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Good Show Sir comments: P-P Pants!
Published 2011
(Average: 6.18 out of 10)
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Good Show Sir comments: P-P Pants!
Published 2011
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March 14th, 2023 at 4:14 pm
The most accurate match between title and illustration ever created.
March 14th, 2023 at 4:19 pm
Could so too. It’s just a bit sill, that’s all. Well very silly. O.K. freakin’ ridiculous.
March 14th, 2023 at 4:56 pm
I have something in common with that world. I couldn’t be Clifford D. Simak either.
March 14th, 2023 at 5:42 pm
The Daily Mail finally gets its revenge on John Barrowman.
March 14th, 2023 at 5:50 pm
There hasn’t been a prison built that can hold Jimmy Cagney.
March 14th, 2023 at 6:27 pm
@Tag: Maybe a plus one against spelling tag for “astroid”?
March 14th, 2023 at 6:39 pm
Why does he not have two “S”s on his shirt?
March 14th, 2023 at 6:44 pm
Prometheus in space.
March 14th, 2023 at 6:49 pm
GSS @Tor for post #3.
March 14th, 2023 at 7:25 pm
If you’re wondering how he eats & breathes (and poops)
And other science facts,
Then repeat to yourself it’s just a GSS cover,
I should really just relax.
March 14th, 2023 at 10:32 pm
I wondered ’bout his gloveless hands
not freezing off in space,
But I just read @Bruce’s #10
This cover’s found its place.
March 14th, 2023 at 11:18 pm
The P-P pants helpfully identify him, but where’s that liver-eating eagle?
March 15th, 2023 at 12:22 am
Leaving Moonbase Alpha now.
March 15th, 2023 at 12:37 am
I would swear this picture started its life as one of those SF magazine cover illustrations sadistic editors assign writers to build a story around. Wasn’t there a Harlan Ellison [1] story based on a similar picture?
[1] Or possibly Alfred Bester
March 15th, 2023 at 2:09 am
(Dangit @Bruce, I’ve been humming the MST3K theme song all night!)
March 15th, 2023 at 4:46 am
Of course he’s got PP pants, he’s strapped to a not-large space rock unable to move at all! Must be hell if he has an itchy nose, or sneezes or coughs, or even would like to be able to use any of his joints in the future.
Maybe he’ll get lucky and a Space Babe will come along and free him.
@Tor: GSS! I don’t think any of us can be Clifford B. Simak! Possibly no one else in the 20th century was either. (It can’t be that common a name)
Further GSS to: Tat, Max, Bruce, Emster, and BC.
March 15th, 2023 at 12:34 pm
@Bruce
There was, and it was Bester not Ellison. One of his better stories, and an extremely funny one, iirc. I think this is an independent story, though, because the guy in the Bester was wearing a prison vacuum suit with his inmate number on it, rather than space strides with P on them…
March 15th, 2023 at 9:38 pm
Another case of ‘stroid rage?
March 15th, 2023 at 11:25 pm
“The World that Couldn’t Be”?
Ya mean, the USA post-2016?
March 16th, 2023 at 2:51 am
@Tor – “Astroid” is actually a word. It’s a graphical representation of a single point on the edge of a circle as it rolls around the inside of another circle four times larger…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroid
The result looks like a ninja star.
March 16th, 2023 at 11:27 am
@Blue: Yes, I checked the spelling just to make sure that astroid wasn’t a variant spelling of asteroid. But Mr. P-P pants obviously is not sentenced to a penal group of a particular type of roulette curve: a hypocycloid with four cusps. (At least I don’t think he is. I admit I haven’t read the book.) So it’s more a matter of the editor that couldn’t be … arsed.
March 17th, 2023 at 9:07 pm
It could be ‘astroio’ or ‘astrdid’. No spelling classes at UAI. Or at UEI.
@Bruce: So that’s what that is. Spirograph had me draw them but I don’t remember any of the names.
Also, this world couldn’t be because it doesn’t have enough mass to even be a dwarf planet. It’s a rock maybe 10 feet across.
March 26th, 2023 at 6:02 am
Another knockoff of this cover: https://pulpcovers.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Imaginative-Tales-January-1958.jpg
March 26th, 2023 at 10:48 pm
@Bruce A (#prev.):
That cover brings up even more questions.
1) Why does the live, but shackled guy get a helmet, but the dead, now-a-skeleton, didn’t?
2) Re: #1, did the skeleton *have* a helmet before, but they took it off him to give it to the live guy as a form of torture?
3) Re: #2, how bad would a helmet that someone was wearing when they died smell?
…and more that I dare not type….
March 27th, 2023 at 12:26 am
@Hammy::Such as:
4) What good does the helmet do when he’s got no air tank and his entire body is out there exposed to zero air pressure, especially his chest?
His body water should be boiling away, whole body inflating as his internal organs rupture….
Maybe that’s what happened to skeleton guy.
Anyway, he’ll only be able to smell for a few seconds before hypoxia sets in.