Oct 02
Good Show Sir Comments: That’s the last time I buy cheap toilet roll from the pound store! *crowds reaction*
Published 1977 (maybe)
Many thanks to Sophy!
Good Show Sir Comments: That’s the last time I buy cheap toilet roll from the pound store! *crowds reaction*
Published 1977 (maybe)
Many thanks to Sophy!
October 2nd, 2013 at 9:17 am
If that’s a smiley, his head’s on sideways.
October 2nd, 2013 at 9:18 am
RT @GoodShowSir: New Book Cover: The Road to Science Fiction – From Gilgamesh to Wells http://t.co/2fqoovgGbe
October 2nd, 2013 at 10:27 am
Rene needs to have his brolly open but pointing down because it’ll rain upwards: hence The Beat’s classic ‘Stand Down Magritte’
October 2nd, 2013 at 11:03 am
Come on, this wallpaper won’t put up itself – oh, maybe it will.
October 2nd, 2013 at 11:36 am
Yellow ribbon: remember our troops
Pink ribbon: fight breast cancer
White ribbon double: the floor is the ceiling
October 2nd, 2013 at 12:56 pm
As I recall, this was the least popular of the Bob Hope / Bing Crosby Road movies.
October 2nd, 2013 at 2:35 pm
@Bibliomancer: it’s gotta be better than ‘Road to Utopia’.
(Actually, no: ‘Road to Hong Kong’ is embarrassing for a lot of other reasons).
October 2nd, 2013 at 3:03 pm
@Tat Wood — I think Road to Perdition was the worst. Hardly any laughs at all. What were Hope and Crosby thinking?
October 2nd, 2013 at 5:07 pm
Ceci n’est pas un livre de poche.
I have this book, and it’s pretty good. The cover has never offended me. Magritte, on the other hand, may be turning in his grave.
October 2nd, 2013 at 5:25 pm
Turning in his grave, and thinking “Where can I get a good copyright lawyer in this place?”
October 2nd, 2013 at 5:38 pm
I guess the road disappeared after Wells when we all got our flying cars.
October 2nd, 2013 at 11:26 pm
Nothing says “Science Fiction” like bricks, clouds, and umbrellas.
October 3rd, 2013 at 12:01 am
The Roots of modern science fiction?
Andrex.
Or maybe bricks.
Or possibly a lot of pharmaceuticals.
October 3rd, 2013 at 12:37 am
@Bibliomancer: No laughs in ‘Road to Perdition’? Truly sir, where is your sense of humor? What hen Crosby’s hitman for the Irish mob encounters Hope’s photographer/free lance hitman in the roadside diner, why, I laughed til I cried! What hilarity!
October 3rd, 2013 at 12:46 am
And might I say it’s good to see someone including the bronze-age of SF, instead of just going with the old cliche of the ‘Golden Age’, About time someone showed some love for Sumerian SF And hey, nonone could do dystopian urban fantasy like the Babylonians.
October 3rd, 2013 at 3:39 am
@Bibliomancer et al—I think the reason all of the Road movies mentioned fail to make the grade is that by then Dorothy Lamour had jumped ship, as it were, abandoned Hope and Crosby, and signed up for a whole different approach to the Road genre.
October 3rd, 2013 at 9:45 am
Shouldn’t the title be “A History of Psychedelic Drugs”?