Comments on: Vintage paperback cover galleries on Flickr

By: Songe

Songe — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Elise it doesn’t matter, if it whistles

By: amelia_amelia_amelia

amelia_amelia_amelia — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

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.”

By: trikitixa

trikitixa — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

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.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

It doesn’t whistle but you can still blow it???

please post more of these classics…

By: isaacb2

isaacb2 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

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.”

By: rhys

rhys — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

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

By: Evil Jim

Evil Jim — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

“… good in the head and good in bed.” would have sounded better.

By: JeremiahBritt

JeremiahBritt — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

That’s a beautifully awkward poem, like a limerick penned by a drunken lecher.

By: Lauren O

Lauren O — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Man, I wish that guy from the Cure would stop trying to write romance novels.

By: semiotix

semiotix — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I can feel my brain tying itself in knots as it tries to unravel the fractal-like layers of innuendo on that cover.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

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.

By: TayArgJosh18

TayArgJosh18 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Someone said Madonna? I thought it was Xeni. :)

By: jonbro

jonbro — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I really like all the bad winkwinknudgenudge puns:

margin of _terror_

By: Bionicrat2

Bionicrat2 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Add a gap tooth and the gal on the cover is the spitting image of Blond Ambition Tour Madonna – clothes and all.

By: Antinous

Antinous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

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.