Apr 24
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Click for larger imageIt’s a Two-fer Tuesday: Worst of the Best from F&SF
Ace E. Doocy Comments:
1. The FBI Taint Team swings into action.
2. Better add a rocket or they’ll never know it’s science fiction.
Published 1962, 1975
(Average: 7.21 out of 10)
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(9.27 out of 10)
April 24th, 2018 at 11:13 am
1: “I’m pointing at the moon and you’re looking at the finger! I mean, c’mon!”
2: Based on the author’s observation of his five-year-old’s playtime.
April 24th, 2018 at 12:10 pm
1. “Hey look at me! I’m a fun guy!”
2. I’ll bet you 40¢ this is a Harry Turtledove short story.
April 24th, 2018 at 1:32 pm
1. Harlan Ellison’s shuriken is like the obelisk in 2001.
2. You try to arrest a Viking berserker on drunk-and-disorderly you get what you deserve.
April 24th, 2018 at 1:42 pm
@fred: I misread that as “Harlan Ellison’s shrunken like the obelisk in 2001”.
April 24th, 2018 at 2:11 pm
Well at least the second one has the historically accurate no-horns viking.
April 24th, 2018 at 4:32 pm
1st book: Because when your species evolves on a mushroom planet, you have a frog face, skeleton hands, a human body and a receding hairline. If I looked like that I’d want somebody’s skull on a pole, too.
2nd book: I like the random floating eyes. You could put them on almost anything and make it better. Greeting cards, wall art, t-shirts, chairs, the rear window of a car, the side of an airplane, your front door… Really, almost anything.
April 24th, 2018 at 4:51 pm
1. Needs a “big hands” tag, maybe a “big feet” tag also, or maybe “prehensile toes.”
2. Looks like another episode of the RAKET AND SKIBET show!
April 24th, 2018 at 5:35 pm
1: Frog-human hybrids created by mad science who live in a mushroom forest. Nope. Not visiting that planet.
2: I take it the eyes looming over all this belong to the person who created this anachronistic mishmash?
April 24th, 2018 at 5:50 pm
1. His butt looks like the face of Joe Camel.
2. I don’t remember there being a little green army man with a battle axe. Use your gun, moron.
April 24th, 2018 at 9:06 pm
Top book:
First frogman: Hey, kids, watch me spin the wheel of fortune.
Second frogman: Do what you want, Phinneas, but I ain’t placing no bets.
Third frogperson: God, I’m just not ready for a clothing-optional mushroom forest.
April 25th, 2018 at 12:34 am
I’d be less embarrassed (that’s the first one — bare-assed) to read the second on on the bus. So it got a worse cover 13 years later.
Pretty sure that first one is an outtake from Dark Crystal, or possibly from the pron parody thereof.
April 25th, 2018 at 3:10 am
@gssxn dark crystal porn parody…i’m dying
April 25th, 2018 at 9:06 am
[1] – “It’s just a jump to the left, and then a step to the right!”
[2] – Honestly, I’ve seen wackier Skyrim mods.
April 26th, 2018 at 3:52 am
@JuanPaul: There’s a porn movie of everything, esp. back in those days. Rule 34 didn’t start with the internet.
April 27th, 2018 at 9:18 pm
@JuanPaul #9….#1 – that is so true!
April 30th, 2018 at 6:43 am
1. “I hereby banish you to the land of the French!”
2. “Joe, don’t let him draw you into his kind of fight! Use a gunpowder weapon – don’t pay attention when he says it isn’t manly!”