Comments on: Vintage paperback cover galleries on Flickr http://boingboing.net/2008/02/07/vintage-paperback-co.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Wed, 15 Apr 2015 07:39:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.2 By: Songe http://boingboing.net/2008/02/07/vintage-paperback-co.html#comment-121865 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-121865 Elise it doesn’t matter, if it whistles

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By: amelia_amelia_amelia http://boingboing.net/2008/02/07/vintage-paperback-co.html#comment-121618 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-121618 My favorite one on there is the picture for “Baby Island” in the scholastic book section … I seem to recall reading this as a young child, so I looked it up on wikipedia, and the summary amuses me:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_Island

“Their ship is disabled in a storm, and the girls are set adrift in a lifeboat — alone with four babies under two, the children of fellow passengers. The craft eventually drifts to a tropical island, and in a Robinson Crusoe-like scenario, they must learn to build shelter and survive on wild foodstuffs. They do this with great success, while raising the babies through various developmental milestones and adopting a baby monkey who they raise alongside the babies.”

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By: trikitixa http://boingboing.net/2008/02/07/vintage-paperback-co.html#comment-121635 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-121635 Was there ever a truer maxim?

My favorite pulp that I actually read:
http://flickr.com/photos/hangfirebooks/2083485212/

Someone I knew swiped it my copy from me and I had a serious feud with them about it for YEARS.

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By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2008/02/07/vintage-paperback-co.html#comment-905626 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-905626 It doesn’t whistle but you can still blow it???

please post more of these classics…

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By: isaacb2 http://boingboing.net/2008/02/07/vintage-paperback-co.html#comment-122063 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-122063 This guy is telling his friend a joke. He says, “What’s pink, hangs on a wall, and whistles?”

His friend says, “I don’t know — what’s pink, hangs on a wall, and whistles?”

Guy: “A herring.”

Friend: “But a herring isn’t pink.”

Guy: “So this herring is pink!”

Friend: “And hanging on a wall?”

Guy: “Someone could’ve hung it on the wall.”

Friend: “And I’ve never heard of a herring that could whistle!”

Guy: “So, it doesn’t whistle.”

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By: rhys http://boingboing.net/2008/02/07/vintage-paperback-co.html#comment-121814 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-121814 connie, eh? i bet that’s the wife of a certain j.r.”bob” dobbs, up to her usual tricks.

there are some great books along these lines. i own this one:

http://www.amazon.com/Strange-Sisters-Lesbian-Fiction-1949-1969/dp/0140284028/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1202443307&sr=8-1

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By: Evil Jim http://boingboing.net/2008/02/07/vintage-paperback-co.html#comment-121572 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-121572 “… good in the head and good in bed.” would have sounded better.

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By: JeremiahBritt http://boingboing.net/2008/02/07/vintage-paperback-co.html#comment-121577 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-121577 That’s a beautifully awkward poem, like a limerick penned by a drunken lecher.

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By: Lauren O http://boingboing.net/2008/02/07/vintage-paperback-co.html#comment-121579 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-121579 Man, I wish that guy from the Cure would stop trying to write romance novels.

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By: semiotix http://boingboing.net/2008/02/07/vintage-paperback-co.html#comment-121580 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-121580 I can feel my brain tying itself in knots as it tries to unravel the fractal-like layers of innuendo on that cover.

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By: Jeff http://boingboing.net/2008/02/07/vintage-paperback-co.html#comment-121583 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-121583 It sounds like soft porn to me. I guess there must be a market for the stuff. Although, with free porn on the web, who needs to read about it? I bet the next big IPO will be for Youporn. I wonder how many Boing Boing readers would invest in a porn site? It does seem to be very popular stuff.

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By: TayArgJosh18 http://boingboing.net/2008/02/07/vintage-paperback-co.html#comment-122098 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-122098 Someone said Madonna? I thought it was Xeni. :)

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By: jonbro http://boingboing.net/2008/02/07/vintage-paperback-co.html#comment-121843 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-121843 I really like all the bad winkwinknudgenudge puns:

margin of _terror_

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By: Bionicrat2 http://boingboing.net/2008/02/07/vintage-paperback-co.html#comment-121589 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-121589 Add a gap tooth and the gal on the cover is the spitting image of Blond Ambition Tour Madonna – clothes and all.

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By: Antinous http://boingboing.net/2008/02/07/vintage-paperback-co.html#comment-121592 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-121592 I bet the next big IPO will be for Youporn.

X-Tube?
Obviously NSFW.

When are we going to have BoingBoingDating? GM, 50, into Retrofuturism, snark, LOLcats seeks similar. No DRM, guns, steampunk. kthxbye.

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