sexy.
May 30th, 2017 at 8:40 pm
@Raoul: I think this might also work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwaxWoJPUC0
May 30th, 2017 at 9:38 pm
I must have missed the sexy Asimov stories. Ironically, he died of A.I.D.S..
May 31st, 2017 at 2:06 pm
Number one’s enough to put a man off lesbian porn for life. I’m not sure what sort of sex is going on in number 2 but I’m off that too.
May 31st, 2017 at 8:54 pm
I think Miss Mavis Ming deserves a Sir Mix-a-Lot tag.
WTF does #1 have to do with Asimov? His robots were never sexy. His books didn’t have sex in them. Huh.. apparently he wrote the forward — did he read the book? Did he know his name was gonna be in such large type? Because from that Kirkus review, this was… not the sorta thing Isaac dug.
Perhaps some German anti-sex-robot league commissioned these covers. Certainly off-putting to me as well.
May 31st, 2017 at 9:31 pm
@GSS ex-noob – Baby got back!
May 31st, 2017 at 10:58 pm
@GSS – I seem to recall some of Asimov’s books in the 70’s containing sex*.
* and robots**
** but not necessarily both at the same time.
May 31st, 2017 at 11:28 pm
‘Fe + 3O2 + 2H2O = 2Fe2O3H2O’
‘Oh, you like it rough, do you?’
June 1st, 2017 at 10:38 pm
@DSWBT: Eh, she’s a little rusty.
June 6th, 2017 at 1:44 am
Whoa, these covers currently stand at #1, ahead of the screaming guy of “Wheels” and our old pal ISTBE centaur!
March 12th, 2021 at 1:13 pm
“Kirkus review of book 1.
‘How obnoxious is he? Well, among other things he likes to masturbate while being interviewed on TV.’
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/david-j-skal-2/antibodies/”
Kind of hard to take the review seriously when the writer and/or editor don’t know the difference between “forth” and “fourth.”
March 12th, 2021 at 1:29 pm
Well, this is a great way to end a GSS week that was the equivalent of taking a cold shower every morning.
March 12th, 2021 at 1:35 pm
Domo arigato, sexo roboto.
March 12th, 2021 at 2:54 pm
Two obvious Spring 1999 pop videos for #1 but they’re oddly hard to find: the pictures from this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtLCMVtyxqU went with a different mix of the song and Add N to (X)’s animated ‘Metal Fingers in My Body’ is now completely absent. (The first minute is at the end of this ripe speciment on late-night Channel 4 from the 90s, about 4:30 in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oRrqPo6HGY)
Cover #2 is the reason ‘WandaVision’ is only seven episodes long.
March 12th, 2021 at 3:32 pm
@Tat: Try https://vimeo.com/180205024 (very NSFW) – that’s the second result when searching Google for ‘Metal Fingers in My Body’ and choosing “Videos” at the top…
March 12th, 2021 at 4:00 pm
@Tat Wood
Gary Numan’s electric friend springs to mind as well.
There’s also Chrome’s 1979 album Half Machine Lip Moves, which is probably the only concept album about robot hookers ever recorded. Not sure if that one came out before or after the Zappa album with the song Raul mentioned on it, though…
March 12th, 2021 at 4:50 pm
@Max B—If it’s Joe’s Garage you’re thinking of, it was originally released in 1979 also. I guess it was part of the, er, zeitgeist of the time.
March 12th, 2021 at 5:19 pm
@B. Chiclitz
Thanks. To be honest, there’s so much Zappa, I always wonder how anybody can manage to keep track of it all.
Chrome, Numan and Zappa. Maybe they were inspired by somebody else? I think that Kraftwerk album with them in red on the cover and the song about robots came out the year before…
March 12th, 2021 at 10:02 pm
And so “German Norks” week concludes as it began.
GSS!!! to Admin and Tag. Really one of your primo theme weeks.
@Max: On #2, she’s getting Zappa’d by a Chrome Numan, right?
March 13th, 2021 at 1:05 am
#1: the US cover was distinctly less pervy: http://www.monstershow.net/images/Antibodies_paper_cover-x_small.jpg
#2: Shocking twist! Mavis is the robot, post-transformation.
March 13th, 2021 at 1:09 am
Apparently the author is a cultural historian of horror, which makes the book as described very much on brand.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_J._Skal
March 13th, 2021 at 5:16 am
@Max B—Well, to be honest, I was never too into the whole Kraftwerk, Numan technopop genre, though I enjoyed some of it. I think Zappa was playing off it or parodying it, since he sets that particular song in German (then sings it again in English) on Joe’s Garage. But as far as machine sex goes, it was in fact one of Zappa’s “conceptual continuities” throughout his whole career.
For example:
“A gypsy mutant industrial vacuum cleaner dances about a mysterious night time camp fire. Festoons. Dozens of imported castanets, clutched by the horrible suction of its heavy duty hose, waving with marginal erotic abandon in the midnight autumn air.” (Chunga’s Revenge [1970] sleeve note.)
Reveries involving industrial vacuums seem to have been one of his favorite erogenous zones, although in Joe’s Garage it gets a bit more “poetic” as Joe swoons,
Joe:
This is exciting
I never plooked
A tiny chrome-plated machine
That looks like a magical pig
With marital aids stuck all over it
Such as yourself before
March 13th, 2021 at 6:13 pm
@B. Chiclitz
Sounds like Zappa was definitely there first, then. My bad.
March 13th, 2021 at 7:13 pm
@Max B—Not at all. On GSS the only bad things are the covers! And even they’re great. Everything else is just grist for the mill. 😉
March 14th, 2021 at 12:57 am
The covers this week were so … uh… *gestures feebly* that truly, only Zappa could conceptualize the whole… uh… *gestures again*
Uberzeigeist, maybe?
March 14th, 2021 at 3:47 am
Uber zeitgeist: the defining spirit of delivery drivers?
March 14th, 2021 at 9:11 pm
@Bruce AM—GSS! 😉