Bored of The Rings
Greg Moritz
It was a National Lampoon parody on the
book. I liked it, but others could not
get into it.
Some stuff from the book:
Frito Baggins >>> Frito Bugger
Gandalph Greyhame >>> Goodgulf Greyteeth
Sauron >>> Sorehead
Shire >>> Sty
and so on ...
The 'Sty' was described as a place where some
large and untidy creature such as a dragon had
suffered a series of disappointing bowel
movements in the vicinity.
- that's my favorite 'passage' from the book.
Craig McMartin
"Greg Moritz" <gmo...@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
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Iv seen it, but didn't bother to buy it. I just got the LOTR books for
Christmas, so maybe after iv read them (not for the first time) i'll look at
getting it.
From what little i saw though, it looked like a funny book.
kitznegari thinks it has wings
>It was a National Lampoon parody on the
>book. I liked it, but others could not
>get into it.
it's just so childish. i can't stand it. are there truly still people alive
that enjoy passing gas and idiotic sex jokes? it's pitiful.
- k i t z -
what does an evil lord have to do around here to get
freakin' fell beasts with laser beams on their heads?!
http://spinning_plates.tripod.com
r smith
more than 30 years ago.
R Smith
Craig McMartin
"kitznegari thinks it has wings" <kitzn...@aol.com> wrote in message
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> >Has anyone read this and found it funny?
> >It was a National Lampoon parody on the
> >book. I liked it, but others could not
> >get into it.
>
> it's just so childish. i can't stand it. are there truly still people
alive
> that enjoy passing gas and idiotic sex jokes? it's pitiful.
No its not! Its funny! =/
*farts* .....see! hillarious! =/
Jette Goldie
"Craig McMartin" <cr...@cmcmartin.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
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Well, YOU are male, aren't you? ;-)
(best test of usenet poster gender - make a fart joke
and see if zie laughs. )
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Jette
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the softrat
<j...@blueyonder.com.uk> wrote:
>Well, YOU are male, aren't you? ;-)
>
>(best test of usenet poster gender - make a fart joke
>and see if zie laughs. )
>
SWMBO *loves* fart jokes!
*I* think that they stink!
the softrat
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Bill O'Meally
"Greg Moritz" <gmo...@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
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> Has anyone read this and found it funny?
> It was a National Lampoon parody on the
> book. I liked it, but others could not
> get into it.
>
> Some stuff from the book:
>
> Frito Baggins >>> Frito Bugger
Gimlet son of Groin. :-)
I think it's a very funny book, if not dated. Many drug references; and
who remembers Good Gulf (from a 1970's gas station ad) and Bromoseltzer
(Bromosel in the book)?
My favorite passage? "'This is indeed a queer river,' said Bromosel, as
the water lapped at his thighs."
--
Bill
"Wise fool"
Gandalf, THE TWO TOWERS
-- The Wise will remove 'se' to reply; the Foolish will not--
Graeme
>that enjoy passing gas and idiotic sex jokes? it's pitiful.
There's some moron humor in there, but there are lots of good jokes in Bored
too.
One of my favorite lines in there was Bromosel looking across the grey surface
of the page to the thick half of the book still in the reader's right hand and
concluding that they had a long way to go. Also loved the line "Hey! You got
der Royal Emblem of Twodor embroidered on der backflap!" Also "This my chick.
She name Hashberry."
They also had some good parodies of many of the songs in the book. Here's a
copy of the Bored of the Rings version of the song of Nimrodel:
"An elven-maid there was of old,
A stenographer by day;
Her hair was fake, her teeth were gold,
Her scent was that of cheap sachet.
She thought that art was really 'keen,'
The top ten she could hum;
Her eyes were full of Maybelline,
Her mouth, of chewing gum.
Her head was full of men and clothes,
Her hair, of ratted curls;
Her legs she wrapped in fine Sup-Hose,
For nights out with the girls.
She met one morn an elven-lad,
Who took her to the fights,
And said he owned a spacious pad,
And went to law school nights.
And so that night she gave her all
In back of his sedan;
So rich, she thought, so sharp and tall,
A perfect family man.
But then he told her with a smirk,
That he loved another,
And was a part-time postal clerk
And lived home with his mother.
A silver tear rolled down her cheek
As she bussed home by herself;
The same thing happened twice last week,
(Oh, Heaven help the Working-elf!)
Stephen Horgan
wrote:
The passage where Goodgulf muses on the possible suicidal tendencies
of the Denethor character is hysterical.
