Too Silly, Even For Me

[poliphilo]

Ailz is watching Day of the Triffids on i-player. I can hear the screams. I am prepared to be scared by many things- ghosts, giant sharks, feral kids, bug-eyed psychopaths, smiling nazis- but I absolutely refuse to be scared by man-eating vegetables- because such things patently DO NOT EXIST.

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[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

And of course the book it's based on came out in the 50s. I guess there's a vein of Cold War paranoia running through it- or something like that. People swear by John Wyndham, but I know the sorts of stories he has to tell- and I'm not the least bit interested in hearing them.

[daisytells.livejournal.com]

There was a book or movie or song or something out in the 1960's called "The Eggplant (Aubergine) That Ate Chicago". How's that for silliness? I only heard about it -- it sounded too silly to pursue.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I just think of the evil, talking carrot that turned up in a sublimely silly episode of Lost in Space