Dr. Frank's What's-it

Eörache, daughter of Eörlobe

Anything with hobbits or sex or drugs or other forbidden stuff in it was pretty much a guaranteed hit with my pre-teen self, so I was heavily influenced by the Harvard Lampoon's Bored of the Rings as a young'n.

I learned a lot from it. It was, in fact, for example, my first encounter with the words "narc" and "benzedrine" (because the narcs were BotR's orcs and there was also an eldest and fatherless merry fellow named Tim Benzedrine.) "Dildo" and "bugger," too, because there's a character named Dildo Bugger (of Bag Eye.) It also trained me to think of cashing in/exploitation as a kind of art form in and of itself.

Would my nine-year-old self have found the imminent Harvard Lampoon Twilight parody quite as educational or enthralling? Judging from the names alone (Belle Goose and Edwart Mullen) I'd say perhaps not. Well, you know, times have changed and all.

Posted by Dr. Frank at October 8, 2009 10:21 PM | TrackBack