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Joachim comments: “If you look closely there’s a star on my cheek. I’m the STAR.”
Published 1980
Thanks Joachim!
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Joachim comments: “If you look closely there’s a star on my cheek. I’m the STAR.”
Published 1980
Thanks Joachim!
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July 18th, 2013 at 11:50 am
That’s a nasty star on his cheek. Sorry, that’s a nasty SCAR on his cheek. In the shape of a scar. Sorry, in the shape of a STAR.
At first I misread the title as STARFINGER, which I think I would prefer. With theme tune sung by Shirley Bassey.
What does it even mean, “a plan as bold as the Stars”? Exactly how bold is Alpha Centauri? Tau Ceti? Sol?
July 18th, 2013 at 12:04 pm
…why is there urine on the back of Tom Cruise’s shirt?
July 18th, 2013 at 12:07 pm
@Phil: a quick visit to NASA’s web site has assured me that our Sun–a middle-sized star–contains 99% of the matter in the Solar System. But every single second, it annihilates 4 million tonnes of that matter and turns it into FIRE. So yes, I would say that ‘bold as the stars’ is a clunky but passable simile.
July 18th, 2013 at 12:38 pm
For some reason I really want that the two lines of that blurb to rhyme.
Also, I would have said “As bold as his puffy shirt,” but that’s just me.
July 18th, 2013 at 1:04 pm
“I am a sailor on the space-time sea! Mine is a purpose as old as the cosmos! To FIND STARS!”
(pointing) “They’re up there.”
“Oh! So they are. Well, that’s that done.”
July 18th, 2013 at 1:15 pm
I’m Starfinder the Sailor Man
I’m Starfinder the Sailor Man
I’m bold as the stars
But I can’t find me arse
I’m Starfinder the Sailor Man
(sung to the tune of Popeye, the Sailor Man)
July 18th, 2013 at 1:53 pm
He was a sailor on the Space-Time Sea, with a purpose and plan as bold as his puffy shirt!
The only thing more cheesball that a single white rose, is a puffy shirt!
Obviously this book is a sequel to “The Count of Monte Cristo” or its about space pirates, look at that shirt!!
– You look like a a pirate Mr Starfinder!
– But i dont WANNA be a pirate….
I sense this might be the begining of a new fad, Sci-Fi musicals!! Any second now Starman will start belting out Major Tom followed by the theme song for Star Trek.
HEY Starfinder, Jack Sparrow just called, he wants his shirt back!
(There i know you were waiting for puffy shirt jokes, how dare you make me do it!! hah)
July 18th, 2013 at 2:20 pm
“Alas, poor White Rose! I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy; he gave me this puffy shirt, for example.”
July 18th, 2013 at 2:56 pm
@Tag Wizard — After clicking the “man-blouse” tag and seeing it only currently used on two book covers, I submit the proposal that it be renamed the “puffy shirt” tag. I am sure that more cover examples will follow.
BTW, the original puffy shirt is enshrined in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in Washington.
July 18th, 2013 at 3:07 pm
This is one of those talent shows, isn’t it?
[sings like Josh Groban]
“Every rose has it’s thooorn, Just like every night has it’s daaawn, Just like every cowboy sings his saaad, saaad sooong…!”
July 18th, 2013 at 3:10 pm
@Bibliomancer—it’s nice to see the the puffy shirt enshrined in a museum case, but better to see it in action
July 18th, 2013 at 4:05 pm
What happens when you push the big yellow Carl Lundgren button? Walton Goggins happens.
July 18th, 2013 at 4:22 pm
‘As bold as the stars’… I keep hearing Kenneth Williams and Hugh Paddick.
@Rags: anyone who endured Cliff Richard in Dave Clark’s “Time” will be hoping it isn’t a trend.
July 18th, 2013 at 4:24 pm
Maybe this is how Siegfried and Roy met the terms of their insurance pay-out, by switching from predatory mammals to horticulture.
July 18th, 2013 at 4:44 pm
@Biblio – you’re right, there has been some (clears throat for flaccid joke) *slackness* when it comes to cataloguing super-sleevey shirts under the tag ‘Sleeves Manlis’.
So named after an imaginary combination of Dick Tracey character Lips Manlis and British interior designer Laurence Llwelyn-Bowen … I don’t expect understanding but sympathy would do.
