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17 May 01 - 10:00 PM (#465176) Subject: Bomba the Jungle Boy - ARCHIVE!!! From: Little Hawk Oh boy!!! All kinds of great info about the absolute WORST, most wretchedly written Tarzan imitation of all time... Yes, it's...(drum roll * * * * * * * * * * * * *) BOMBA THE JUNGLE BOY! Issue after issue of utter loinclothed balderdash! Anacondas that will leave you breathless! Tropical heat waves that will leave you bra-less. Hapless native boy sidekicks for comic relief! Heartless white hunters with monocles and BIG thundersticks! Blonde cosmo girls in the clutches of headhunting savages! And so on... Investigate at these loincloth addresses: http://www.tarzanmovieguide.com/b-books.htm http://www.tarzanmovieguide.com/bomba.htm Kreegah! Bomba bundolo good taste in literature! Rak! - LH |
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17 May 01 - 10:03 PM (#465181) Subject: RE: Bomba the Jungle Boy - ARCHIVE!!! From: catspaw49 Tarzan stored eels up his ass. Spaw |
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17 May 01 - 10:15 PM (#465187) Subject: RE: Bomba the Jungle Boy - ARCHIVE!!! From: catspaw49 Bomba's ass was eel infested also as told in Issue 15, "Bomba and the River Demons." He rid himself of them in Issue 18, "Bomba in the Land of Burning Lava" where he takes a molten enema. Spaw |
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17 May 01 - 10:20 PM (#465191) Subject: RE: Bomba the Jungle Boy - ARCHIVE!!! From: catspaw49 LITTLE KNOWN FACT In "Bomba and the Jungle Girl," Bomba fathers a child who later grows up to be Major Tom, Psychotic Astronaut. Just thought you should know............. Spaw |
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18 May 01 - 12:18 AM (#465228) Subject: RE: Bomba the Jungle Boy - ARCHIVE!!! From: Little Hawk The sad thing is, Spaw, you seem to be talking to an audience of one here (me). I wonder where Peter T. is? He is a huge Bomba fan. BTW, it is untrue that Tarzan stored eels up his ass. As a matter of fact, this rumour was squelched once and for all by Sir Snidely Tillinghast's 1902 expedition in search of the source of the Nile. Poor fellow didn't seem to realize that it had already been discovered... but he did happen, by sheer good luck to spend a fortnight in the company of the Lord of the Apes, and in the course of many an evening spent yarning around the old bonfire did indeed confirm that the rumour about anal retention of eels by the aforementioned apeman was entirely false. It appears that it had been bandied about by a certain pair of scoundrels, named Peebles & Throck, who had run afoul of Tarzan while attempting to move stolen goods and commit indiscretions upon a lady! That's about what you can expect from lowbred cutpurses and scoundrels. I'm glad I had a chance to clear that up for you. - LH |
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18 May 01 - 12:31 AM (#465236) Subject: RE: Bomba the Jungle Boy - ARCHIVE!!! From: Little Hawk And don't think you're the only one around here who can post twice in a row either... - LH |
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18 May 01 - 12:32 AM (#465239) Subject: RE: Bomba the Jungle Boy - ARCHIVE!!! From: Little Hawk Or three times! - LH |
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18 May 01 - 12:37 AM (#465240) Subject: RE: Bomba the Jungle Boy - ARCHIVE!!! From: catspaw49 GREAT GOOGILY-MOOGILY!!!!!! Are you saying that Snidely Tillighast Was searching for the source of the Nile up Tarzan's ass??? Good Lord Hawk....That's disgusting!!! At least he cleaned out the eels though..................... Spaw |
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18 May 01 - 09:02 AM (#465416) Subject: RE: Bomba the Jungle Boy - ARCHIVE!!! From: RichM ...and of course, there's the Latin-American version: La Bomba! |
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18 May 01 - 09:09 AM (#465423) Subject: RE: Bomba the Jungle Boy - ARCHIVE!!! From: catspaw49 Good point Rich!!! But please note that the Latin-American La Bomba has neither eggs nor eels up his ass, but rather drug filled balloons. Spaw |
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18 May 01 - 09:40 AM (#465447) Subject: RE: Bomba the Jungle Boy - ARCHIVE!!! From: LR Mole Is this a little-known subtext to Sebastian Melmoth's "De Profundis"? Or "The Picture of Dorian Greystoke", perhaps?Did Oscar go Wilde in the jungle? |
