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Click for full imageGood Show Sir Comments: I call this dance… my lady… the stag dance. Bah cha ba wa… wa… and jazz hands! What… don’t act like you aren’t impressed!
Published 1979
Many thanks to Graham for sending this in!
(Average: 6.83 out of 10)
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July 15th, 2013 at 10:40 am
My first contribution to Good Show Sir. Looking around at the stuff I’ve got here, it’s sure to be the first of many http://t.co/izgbPS3y23
July 15th, 2013 at 10:51 am
Harsh I think. Any cover with the world ‘ribald’ in the description deserves some credit.
July 15th, 2013 at 11:29 am
We can’t see antler-man’s lower half, so I submit to you that it’s entirely plausible that he is some kind of deer-based centaur. Rather than just some bloke wearing comedy antlers.
Oh, and I like that there is a subgenre known as “ribald SF”.
July 15th, 2013 at 11:31 am
But the real question is: why is this book sitting on top of a NASA flag?
July 15th, 2013 at 11:54 am
‘Come closer, my man. I shall take this golden phallic statue to my right…and we shall reenact a pivotal scene from Clockwork Orange together.’
July 15th, 2013 at 12:06 pm
I’ve heard of stag movies, but stag books?
July 15th, 2013 at 1:30 pm
It wouldn’t be a ribald SF book if there wasn’t a horny dude involved.
July 15th, 2013 at 2:12 pm
Damn hippies.
July 15th, 2013 at 2:21 pm
The world is covered in red velour? What can be more “ribald” than that?
There is something very unsexy about the hippy chick on the couch however, ugghh!
July 15th, 2013 at 2:44 pm
headdeskfloorearth
July 15th, 2013 at 2:56 pm
From this angle you can’t see his very shiny nose. Should have saved this for Christmas.
July 15th, 2013 at 2:58 pm
I’m a bit surprised there’s still no tag for modesty-preserving hair.
July 15th, 2013 at 3:23 pm
@THX 1138 – Ho, ho, ho.
July 15th, 2013 at 3:57 pm
Flimsiest looking antlers for something his size. Their gonna snap like, well, like what they look like, which is twigs. Or maybe they are antennae. Which don’t seem to work so well. He’s awfully close to that sofa to be surprised that someone is sitting on it.
July 15th, 2013 at 4:07 pm
@Jaouad – a fair request. But also one that revulses me, for reasons I don’t comprehend, hence the limited admissions so far. Will mention it to my Gestalt therapist later.
July 15th, 2013 at 5:25 pm
This artwork must have been salvaged from a discarded Fleetwood Mac album cover concept.
July 15th, 2013 at 5:39 pm
Those antlers don’t look as if they’re growing out of the man’s head, but as if they’re hovering just in front of his forehead.
July 15th, 2013 at 5:39 pm
@Dead Stuff With Big Teeth #9 – Well, now that sure says masterpiece…
July 15th, 2013 at 6:11 pm
@DeadStuffWithBigTeeth 9 – http://pjfarmer.com/fleshthumb.htm
July 15th, 2013 at 7:29 pm
As a teenaged boy I loved this book. As a middle aged man, I love it more!
(The lady from the printed page is rather more alluring than this child’s illustration may lead you to believe…)
July 15th, 2013 at 8:19 pm
Dead Stuff with Big Teeth, thanks for the wiki pointer. That alone is hilarious reading “In Flesh, Peter Stagg and a group of astronauts” (Stagg get it), and later “…The primary thrust of the book’s plot is…”
Excellent review synch’ed with the book itself!
July 15th, 2013 at 10:10 pm
Thank you, oh Wizard, for risking life and well-being in providing that admittedly revulsion-inducing new tag. Though methinks in this case the tag itself isn’t half as revolting as the lady to which it applies.
July 15th, 2013 at 11:03 pm
@fred: I like the 1960 cover. There’s some awesome-creepy going on there.
July 16th, 2013 at 4:47 am
The person on the settee is Ray Davies of the Kinks. With tits.
I often wondered where the inspiration for ‘Lola’ came from.
July 16th, 2013 at 10:22 am
Another vote for the 1960 cover. “The secret dream of every man was his – pink polka dot underpants.”
July 29th, 2013 at 9:08 pm
AP, I’m impressed: a commenter who has actually read the book! The others seem to have no idea that the cover is actually relevant.
July 30th, 2013 at 10:13 am
@Amused: whether or not the cover is relevant is not relevant.
July 30th, 2013 at 7:39 pm
@Amused 26—are you going to be continually astounded (or amused) every time you realize that the comments are not about the books but about the covers? If so, you are in for a long, rather unamusing time of it.
Notice the description of the website. It’s one of the best things on the internets. It’s known in some circles as high concept.
(Comrade FoM will probably have a funny riff on that last phrase.)
Anyway, just trying to help.
February 3rd, 2016 at 7:19 am
For reasons of public decency, there will NOT be a parody song where “Flash!” is replaced by “Flesh!”.
February 3rd, 2016 at 11:14 am
@A.R.Yngve: You just had to mention that, did you? This is the only way to get that out of my head, you know. It’s actually fairly incredible how little of the lyrics you have to change:
Flash! Ah-aah! Savour of the universe
Flash! Ah-aah! He’ll sate everyone of us
Flash! Ah-aah! He’s a miracle
Flash! Ah-aah! King of the impossible
He’s for everyone of us
Stagg’s for everyone of us
He’ll sate with a mighty wand
Every man, every woman
Every child – with a mighty flesh
Flesh! Ah-aah!
Flash! Ah-aah! He’ll sate everyone of us
Just a man
With a man’s courage
He knows nothing but a man
But he can never fail
No one but the pure in heart
May find the golden rail
Oh oh – oh oh
Flesh!
June 28th, 2017 at 12:24 pm
I sang that song out loud, now I’am at the police station and have to explain myself — damn you, Anon!