--
Stephen Horgan, http://www.horgan.org.uk
"intelligent people will tend to overvalue intelligence"
johnathom...@yahoo.com
<ste...@horgan.REMOVETOREPLY.co.uk> wrote:
>>Has anyone read this and found it funny?
>>It was a National Lampoon parody on the
>>book. I liked it, but others could not
>>get into it.
>>
>>Some stuff from the book:
>>
>> Frito Baggins >>> Frito Bugger
>> Gandalph Greyhame >>> Goodgulf Greyteeth
>> Sauron >>> Sorehead
>> Shire >>> Sty
>> and so on ...
>>
>>The 'Sty' was described as a place where some
>>large and untidy creature such as a dragon had
>>suffered a series of disappointing bowel
>>movements in the vicinity.
>>
>>- that's my favorite 'passage' from the book.
>
>The passage where Goodgulf muses on the possible suicidal tendencies
>of the Denethor character is hysterical.
He would have finished Goddam off then and there, but pity stayed his
hand. "It's a pity I've run out of bullets," he thought...
John Thompson
G. M. Watson
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In article <9296ce7.03122...@posting.google.com>,
gmo...@worldnet.att.net (Greg Moritz) wrote:
> Has anyone read this and found it funny?
> It was a National Lampoon parody on the
> book. I liked it, but others could not
> get into it.
>
BOTR is a much more amusing parody of LOTR than the trio of parodies that
Jackson directed.
Bill O'Meally
"G. M. Watson" <gm...@pop2.intergate.ca> wrote in message
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hee hee!
Morgil
"the softrat" <sof...@pobox.com> kirjoitti
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> On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 01:07:20 GMT, "Jette Goldie"
> <j...@blueyonder.com.uk> wrote:
>
> >Well, YOU are male, aren't you? ;-)
> >
> >(best test of usenet poster gender - make a fart joke
> >and see if zie laughs. )
> >
> SWMBO *loves* fart jokes!
>
> *I* think that they stink!
I guess we know now... naah, we alreay knew
who wears pants in that family. ;)
Morgil
Ben Kaufman
> "Greg Moritz" <gmo...@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
> news:9296ce7.03122...@posting.google.com...
> > Has anyone read this and found it funny?
> > It was a National Lampoon parody on the
> > book. I liked it, but others could not
> > get into it.
> >
>
Co-authored by the brilliant Doug Kenney, who went on to co-write the
scripts to Animal House and Caddyshack before his untimely death in 1980.
The Ring Inscription:
"This Ring, no other, is made by the elves,
Who'd pawn their own mother to grab it themselves.
Ruler of creeper, mortal and scallop,
This is a sleeper that packs quite a wallop.
The Power almighty rests in this Lone Ring.
The Power, alrighty, for doing your Own Thing.
If broken or busted, it cannot be remade.
If found, send to Sorhed (the postage is prepaid)."
TchWrtrMcf
don't remember any fart jokes, or explicit sex in the book, so I really wonder
if a lot of those posting early in this thread actually read the book they're
commenting on.
My favorite part was the description of the army of Fordor emerging (here
referred to in paraphrase, since I don't have a copy of the book handy and
haven't read it in over a decade), led by thousands of chain-swinging narcs,
zombies, ghouls, the frankenstein monster, the creature from 20,000 fathoms,
godzilla, mothra, king kong, It, She, Them, Dracula, the creature from the
black lagoon......
Richard F. Drushel, Ph.D.
: BOTR was funny with a couple of brilliant spots and a few lame ones.
I will add a plug for my "extensions" to BOTR, hopefully more
brilliant than lame:
http://junior.apk.net/~drushel/b_app_a.html ;Appendix A
http://junior.apk.net/~drushel/b_scour.html ;Scouring of the Shire
I changed some names that bugged me, and rearranged a few bits. Never to
be seen anywhere (probably) is my more extensive reworking of the entire
BOTR, to fix the lame (IMHO) second half and more closely integrate my
"extensions"...I had fun devising a barely-legible runic alphabet for the
title page and the Door of Fergus Fewmet, for instance :-)
*Rich*
--
Richard F. Drushel, Ph.D. | "Aplysia californica" is your taxonomic
Department of Biology, Slug Division | nomenclature. / A slug, by any other
Case Western Reserve University | name, is still a slug by nature.
Cleveland, Ohio 44106-7080 U.S.A. | -- apologies to Data, "Ode to Spot"