It is a James Bondish title, I think this might have made a fun, camp movie back in the day.
Curious Digressionssays
“Nautipuss”!
Aw man, I just snorted wasabi through my nose.
lumipunasays
When I was younger and had a more juvenile sense of humor, I flipped through some Finnish “Jane Blonde” agent parody novel. I recall it had a damsel in distress type character named as “Princess Kudeleine of Sweden”, which I thought was extremely funny.
(There’s a real, famously good-looking Princess Madeleine, nicknamed “Madde” in Swedish media. Meanwhile, Swedish “kudde” means pillow, and this is about the extent of Swedish language that most Finnish readers would know.)
Raucous Indignationsays
I think you’ve all covered everything here. I have absolutely nothing constructive to add at this point.
Is the Nautipuss a sci-fi? The cover looks like it might be.
“Agent 0008” “Nautipuss” Tee-hee, subtle indeed.
But the relevant Bond story was even more suggestive in its naming -- Octopussy. I have seen the movie, but I was so underwhelmed that I remember nearly nothing except that there was some guy throwing circular saw on a string in it.
I have seen the movie, but I was so underwhelmed that I remember nearly nothing except that there was some guy throwing circular saw on a string in it.
That’s one thing more than I remember. Nautipuss would have been much earlier than Octopussy, which was ’83. Maybe they were ripping off Nautipuss. :D
rqsays
I suppose they forewent the obvious “Naughty-puss”, huh? Cleverrrr! :D A light entertaining read for when the brain need not do any more thinking.
As for “Never Love a Man”, well, there were times when that thought crossed my mind in my racier youngling days. Of course, after the fact.
To the casual observer the breasts in all that cover art seem to be all the same size and shape. Is there such a thing as an American Standard Art Boob? Diversity doesn’t seem to have been invented yet.
They certainly are depicted in different ways, just they seem to be a narrow subset of real world boobs.
suttkussays
The movie “Octopussy” might date from the 80’s, but it’s the title of a short story from ’65 and of the collection of short stories published in ’66. It sold very well, so it’s not like the name wasn’t widely known.
Nautipuss doesn’t work, should have called it Nautilust.
Nautilust is better. I expect the author thought Nautipuss went better with the James Bond storyline, and they may have thought it was a clever pun.
I like “Nautipuss”. Looks like fun reading.
It is a James Bondish title, I think this might have made a fun, camp movie back in the day.
“Nautipuss”!
Aw man, I just snorted wasabi through my nose.
When I was younger and had a more juvenile sense of humor, I flipped through some Finnish “Jane Blonde” agent parody novel. I recall it had a damsel in distress type character named as “Princess Kudeleine of Sweden”, which I thought was extremely funny.
(There’s a real, famously good-looking Princess Madeleine, nicknamed “Madde” in Swedish media. Meanwhile, Swedish “kudde” means pillow, and this is about the extent of Swedish language that most Finnish readers would know.)
I think you’ve all covered everything here. I have absolutely nothing constructive to add at this point.
Is the Nautipuss a sci-fi? The cover looks like it might be.
“Agent 0008” “Nautipuss” Tee-hee, subtle indeed.
But the relevant Bond story was even more suggestive in its naming -- Octopussy. I have seen the movie, but I was so underwhelmed that I remember nearly nothing except that there was some guy throwing circular saw on a string in it.
Charly:
That’s one thing more than I remember. Nautipuss would have been much earlier than Octopussy, which was ’83. Maybe they were ripping off Nautipuss. :D
I suppose they forewent the obvious “Naughty-puss”, huh? Cleverrrr! :D A light entertaining read for when the brain need not do any more thinking.
As for “Never Love a Man”, well, there were times when that thought crossed my mind in my racier youngling days. Of course, after the fact.
3 copies are available at AbeBooks. Over $200 a piece.
To the casual observer the breasts in all that cover art seem to be all the same size and shape. Is there such a thing as an American Standard Art Boob? Diversity doesn’t seem to have been invented yet.
There’s actually a lot of breast diversity in these covers, all shapes, sizes, and gravity.
#16 is a good example of the diversity.
They certainly are depicted in different ways, just they seem to be a narrow subset of real world boobs.
The movie “Octopussy” might date from the 80’s, but it’s the title of a short story from ’65 and of the collection of short stories published in ’66. It sold very well, so it’s not like the name wasn’t widely known.
Suttkus, true enough, and Nautipuss was published in December of ’65.