Re: (TFT) Bored of the Rings (was Up the Creek)

[jh@metheny.brainiac.com (Joe Hartley)]

"Philip Wiles" <PAW@merichem.com> wrote:
> It's been years since I read this, but I remember laughing so hard at 
> times that I had to put the book down and walk away.  I really liked 
> the chapter with Luke Benzedrine.  I'll bet that the Goodgulf reference 
> is lost on the younger readers in the group.  Damn, I'm getting old.....

There are a *lot* of references that'll be lost on people who weren't
soaking up early '60's pop culture through their TV sets, mostly brand
names or ad slogans that haven't been heard in 30 years.  One of the 
elvish songs had recurring choruses that were mostly brand names:

Sing: Clearasil metrecal lavoris in chorus
      The elves he tried to woo!

My fave, as well, though, was Tim Benzedrine:

Tim, Tim Benzedrine!
Hash! Boo! Valvoline!
Clean! Clean! Clean for Gene!
First, second, neutral, park,
Hie thee hence, you leafy narc!

(And then the _rush_ hits...)

A bit I've quoted for years now is the bit of gibberish that Frito says
after he's eaten the dubious-lookin' mushrooms and the little round
candies that 'melt in yoor brain, not in yoor hans!':
"Argle-bargle morble woosh?" said Frito.  An all-purpose response :)


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