Unfortunate cover of The Rifleman

Woodoftherefileman

Great composition! (Thanks, Greg Long!)

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- Antinous / Moderator
  
  A guy who came to North Fork for the first time, his crotch was a wad of cookie dough. After a few weeks, he was carved out of wood.
Rotwang

All kids love Log!
- http://twitter.com/Pandertroll Philip Chinn
  
  It’s harder than hard, it’s wood!
  - http://twitter.com/kpkpkp Kevin Pierce
    
    It’s better than bad, it’s good!
    - SomeGuyNamedMark
      
      By Blammo!
jandrese

This has been floating around the internet for quite awhile now, and every time I look at it I go “this can’t have been an accident”. It’s way too blatant. I’m imagining a whole line of wink-wink-nudge-nudge from the photographer to the graphic designer (who honestly were probably the same person) to editor to publisher.
http://twitter.com/WpgCameraMan Rock Hardwood

Those logs were Photoshopped in.
- millie fink
  
  Exactly. There’s no way Chuck Connors had a log that big.
  - SomeGuyNamedMark
    
    You should see the bag
- jandrese
  
  Interesting, looking at the error level analysis (http://fotoforensics.com/analysis.php?id=8a951122176171410508f4c257b3662f9811fa24.55634 ), it looks like the entire boy and his logs may have been photoshopped in. It’s not a slam dunk, but it does look fishy. The texturing on the logs may just be difficult for the JPEG encoder to deal with and account for the high error level in that area (similar to the area around plot description).
  
  Given how many times this image has been recompressed by various websites for resizing or byte shaving, it’s hard to make any definitive conclusions.
- ahecht
  
  I believe it’s real. You can even buy this issue on ebay: http://www.ebay.com/itm/RIFLEMAN-10-1962-G-2-0-DELL-/170600089269
  - SomeGuyNamedMark
    
    Another source:
    http://www.coverscans.com/392140/dell/rifleman
- niktemadur
  
  Gives a whole new meaning to the term “plug-in”, doesn’t it?
- http://twitter.com/WpgCameraMan Rock Hardwood
  
  In 1962 I mean… as in, time machine, couldn’t really be done… they didn’t have it back then….
bo1n6bo1n6

Thats one proud cowboy.
Lobster

Mysterious bag indeed.
tw1515tw

Definitely Photoshopped, I can see the sawdust.
http://www.twitter.com/eselqueso eselqueso

It’s better than bad, it’s good!
Mike Baker

I remember this image from back in the 90s. Big log, yes, luckily they didn’t show the “mysterious bag.”
viggy

In looking at that cover, fake or not, with my 58 y/o eyes it took me a while to figure out what was going on. My grandfather saw men first fly then walk on the moon. In my life time I have seen a magazine cover featuring a kid doing chores become a smutty joke. I am amused and a little disgusted with this fascination of looking for sexual innuendoes in everything. In a blog that celebrates creative energy and the creative spirit this seems a bit demeaning.
- http://instantaneousinstances.com/ Spieguh
  
  Let us eat, drink and laugh at juvenile jokes, for tomorrow we may become codgers.
- Navin_Johnson
  
  You could always log off..
  - PhosPhorious
    
    You win the thread.
  - Antinous / Moderator
    
    Gives new meaning to the biblical exhortation to take the log from your own eye. Because it burnnns.
- marilove
  
  Man, you need a sense of humor.
  
  Don’t ever read Shakespeare. Or Mark Twain. You may be clutching your pearls the entire time!
  
  You act like this is something new. Puh-lease. You think your grandfather lived in some innocent time where there weren’t dirty jokes and innuendoes? REALLY?
  
  Because you’d be mistaken.
  
  Hell, even ancient artists liked to hide sexy innuendos in their works:
  
  http://www.cracked.com/article_19271_8-filthy-jokes-hidden-in-ancient-works-art.html
  
  Even ancient MONKS did this sort of thing — some of it is even worse! (a goat farting diarrhea at a squire — omg I DIED.)
  
  Cracked has a couple other similar articles about that sort of thing. You should look, and learn, and then maybe you’ll start to realize that this sort of thing is not new, and indeed, people have had naughty senses of humor since the beginning of time.
  
  Also, you comparing your grandfather seeing people walk on the moon, to … this BoingBoing post, is really, really weird. They aren’t really the same things at all. Your grandfather saw people walk on the moon in his lifetime. In my lifetime, I saw the Internet and technology in general boom. Now that is a fair comparison. Seriously, that was just a weird, out-of-place comparison. Like you were streeeettchhhiiiiing as much as you could to try and make this generation look bad, or something. Ridiculous.
  - millie fink
    
    Here here! (or should that be “hear hear!”?)
    
    Let’s add Chaucer too, that bawdy old sot.
    