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18 May 01 - 10:15 AM (#465487) Subject: RE: Bomba the Jungle Boy - ARCHIVE!!! From: InOBU Geeeeeeeeezzzzzzzze Loooouuuuuueeeeezzzze! Does this thread cry out for a plug! (no tarzan pun intended... Well, how bout a half hearted one! Hey, guys check out my new song about the cops, Larry's new song about the police, thread... as you guys are too far away to come to HEAR SORCHA DORCHA AT HUGH O"LUNNEY'S SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY! 46TH STREET NYC (Not brought to you by the very nice folks at Pinewoods who have other things to do that day... [he said smiling, so don't blacklist me! It was already done to my Dad, and he LIKED it!]) ;-] Larry the plugomatic |
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18 May 01 - 10:28 AM (#465499) Subject: RE: Bomba the Jungle Boy - ARCHIVE!!! From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler (nice one, Larry!) Don't forget Coca, the Colombian clown, who makes poodle dogs and giraffes out of drug-filled balloons. RtS |
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18 May 01 - 10:40 AM (#465514) Subject: RE: Bomba the Jungle Boy - ARCHIVE!!! From: wysiwyg OK, that's good, already it's a music thread so the title should not attract ire. I shall speak for all the lurkers whose silence might otherwise make you feel as though your very humorous beginnings have been inadequately viewed and appreciated. "So carrion guys!" Take any of that any way you wish-- I am deliberately ambiguating so you can. I shall triple post as well so you get to critical mass sooner, since what seems to be the thing here is multiple self-cross-posting. (Requisite thread creep: Of course REAL cross-posting would require a gender and name change but hey! No one has ever suggested THAT before as far as I know!) ~S~ |
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18 May 01 - 10:46 AM (#465521) Subject: RE: Bomba the Jungle Boy - ARCHIVE!!! From: LR Mole Pooh. |
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18 May 01 - 10:49 AM (#465528) Subject: RE: Bomba the Jungle Boy - ARCHIVE!!! From: wysiwyg PS, *G* ~S~ |
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18 May 01 - 03:14 PM (#465768) Subject: RE: Bomba the Jungle Boy - ARCHIVE!!! From: hesperis I vaguely remember these books. Liked them when I was three years old, but the effect kinda wore off when I discovered the "choose your own adventure" books the next year. |
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18 May 01 - 03:20 PM (#465774) Subject: RE: Bomba the Jungle Boy - ARCHIVE!!! From: catspaw49 Yeah hesp......I bet you really went for the one titled, "Choose Your Adventure; Put Eels Up My Ass." Could you give us a book report on that one? Spaw |
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18 May 01 - 03:53 PM (#465790) Subject: RE: Bomba the Jungle Boy - ARCHIVE!!! From: hesperis Sure! "Choose Your Own venture Series: Put Eels Up My Ass" was one of my all-time favorites! It starts out with a boy (the protagonist is always a boy in "Choose Your Own Adventure" the only thing I didn't like, but in this book, at least I knew I wasn't the character... but I digress,) who is going on holiday to Jamaica. (It's always some "exotic" location or other.) He is really hoping that his little sister will stay out of his way, as when he arrived in Jamaica he found a torn-out corner of a map on the docks near their rental cabins. It seems there is a rare breed of eels living in a cove somewhere near there. The bad guys (there are ALWAYS "bad guys",) are trying to kill all the eels for their skins, to make drums with. It's up to YOU to STOP this senseless slaughter!!!!!!!!! You are faced with many choices on your way to the end. Unfortunately, most of those choices lead to your capture by the bad guys and the death of not just yourself, but the eels you have vowed to protect! Early on in the book, you are faced with the choice of letting your little sister in on the secrets of the map. If you don't let her help, then when the bad guys discover that you know about the map, you DIE!!!!!! If you let her help you, she actually finds the next fragment of the map, which is a bit of a bummer, but at least you now know where to find the eels! (After dying several times, and flipping back to where you were in the book before you died, you finally come to the pre-climax of the story.) Then there is a fast-paced chase scene, (there is always a fast-paced chase scene,) with you and your little sister trying to rescue the baby eels (the bad guys have