Feb 16
Click for larger imageMarvin Comments: And then Toby got tased.
Published 1959
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Marvin Comments: And then Toby got tased.
Published 1959
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February 16th, 2022 at 9:28 am
“Calling Biggles! Calling Biggles! Biggles, come in… oh bloody hell, this isn’t a microphone! It’s my electric shaver!”
February 16th, 2022 at 10:14 am
There are plinths and then there are PLINTHS.
Johns covers are a treasure.
http://www.wejohns.com/
February 16th, 2022 at 10:25 am
Hmm, this holiday resort needs more work.
February 16th, 2022 at 12:39 pm
I think the Prof’s thumb is evolving into a seal (or at least some vaguely pinnepedoid organism).
February 16th, 2022 at 2:09 pm
In light of today’s author, I think we should address each other with the honorific of captain.
February 16th, 2022 at 3:10 pm
@ Cap’n T. Mented – It will be a busy day with Captain T. Wizard approving all the new login names.
February 16th, 2022 at 3:49 pm
“Don’t worry, Algy, Liz Truss has gone to Terramagna to take some selfies.”
February 16th, 2022 at 4:24 pm
@Captain Bibliomancer—And of course GSS Admin will have to provide us all with shiny new space uniforms! Perhaps similar to this one?
February 16th, 2022 at 6:41 pm
Havana Syndrome, the early years?
February 16th, 2022 at 6:42 pm
@Marvin: You’ve seen Hobo with a Shotgun: now, Elderly College Professor with a Taser.
Fashions come and go in cycles: clearly, in the year 2500 they’ve cycled back to the 1950s. [1]
“Hello, this The Professor. I was told Ardilla was shooting out death rays. (Is this thing on?) Nobody told me the bloody thing was playing dodge’em with other planets!”
[1] Perhaps they’ll be into to Victorian top hats and swallowtail coats by the 3000s.
February 16th, 2022 at 7:36 pm
I would have titled it: The Killa Rays of Ardilla
February 16th, 2022 at 7:39 pm
By the looks of his left hand, his taser is shorting out.
February 17th, 2022 at 12:18 am
Dunno about Death rays, but the sunlight’s coming from three dfferent places.
February 17th, 2022 at 1:24 am
@Captain Marvin: Toby deserved that tasing, I say.
For some reason, my brain is singing “it’s just a jump to the left.”
Apparently the death rays got to the Prof so he’s fading out on the book spine.
Was Mr. Johns a Navy captain (slightly worth bragging about) or an Army captain (get over yourself, mate)?
Checked @Captain Fred’s link — no, he wasn’t any sort of captain at all!
Biggles and Algy would have regarded him as a bounder for lying about his rank.
Is Ardilla a planet, or its sexy ruler? (Like Princess Ardala in “Buck Rogers”.)
@Captain fred: Plinthus Maximus!
@Captain Raoul: It’s definitely not a thumb. Look at the size and how/where it’s attached. Something very wrong with the Prof’s hand.
@Captain B. Chiclitz: how’s about this instead?
https://www.orientaltrading.com/mens-white-suit-astronaut-costume-a2-13577812
To infinit(ely bad covers) and beyond!
February 17th, 2022 at 12:49 pm
If he’s a Professor holding a piece of equipment that makes him a boffin.
February 17th, 2022 at 5:21 pm
@Captain GSSxn—Link didn’t work. Too bad. I’m sure it was a super special Space outfit. Amen to Beyond Infinity!
February 17th, 2022 at 6:52 pm
@Cap’n GSSxn—The link didn’t work. Too bad. I’ll bet it was a swell Space Outfit! For some reason I am not able to give myself the rank of “Captain” when I login. Is there some trick to getting that through the moderation process? Anyway, amen to always being Beyond Infinity!
February 17th, 2022 at 11:35 pm
@Captain (provisional) BC: It was a basic astronaut spacesuit, like the middle of the link says.
Really not tacky enough for GSS, now that I think on it. We’d need one that’s at least Buzz Lightyear-esque, or at minimum a shiny jumpsuit.
February 18th, 2022 at 1:27 am
I guess it’s just as well that no one referred to me as Cap Tor, or it might have led to a misunderstanding about a hostage situation.
February 18th, 2022 at 5:40 pm
It’s the 1955 version of ‘Don’t Look Up’ – the Professor’s so entranced watching ‘Muffin the Mule’ on his hand-held telly he fails to spot a planet crashing towards him.
Still, I bet his accent’s better than John Bradley’s in ‘Moonfall’
(Hint for future GSS readers: it’s February 2022 and two silly films have been released, one sincere-but-misfiring, the other crass and, well, Roland Emmerich. Both will be comprehensively forgotten three weeks from now.)
February 18th, 2022 at 10:49 pm
@Tat Wood: there’s also a short animated film on YouTube on the topic that’s probably more informative and fun than those two films combined…
February 19th, 2022 at 12:13 am
@Leak: Good find! Actually knows science, is free and much shorter, and has animated penguins.