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Good Show Sir Comments: Gumby’s blow-up doll.
Published 1960
(Average: 7.43 out of 10)
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Good Show Sir Comments: Gumby’s blow-up doll.
Published 1960
(Average: 7.43 out of 10)Loading...
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August 23rd, 2023 at 6:33 am
So basically a pre-Ringworld tasp with a pre-Jetson’s flying car, This cover could see the future.
August 23rd, 2023 at 12:35 pm
(There’s a meme from one of those pawn-shop reality shows.)
“Climacticon? Sorry, the best I can do is a blow-up doll.”
August 23rd, 2023 at 12:57 pm
I wonder if Woody Allen ever read that one?
August 23rd, 2023 at 6:37 pm
The oscilloscope should have been space sheeped.
August 23rd, 2023 at 8:32 pm
Never trust a machine with such a sh**-eating grin.
Is the horny heart-headed dude pointing a camera at the girl, or is he planning high-tech molestation with the titular “climacticon?”
August 24th, 2023 at 12:42 am
Climacticon sounds like a convention I’ve no interest in attending.
Shouldn’t the pervy Gumby machine be a “Climactitron” instead? It’s a better label for a machine, with an extra sex word in.
@Bruce: Don’t think cameras had an antenna then, so electric molestation it is.
August 24th, 2023 at 2:24 am
I’m pretty sure Barbarella had an orgasmatron before Woody Allen.
August 24th, 2023 at 2:45 am
Too bad Buckminster Fuller didn’t write this one. He could have titled it:
“The Climaxion”.
I’ll get me hat….
August 24th, 2023 at 6:04 am
@Hammy: coincidentally, I’ve started reading a recent biography of Buckminster Fuller. It’s early years yet, but the one thing I’ve really gathered was that he was a wee bit of a confabulator when it came to his own life’s story. (I’m not saying he was entirely Fuller it, but…)
August 24th, 2023 at 12:10 pm
@TheBlueAreComing
You’re right. I was forgetting Jane Fonda got there first.
August 24th, 2023 at 12:32 pm
But Woody Allen came second.
So she thanked him.
August 24th, 2023 at 12:50 pm
(OK, so I can’t resist puns, but I probably shouldn’t be making sex jokes involving Woody Allen, all things considered. My apologies.)
August 24th, 2023 at 6:17 pm
@Tor – GSS !
No apologies needed.
August 24th, 2023 at 11:14 pm
@Tor: As long as the woman is over 18 and not related.
August 25th, 2023 at 12:38 am
Agreed!
I suspect the first submission for cover art was too pervy and this last ditch effort was inspired by their preschooler’s art and the magnets holding it on the fridge.
August 25th, 2023 at 10:03 pm
@Emster: It does have a look of “preschooler smearing watercolors around” with a few pervier elements added by dad. I think many of us have had similar art upon the fridge, sans perv. I don’t even have kids and I’ve magneted a few of those from friends’ littles to my icebox.
August 25th, 2023 at 10:45 pm
@GSS ex-noob:very minor Richard Powers – he could do better. Not really my cup of tea, but he was a big frog in the small SF artists pond for a while, and his look certainly was distinctive:
https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=560184847&rlz=1C1GCEA_enUS1068US1068&sxsrf=AB5stBiPskNEvrVmhagDfWObZFiOiKdejw:1692999339162&q=richard+powers+artist&tbm=isch&source=lnms&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=2ahUKEwi7ttyB4viAAxV5k2oFHYY9Be4Q0pQJegQIDBAB&biw=1600&bih=751&dpr=1