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Click for larger imageGood Show Sir Comments: I’ll tell you what went wrong. You have teenagers messing with your rocket.
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Published 1962
(Average: 5.40 out of 10)
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Good Show Sir Comments: I’ll tell you what went wrong. You have teenagers messing with your rocket.
Thanks to Ryan for sending this in!
Published 1962
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April 18th, 2022 at 10:08 am
Those Beastie Boys got everywhere back in the day.
April 18th, 2022 at 10:09 am
Also, does actually painting a turned down corner of the book on the cover make anyone else shudder a bit? Don’t encourage the book vandals!
April 18th, 2022 at 11:16 am
“Are you boys launching space rockets down there?”
“No!”
“No!”
April 18th, 2022 at 11:32 am
Well, duh. Elon grabbed it and took it back to his volcano lair. Or it blew up. That could happen too.
April 18th, 2022 at 2:01 pm
At first glance I thought the rocket said Icarus rather that 7arcus, which seemed like a really bad choice to name a rocket that you don’t want to blow up after it is launched.
April 18th, 2022 at 2:05 pm
Frank and Joe discover that their ever-hungry pal Chet got cookie crumbs in the remote-destruct switch. The boys’ dad, Detective Fenton Hardy, reluctantly slaps the cuffs on him; it’s five years of hard labour for old Chet. Gosh!
April 18th, 2022 at 2:44 pm
Back cover. The New York Herald Tribune review blurb could pose a social media problem in 2022.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/232534551045
April 18th, 2022 at 3:28 pm
Bill and Ted’s Ballistic Adventure
April 18th, 2022 at 5:29 pm
Leaving space hardware in the hands of someone who’s marvelling at an electric razor can’t end well.
April 18th, 2022 at 11:03 pm
@THX: Yes! This is a practice that’s bad and also stupid.
Plus, here it makes it look like the cover is really just a crookedly-placed poster or decal of the illustration of the evil kids.
@Tat: I thought it was a microphone and wondered who the hell he was talking to. Nobody should be in the blast range, it’s an unmanned satellite… so is he belatedly informing air traffic control or something?
Similarly, not sure what Mr. Knob-Twiddler (that’s what she said) is doing — while it’s blasting off, there’s really nothing to be done except watch and hope. Probably should have labeled the knobs, too.
@fred: So the writer knows boys and one of them looks queer. Yeaaahhh.
Also, so much for the periscope window. Plate glass that close to a rocket should have shredded the kids into tiny pieces by now.
April 19th, 2022 at 12:31 am
NASA’s use of outsourcing goes terribly wrong.
“Probably we shouldn’t have gone with the lowest bidder!”
April 19th, 2022 at 12:49 am
Man, I always hate it when someone turns down the gain when I’m on the mic….
April 19th, 2022 at 2:17 am
“Alexa! Fix the rocket!”
April 19th, 2022 at 4:29 am
@driemaster—At first glance I thought it said “Zarcus” and I thought “That’s Zardoz you idiots! Then I got distracted by mic-boy’s cowlick. Really bad. Looks like he has worms crawling out of his scalp.
April 19th, 2022 at 4:24 pm
Young Putin deals with a kid who set up a rival lemonade stand.
April 19th, 2022 at 9:03 pm
@Tor: GSS!
April 19th, 2022 at 11:56 pm
Another GSS for @Tor!
@BC: Hence the need for “greasy kid stuff” in that era, followed by boys and men being extremely glad to grow their hair out far enough that cowlicks got weighted down.
April 20th, 2022 at 12:52 am
60 years later, their grandsons show the ol’ farts how it’s done:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPCi5Rs7EuA
@ B. Chiclitz – Zardoz… there’s 1h 45min of my life I’m never getting back (however I was a teenager at the time of viewing, and wasting time WAS my specialty…)
April 20th, 2022 at 7:50 am
@Emster—Zardoz, yeah, not much of a “story” there, but at least it has a giant floating stone head, Charlotte Rampling at her most appealing, and a hunky Sean Connery wearing a mankini!
April 21st, 2022 at 2:53 am
Zardoz is considerably more interesting to look at than this. Sean, Charlotte, random special effects, orgy scenes, giant floating head — all much less dull than two boring boys and a rocket.
Boys that age would probably like it better, too, if only for Charlotte.
February 17th, 2024 at 4:30 pm
I see you lurking under that innocuous Tom Swift Junior ripoff, Jack Chalker. Nathan Brazil can return to being forgotten, along with your weird fetish fiction.