Post #540252 by bigbrotiki on Thu, Jul 1, 2010 12:01 PM

Ron, what an excellent selection. Just when I thought the subject had been exhausted (because compared to other paperback cover themes, South Seas ones are fairly rare), a whole new batch is posted!

Judging by the quality of the scans, I take it these covers are from your own library?

Here's a promising but ultimately disappointing find:

Turns out that 95% of the jokes in this book are from the fertile "Stranded on a Desert Isle" genre...

...which, with not one Hula girl or other South Sea icon playing a part, at best could be termed "Castaway" Cartoons.

The other 5% are from the equally rich "Whitey in Cannibal Cauldron" joke genre, which is clearly African pop, nowhere near the South Seas.

So even back then, confusion and arbitrary-ness about labeling the genres reigned...Sigh!

(And NO, this thread is not about the above joke genres, so don't post any more, please!)

[ Edited by: bigbrotiki 2010-07-01 13:19 ]