Oct 16
Marvin Comments: “Trick or Treat!”
“And what are you supposed to be dressed as? A Klansman?”
“Uh, no. I’m an animated cloud!”
Published 1963
Marvin Comments: “Trick or Treat!”
“And what are you supposed to be dressed as? A Klansman?”
“Uh, no. I’m an animated cloud!”
Published 1963
October 16th, 2018 at 10:08 am
Ben Kingsley’s greatest role!
October 16th, 2018 at 12:03 pm
Forewarned, Ebenezer donned a hazmat suit before the Ghost of Christmas Food Poisoning made its visitation.
October 16th, 2018 at 1:07 pm
Which one is ‘the terror”?
October 16th, 2018 at 1:15 pm
So that’s a positive, then?
October 16th, 2018 at 1:41 pm
Trump, his forward comb over gone ghastly awry, attempts to inspire his base which, for the first time, appears to be getting a glimpse of the awful truth.
October 16th, 2018 at 2:48 pm
Even the Badger Books badger could use a little work. They really need to decide if they are going for cute badger (Frances) or fierce badger (honey). Bucky is the only badger I know to successfully straddle that line.
October 16th, 2018 at 3:22 pm
Ok kids, it’s time to play “Scramble the Simile.” Today’s entry:
The darkness swooped out of the cloud like an animated thing.
October 16th, 2018 at 4:20 pm
@B. Chiclitz – How about:
The thing swooped out of the other thing like a different thing
October 16th, 2018 at 6:13 pm
An the out cloud, like, animated the swooped-of-darkness thing.
October 16th, 2018 at 8:52 pm
Where are its enormous boobs???
Oh, sorry, I thought that said ‘anime cloud’.
October 17th, 2018 at 1:30 am
Badger Books and RL Fanthorpe? Be still my beating heart.
drlemaster@6: how about Badger from “Wind in the Willows?”
Tom Noir@10: don’t stereotype anime. There are also the flat-chested cloud girls who look ten in spite of being supposedly hundreds of years old.
October 17th, 2018 at 2:25 am
That is very Fanthorpean, in “art”, title, and blurb.
Negative minus what, RL?
The thing swooped out of the darkness like a guy who couldn’t afford a decent Halloween costume. (“I got a rock.”)
His eyes are terribly bloodshot. Lost his clothes somewhere in the drunken revel? Tossed the sheet over himself in shame after the toga party?
Badger wants nothing to do with this. He’s making a break for the edge of the book.
October 17th, 2018 at 7:36 pm
“I see that the new hair growth formula didn’t quite work as advertised for you either.”
October 18th, 2018 at 12:11 am
Come to think of it, the term “animated cloud” doesn’t really have the ring of terror, at least for the modern reader. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yOxx_4oOMs
Perhaps people were more scared of clouds sixty years ago?
October 21st, 2019 at 8:53 pm
Perhaps this blurb would have been a bit more effective:
The thing, born of darkness, moved like a living cloud”
Or how about going for brutal honesty:
The author’s prose swooped onto the page like a badly animated cartoon
November 7th, 2019 at 8:44 am
A little demon behind my ear made a naughty suggestion: “Change the book title to SECRETS OF Q ANON EXPOSED and sell it to Americans. Easy money!”
November 11th, 2019 at 6:14 pm
U.S. NATIVE MINGE
N.L. Rapefroth
Hairless woman helped a geek dude out of thin cottons and kit.
2/6: Conic feces in it
I found a rather nice anagram “not scenic if ice”, but sadly there’s no travel motif in this one.
November 12th, 2019 at 3:44 am
@anon: “Hairless woman helped a geek dude out of thin cottons and kit” is perfect.
I don’t know about conic feces, but I know wombats have cubic ones.