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Wdot wrote:The short story The George Business written by none other than Roger Zelazny, was one of my favorites in the book. While Dragonheart treated the concept very well, I would much have preferred a movie based on Zelazny's short story.

Reminds me of a short story in a children's literature anthology I read, when I just a wee lad. Most of the stories were standalone, but some were chapters of larger works (The Call Of The Wild, Moby Dick, The Wind In The Willows, etc). Anyhow, the short I'm thinking of actually had - as NOTDilbert mentions - a reluctant dragon, a small boy who befriends him, a town convinced of the dragons villainy, and THE St. George as the dragon "slayer."
Dang, I have to dig up that book now; I rather enjoyed all those tales.

I wonder... could it be possible that these two are part of Euryale's backstory?

Accidentally turned to ice, but then accidentally melted(maybe by an irate dragiraffe?) before Euryale could restore them? Maybe ages ago, before she learned to control her powers.

Could be she's been holding onto the guilt ever since, and Bud's tongue-lashing brought on flashbacks.


OR- (and more likely) I'm WAY off, and this is just a totally unrelated bit of fun.

There was a Hoppity Hooper segment that involved a dragon, staged dragon fights, and the small country of Eubetchia, which was (well, became) a nation of cobblers...

MerchManDan wrote:Anyhow, the short I'm thinking of actually had - as NOTDilbert mentions - a reluctant dragon, a small boy who befriends him, a town convinced of the dragons villainy, and THE St. George as the dragon "slayer."
Dang, I have to dig up that book now; I rather enjoyed all those tales.

Very likely the story that Disney's short was based on...

Interestingly, "The Reluctant Dragon" is by Kenneth Grahame, who also wrote Wind in the Willows. I didn't know that.

I always liked the Stan Freberg classic...

Hah! Good find, stjen.

NOTDilbert wrote:The classic Disney cartoon The Reluctant Dragon was about a knight, a squire, and a reluctant dragon, who decided they rather liked each other AFTER the townspeople had hired the knight to off the dragon. Might take some hunting to find; it's at least as old as me...

Hey, look what I found.

Fairportfan wrote:

MerchManDan wrote:Anyhow, the short I'm thinking of actually had - as NOTDilbert mentions - a reluctant dragon, a small boy who befriends him, a town convinced of the dragons villainy, and THE St. George as the dragon "slayer."

Very likely the story that Disney's short was based on...

Almost definitely! I'm glad I sought that video out; even if the knight was Sir Giles, not St. George.

And, of course, it's been so long I got some of the details wrong - eh, so what. One o' you young whippersnappers find my teeth for me.....

Heh, no sweat; if I ever find that book, I'll probably think the same thing. "...what? THAT'S not right, I don't remember THAT, etc..."

As for your teeth...you didn't drop them in the Pun Vault, did you?

MerchManDan wrote:Heh, no sweat; if I ever find that book, I'll probably think the same thing. "...what? THAT'S not right, I don't remember THAT, etc..."

As for your teeth...you didn't drop them in the Pun Vault, did you?

Don't remember doing any punnage lately, so I haven't paid any punnagement......OH! THERE they are!
(Drops an old silver filling into the Pun Jar)

Don't remember that book, but it sounds like fun. One I do remember was King Beetle Tamer: And Other Light-Hearted Wonder Tales by Isabel Wyatt.

Skywatcher68 wrote:These three look like they'd be right at home in Oglaf. I wonder what a Pablo/Trudy Cooper collaboration would be like.

Funny thing, I was looking through some of the archives,and...

stjen wrote:I always liked the Stan Freberg classic...

I remember that. My grandmother has the original on a 45 rpm record. I believe the other side is "Little Blue Riding Hood." The Youtube one sounds much better. Hers was kinda scratchy from being played so much, I think. Oh yes, and I also recall me and my friend doing our own version called "I'm Getting the Chair for Christmas." It was rather dark ,but funny to us, being the evil little girls we were.

