uncle lubin at last!!

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― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 21 November 2002 23:02 (twenty-three years ago)

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― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 21 November 2002 23:07 (twenty-three years ago)

whozit?

― jones (actual), Thursday, 21 November 2002 23:12 (twenty-three years ago)

w. heath robinson (uncle lubin is a book about an uncle who falls asleep looking after a baby which is then stolen by an evil bagbird...)

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 21 November 2002 23:21 (twenty-three years ago)

bah there is precious few of him on the net :(

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 21 November 2002 23:26 (twenty-three years ago)

oh, here we go

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― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 21 November 2002 23:27 (twenty-three years ago)

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― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 21 November 2002 23:34 (twenty-three years ago)

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the beast from beauty and...

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 21 November 2002 23:38 (twenty-three years ago)

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"your doom is to become statues"

(whr = missing link between aubrey beardsley and edmund gorey)

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 21 November 2002 23:40 (twenty-three years ago)

edmund gorey=(edward gorey/2)+(edmund dulac/2)?

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 21 November 2002 23:45 (twenty-three years ago)

he's great! (something about the second one reminds me of max fleischer cartoons. the rest not at all)

these threads always make me wish i'd kept reading picturebooks as a kid instead of dropping them for the famous five the moment i had the skillz.

(hey that last one is a knockout)

― jones (actual), Thursday, 21 November 2002 23:45 (twenty-three years ago)

oops "he" = this w.h.r. fellow, not EG. although him too

― jones (actual), Thursday, 21 November 2002 23:48 (twenty-three years ago)

He was famed for his ludicrous machines - in the UK we talk of Heath Robinson contraptions where Americans talk of Rube Goldberg machines - it's a pretty exact correspondence.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 21 November 2002 23:57 (twenty-three years ago)

who copied who though?

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 22 November 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i bet goldberg never did a beast that fine!!

(hey i sound like ethan)

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 22 November 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

(not to him i bet)

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 22 November 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

This is marvellous! Book recommendations, please.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 22 November 2002 00:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Was there anything other than "The Adventures of Uncle Lubin"? I found and read that again after unpacking some boxes of books.

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 22 November 2002 06:07 (twenty-three years ago)

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