killed most of the adult eels, of course,) in a rowboat, and move them to another cove, where the bad guys won't be able to find them. The rowboat is fast filling with water... the bad guys are in a sleek, killer motorboat, bought with the spoils they received from killing the adult eels and selling the drums - probably to mudcatters. They discover the baby eels are missing, and the chase is on! The last spectacular decision involves trying to find someplace to hide the baby eels where the bad guys won't think to look. Your sister suggests that you stick them where the sun doesn't shine. She meant the cave you found in the next cove over, but... Quite a fascinating book. Too bad you die so many times, though. ~*sirepseh*~ |
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18 May 01 - 04:23 PM (#465816) Subject: RE: Bomba the Jungle Boy - ARCHIVE!!! From: Little Hawk Sounds almost as plausible as the typical Bomba storyline... - LH |
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18 May 01 - 04:30 PM (#465821) Subject: RE: Bomba the Jungle Boy - ARCHIVE!!! From: GUEST,Ron Olesko Believe it or not, I actually own a 1923 hardcover book of "Bomba The Jungle Boy". When the Tarzan novels were big sellers for the pulp magazines, Bomba tried to capitalize on the trend. When the movies took off, the Bomba books were dusted off and a series of low-budget films were made. Another bit of trivia. I have no idea what Bomba did with his eels. Ron |
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18 May 01 - 11:04 PM (#466037) Subject: RE: Bomba the Jungle Boy - ARCHIVE!!! From: Little Hawk Ron - the term "low budget" only begins to suggest the extreme tackiness and banality of the Bomba films, the dreadful dialogue, the stock jungle shots lifted out of countless other loincloth epics, the anacondas who kept blowing their lines... Bomba makes the Three Stooges look like the Shakespearian Festival. Gotta love it! - LH
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19 May 01 - 12:16 PM (#466259) Subject: RE: Bomba the Jungle Boy - ARCHIVE!!! From: RichM In the words of that great country song, "You can't make an 'eel toe the line" ! Rich |
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19 May 01 - 12:52 PM (#466274) Subject: RE: Bomba the Jungle Boy - ARCHIVE!!! From: Peter T. Sorry I haven't been in this bombastic thread -- life too complicated at the moment -- in fact, a good simple anaconda fight would be a relief right about now. Dredging back in my memory, I also recall an album of Tarzan yells intercut with animal sounds. yours, Peter T. |
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19 May 01 - 01:44 PM (#466288) Subject: RE: Bomba the Jungle Boy - ARCHIVE!!! From: Little Hawk If you're pining for an anaconda fight, things must not be so great, Peter. I hope they improve soon. - LH |
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19 May 01 - 08:15 PM (#466520) Subject: RE: Bomba the Jungle Boy - ARCHIVE!!! From: Bill D where was Bomba supposed to have lived? All the Anacondas are in S. America. |
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19 May 01 - 08:38 PM (#466530) Subject: RE: Bomba the Jungle Boy - ARCHIVE!!! From: GUEST Doesn't anyone recall Bomba pulling aside his covering (don't remember just what kind of a garment it was) and glorying in the fact that he was |
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19 May 01 - 08:42 PM (#466531) Subject: RE: Bomba the Jungle Boy - ARCHIVE!!! From: Little Hawk I believe the original Bomba stories were set in the South American jungle. As for the movies, and the comics, God knows what travesties of geographical flora & fauna they came up with, but it probably ran the gamut. There was at least one movie, for instance, that featured a big elephant stampede, and we all know that elephants are found only in Africa, Asia, Scranton, and Schenectady, but does Hollywood care? Not a fig. - LH |
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20 May 01 - 03:41 PM (#466916) Subject: RE: Bomba the Jungle Boy - ARCHIVE!!! From: thosp honestly Lil Hawk --- where have you been!!! don't you know that New York City has been plauged with elephants for quite awhile now --- in fact "The Mayors" office has issued a phamplet entitled "how to catch an elephant" and they have been sent to every mailbox in the city ---- this has become a source of concern for local enviromentailsts --as the method used is the phamplet is considered by them to be cruel and unusual -- but i have used the method myself and found it to be quite effective -- and although i consider myself to be an enviromentalist - i certainly don't want any elephants on my block!!! -- if you (or any other 'catter) have an epidemic of elephants in your area - let me know and i will be happy to tell you the method used in "The Mayors" booklet peace (Y) thosp |
