Apr 12
Good Show Sir comments: “Take the jab, dammit!”
Thanks to Ryan for sending this in!
You might remember this from here.
Published 1954
(Average: 7.62 out of 10)
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Good Show Sir comments: “Take the jab, dammit!”
Thanks to Ryan for sending this in!
You might remember this from here.
Published 1954
(Average: 7.62 out of 10)Loading...
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April 12th, 2023 at 10:30 am
The reviews match the cover.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.O.G._666
April 12th, 2023 at 2:00 pm
Bottom right, company logo: what IS that robot doing to that vending machine?
You’d think that after springng for a full-colour cover, they’d have better hand-eye co-ordination.
April 12th, 2023 at 3:48 pm
Writing this brought the author to tears. Now he’s going to inject them directly into your veins.
(The title seems to be suggesting something, but it’s ambiguous. Perhaps adding SATAN! in big red letters would make it clearer.)
April 12th, 2023 at 4:37 pm
@fred: but it doesn’t tell us what G.O.G. stands for, assuming it meant something in the 50’s and is “boring-er” than my imagination…
I suggest the following (that I did not make up myself):
Grumpy Old Git
Good Old Giggle
Globe of Geek
April 12th, 2023 at 4:38 pm
Can we get a “3-D” tag?
April 12th, 2023 at 4:43 pm
Off-centre hypos are a thing. Presumably it allows the needle to sit closer to the skin. Of course that doesn’t explain why one is on this cover. Obviously it has deep artistic significance. Either that or it’s the 50’s equivalent of clipart. Which, unfortunately, was also a thing.
April 12th, 2023 at 5:04 pm
The government agents monitoring my computer have probably gone on high alert because I did so many searches for off-center hypodermic needles. I was sure there were ones like Francis just posted.
The outlines in the background are probably supposed to be laboratory retorts. But to me, they look a bit like a man’s wedding tackle, with the needle stabbing it right in the Taine.
April 12th, 2023 at 6:15 pm
@Emster
Goat of Goatiness?
Greek Orifice Groping?
Global Orgy Goal?
April 12th, 2023 at 6:15 pm
Dear Tor Mented,
Please be advised that we have frozen your computer, impounded all of your accounts, and repossessed your automobile. You will shortly be visited by a team of agents to discuss your recent online activity, where it appears your have engaged in one off-center-needle-search too far.
Sincerely,
The Deep State
April 12th, 2023 at 6:37 pm
G.A.G.
April 12th, 2023 at 6:47 pm
“G.O.G.” might stand for…
– Gratuitously Operated Glaucoma
– Ghastly Ophthalmological Graphics
– Gormless Offending Grip
April 12th, 2023 at 7:40 pm
Didn’t anyone else think “Google” when they saw this ?
Google Operates Globally
April 12th, 2023 at 10:20 pm
@fred: At least we can take comfort that the book deserved these bad covers.
@Tor (in the Fed pen): I’ve heard that often you’ve got to keep an eye on the wedding tackle, but this is ridiculous.
The placement of the hand, needle, and tackle is making me worry about the sort of activities one doesn’t want to image search for.
Even if they are retorts (we’ve got 13 retorts to this book right here…), the floating eyeball and hand with giant syringe is off-putting.
April 12th, 2023 at 10:28 pm
I guess someone’s about to have the Taine of their live…
April 13th, 2023 at 12:31 am
There’s a 3D Gog from the same year that’s even more inept: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx961KlJcww
April 13th, 2023 at 1:39 am
@BC and GSS-xn: Come to think of it, I wanted to make sure I had the right name for that glass labware, so I also did searches for “lab equipment.”
I’m screwed.
April 13th, 2023 at 4:49 pm
@Max, ARY, Blue – impressive! Geek Orifice Giggles
All – I’m sure everyone has a few novels the used bookshop has rejected that we can hollow out/smuggle goods to @Tor’s future address…
April 14th, 2023 at 6:16 pm
I LOVE this cover! The graphics are so eye-catching, I’d give it a -10 stars if I could.
April 16th, 2023 at 1:42 am
I *know* that John Taine is a pen name, but I just can’t help but wonder if the author’s friends call him “Puddin'”….
April 17th, 2023 at 5:29 pm
Hehe…this Yank has never heard it called “wedding tackle” before. Took me a bit to figure what it meant. Now I can’t unsee it 😀
Looks like Picasso drew the cover art. The proportions are off. And Willy’s eye is in the wrong spot.
April 18th, 2023 at 7:29 pm
@Tor and @Blue – argh – now I see it, but due to that other creative infliction, I see a green alien flamingo in profile, with an orange wing and a really freaky big eye (needle is the metal spike that keeps it upright in the lawn).
April 18th, 2023 at 7:56 pm
@Emster: It looked like some kind of bird to me too. Beak, big freaky eye, round body.