Jun 29
Ashurbanipal Comments Disney World’s new “Mister Toad’s Wild Ride” attraction is something else.
Published 1973
Ashurbanipal Comments Disney World’s new “Mister Toad’s Wild Ride” attraction is something else.
Published 1973
June 29th, 2020 at 10:24 am
Froggy went a-courtin’…
June 29th, 2020 at 10:50 am
“As our new Empress, your regalia will be the giant frog hat.”
“And…?”
“Just the frog hat.”
June 29th, 2020 at 12:56 pm
Android dreaming of alternative space sheep.
June 29th, 2020 at 4:06 pm
Only the intro’s by Frank Herbert (who never met an amphibian he didn’t like) so which story’s got the Bufo-slash?
June 29th, 2020 at 4:50 pm
I’m not liking some of the alternatives, already…
June 29th, 2020 at 5:31 pm
She started out innocently kissing the frog to see if he turned into a prince.
Then the situation got out of hand.
June 29th, 2020 at 10:16 pm
I think both creatures on this cover, whatever they are, need some attitude readjustment lessons.
June 29th, 2020 at 10:29 pm
Grant Wood’s “American Frogthic.”
June 30th, 2020 at 12:53 am
Jellie Bellie™ really shouldn’t ask the public what new flavors they want.
June 30th, 2020 at 1:08 am
What are tomorrow’s alternatives? Next Thursday? A fortnight from Monday? The 37th of June? (I’m assuming this is a guidebook for the confused time-traveller.) No doubt the stories are worthwhile but based on the title the book got the cover it deserved.
June 30th, 2020 at 2:21 am
I wonder if it’s a horny toad.
June 30th, 2020 at 2:38 am
Today is the tomorrow this book was looking towards.
Yet even with a worldwide pandemic, ecological problems, failure of leadership, looming recession…
I’m glad this isn’t the alternative!
I was going to start @-ing people for a hearty GSS, but as it turns out, everyone deserves it. Exceptionally witty, especially for a Monday.
So GSS to all!
June 30th, 2020 at 12:20 pm
“We asked you for a cover fit for a collection of stories from some of the greatest minds in SF, and you give us a woman sitting in a giant frog. How do you intend to fix this disaster?”
‘… I could make the woman’s nipples visible?’
“GENIUS! I’ll see you get a (modest) bonus!”
July 5th, 2020 at 5:41 pm
This is not what is meant by the word “toadstool.”
September 22nd, 2021 at 1:18 pm
Few people know today, that the Great Videogame Crash of 1983 wasn’t caused by the “E.T.” cartridge fiasco, but in fact by the almost forgotten “Frogger Exxxtreme” – the game Konami didn’t want you to see…