Although this epochal work - by the inspired partnership of Harvey Kurtzman and Will "Chicken Fat" Elder - is yet to sit on the same shelf as Tolstoy, Henry James, Dan Brown, Jessica Fletcher, or any other of them guys, its time has come at th' House O' Foam© Library Of Books, where it is enshrined as part of our Great Classics Of Literature Out Th' Ass® heritage collection, which is like the Smithsonian, only fun.
The Complete Annie Fanny is a swell Yuletide package of sumptuousness, even when it's not Christmas, like today. So what? Treat yerself, ya poor slob! You'll think all your birthdays have come at once as you peruse its lavishly limned pages, each as artistic as the finest French painting in a museum. You'll laugh at her indomitable spirit! Cry at the hardships she endures! Gasp at her narrow escapes! Leer unpleasantly at her wardrobe malfunctions! And very probably sob your old heart out at the fact that Millennials would like to make things like this - and you too, grandpa - illegal.
I'll leave the factual stuff (actually pretty educational) to the comments.
Well smack my Fannie and call me Annie! This is the kind of high-brow culture I have come to expect at the esteemed House-o-Foam. Thanks in advance for culturing me.
ReplyDeleteA rather fitting memorial to the late lamented Mrs. Myra Nussbaum. A link would help get through this devastating period of mourning.
ReplyDeleteIs THAT how this works: we beg, and the link appears? Thank you in advance, benevolent Farq!
DeleteI could get over the loss of Ms. Nussbaum with some wood aspiring high tone lit. I've got the Thompson Water Sealer out and ready.
ReplyDeleteSorry for the delayed upload. I've been making a statement for the L.V.P.D. There was some confusion over the fact that my alibi depended upon my playing Whack-a-Mole at the time of Mrs. Nussbaum's tragic death, but that a police search of the premises had failed to reveal a Whack-a-Mole machine. I suggested that it had been stolen by the murderer after the terrible act, and this was accepted as the most logical solution.
ReplyDelete(stealth link)
sneaky!
DeleteLink?
DeleteI can fondly remember Annie and her Fanny from many moons ago. Probably why i need glasses!
ReplyDeleteIt's there in my comment above, as Mr Dave and others have found out.
ReplyDeleteThird time's the charm?
ReplyDelete“Once upon a time
Somebody say to me
What is your Conceptual Continuity?
Well, I told him right then
It should be easy to see
The crux of the biscuit
Is the ________”
-Frank Zappa
The link is there, you just need to look for it.
ReplyDeleteWe all mourn Mrs. Nussbaum's tragic death.
ReplyDeleteMrDave clenched it for me. I had glossed over and over with no success. Then again I'd run out of cleaning products to drink and had started up on the Thompson Water Sealer. Goes down smooth but hits you like a wallop from a brick.
ReplyDeleteFun Foam Fact! LAF was the first comic strip to use full-color paintings as original artwork!
ReplyDeleteThanks! I'd at least heard of Little Annie Fanny (but don't recall
ReplyDeleteever running into an issue in the wild). NGL, though, it took me a
bit to find the link, even if I can by now see it very clearly.
Swell clue, MrDave!
ReplyDeleteCan't seem to see the link.
ReplyDeleteFond it
ReplyDeletethe word on the street is that you wrote Little Annie Fanny.
ReplyDeleteWhere oh WHERE do you come up with these GENIUS ideas of just WHAT fine fine super fine Readin' Materiel to foist upon your unsuspecting horndoggie ("4 or 5 Guys"?)(Patent Pending) public?!
ReplyDeleteSome guy off of an internet tells me ...
DeleteI had no idea it started as early as 1962. The Mad Magazine influence very strong.
ReplyDeleteGot it! Thanks Mr. T.
ReplyDeleteCan't find the link, maybe another pot of coffee will clear my vision.
ReplyDeleteGeez ... it's hiding behind the A-P-O-S-T-R-O-P-H-E in "Mrs. Nussbaum's". Between the M and S. It's like a comma but floating.
DeleteGeez.
Thank you for the last explanation I tried & I tried & couldnt......
ReplyDeleteSee my comment way up there that says this?
Delete"Sorry for the delayed upload. I've been making a statement for the L.V.P.D. There was some confusion over the fact that my alibi depended upon my playing Whack-a-Mole at the time of Mrs. Nussbaum's tragic death, but that a police search of the premises had failed to reveal a Whack-a-Mole machine. I suggested that it had been stolen by the murderer after the terrible act, and this was accepted as the most logical solution."
Yes? Now find this in the comment:
"Mrs. Nussbaum's"
Narrow it down to this:
"Nussbaum's"
... and this:
"m's"
... now take away the letters to either side of the apostrophe:
"'"
.. and you're staring at the link. Hover your cursor-arrow-pointer thing on your computer screen over the apostrophe. If you're using a Mac it will tell you it's a link. Click it. If you're using a pc or a phone, you may need to call a help desk in Mumbai.
My work here is done.