Oct 11
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Frank Comments: It’s a decent painting of a scene in the story, but there’s plenty uncovered boobs involved even if they’re small and not so obviously nipply. Have you got enough Space Sheep for this sort of situation?
Published 1978
That’s a lot of Space Sheep!
October 11th, 2013 at 9:44 am
Awwww, look, he’s set up his sister’s Barbie collection for a little target practice! Who hasn’t done that?
October 11th, 2013 at 10:51 am
Goodness. An entire herd of modesty sheep! There’ll be some lonely men in Northumberland tonight. And why is he shooting them? Just brush them away with your hand, like you would a bit of wool from your trousers. Course he does look dumber than a box of rocks. And is that a porthole in th sky?
Not a cover to be seen seen with on the train.
October 11th, 2013 at 11:04 am
Commodore, you gotta keep your ship together, don’t take any ship, or you’ll be ship outta luck.
October 11th, 2013 at 11:06 am
More appropriately titled TO KEEP THE SHEEP.
Thanks Admin, for not deploying a herd of tiny disapproving C.S. Lewises. I feel judged enough already.
October 11th, 2013 at 11:33 am
Luxo Jr. in THE BAWDIEST PIXAR SHORT EVER.
October 11th, 2013 at 11:35 am
Wait a mo. Is he shooting that gun, or is there something spilling out of it and splashing on the ground…? 😉
October 11th, 2013 at 11:45 am
Why is Stan Laurel wearing a ginger wig? Or is it Rod Hull without Emu?
October 11th, 2013 at 12:22 pm
“sf’s answer to Horatio Hornblower”
And sf failed the quiz miserably.
You would think a commodore would rate something nicer than an orange prison uniform.
October 11th, 2013 at 12:53 pm
The Hunchback of Notre Really Weird Dream. “Nip-ples, Nip-ples!” he cries.
October 11th, 2013 at 1:23 pm
@Tat Wood: I loved that show when it was on YTV waaaaaaay back in 1990.
E! M! U TV!
October 11th, 2013 at 1:25 pm
Looks more like sf’s answer to Benny Hill.
October 11th, 2013 at 1:28 pm
“Commodore 64: SF’s answer to Horatio PC.”
Sorry, cheap pun, not in top form today…
October 11th, 2013 at 1:30 pm
Held up in space with an illegal cargo of mind-altering drugs! The Space Police fast approaching, he must find a way…
TO KEEP THE SHIT
October 11th, 2013 at 1:43 pm
Commodore Grimes would be sf’s answer to Stanley Tweedle if Stanley Tweedle weren’t already sf.
October 11th, 2013 at 3:37 pm
What in heck is wrong with his head? Too much zero-g?
And why is he armed with a water pistol?
October 11th, 2013 at 5:18 pm
Oh good, I get to do my Chandler joke again:
Q. Who Wrote TO KEEP THE SHIP?
A. Bertram Chandler
Or if you prefer:
Q. Who wrote TO KEEP THE SHEEP?
A. Bertram Chandler
B. B. King
C. S. Lewis
October 11th, 2013 at 7:38 pm
Maybe TO SHEEP THE KIP?
Stan Laurel there can’t really be trying to shoot the little naked damsels, can he? If he is, he is without doubt the worst shot in the galactic quadrant, and beyond! Actually, I think he’s trying to make them dance like in the old Western movies: “Dance, you stinkin’ redskin” (pow! pow!). In this case though, it’s “Dance, you saucy miniature nude nymphet” (wow! wow!).
October 11th, 2013 at 10:34 pm
I want to be the very best
Like no-one ever was
To shoot them is my real test
To keep the ship my cause
I will travel across the sea
Searching far and wide
Each naked bird to understand
The power Lewis hides!
Bertrámchan, it’s you and me!
I know it’s my destiny!
Bertrámchan, IIIII’m my own best friend
On a cover we must defend!
October 11th, 2013 at 11:42 pm
@Lionrock: would you allow him anything sharp or dangerous?
October 13th, 2013 at 7:45 am
@Lionrock—Maybe the tube off to the left is a giant vacuum hose and it’s starting to suck him in head first?
October 13th, 2013 at 8:27 am
He’s finally reached the point in Space Cabin fever where his mind starts playing tricks on him. Badly.
October 15th, 2013 at 11:09 pm
Actually I think these little naked ladeez were Shatner’s suggestion for the design for the Tribbles.
February 10th, 2014 at 9:08 pm
I actually found a copy of this at a Flea Market. The story is actually pretty good… but the cover art makes all but impossible to take outside to read.
February 14th, 2014 at 9:56 pm
Oops, all those women have made his little gun go off prematurely!
August 4th, 2015 at 11:12 am
@DSWBT #5: It’s actually the old man’s cane.
October 2nd, 2022 at 11:40 pm
I can’t decide whether to write the first line of the chorus as:
“Sur-round-ed by Tiny Dancers”
or
“It’s a book by Bertram Chandler”
but the last line remains “you had a busy day today”.
(and he is obviously a Rocket Man)