Comments on: Snark Out!

By: finn

finn — Mon, 29 May 2006 21:21:59 +0000

I honestly thought my friend Dustin & I might be the only two people on earth who read The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death. Glad to know we’re not alone.

stereo is for wimps.

By: John Holbo

John Holbo — Sun, 28 May 2006 17:46:58 +0000

Thanks, Adam. I didn’t know that.

By: Crooked Timber » » Pencil Mania, Piano Tooners, Boulevard of Broken Dreams

Sun, 28 May 2006 15:17:03 +0000

[...] Following up last night’s post, I’ve constructed two more little Tom and Jerry appreciation sites – for “Pencil Mania”; for “Piano Tooners”. You can also download the cartoons themselves here and here. I’ve incorporated my expert commentary into the sites themselves. Are you like me? Do you find these things just weirdly beguiling? [...]

By: Adam Roberts

Adam Roberts — Sun, 28 May 2006 06:42:42 +0000

“It doesn’t look to me like the Codger consents, Adam.” What you’ve got to bear in mind about elderly beardy old men is that when they say no, they actually mean yes.

One piece of pedantry; this ‘Tom and Jerry’ isn’t the ‘original’ pairing, as you suggest here. The originals were a couple of Victorian city lads from Pierce Egan’s Life in London (1820). That’s where the coupling of those two names comes from.

By: John Holbo

John Holbo — Sun, 28 May 2006 01:46:18 +0000

It occurs to me that, in deference to the house-bound nature of the adventure, I ought to call this practice ‘snarking in’. Oooh, earwork and leeks. It doesn’t look to me like the Codger consents, Adam. Mind you, all Tom does is kick him through to the end of next week. So that’s alright.

I’ll make another couple little sites.

By: KCinDC

KCinDC — Sun, 28 May 2006 01:01:30 +0000

Rich, that’s not a newspaper. It’s a telegram. That’s what Western Union used to do.

By: yabonn

yabonn — Sun, 28 May 2006 00:38:57 +0000

Ha! In my time, people knew how to have fun with mere internet serendipity. Simple pleasures, like reducing people's brain to a mush with a finnish earworm and leeks. There.

By: Chris Brody

Chris Brody — Sat, 27 May 2006 22:06:22 +0000

The Snarkout Boys! I remember them with great fondness, as I do a few of Pinkwater’s other books. I’ve long thought, too, that “The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death” is a book title of perhaps unequalled fantasticness.

By: Rich Puchalsky

Rich Puchalsky — Sat, 27 May 2006 18:00:11 +0000

In A Spanish Twist, the newspaper is “Westurn Onion”. A precursor?

By: Adam Roberts

Adam Roberts — Sat, 27 May 2006 17:21:07 +0000

Would you like that? Ve-ery much. I read it to my daughter as she looked at the onscreen piccies. Well, I read her a bowdlerized version. She liked the octopus.

Mind you, re: your caption for the last frame—I query your use of the term ‘hideous’. There’s nothing ‘hideous’ about the act of love between two consenting adults, even if there happens to be a fifty year age gap between them. You old neo-con, you.