Frito lives!!!
Ah yes, the “excerpt” that in fact appears nowhere else in the book.
“Me beastie. Me do this thing.”
And Goodgulf Greyteeth was funny as hell.
"And don’t trouble yourself too much if you don’t laugh at what you are about to read, for if you perk up your pink little ear, you may hear the silvery tinkling of merriment in the air, far, far away . . . . It’s us, buster. Ching!”
Yalu, Yalu! Pyongyang Panmunjon! shouted the narc chieftain.
Frito meets Gimlet, son of Groin:
“No sooner had he finished eating than the dwarf sitting to his right turned to him and proffered and extremely scaly hand in greeting. It’s at the end of his arm, thought Frito, nervously shaking it, it’s got to be a hand.”
“May your hemorrhoids shrink without surgery.”
“May you always buy cheap and sell dear.”
Thanks for the good wishes! I encouraged her to become the Tolkien junkie she now is - she was a linguistics major, and is able to explain in detail exactly how the ring inscription was, “of an ancient mode”.
I will confess, however, that I never thought I’d have Bored of the Rings in mind on her wedding day ten years later.
I use “Watusi Snarf Wazoo” from time to time.
The book still provides wisdom for our own time:
“Oh, the leave are falling, the flowers are wilting, and the rivers are all going Republican.”
I knew it was a lost cause to get this work out of my head when I was watching the scene in the first movie where the dread spirit of the underworld reaches up with his fiery whip and pulls Gandalf into the abyss.
And I said, “Dribble. Dribble. Shoot. SWISH!”
Regards,
Shodan
“Many a hard kilo to the black hole”
“No lie, bwana”
My husband and I still used this pair of quotes whenever we don’t want to go somewhere that we ought to go…
And this led me to Planet Monk Pulps where Alligator is available for 99 cents on Kindle along with a LOT of interesting looking books.
Just in time for the weekend.
BeeGee: Cool! I just glommed Alligator, and will go back and shop from their other offerings! A fun, silly, nifty, dumb, jolly good resource! Thank you!
I don’t understand what you are saying here. Alligator was indeed written by Frith and Cerf, but it wasn’t reprinted in the PLayboy parody – for one thing, it’s too long for that.
The Harvard Lampoon Playboy Parody issue DID contain a spoof James Bond story, but it was the much shorter Toadstool. I don’t know who wrote it, but Frith and Cerf are likely candidates
edited to add: I’ll have to dig out my copy of Alligator to check, but I think that “Toadstool” was given in that 1962 parody as another of In Flm*ng’s Bond novels.
That makes sense and is undoubtedly what I was thinking of.
It’s out in reprint, on Amazon.
" In his hand he carried an ancient and trustworthy weapon, called by the elves a Browning semi-automatic."
“Frito shook his head in wonderment. He wondered how much longer the writers were going to get away with this tripe. He wasn’t the only one.”
Honi soit la vache qui rit.