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Le Zombie, v. 4, issue 5, whole no. 40, July 1941
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(8) CHOWDER SONG L.R. Chauvenet we are science fiction fans, pretty daffy in the dome, but we have a lot of plans to the planets far to roam! in our copper-plated lizzy with its rocketports astern we'll spin you dizzy--- burn, rockets, burn! if you want a world amended and all its troubles o'er, and all its evils ended, just call us to the fore! "if it can't be done we do it" is our motto loud and strong, "if it can't be done we do it" that's the way we get along! oh, we're science fiction fans pretty daffy in the dome, but we've got a lotta plans to the planets far to roam! PONG PIRACY DEPT: Art Widner passes this one along: Dick Stucke, a Stranger Club c ub recently needed a theme for an English class ... & fast! The paper had to be turned in next day. So what did he do? He grabbed a copy of Knight's Snide #1, and "copied" Pong's "Essay on the Freedom of Space" and turned it in as his. The joker (says Art) is that the darned thing copped an "A" from the prof. in a class where such a mark is tops and zero is bottom! ** Pong remarks that he is undecided whether to be amazed at getting an "a", or just be stupe fied because of even getting a passing grade in English! He feels so good about the whole thing, he is not going to press charges of piracy. DEFINITION DEPT: LR Chauvenet, in his Fapazine, Sardonyx, offers this: "A sf. fan is a guy who could toss a ball into the air and not be surprised if it just hung there & didn't fall down again". We have a better one chum; see dept below. DITTO DEFINITION DEPT: A stfan is a guy who will suscribe to a fanmag, get stung, and return to suscribe again. OUR SEARCHLIGHT DEPT: (lighting up some queer deals) We said here last issue that we had just received from Australia a flash bulletin, giving all the details of the first Aussie convention, the Sydcon. We also said we would reprint it in full. Kindly consider us liars of the first degree; we're not printing it. There is some evidence pointing to the conclusion that the Sydcon was never held ... that in fact, the entire "bulletin" is a fake, or just a plain Aussie attempt at humor. Fanmags arriving in Australia since this bulletin appeared make no mention whatsoever of a Sydcon having taken place. And, in view of the "happenings" at the so-called convention, it is unlikely that the Sydcon did come off. The bulletin prattled on at great length, in a merry manner, of the immense attendance (70 some) and what a swell time was had. Everything ran like clockwork ... too much like clockwork. Feudists did everything short of kissing one another; whole clubs marched in in groups, carrying banners; 500 copies of a convention booklet was already "out of print" -- all sold; "telegrams" from American were read; ((how many did you send, Ackerman?---I sent six, three via Western Union, two via Postal Telegraph, and one via carrier pigeon. -bt)); a hotel banquet, and etetetetetetetetete. & etc. Some people besides us expect that it was just that: bulletin. WE DENY IT DEPT: There is no truth to the rumor that Editor Wollheim will award twenty five pencils (and a tin cup) to the fan who sells the most subscriptions to Cosmic or Stirring at the Denvention.
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(8) CHOWDER SONG L.R. Chauvenet we are science fiction fans, pretty daffy in the dome, but we have a lot of plans to the planets far to roam! in our copper-plated lizzy with its rocketports astern we'll spin you dizzy--- burn, rockets, burn! if you want a world amended and all its troubles o'er, and all its evils ended, just call us to the fore! "if it can't be done we do it" is our motto loud and strong, "if it can't be done we do it" that's the way we get along! oh, we're science fiction fans pretty daffy in the dome, but we've got a lotta plans to the planets far to roam! PONG PIRACY DEPT: Art Widner passes this one along: Dick Stucke, a Stranger Club c ub recently needed a theme for an English class ... & fast! The paper had to be turned in next day. So what did he do? He grabbed a copy of Knight's Snide #1, and "copied" Pong's "Essay on the Freedom of Space" and turned it in as his. The joker (says Art) is that the darned thing copped an "A" from the prof. in a class where such a mark is tops and zero is bottom! ** Pong remarks that he is undecided whether to be amazed at getting an "a", or just be stupe fied because of even getting a passing grade in English! He feels so good about the whole thing, he is not going to press charges of piracy. DEFINITION DEPT: LR Chauvenet, in his Fapazine, Sardonyx, offers this: "A sf. fan is a guy who could toss a ball into the air and not be surprised if it just hung there & didn't fall down again". We have a better one chum; see dept below. DITTO DEFINITION DEPT: A stfan is a guy who will suscribe to a fanmag, get stung, and return to suscribe again. OUR SEARCHLIGHT DEPT: (lighting up some queer deals) We said here last issue that we had just received from Australia a flash bulletin, giving all the details of the first Aussie convention, the Sydcon. We also said we would reprint it in full. Kindly consider us liars of the first degree; we're not printing it. There is some evidence pointing to the conclusion that the Sydcon was never held ... that in fact, the entire "bulletin" is a fake, or just a plain Aussie attempt at humor. Fanmags arriving in Australia since this bulletin appeared make no mention whatsoever of a Sydcon having taken place. And, in view of the "happenings" at the so-called convention, it is unlikely that the Sydcon did come off. The bulletin prattled on at great length, in a merry manner, of the immense attendance (70 some) and what a swell time was had. Everything ran like clockwork ... too much like clockwork. Feudists did everything short of kissing one another; whole clubs marched in in groups, carrying banners; 500 copies of a convention booklet was already "out of print" -- all sold; "telegrams" from American were read; ((how many did you send, Ackerman?---I sent six, three via Western Union, two via Postal Telegraph, and one via carrier pigeon. -bt)); a hotel banquet, and etetetetetetetetete. & etc. Some people besides us expect that it was just that: bulletin. WE DENY IT DEPT: There is no truth to the rumor that Editor Wollheim will award twenty five pencils (and a tin cup) to the fan who sells the most subscriptions to Cosmic or Stirring at the Denvention.
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