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Click for full imageDead Stuff With Big Teeth Comments: Christ…he’s not doing that party trick with the jam buns, is he?
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Dead Stuff With Big Teeth Comments: Christ…he’s not doing that party trick with the jam buns, is he?
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August 21st, 2014 at 9:39 am
That reminds me of something…
http://wallpoper.com/images/00/42/07/95/facepalm-william_00420795.jpg
August 21st, 2014 at 10:48 am
“Look, you can see my finger from here!”
August 21st, 2014 at 11:11 am
Oh yeah, we’ve all had that look when our partner shows off his *party trick* one more time!
August 21st, 2014 at 11:32 am
Everyone else went 80s retro for the party but Billy McKenzie from ‘The Associates’ was already as 80s as you can get so he dressed as Davros.
August 21st, 2014 at 11:57 am
Sequels:
Mondiver
Tuesdiver
Wednesdiver
Thursdiver…
…I’m here all week, folks.
August 21st, 2014 at 1:44 pm
‘Da tires, da tires, Boss!’
‘Yes, Tattoo. Everybody’s welcome on Sundiver Island.’
August 21st, 2014 at 2:30 pm
Critter reminds me of this guy.
August 21st, 2014 at 2:47 pm
Great. Now I’ll have that damned GEICO gecko voice in my head all day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acCfnwTpdxU
August 21st, 2014 at 3:58 pm
@Fred: Because everyone trusts a reptile that sounds like a member of the cast of EastEnders*. Obviously, that wouldn’t work in the UK, where it would be like using one of the cast of ‘Deliverence’ to advertise holidays in Georgia; no, we have to have Meerkats with Russian accents. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQHrzBtdGnk Of course, the French use Ferrets instead https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hblONPRrLGE
(*One whose main plotline was about running scams and getting into debt, then getting buried alive http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Branning )
August 21st, 2014 at 6:27 pm
@Tat: How do you think I ended up in Atlanta?
‘Whar you goin’, city boi?’ indeed. 😐
August 22nd, 2014 at 6:40 am
[Hits the echo pedal] DONUTS FROM SPAAAACE…!!
August 22nd, 2014 at 12:31 pm
Michael Jackson tells his little ‘friend’, “See? I told you I like to play with rings. Hee hee”.
August 22nd, 2014 at 6:58 pm
Am I the only person that googled “jam buns” to make sure it was referring to the flying nuclear donuts? 🙂
August 22nd, 2014 at 7:39 pm
damsel? Where?
August 22nd, 2014 at 9:28 pm
the-book-of-doughnut drenes -1995 or go nut’s drones (see spelling differences) is a type of fried dough confectionery or dessert food. The doughnut is popular in many countries and in far far donut planets
and is a franchise of donut-drones to iraq now…, donut-drones, donut-s-from-hell, donuts-from-the-sky
THE BEST DONUT BOOK EVER
August 26th, 2014 at 6:50 pm
Gee, my copy of Sundiver just has a drop of water suspended in front of swirling orange clouds. Downright boring by comparison…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundiver
Still not good, though.
August 26th, 2014 at 6:58 pm
In totally unrelated news, I came across an article reprinted in my local paper that may be of some interest to y’all. Apparently a UK publisher decided to put a new (and quite GSS-worthy) cover on a classic novel (“Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”) and it has caused quite the backlash among fans. The article is especially notable for its quote from the publishers about what makes the cover so…um…”appropriate”:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/what-divisive-charlie-and-the-chocolate-factory-cover-says-about-books-and-readers/2014/08/15/23163b8a-219a-11e4-86ca-6f03cbd15c1a_story.html
August 27th, 2014 at 4:05 pm
It only now occurs to me… “Sundiving” sounds like a pretty hazardous activity.
Goes without saying it should only to be performed by trained professionals – so don´t try it at home, kids.
August 28th, 2014 at 2:05 am
Does the critter remind anybody else of the Sleestaks?
http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090202215831/landofthelost/images/thumb/b/b2/Frontpage.jpg/250px-Frontpage.jpg
August 31st, 2014 at 1:19 pm
@Stevie: ‘Yuk! What is that?’ –my wife.
The prosecution rests, m’lud.
September 7th, 2014 at 3:28 pm
I have this one. Never really looked at it or thought about it. Upon inspection, my eyes now keep getting drawn on the geek with the goggles and the helmet.
November 19th, 2014 at 8:55 pm
So, Anakin Skywalker, Jor-el, E.T., and Jerry O’Connell (the fat kid from Stand By Me) walk into a bar…
March 8th, 2019 at 4:13 am
As the sun ages, the hydrogen fusion cycle is increasingly supplemented by the flaming tire cycle.
March 8th, 2019 at 4:15 am
“Now that part of the sun is _really_ bright, and shouldn’t be looked at without appropriate eye protection.”
March 8th, 2019 at 11:29 am
Alien Fonzie: And this is the time I jumped over an Arcturian Megashark on my hoverbike.
Everyone else: Holographic Powerpoint is just the worst.
March 8th, 2019 at 12:43 pm
So Bruce Banners plan to defeat Thanos is Hulk tires?
March 8th, 2019 at 1:52 pm
The phrase ‘pencil-necked geek’ gets thrown around a lot these days, but I think we can safely apply it to our behelmeted friend over doing…whatever it is s/he’s doing in the background.
March 8th, 2019 at 5:38 pm
If this is an uplift novel, I’d sure hate to see what a bummer novel looks like
March 8th, 2019 at 6:31 pm
@B. Chiclitz: probably like this http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=782
March 8th, 2019 at 7:09 pm
@Tat W—You, Good Sir, have made my day 😉 !
March 8th, 2019 at 9:25 pm
I JUST finished reading this.
Actually, a fairly accurate cover!
March 9th, 2019 at 2:03 am
@Nanoalchemist—Ah, but is it a fairly accurate book?
March 9th, 2019 at 2:20 am
@B.Chiclitz, Nanoalchemist: the main thing I remember is the stuff about making a laser from rat-poison. I never got that to work.
March 10th, 2019 at 1:52 am
But weren’t there a lot of dolphins in this too? (It’s hard to remember after 30+ years) I guess they lucked out and got to stay in their tanks instead of going to the passenger lounge for the “fun”.
@Anti-Sceptic (22) summed it up well.
@Lillie: probably VR goggles to escape seeing the alien donut/tire trick. And who could blame them?
@Tat Wood: a MOST hearty GSS! I actually LOL. (it was more of a snerk, but still)
March 10th, 2019 at 3:16 am
@GSS Ex-noob, there are intelligent dolphins in a number of the books in Brin’s “Uplift” series, but I don’t recall this one being particularly dolphin-centric. Perhaps you’re thinking of Startide Rising?
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/dd/StartideRising%281stEd%29.jpg/220px-StartideRising%281stEd%29.jpg
March 10th, 2019 at 11:16 am
We’re going to have a lot of explaining to do when the aliens finally show up…
“Earthling, is this some kind of joke about my eyes? Or about our spaceships? Do you think our ships look funny? Do I look like a zorg to you, eh? Eh?”
March 12th, 2019 at 3:23 am
@AR Yngve: given TV shows including Mork & Mindy, ALF, and Third Rock From the Sun, we have already broadcast to the stars far worse insults to any form of alien intelligence.
March 12th, 2019 at 2:32 pm
Aliens might not be sensitive to insult, humiliation and disrespect. And the big-eyed white one should wear a Stetson.