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20 May 01 - 04:54 PM (#466937) Subject: RE: Bomba the Jungle Boy - ARCHIVE!!! From: katlaughing Could do with sending that one to Washington, D.C., too, thosp! |
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20 May 01 - 07:08 PM (#466978) Subject: RE: Bomba the Jungle Boy - ARCHIVE!!! From: Little Hawk Odd...I launched a small business in Orillia a while back called "The Elephant Finder". We guaranteed to find any lost elephant, small or large, and we promised to avoid the use of peanuts entirely. After 6 months and no calls (except some obviously wrong numbers) I closed it down. Guess I was in the wrong location. - LH |
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20 May 01 - 07:41 PM (#466988) Subject: RE: Bomba the Jungle Boy - ARCHIVE!!! From: catspaw49 Yeah Hawk...........Kinda' like opening a wine and cheese shop in Macon, Georgia. Spaw |
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20 May 01 - 08:12 PM (#467001) Subject: RE: Bomba the Jungle Boy - ARCHIVE!!! From: Little Hawk Yeah. What is it about Macon, Georgia? It's just got that sound, doesn't it? Ever been there, Spaw? - LH |
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20 May 01 - 08:20 PM (#467006) Subject: RE: Bomba the Jungle Boy - ARCHIVE!!! From: catspaw49 Oh yeah....a lot. I lived in and was the regional manager for the company I was with in Atlanta. Atlanta is now much like Chicago, but Macon, just down the road is still pretty much old Georgia. Frankly it's not a bad town at all, but it's just living in a different time. Spaw |
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20 May 01 - 08:35 PM (#467011) Subject: RE: Bomba the Jungle Boy - ARCHIVE!!! From: Little Hawk Sounds interesting. I hope I get a chance to visit there sometime and eat at a couple of the local greasy spoons. By the way, me and Hesp were on our way back from the Mudcat gathering in P.A. and we stopped at a high class greasy spoon in a town called Lafayette (it's either in northern Pennsylvania or southern New York). The restaurant's name was the Old Tymes Cafe, and it was incredible!!! Looked like straight out of 1964, and the food was VERY GOOD. - LH |
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20 May 01 - 10:35 PM (#467048) Subject: RE: Bomba the Jungle Boy - ARCHIVE!!! From: hesperis Northern New York. You're thinking of the other one with real home fries, that was about half-way between Jande's and WSI's places... Either in Milan, or the town just north of it. What was that one called? That had good food, even though it wasn't up to the standard of the Old Tymes Cafe and Restaurant, which boasts a real 60's soda fountain, salvaged from another cafe. Lafayette was on the way home, off the I81. But that was definitely the ABSOLUTE BEST greasy spoon I have EVER BEEN IN!!!!! Totally old style, totally home-cooked. Real biscuits, several different kinds of REAL gravy!!! Oh, it was SOOOOOO good! Mmmmmmmmmmmm..... They sold artistically hand-painted saws and goose eggs there, too. That place was real, small-town "country flavour" (sorry, "flavor") all the way through. What a beaut! So, when are we going to visit Jande again, eh? |
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21 May 01 - 01:56 PM (#467229) Subject: RE: Bomba the Jungle Boy - ARCHIVE!!! From: Little Hawk Well, you've got me confused now, but it was in Lafayette anyway...hang on, I'll check the map... She's right. It's in northern New York, at the junction of Interstate 81 and Highway 20, in the town of La Fayette, to be exact, a short distance south of Syracuse. That's the Old Tymes Cafe. I can't recall the name of the one near Milan, which was also quite good. Anacondas, anyone? - LH |
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22 May 01 - 01:32 PM (#467993) Subject: RE: Bomba the Jungle Boy - ARCHIVE!!! From: LR Mole Didn't Sabu play Bomba? Cue Mr. Prine" "The movie wasn't really doing so hot..." |
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22 May 01 - 09:03 PM (#468268) Subject: RE: Bomba the Jungle Boy - ARCHIVE!!! From: thosp i think it was Jonny Shefield ----- peace (Y) thosp |