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Post by DavidRitchieWilson on Apr 11, 2017 22:07:44 GMT -8
Apologies in advance if everybody but me knows about the following site. I've just chanced upon the Art of Diving site at www.artofdiving.co.uk/. Its vintage diving related comics made me think of Jaybird's interest in diving caricature:  |
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Post by tomcatpc on Apr 12, 2017 7:09:00 GMT -8
I've seen this site before, some interesting things there. It's a wonder no one has shared this before. I thought someone had, so I never brought it up here, but glad to see it here now.
Mark
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Post by nikeajax on Apr 12, 2017 8:50:03 GMT -8
No freakin' way--very cool my friend! YIKES--the portrayal of the Japanese is seven kinds of embarrassing though  Will read that tonight at bedtime. The details in the art reminded me of a few things I'm sure you remember DRW:
DAN DARE! and also... THUNDERBIRDS |
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Post by DavidRitchieWilson on Apr 12, 2017 10:12:45 GMT -8
Ah, the stiff upper lip and jut jaw of Dan Dare: it even alliterates! Dan Dare in the "Eagle" was the only spaceman in the world with a batman to attend to his spotless spacesuit. I looked forward to the comic's arrival each week. It was regarded as the most educational of boys' comics of the time:  and you were meant to start with the "Robin", proceeding to the "Swift" before graduating to the "Eagle". I never got to watch "Thunderbirds" because my family didn't get a TV until the late 1960s. We were brought up on the radio and the science fiction show I enjoyed most after "Dan Dare" was "Journey into Space", which began on BBC radio in 1953. Still, "Thunderbirds" is making a comeback, at least on a British TV commercial for a UK bank: |
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Post by nikeajax on Apr 12, 2017 14:07:02 GMT -8
BWAHAHAHAHAHA--SNORT!  Hmmmm? Since you didn't really watch it as a kid, you pro'lly don't know why that advert is even funnier to someone like me! In ALL of those Gerry Anderson shows, at least in the "Supermarionation" (add echo effect), the streets were totally and completely... unpopulated, and utterly devoid of any sort of organism other than plant-life! Kinda like one of those bad sci-fi films from the 1950's, muh-hahahaha! So what made it unauthentic to me was the populated city: they should have "made hay" with that idiosyncrasy of the show  You kinda threw me off with the "batman" comment: sorry, it took me a few seconds to figure it out without an accent to accommodate it  You weren't talking about Bruce Wayne's alter ego  EWWWW, I still totally love vintage sci-fi radio, especially one called X Minus One: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Minus_OneYou can find all of them on Youtube BTW I'm working on a series of retro-futuristic short stories at this very moment--gotta get back! Cheers mate! JB
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Post by nikeajax on Apr 12, 2017 17:57:41 GMT -8
Ah, the stiff upper lip and jut jaw of Dan Dare: it even alliterates! Whoa--dude! Are ya tryin' ta say he don't know who his father is! (sorry, I couldn't resist that one!) JB |
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Post by SeaRat on Apr 22, 2017 16:08:19 GMT -8
Okay, David and Jay, what does S.N.O.R.K.E.L. stand for? This has to be some sort of acronym.
John
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Post by DavidRitchieWilson on Apr 22, 2017 22:10:41 GMT -8
What about: "Submarine Naval Operations Regional Knowledge Engineering Laboratory"?
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Post by nikeajax on Apr 23, 2017 11:23:18 GMT -8
Suburban Neophytes Of Reckless Knighthood's Evil Larping? Yeah, that's another totally 1960's thing: acronyms that are really forced. "United Network Command for Law and Enforcement"  JB EDIT: Tiny Human Underground Military Bureau...  |
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Post by SeaRat on Apr 24, 2017 22:14:38 GMT -8
David and Jaybilrd,
"Section Nine, Ocean Research and Knowledge Establishment for Learning," code named S.N.O.R.K.E.L.
I cheated and looked at their website, and saw that in one of the earlier cartoons.
John
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Post by DavidRitchieWilson on Apr 25, 2017 2:47:13 GMT -8
David and Jaybilrd, "Section Nine, Ocean Research and Knowledge Establishment for Learning," code named S.N.O.R.K.E.L. I cheated and looked at their website, and saw that in one of the earlier cartoons. John Congratulations, John.  I tried to "cheat" too, but wasn't able to locate the expansion of the acronym. I'll have to console myself with the fact that at least I guessed the "K" stood for "knowledge". David |
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Post by nikeajax on Apr 25, 2017 8:24:27 GMT -8
My wife sells assistive learning tech. and worked in publishing before that: she always laughs at acronyms because education uses so many of them. She knows that if they throw a word at her that's a non sequitur that it's always an acronym, then she has to take a few seconds to figure it out, and because she's been around teachers for so long she knows the game...
JB
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Will read that tonight at bedtime.
You weren't talking about Bruce Wayne's alter ego 
