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Post by tarzanontarmazepam on Oct 26, 2011 12:07:02 GMT
www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15309357 I remember coming across...ermmm I mean...discovering this book at my Aunt's house back in the seventies. It was one of those books deemed 'educational' enough to not warrant hiding away in a bottom drawer, and my Aunt had it sandwiched between (I'll have to be careful of unintentional puns here) a cook book and David Niven's The Moon's A Balloon. My fascination ultimately turned to boredom and then a feeling of nausea as the couple exquisitely drawn in pen and ink resembled my parents at that time. I didn't bother with it again. I believe most of you will have perhaps owned a copy at one time, or certainly knew someone who did. The seventies was indeed a particularly 'hairy' decade.
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Post by Weyland on Oct 26, 2011 12:28:43 GMT
I believe most of you will have perhaps owned a copy at one time, or certainly knew someone who did. The seventies was indeed a particularly 'hairy' decade. I'm afraid I had already discovered the joy of Scandinavian magazines, and visited the Netherlands once or twice, long before I'd ever heard of TJofS, so it held no appeal. It cannot be denied that I did have a lot of hair in those days. Even had a moustache at one stage (still have the wedding photos). Never again. |
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Post by trubble on Oct 26, 2011 16:31:41 GMT
It cannot be denied that I did have a lot of hair in those days. Are you claiming those pics are you? |
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Post by Weyland on Oct 26, 2011 16:40:02 GMT
It cannot be denied that I did have a lot of hair in those days. Are you claiming those pics are you? You will burn in Hell for that, Ricky. What have you done with our Trubs? (She's not my type. And neither is he.) (I mean the JoS creatures, of course.) |
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Post by trubble on Oct 26, 2011 16:46:51 GMT
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Post by jean on Oct 26, 2011 17:06:41 GMT
So...chavette is an alter ego of yours, trubbs?
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Post by trubble on Oct 26, 2011 17:07:48 GMT
Yes. So is Weyland but keep it under your hat.
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Post by Weyland on Oct 26, 2011 17:43:20 GMT
Yes. So is Weyland but keep it under your hat. You promised! <flouncette> |
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Post by jean on Oct 26, 2011 21:03:39 GMT
You can't make promises to yourself, so you don't fool me.
( knew anyway. The hair was a dead giveaway.)
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Post by bonbonlarue on Oct 26, 2011 21:32:07 GMT
I live such a sheltered life......
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Oct 26, 2011 22:28:06 GMT
Richie at his best...
AH
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Post by aubrey on Oct 27, 2011 9:13:53 GMT
More art from the Joy of Sex bloke (he is also the bearded bloke in the picture above):   (you may be surprised to learn that this isn't a scene from the book: aren't book publishers little devils, though?) |
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Post by Weyland on Oct 27, 2011 9:41:51 GMT
More art from the Joy of Sex bloke (he is also the bearded bloke in the picture above): ... (you may be surprised to learn that this isn't a scene from the book: aren't book publishers little devils, though?) As luck would have it, there was a programme all about TJofS on the World Service last night, mostly Chris Foss talking. He said the couple was his pal and pal's German wife (the models he'd hired couldn't perform credibly). She was in charge, apparently, and organised the whole gig thereafter. I prefer his SF covers. |
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Post by jean on Oct 27, 2011 9:50:35 GMT
(you may be surprised to learn that this isn't a scene from the book: aren't book publishers little devils, though?) That's the Martyrdom of St Catherine, isn't it? |
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Post by Weyland on Oct 27, 2011 10:03:16 GMT
That's the Martyrdom of St Catherine, isn't it? And yet not a wheel in sight . . . |
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Post by jean on Oct 27, 2011 10:04:16 GMT
Well, I thought the car might have some hidden away somewhere.
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Post by aubrey on Oct 27, 2011 10:24:03 GMT
More art from the Joy of Sex bloke (he is also the bearded bloke in the picture above): ... (you may be surprised to learn that this isn't a scene from the book: aren't book publishers little devils, though?) As luck would have it, there was a programme all about TJofS on the World Service last night, mostly Chris Foss talking. He said the couple was his pal and pal's German wife (the models he'd hired couldn't perform credibly). She was in charge, apparently, and organised the whole gig thereafter. I prefer his SF covers. That's interesting. It said in John Clute's Enclyopedia of Science Fiction that bloke was Foss himself. That's a belief that I've had for 30 years, and now - gone! Thanks, Weyland.  I think it's a bad illustration (the one with a phallic gear stick is best) because the central scene of the book is homosexual, or at least homoerotic, between "Ballard" and Vaughan. Jean, St Catherine, hmm. There's nothing sexual about this picture, though.  |
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Post by jean on Oct 27, 2011 10:27:54 GMT
Jean, St Catherine, hmm. There's nothing sexual about this picture, though. Speak for yourself, aubrey, speak for yourself. (PS - I didn't really think Judith and Holofernes was erotic.) |
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Post by aubrey on Oct 27, 2011 11:05:49 GMT
Well, there might be for someone with sexual hang-ups. But of course that doesn't include me.
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Oct 28, 2011 12:40:54 GMT
(you may be surprised to learn that this isn't a scene from the book: aren't book publishers little devils, though?)
is in your eye
the handbrake
penetrates your thigh
quick. Let's make love
before you dieAH |
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