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Click for full imageGood Show Sir Comments: Plan for Conquest. Step 1. Abduct all the women. Step 2…
Oh, time ran out so swiftly!
Published 1963
(Average: 8.62 out of 10)
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Good Show Sir Comments: Plan for Conquest. Step 1. Abduct all the women. Step 2…
Oh, time ran out so swiftly!
Published 1963
(Average: 8.62 out of 10)Loading...
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November 28th, 2016 at 12:08 pm
Don’t strain your brain trying to understand the tagline. It’s robots ravaging women. That’s all you need to know.
November 28th, 2016 at 12:09 pm
‘Good grief!’
November 28th, 2016 at 12:13 pm
Is that robot in high heels?
November 28th, 2016 at 1:28 pm
I always thought wooden Cybermen were a bit silly.
November 28th, 2016 at 1:35 pm
@Tom: ‘ravaging’? Zoom in on his face. That’s her lipstick on his lips. Whatever on Earth is going on, it’s consensual.
November 28th, 2016 at 1:36 pm
Wait a minute, this isn’t a Doctor Who Christmas special. Judging by the ballet shoes and the interpretive dance going on in the background it’s actually the world’s worst version of The Nutcracker.
November 28th, 2016 at 1:39 pm
“Hewn from only the finest, sturdiest robot trees, our wooden robots…”
November 28th, 2016 at 1:41 pm
When Forbidden Planet posters go wonky…
November 28th, 2016 at 1:48 pm
Why..was..I..programmed..only..to..abduct..women..and..feel..shame?
November 28th, 2016 at 1:55 pm
I think we are misreading the robot. The tight waist, the flared skirt, the shoulder pads, the shapely gams, the high heels, the lipstick—the robot is female. That’s the ingenious part of the plan for conquest, I think.
November 28th, 2016 at 1:59 pm
No doubt in a foul mood because he flunked his entrance exams.
November 28th, 2016 at 2:32 pm
Why is the woman standing in a ditch?
Why is her ponytail sticking out like a squirrel’s tail?
Why is the robot practicing karate?
Time runs out said Tom Swiftly
November 28th, 2016 at 2:33 pm
TWIKI: “I am back from the robot gym, and now I will have my way with you, Wilma Deering!”
ROGERS: “Stop!”
TWIKI: “Oh, I didn’t see you there, Buck. Bidi bidi bidi. Just a little robot joke. Honest!”
November 28th, 2016 at 4:29 pm
@B’mancer:
‘Why is the woman standing in a ditch?’ Tom said deeply.
‘Why is her ponytail sticking out like a squirrel’s tail?’ said Tom making an ass of himself.
‘Why is the robot practicing karate?’ Tom belted out.
That’ll be £1, £1 and £1. 😉
November 28th, 2016 at 4:33 pm
‘Of Mice and Men, 3000 AD’
November 28th, 2016 at 4:34 pm
Kneeling lady in the background must be a giantess.
November 28th, 2016 at 4:40 pm
@Francis Boyle is correct – this is clearly from some new ballet, which the composer probably came up with while using mind-altering substances. I mean, how does the dancer playing the robot actually dance? And why, exactly, would anyone write a ballet about the love between a woman and an invading robot?
No, I doubt it got good reviews.
November 28th, 2016 at 4:58 pm
“Now I’ve… had… the time of my li-i-ife…”
November 28th, 2016 at 5:10 pm
“Must. Read. Plan. For. Conquest.” said Tom robotically.
November 28th, 2016 at 5:17 pm
I’m pretty sure this was published in the USA by Beaver Books .
November 28th, 2016 at 7:08 pm
@DSWBT—hate to quibble, my good man, but if it’s pounds ye be charging’ to the B’Mancer then ye must stay within the lines—only adverbs are acceptable as “Tom Swifties” so #1 is fine (excellent actually), but 2 & 3 are right out and he only owes you a quid.
November 28th, 2016 at 9:16 pm
@BC: fair enough! 🙂
November 28th, 2016 at 9:51 pm
The first draft of the News of the World cover lacked some of the tension the band felt necessary.
November 28th, 2016 at 11:07 pm
@DSWBT – That quid should be worth about two bits in a couple months, or maybe I can pay it off a ha’penny a fortnight for five months … he said niggardly.
November 29th, 2016 at 12:28 am
@B’mancer: Time ran swiftly and mankind was threatened by its inflationary index. 😉
November 29th, 2016 at 2:07 am
I’m not seeing much of an actual plan here. Unless the plan was for the evil twin of the Tin Woodsman to carry a narcoleptic ballerina. In which case, go right ahead…
November 29th, 2016 at 2:39 am
The plan? Possibly the Google Books summary will shed some light:
“A company of scientists try [sic] to create the society of the future on the Yorkshire moors, but discover that their robot helpers have other plans.”
Or possibly not.
November 29th, 2016 at 5:15 am
Robot 1: I can’t believe we have to work for these idiots. Now they say they’re trying to create a society of the future. Uh, logic? How could any society not be a society of the “future”? The future’s not here yet, as is said. Axiomatic much lately, stupid human? Plus they don’t even know their own grammar! [whirr, blunk, whizzzzz, sproinggggg]
Robot 2: Whatever, Klong. Don’t get your nuts in a ratchet. The point is, we need other plans.
Robot 1: Right. Right. Let me process . . . got it! I’m going out to pick up some scantily clad female and carry her around the Yorkshire moors.
Robot 2: Good. I’m going to study martial arts.
Robot 1: We’ll show those stupid humans!
November 29th, 2016 at 6:28 am
Yorkshire Moors? Girls in red dresses? Robots in odd poses?
Forget Deep Blue winning a chess match, a cybernetic mass Kate Bush impersonation is genuinely impressive.
(There have been lots of these lately. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8jQl_zOKm4 and here’s how you can do it at home https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNa1QBNkpxs )
I’m struggling to see how this would aid in conquest of Earth, though.
November 29th, 2016 at 4:29 pm
And the Tortured Grammar Award goes to… “Time ran out swiftly and mankind was threatened by its ingenuity”!
But seriously… I, too, often feel threatened by the ingenuity of time. Especially when it runs out swiftly and in an ingenous manner.
December 1st, 2016 at 12:49 pm
“Society of the future on the Yorkshire Moors”. That’ll be those bloody hippies who didn’t realise they had five years to make it to California for the Summer of Love. Still, they only had robots to deal with not Hells Angels so maybe they knew something after all.
December 3rd, 2016 at 3:50 pm
Is it wrong that I just really like Narcoleptic Barbie’s shoes?
December 5th, 2016 at 7:45 pm
@infoqueen – Not at all. I get many of my own fashion ideas from this website.
December 7th, 2016 at 1:56 pm
@Bibliomancer—I thought I saw you on the bus the other day!