Mar 21
Click for larger imageGood Show Sir Comments: Let’s have a Ryan Week II. He’s apparently been scouring the cowboy paperback shoppes of Arizona to bring us this terrible cover Bonanza! Enjoy.
Published 1984
(Average: 5.85 out of 10)
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Good Show Sir Comments: Let’s have a Ryan Week II. He’s apparently been scouring the cowboy paperback shoppes of Arizona to bring us this terrible cover Bonanza! Enjoy.
Published 1984
(Average: 5.85 out of 10)Loading...
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March 21st, 2022 at 9:44 am
That’ll do, pig. No, seriously, that really will do.
March 21st, 2022 at 10:13 am
If you enjoyed THE PIG PLANTAGENET, you may also like:
– THE WINDSOR WARTHOG
– THE STUART SWINE
and
– THE HANOVER HOG
March 21st, 2022 at 10:14 am
To his dismay, David Cameron learned that the fraternity ritual was in no way like he had imagined from fantasy books…
March 21st, 2022 at 10:53 am
Takes place in 13th century France, so Henry III/Edward I. The illustrated version has more pig action.
https://booksofwonder.com/products/9038176
March 21st, 2022 at 11:06 am
Based on her valley-girl roll-eyes expression she’s just so over wisecracking talking animals which I have to assume is what this book is about.
March 21st, 2022 at 1:28 pm
OK, I give up – what kind of animal is Anna Kendrick holding in the crook of her elbow?
March 21st, 2022 at 1:29 pm
“Mr Porky? I think I’m going to start cutting back on the ‘shrooms a bit.”
March 21st, 2022 at 2:29 pm
What does the fox say?
March 21st, 2022 at 2:32 pm
I am titling this portrait “I Got You, Babe”
March 21st, 2022 at 2:46 pm
@Biblio: GSS.
March 21st, 2022 at 3:00 pm
♪ I’ve got flowers
In the spring.
I’ve got you
To wear a nose ring.
And when I’m sad, you’re a clown
And when I’m hungry, you sell by the pound. ♪
March 22nd, 2022 at 10:35 pm
Geez, sorry. I think my comments broke the site.
March 22nd, 2022 at 11:15 pm
Providing the shelf is large enough, I could sit on it beside the books listed in the blurb, but that doesn’t make *me* a classic animal fantasy novel, does it?
The damsel is, appropriately for France, overcome with ennui.
@THX: I’ve stared at it too, and all I can come up with is some kind of fungus, perhaps? The shrooms @DaveM mentioned?
@ARY, B’man, Tor: GSS!
March 22nd, 2022 at 11:49 pm
“Someday a handsome prince will come and clean up all the pig shit”
March 23rd, 2022 at 3:01 am
@GSSxn(#13):
I was wondering about that blurb, too. I wondered if the next sentence was “This book is a rectangular solid, like most other books, so it will sit nicely on a shelf next to other books – provided you support them with a well-weighted pair of bookends.”
March 23rd, 2022 at 3:19 am
“Yeah, my tail’s shaped like a corkscrew. Wanna see something else I got that’s shaped like that?”
March 23rd, 2022 at 3:58 am
@Hammy: “or using an enclosed bookcase. Up to you how you store your rectangular papery solids, really.”
Our late cat had a space in a bookcase where the shelves were just far enough apart that she fit cozily. She shelved herself there so regularly that Mr. xn taped the Dewey Decimal number for “animals, domestic, cats” on it (636.8).
March 23rd, 2022 at 3:36 pm
I’m getting Hannibal-esque flesh-eating hog vibes from that cover.
March 23rd, 2022 at 4:05 pm
It just hit me. The thing that Anna Kendrick has under her arm is actually that New Zealand potato that turned out to be a tuber.
March 23rd, 2022 at 7:28 pm
Reynard’s looking at Porky and shouting ‘Hey, get out of my fable. And give me back my daisy-chain. It took me months to make that, what with having to use my teeth and everything.’
March 23rd, 2022 at 11:43 pm
@Tor: Maybe it’s a truffle-hunting pig, then!
March 24th, 2022 at 10:41 am
@Tor: It wasn’t a tuber they found in New Zealand, it was a gourd. I don’t know the difference either, other than it means it’s not a potato. I say make it an honorary potato and be done with it.
March 24th, 2022 at 2:13 pm
@THX: We’re both right, according to The Associated Press:
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — When is a potato not a potato?
When it’s a tuber of a gourd, according to Guiness World Records.
(“The Tuber of the Gourd” sounds like the second novel in The Chronicles of Rhizome.)
March 24th, 2022 at 3:40 pm
@Tor: Sounds like an honorary potato to me – result!
March 24th, 2022 at 11:01 pm
@Tor: “The Tuber of the Gourd” is also an English folk song, I’m sure.
What IS a tuber of a gourd? I didn’t know they had tubers. And why just “gourd” instead of narrowing it down?
The final finding raises more questions than it answers.
A quick look around says the buffalo gourd can have a tuber/tap root up to 72 kg!
March 31st, 2022 at 2:47 am
Snow White walks into the wrong book cover by mistake and finds herself in the company of a snarky fox, a satanic piglet, a sullen bunny and a butterfly that can belch its own name. Realizes she was better off with her seven messy but more polite housemates.