Apr 13
Ryan comments: I am not sure which of the two the title is referring to in “The Man Eater”.
Published 1974
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Ryan comments: I am not sure which of the two the title is referring to in “The Man Eater”.
Published 1974
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April 13th, 2023 at 12:03 pm
OK, let’s get this out of the way.
♪ Whoa-ooh, here she comes.
Watch out, boy, she’ll chew you up. ♪
There. Now we can proceed in peace.
April 13th, 2023 at 12:35 pm
Burroughs?
I looked this up, and my suspicions were correct…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man-Eater
This is a reprint from the 1915 novel. Prolly out of copyright back then, so the publisher just slapped a new cover on.
There is a lion in the book, and it is a maneater. However, it’s doubtful the main female character looked like that. The cover gives very little idea to what the story’s about.
BTW…this isn’t Fantasy at all. I’d call it a mystery thriller.
April 13th, 2023 at 12:37 pm
Oh…and thank you, Tor. The pressure’s off now.
April 13th, 2023 at 12:51 pm
@Blue: Following the link, I found this statement in the plot summary:
“Later Scott and the elder Mortons are killed by the native Wakandas.”
April 13th, 2023 at 1:31 pm
The lion looks cool. Too bad he’s probably not a mane character.
April 13th, 2023 at 2:31 pm
@Tor – wow…good spot. I wonder if that’s where Marvel got the name from.
Either way, it looks like the Wakandas in Burroughs’ world (in 1915) are nothing like those in the Marvel franchise.
April 13th, 2023 at 2:41 pm
@JP – he was at least a supporting character. However, the big cat representation wasn’t a source of pride among the feline community, as he winds up in a zoo at the end.
April 13th, 2023 at 2:43 pm
The world needs a Millie the Model/Ka-Zar mash up.
April 13th, 2023 at 2:43 pm
It seems human versus big cat wrestling is an idea whose time has come. Quick, someone call WWE.
April 13th, 2023 at 3:17 pm
Given their relative sizes, the lion probably regards her as not a full meal.
April 13th, 2023 at 3:19 pm
The Kzinti eyed the human with curious interest. “Ooh…a *sentient* female.”
April 13th, 2023 at 5:04 pm
The well-beloved story of a girl and her giant, floating disembodied lion head.
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/powerlisting/images/2/26/DC_Comics_Malice_Vundabar_Chessure_Monster.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/1000?cb=20211210222207
April 13th, 2023 at 5:05 pm
I’m not touching that with a ten-inch pole …
April 13th, 2023 at 7:28 pm
@BAM – the image doesn’t load for me. What is it ?
April 13th, 2023 at 7:43 pm
Oh for the love of pete… stupid ass cookies…
https://powerlisting.fandom.com/wiki/Personal_Monster?file=DC_Comics_Malice_Vundabar_Chessure_Monster.jpg
(Somewhat obscure DC reference, already regretting posting it because it doesn’t deserve this degree of attention)
April 13th, 2023 at 7:58 pm
@BAM – the dialogue is…terrible. I know it’s a comic, but still.
April 13th, 2023 at 7:59 pm
@NUK – are you bragging 😀
April 13th, 2023 at 10:57 pm
Huh, I did not know that “refrigerator magnet” was a font style (said the nerd you could always find in the kitchen at parties…)
April 14th, 2023 at 12:45 am
With the lion’s head being as large as the girl I’m assuming that she’s Tinkerbelle and this is the Disney version.
April 14th, 2023 at 1:23 am
I looked up the Wikipedia entry on Marvel’s Wakanda. It says this about the origin of the name:
There are several theories about the etymology of Wakanda. The name may be inspired by a Siouan god called Wakanda, Wakonda, or Waconda; or Wakandas, a fictional African tribe from Edgar Rice Burroughs’ novel The Man-Eater, written in 1915 but published posthumously in 1957;[39] or the Kenyan Kamba ethnic group, also called Akamba or Wakamba;[40][41] or the word “kanda”, which means “family” in Kikongo.[42]
It seems more likely to me that Stan Lee or Jack Kirby had read an Edgar Rice Burroughs novel rather than tomes on African religions, but who knows. And maybe Burroughs got the name from reading about Africa.
April 14th, 2023 at 2:17 am
Tanya was hoping that being registered non-binary made them inedible.
April 14th, 2023 at 4:09 am
The Flying Wakandas?
April 14th, 2023 at 7:42 pm
THE MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE STORY
April 14th, 2023 at 10:52 pm
Blue@17: Never said whose ten-inch pole …
April 14th, 2023 at 11:37 pm
@NomadUK: I think LockPickingLawyer said it best… 😀
April 17th, 2023 at 3:25 pm
@Leak
Glad to see someone else around here follows LPL. Even if you’re not into lock picking the April 1 videos are brilliant. (But for best results I think you should go back a year or two. I mean I can’t blame the man for running low on innuendo. At this point he must have just about exhausted the US strategic reserves.) And don’t worry that they’re OT – though from memory they do tend to be pussy related. As GSS’s resident purveyor of dick jokes I say innuendo is always on topic here.