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Galaxy Rangers – “The Goose Clip”

Galaxy Rangers was a wild-west space cartoon that ran in the mid- to late-80s in the US. A US-created cartoon, its anime-styling, steampunk tendencies and gritty storylines make it one well worth checking out. The series is to get a nice repackaging this coming May1.

Now more in keeping with the usual bunk we post here on Protozoic, I give you the following clip from the “Heart of Tarkon” episode. Whatever is actually occurring here, it seems to me the writers missed a good joke of not having the incident occur to the character Shane Gooseman (the character to whom it happens in the clip is Walter “Doc” Hartford).


  1. Currently only 4 DVDs, containing 16 of the 65 total shows, are available. If you are really keen to get watching some Galaxy Rangers, you can get them from Netflix. 

Advertisements

The following advertisements are from a Life Magazine that was withdrawn from the library. I don’t know what the exact issue is, because the front page was removed.

The individual ads appealed to me for different reasons.

I’m not saying why though.

I have some more ads I’ll be posting in the next couple days.

Go-Gay Shoes
Tampax

Gary Gygax

I know everyone who contributes to Protozoic already knows that Gary Gygax died today (they all forwarded me emails). Nonetheless, I wanted to do a brief posting here in the Mindlab. There’s no gauging how much the man influenced my life.

Here are two links Peter forwarded me.

Boing Boing.

Underwire.

From Elias:

Washington Post

New York Times

Slate… can’t please em’ all.

From Tim:

xkcd

New York Times w/ graphic.

The Bilge Song

(a hyperlinked sea chanty)

Verse 1:
In the bilge of the boat
‘Neath the billows and waves
Sleeps the bilgy-man’s boatswain
Witta biscuit he craves.

Chorus (sung after every verse):
So HUP! the ol’ hanker
Han’ furl patchy sail out.
Th’ scull’ry-mun’s cookin’
Han soon there’ll be shall-out (shallot)!

Verse 2 (Nanook’s solo):
A’ the snewy narth pool
Ware the snew people liv
Thay etts blubbery sausages
Caught wit ‘are shivvs!

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