    As for Twain, I especially like his speech “Some Thoughts on the Science of Onanism,” delivered in 1879 to a Paris meeting of the Stomach Club.
    
    http://www.textfiles.com/etext/AUTHORS/TWAIN/onanism.txt
    
    Cetewayo, the Zulu hero, remarked, “A jerk in the hand is worth two in the bush.”
    - marilove
      
      It’s “hear, hear”! :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hear,_hear
      
      Oh, man. I wonder if viggy’s grandfather ever read Mark Twain? If so, I bet he didn’t clutch his pearls in this way over a silly innuendo.
      
      Something tells me viggy’s grandfather is in his grave, rolling his eyes at his boring, pearl-clutching grandson.
      
      Bawdy. Man, that is such a great word.
  - chgoliz
    
    Heck, I’m old enough to have watched the first men landing on the moon and here I am reading this BB post. I’ll bet there are more than a few regular BB readers who are grandfathers. And who have enjoyed a sexual innuendo or two.
    - marilove
      
      My grandmother would find this hysterical, but she has a naughty sense of humor.
- chgoliz
  
  I spent an entire course at college reading British writers from the Augustan period: Dryden, Pope, Swift, etc. Need I say more?
  
  Further back: Shakespeare
  
  Further back: Lysistrata
  
  Further back: the Song of Songs
  
  People have been human for a very long time.
- SomeGuyNamedMark
  
  Your grandpa was making dirty jokes too.
  - marilove
    
    I wonder if his grandpa was in the army or other military service. If so, it is guaranteed that he enjoyed the occasional dirty joke or innuendo.
- http://www.lightning-rose.com/ LightningRose
  
  *tells iPhone to remind me to stay off Viggy’s lawn*
- bkad
  
  Hey, I’m 31 and I wouldn’t have even picked up that there was a double entendre here if boing boing hadn’t pointed it out to me. It makes me wonder what else I’m missing…
  - llazy8
    
    you’re missing accidentalpenis.com
- cdh1971
  
  They say the West was Won using Whiskey & Sodomy.
- Lobster
  
  Do your 58 y/o eyes see me on your lawn? Because I am on your lawn. I am damaging your grass. With my feet. The neighbors shall be appalled. They will think you have poor appreciation for lawns. Also: grassy feet.
http://www.facebook.com/creesto Christopher W Lynch

I can’t believe no one else noticed that the log’s shadow makes it look like Chuckie wet himself. And Viggy, I’m sorry but lighten up: there can never be enough humor in this life. Never. THERE ARE NO SACRED COWS!! mooo
- Comedian
  
  That’s not urine.
lumpygravy2

I remember seeing this on the newstand as a kid and thinking, “you have got to be kidding!”

”Hey I have a great idea, lets do a cover layout that poses our main characters in a suggestive and ludicrous manner, it is sure to sell more copies.” may have been some marketing droids flash at the time.
ChicagoD

You don’t think he was called the “Rifleman” because of a gun, do you?
- Navin_Johnson
  
  I just like that it’s in quotes, as if he really sucks at handling his weapon.
  
  This (so called) “Rifleman” *rolls eyes*.
Mister44

I used to love that show.
laureltree

This has been around on the ‘net for a while, most notably thanks to Maddox… http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=uscc_part1
http://www.aarongilliland.com/ Aaron Gilliland

Chuck, do you like watching gladiator movies?
http://orbitnet.com JIMWICh

I believe that photo still is from the episode, “Bad Day At Morningwood.”
http://twitter.com/cicadamania Cicada Mania

Can someone photoshop a Brazzers logo onto the image? Oh wait. This isn’t canv.as
http://profiles.google.com/carboncow robert feller

No way it’s an accident…this type of humor was used in media all the time..if not more “back in the day” because of us were clueless to sexual and homo stuff. I’m amazed now when I look back on everything in early TV…the gays were running wild in the streets back then with writing and double entendras…more so then now because it had to be hidden!
- cdh1971
  
  This is _so_ true!
http://bbc.co.uk/chinese cycle23

First thing I thought of was the table placards at “The Wood”, the burger joint @ Inglewood and Washington just on the edge of Culver City…

http://www.thewoodcafe.com/

I don’t work there, but I eat there once or twice a month.. very darn good stuff and I’d like to see them stay in business, so drop by.
pjcamp

What? A boy can’t hold his old man’s log?
anderalert

It’s a hunka hunka burnin love.
http://echofox3.blogspot.com efergus3

You kids get off my log!
ocatagon

And what’s Veronica Lake doing with her hairbrush in Sullivan’s Travels?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PQravlANy8&t=1m30s
niktemadur

What would happen if you edit your comment to erase all text, leaving the field blank, then click on “Save Edit”?
marilove

Comment can’t be empty. <— That. lol.
cdh1971

“Thou dost frighten me with dreams and terrify me by visions.” Job 7:14
blendergasket

In that case all your children would refuse to wear anything but thongs until they had the best sex they felt that they would ever have and then they would commit suicide messily on your carpet.
Antinous / Moderator

You have to have two characters. And that comment was removed by request of the commenter.
marilove

I know, I saw; I was just curious like niktemadur :)