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Originally Posted by LazyScot
"Silliness... The Final Frontier. These are the adventures of the Mobile Readership. Their on-going mission to explore strange new topics, to seek out new liseuses and new inanities, to foolingly go where no one has gone before."
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exactly.
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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
"Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2 Century" is just one of Jones' many gifts to animation. For more Acme creations, see any of the "Road Runner and Coyote" cartoons, where Wile E. Coyote buys a continual stream of gadgets from Acme in his attempts to catch the Road Runner. None, alas, work as desired...
The Road Runner cartoons showcase Jones' work as a purely visual humorist. He believed that good cartoons could be funny without dialog to explain what was going on, and proved his case handily.
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i'll take a look. they're sillier and more subversive than i expected (they remind me of the marx brothers / abbott and costello a bit).
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_The Phantom Tollbooth_ is one of my favorites as well.
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Dennis
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brilliant book !! i think it's even funnier as an adult, because of all the second degree humour and puns.
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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
Or I am simply misremembering the original use of that concept. 
It's the sort of thing Pohl would do. Fred talks about "Gosh numbers", the fundamental constants that define our universe. "Because this value is what it is, life can exist in our universe. Gosh!" He's also had a life-long interest in number theory, seeing it as a mathematical discipline where where a sharp non-mathematician could make real contributions.
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sounds like interesting reading, recommendations ?