Mar 24
Good Show Sir Comments:
There once was a girl named Vanessa
Who lived in the Land of Esa
Out on the battlefields
It was only teat shields
Preventing a Bareboobed Contessa
Published 1952
Good Show Sir Comments:
There once was a girl named Vanessa
Who lived in the Land of Esa
Out on the battlefields
It was only teat shields
Preventing a Bareboobed Contessa
Published 1952
March 24th, 2021 at 10:21 am
Do they light up?
March 24th, 2021 at 10:29 am
Turn the left one for volume, and the right to tune to your chosen radio station.
March 24th, 2021 at 11:20 am
Dressing for Christmas?
March 24th, 2021 at 12:26 pm
E-S-A! E-S-A!
March 24th, 2021 at 1:05 pm
The most popular of the Hope-Crosby-Lamour ‘Road to …’ films for some reason. This particular poster is a valued collectors item due to the non erectness of her left nipple, with only six in known existence.
March 24th, 2021 at 1:10 pm
Laze-guns and a red-leopard toga.
Is he performing yoga?
March 24th, 2021 at 1:22 pm
“At least he’s much better-behaved than that Dick Blade guy who came by last year.”
March 24th, 2021 at 1:34 pm
The manufacturers of Scott’s Porage Oats (sic) tried valiantly to get their mascot centre-stage but nobody was looking at him. https://foodanddrink.scotsman.com/producers/things-you-probably-didnt-know-about-scotts-porage-oats/
March 24th, 2021 at 2:30 pm
Skirt dude is flashing the “L” loser hand signal.
March 24th, 2021 at 3:22 pm
Ray Theobald currently is sitting in the top two slots of the Top Ten. I think we have our new king of terrible cover art.
March 24th, 2021 at 3:25 pm
After careful study, I think I can identify why none of the guys in hats are paying attention to the “Look over there!” from the gent in the red-leopard toga.
March 24th, 2021 at 4:28 pm
“Geez, what’s a girl gotta do to get noticed? I’m going to my room with my blaster.”
March 24th, 2021 at 5:01 pm
@Raoul—Actually I think that’s the “C-Cup” sign.
March 24th, 2021 at 5:42 pm
@BC – She can’t hear him. She is wearing those primitive noise-cancelling headphones.
March 24th, 2021 at 6:05 pm
@Raoul—Oh, yeah, those legendary Dr. Dre “Beats Cauliflowers.” I remember them well.
March 24th, 2021 at 6:37 pm
If this dance revue is ready, then let’s star tit.
March 24th, 2021 at 6:38 pm
More like the Glands of Esa, amiright?
March 24th, 2021 at 7:00 pm
@fred
Like I always say, you can’t tell how big they are till they poke your eyes out.
March 24th, 2021 at 7:15 pm
Speaking as a cultural historian: This cover was pretty racy for its time!
OTOH, the disparate elements give me a headache: Normans in the background, Tarzan with a Roman skirt, a Polynesian princess with a ray gun held in a hand covered by an industrial yellow rubber glove, and the hydrangea flowers she’s wearing tucked at each ear. Those decorative nippleguards are merely the icing on the cake.
March 24th, 2021 at 10:14 pm
@Tracy, you may consider it a mish-mash of cultural embellishments, but the author’s first choice of titles didn’t fit on the cover.
Neil never really cared for “The Land of Esa.”
He wanted to go with, “The Night Last August When the Elks Club Got Into the Rye and Then Invaded the Warner Brothers’ Backlot Costume Warehouse and Then Mitch Shopivick Saw the UFO and Holy Cats Did You See Clara Townes in That Egyptian Get Up?”.
March 25th, 2021 at 1:55 am
Guy on right: “Lo! A woman in a buttoned-up jacket!”
(Or maybe “Woa! That one’s going right out of the park!”)
I wonder if “one bared nipple” is the standard for fashionable males in Esa. (Pronounced ‘e-sah’ or ‘eh-sa’?)
@Tracy: the rubber gloves are so she doesn’t get blaster grease on her hands. (Have you remembered to grease your blaster today?)
GSS, Cornelius, Bibliomancer.
March 25th, 2021 at 2:01 am
My first thought was “The Land of Pasties” (long a, not short)
Then the limerick made me LOL. Perfect.
Her earrings and her teat shields would be better-sized and better-suited if they were exchanged. Can’t tell if the earrings are flowers or cotton balls.
GSS awarded to: fred, drlemaster, Tat, Ryan.
March 25th, 2021 at 4:46 am
I’m getting a Frida Kahlo meets Wonder Woman meets Janet Jackson kind of vibe. And barging in is the cast from one of those cheesy old Hercules movies.
March 25th, 2021 at 5:38 am
@JuanPaul: Thumbs up on a Frida Kahlo-Wonder Woman-Janet Jackson hybrid. Not so much on red haired Hercules. Did Zeus pick up his mother on a trip to Hibernia?
Edit: I need to give @Griz a GSS, too. Poetry is always appreciated.
March 25th, 2021 at 12:23 pm
@Bruce Well, Zeus did get around
March 25th, 2021 at 9:15 pm
“ESA! Have you seen my Victorian brass doorbells?”
“No!”