Fifty-one seconds of pure Spike Milligan joy!
Author Archive | Mark A. Rayner
Toulouse Le Grandfig’s Summer Vacation: The English Disease
Brighton, circa. 2000
This young gent claims that his name is Dennis Travesty. Don at Prancing Fairy College.
I call him Coclear Implant. Wonder at his hat. The shoes.
And where, do you ask, are the monkeys in this photo? They consumed his artificial eyelashes shortly after it was snapped.
And still, I travel…
Next Time: When Fate Has Its Say
About the Photographer: Toulouse Le Grandfig was a surrealist painter, photographer and writer who never gave up dadaism. Also, he never said never … well, almost never.
You know who’s really attractive, especially when they’re wearing pants and paper bags? Nick Motbot, from Marvellous Hairy. Eat more stew! Originally published July, 2008.
Slave Leia — a public service announcement by Kaley Cuoco
Thank god somebody is on top of this!
Alltop doesn’t see the problem.
I hate it when I get an attack of the Arrr-Jim-Lads
Surreal enough for you? Spike Milligan was a genius.
I’ll be featuring Milligan clips all week here at The Skwib. Many fans of Monty Python will know that Milligan was hugely influential on their comedy, but you can read more about it at Wikipedia if you don’t.
Alltop has NO idea what is going on.
The problem with Superman
Yep. Preventing cat burglary and muggings is a total overkill.
I imagine another outcome to this alternate history of Superman. All those years as the “transitional power source” have driven him somewhat insane, or perhaps just really bitter. When he is finally put out to pasture, Superman realizes that he must justify his existence to the people of Earth, so he invents a new supervillain (that is him).
Superman decides to call him Namrepus (because he was never a terribly bright super-hero), and threatens to destroy the Earth if the humans do provide 10,000 virgins to him so that he may repopulate another world with his human/kryptonian offspring.
A first virgin is chosen, and Namrepus comes to take her away. (His costume is the reverse of superman’s, with blue underoos and cape, red unitard, and an insignia with a backwards ‘s’, because Superman is so committed to the backwards name thing, he does not stop to think that a real supervillain called Namrepus would have an ‘n’.)
The virgin is wearing a pendant of gold kryptonite, which temporarily removes Superman’s powers, and he is sent to Arkham Asylum.
There, Superman becomes good friends with Mr. Freeze. Eventually, they are rehabilitated, and they become successful businessmen, selling designer ice sculptures and bottled water products, made of ice gathered from the asteroid belt.
NOTE: The Flash could also be used as an excellent power source. Just put him in a hamster wheel attached to a power generator.
Alltop love the out-of-this-world taste of asteroid ice cubes.
Bob Newhart’s call from Walter Raleigh
This is great on a couple of levels. First of all, it makes you think about all the strange little things we take for granted around us. I’m sure a similar conversation happened when Thag cracked open his first oyster and slurped it down (no doubt in a fit of starvation) and then relayed how good it was to his buddy Tharg.
Secondly, it shows value of thinking obliquely. And then lighting it on fire.