Bathorys Daughter wrote:

stjen wrote:I always liked the Stan Freberg classic...

I remember that. My grandmother has the original on a 45 rpm record. I believe the other side is "Little Blue Riding Hood." The Youtube one sounds much better. Hers was kinda scratchy from being played so much, I think. Oh yes, and I also recall me and my friend doing our own version called "I'm Getting the Chair for Christmas." It was rather dark ,but funny to us, being the evil little girls we were.

Yes, the flipside of that 45 was "Little Blue Riding Hood". My favorite most memorable line from that was "We took a shortcut thru a strawberry patch, kind of a strawberry shortcut."

Bathorys Daughter wrote:

stjen wrote:I always liked the Stan Freberg classic...

I remember that. My grandmother has the original on a 45 rpm record. I believe the other side is "Little Blue Riding Hood." The Youtube one sounds much better. Hers was kinda scratchy from being played so much, I think. Oh yes, and I also recall me and my friend doing our own version called "I'm Getting the Chair for Christmas." It was rather dark ,but funny to us, being the evil little girls we were.

Well, shoot! I just realized the "I'm Getting the Chair for Christmas" thing was not because of "St George and the Dragonet." I had two things in my mind when posting, the other was "I'm Getting Nuttin' for Christmas," which I noticed and listened to when I went to listen to the Dragonet video. Anyway, my Grandmother also had that one. So, not that it's particularly meaningful, but the "I'm Getting the Chair for Christmas" was a parody of "I'm Getting Nuttin' for Christmas," and not "St George and the Dragonet."

My favorite line went something like; "But I don't have a mustache ma'am. I know, but grandma does." Cracked me up every time.

Bathorys Daughter wrote:

Bathorys Daughter wrote:

stjen wrote:I always liked the Stan Freberg classic...

I remember that. My grandmother has the original on a 45 rpm record. I believe the other side is "Little Blue Riding Hood." The Youtube one sounds much better. Hers was kinda scratchy from being played so much, I think. Oh yes, and I also recall me and my friend doing our own version called "I'm Getting the Chair for Christmas." It was rather dark ,but funny to us, being the evil little girls we were.

Well, shoot! I just realized the "I'm Getting the Chair for Christmas" thing was not because of "St George and the Dragonet." I had two things in my mind when posting, the other was "I'm Getting Nuttin' for Christmas," which I noticed and listened to when I went to listen to the Dragonet video. Anyway, my Grandmother also had that one. So, not that it's particularly meaningful, but the "I'm Getting the Chair for Christmas" was a parody of "I'm Getting Nuttin' for Christmas," and not "St George and the Dragonet."

My favorite line went something like; "But I don't have a mustache ma'am. I know, but grandma does." Cracked me up every time.

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bmonk wrote:

MrFireDragon wrote:HA! like I said, Dragons, we are suckers for busty cute girls and will do anything for them...... these two pics also remind me of me and my wife and yes I'm a lucky bastard, I get to see all of the "busty girl problems/perks comic" situations in real life.

As I recall, from myths and fairy tales, cute young nubile girls (virgins) are like suckers for dragons--or maybe hors dourves--and dragons will do about anything to have for them over for dinner.

Bathorys Daughter wrote:

stjen wrote:I always liked the Stan Freberg classic...

I remember that. My grandmother has the original on a 45 rpm record. I believe the other side is "Little Blue Riding Hood." The Youtube one sounds much better. Hers was kinda scratchy from being played so much, I think. Oh yes, and I also recall me and my friend doing our own version called "I'm Getting the Chair for Christmas." It was rather dark ,but funny to us, being the evil little girls we were.

Yeah, well, I know some church choir members who like to sing (in practice), the "Gory is god in the highest, and pieces of people on earth" . . .

bmonk wrote: Yeah, well, I know some church choir members who like to sing (in practice), the "Gory is god in the highest, and pieces of people on earth" . . .

Gory, gory paratrooper
Gory, gory paratrooper
Gory, gory what a helluva way to die
And he ain't gonna jump no more