Dec 16
Ryan Comments: Ronald MacDonald was very pleased with himself: having divested himself of his clown outfit, he could still eat anything and show no ill-effects.
Published 1970
Ryan Comments: Ronald MacDonald was very pleased with himself: having divested himself of his clown outfit, he could still eat anything and show no ill-effects.
Published 1970
December 16th, 2019 at 10:21 am
If only unknown blurb guy had been around in the Sixteenth Century. Because “The Danish prince’s mission was to find and kill the usurper” would have sold Hamlet.
December 16th, 2019 at 11:05 am
Please, leave the ball pit, the children are getting upset.
December 16th, 2019 at 12:18 pm
Curses! THX beat me to the obvious pun.
😉
December 16th, 2019 at 12:19 pm
Thunderbirds are… BORED!!
December 16th, 2019 at 12:21 pm
Please kill Carrot Top first.
December 16th, 2019 at 12:45 pm
You know what would have made this cover better? A sword swallower.
December 16th, 2019 at 2:12 pm
@JP – The sword swallower is there.
He’s just below the balls.
December 16th, 2019 at 2:34 pm
The space spy’s space mission was to space find and space kill the space peace space makers.
There. Better.
December 16th, 2019 at 2:34 pm
Have they been swallowed? Because the environment looks a bit throatish.
December 16th, 2019 at 2:44 pm
@THX & ARY – I think Tweet Jane beat you both to the punch(line).
https://twitter.com/GoodShowSir/status/1206563375578112007
December 16th, 2019 at 3:09 pm
@Raoul: Nope, think I got in first, I mean, I don’t wanna fight at Christmas, but I will say my mission, generally, is to find and kill the peacemakers, by complete coincidence.
December 16th, 2019 at 4:35 pm
Technically speaking, THX is right. He posted the coveted ball pit joke first. But I wrote it last week on TweetDeck and scheduled it to run this afternoon to get clicks from the lucrative American audience.
And I’ll spacekill anyone who attempts to be a peacemaker in this comedy dispute.
December 16th, 2019 at 7:07 pm
Judging by his facial expression, someone below the ball line is clearly swallowing Carrot Top’s sword as we speak. Not so for Grey Face on the other side of the cover.
December 17th, 2019 at 12:20 am
@Tweet Jane: Thankyou for being so gracious. And violent. It’s the only language we understand. Apart from Bocce.
December 17th, 2019 at 3:09 am
Tip-toe through the enor-mous tulips with me…
You can tell who’s the protagonist by his halo and fungus vest.
December 17th, 2019 at 3:16 am
A technical explanation of the title font, Montgomery Pousse Café. Wait….what?
https://fontsinuse.com/uses/27367/the-sword-swallower-by-ron-goulart-dell
December 17th, 2019 at 3:59 am
Balls? Whatja mean they ain’t giant pink donuts? – Homer Simpson
December 17th, 2019 at 4:43 am
Save your money. There’s nothing worth winning in the claw machine.
December 17th, 2019 at 6:09 am
@Tor: I also thought “Have they been swallowed?” It has a rather chyme-like liquid at the top, and possibly some intestinal villi as the ball pit. The person at back right seems to have been there the longest.
I’m fascinated that there are absolutely no swords to be seen.
Was Carrot Top frightened/inspired by this cover as a youngster? And/Or did Mr. Walotsky have it in for Ronald McD?
@fred: Wait what indeed. I found an even more… appropriate? link on that page.
http://e-daylight.jp/fonts/type/p/pousse-cafe.html
No delightful boozy layers here… but possibly consumed when the font was named.
(thank you, thankyaverrmuch)
December 17th, 2019 at 1:06 pm
But seriously, why is the cover populated by rejects from a Gerry Anderson puppet show? And where is that sword??
December 18th, 2019 at 3:51 am
And this is why you NEVER try and mix the “baking soda and vinegar” trick with the “Mentos and diet coke” trick!
December 19th, 2019 at 2:40 am
@GSS ex-noob: “the inside of this whale isn’t _nearly_ as comfortable as Pinocchio made it out to be!”
December 20th, 2019 at 7:49 pm
Blurb, simplified:
“He had to kill some nice people.”