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- From: bobm@Ingres.COM (Bob McQueer)
- Subject: Re: Bored Of The Rings
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.185438.27431@pony.Ingres.COM>
- References: <36073@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 18:54:38 GMT
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- In <36073@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>,
- dated 24 Jul 92 05:18:19 GMT,
- jlkim@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (Justin Kim) writes:
- >
- > Hey! _Bored_of_the_Rings_ had me in rolling on the floor!
- > Maybe I'm just easily entertained. ...
-
- _Bored_ has its good bits, but it is very uneven, and VERY dated. It was
- a lot funnier in the mid-70's. Somebody who doesn't personally remember
- the various advertising slogans and trade names used to parody elvish
- may miss a lot. Still, if you take the original Tolkien preface "Concerning
- Hobbits", and compare the "Concerning Bogies" section out of _Bored_, you
- can see what an absolutely brilliant parody ought to look like. I wish
- they had parodied the rest of it that well.
-