July 18th, 2013 at 5:04 pm
@Tag Wizard — Blather on! My sympathies are offered
July 18th, 2013 at 5:36 pm
Prescience or plagiarism? Did Alexey Pajitnov ever see this cover? This book came out four years before the original version of Tetris, and yet, there behind the vacuos looking sailor’s back, what do we see?
July 19th, 2013 at 2:28 am
Psssst! Starfinder! It’s on your cheek!
July 20th, 2013 at 12:22 am
Can’t get past it. Really poor job on the skin. He looks like he is made out of wax, or the now classic American State Fair butter sculpture technique. Does not look like skin to me.
July 20th, 2013 at 12:26 am
It’s spray-on skin! Helps one find stars.
July 20th, 2013 at 12:46 am
@B.Chiclitz: He should have picked up the quick drying DuPont Insta-Skin. That cheap generic stuff has left him looking tacky. Remember, for a professional finish, trust DuPont.
July 21st, 2013 at 6:23 pm
@FoM–also for professional grade chemical warfare.
July 23rd, 2013 at 10:19 am
James Franco?
July 23rd, 2013 at 4:15 pm
From the evidence presented, I don’t think our hero is a finder of stars, but rather a “star” finder- that is, one who is really, really good at finding things. Like space-roses, for example.
July 23rd, 2013 at 8:38 pm
@FoM: look by his elbows, you’ll see it’s the fellow from xkcd.
July 24th, 2013 at 1:33 am
Eh, he looks like one of the magicians that used to be on TV in the 1980s – David Copperfield I think it was. “Watch as this lovely rose floats above my hand.” (Wiggles fingers to show rose is floating.)
July 24th, 2013 at 6:19 pm
@RachelJ—too bad he couldn’t find a better shirt, or better skin, or a better cover to grace. But other than that, he’s certainly a star at finding space-roses!
July 26th, 2013 at 12:24 am
I guess in the future Neil Diamond impressionists are popular. Obviously he’s about to launch into “Cracklin’ Rosie”…
July 29th, 2013 at 4:48 pm
Who knew cover artist Charles Moll had a competitor for top prize in the “most unappealing depiction of human flesh” category? Yikes. (How sad, for me, that this is the only edition of this book by one of my half-dozen favorite SF authors.)
January 21st, 2015 at 2:49 pm
Mr. Starfinder, sir, you might wish to switch on your popup-blocker. Just because all of the adverts are hidden in a circle away from your eyes, doesn’t mean they’re not popped-up.
January 24th, 2015 at 6:41 pm
Stars can be: Small, Large, Hot, bright, cold, dark (etc.)
Stars cannot be *literally*: Bold, nervous, timid, angry (etc.)
Stars can be *poetically speaking*: Timid, angry, hateful, loving (etc.)
Stars CAN NO EFFING WAY be EVEN POETICALLY SPEAKING: Bold
January 24th, 2015 at 7:12 pm
@AR: STARS
😛
June 26th, 2015 at 1:43 am
THE DAY SEINFELD DROPPED ACID
June 29th, 2015 at 11:19 am
@A.R.Yngve & DSWBT: Stars was capitalized. It could be a band or a team or something.
November 26th, 2015 at 4:02 am
A young Bruce Dern showing us some levity, I presume?
May 2nd, 2016 at 11:00 pm
“…that which we call a rose/By any other name would smell as sweet.”
“Even one dipped in liquid nitrogen?”
May 3rd, 2016 at 12:24 am
He was a sailor on the Space-Time Sea, with a purpose and a plan as bold as the stars.
She was a fast machine, she kept the motor clean, she was the best damn woman that I ever seen.
July 16th, 2022 at 9:55 am
Jerry Seinfeld: “Have you noticed how there are no flowers in space movies? It’s all panels, blinking buttons, bulkheads… not a single potted plant. That’s how you know these movies were made by guys. If you’re gonna have men AND women in space, there’s gotta be flower arrangements in those spaceships. And there’s going to be this argument: ‘Plastic flowers are just as good!’ – ‘Have you noticed the smell in here? If you did, you wouldn’t say that.'”
July 16th, 2022 at 10:09 pm
@A.R. Yngve: GSS!!! Perfect!
July 16th, 2022 at 10:11 pm
@A.R. Yngve: GSS!!! Perfect!!! ⭐
July 17th, 2022 at 8:49 pm
Agreed!
And the Legend of the Puffy Shirt Paradox continues…