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2015-01-06

by shaenon on January 6, 2015 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Mixed-Up Files
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  1. Eddurd
    January 6, 2015, 12:30 am | # | Reply

    Well, now I have no choice …

    (TUNE: “Jerusalem”, William Blake & Sir Hubert Parry)

    And did this head, in modern times,
    Beat upon concrete pillars grey …
    And was the dread Thinkonium
    Bringing, to all his team, dismay!

    And did Miss Tigerlily Jones
    Construct these legs of nimble speed?
    More agile than a three-toed sloth,
    And stronger than a centipede!

    I shall move plants of rubber tree;
    I shall butt kilowatt-ed dams;
    I shall tune in the BBC
    To hear my radio programmes!

    No force can stop my primal rage,
    This mall shall tumble to the ground …
    I will not cease in my rampage,
    Unless my springs become unwound.

    • Dave
      January 6, 2015, 12:32 am | # | Reply

      Upvote

    • evilmidnightlurker
      January 6, 2015, 12:51 am | # | Reply

      *wild applause*

    • Manifesta
      January 6, 2015, 5:00 am | # | Reply

      That, my friend, is a thing of beauty. And “Mission status: tiny metal man beating head against concrete while singing ‘Jerusalem'” may be the funniest line in all of Skin Horse.

      • John Dallman
        January 27, 2015, 9:39 pm | # | Reply

        I was thinking that until I remembered “No! I’ll just build my own, *sensible* brain vending machine!”

    • waynezombie
      January 6, 2015, 8:23 am | # | Reply

      Emmerson, Lake & Palmer was my introduction to Jerusalem and thus my background music in my head while reading this.

      Fun Fact: at Graham Chapman’s funeral, everyone sang Jerusalem in mangled Chinglish, reversing the Rs and Ls. My wife is planning something similar for my kick-off, whenever that is.

    • daibhidc
      January 6, 2015, 8:46 am | # | Reply

      Bravo!

    • oneuniverse2
      January 7, 2015, 4:46 pm | # | Reply

      My comments yesterday have disappeared. Oh, well.

      Once again, Sir Eddurd, you show us how it is done. We are not worthy.

    • Darkstarr
      May 19, 2016, 3:53 am | # | Reply

      Bravissimo. I doff my steam-powered top hat to you for that one, guv!

  2. BMunro
    January 6, 2015, 12:53 am | # | Reply

    Excellent as usual Eddurd!

    NOT so excellent, Mustachio. I am a bit disappointed in you, and in Tigerlily as well. Comical ineffectuality in rampaging is Sweetheart’s schtick.

    • GammarayCanon
      January 6, 2015, 10:45 am | # | Reply

      Tigerlily just forgot to add a device to open Mustachio’s hat. Once he manages to open his hat, goodbye building.

  3. Robert Nowall
    January 6, 2015, 3:10 am | # | Reply

    Do either of them have built-in video transmitters, or have Tip and Unity just tapped into the mall security cameras?

    • martinbentley
      January 6, 2015, 9:10 am | # | Reply

      Sweetheart is in the Former!(Violet|Nick|Bubbles)drone body. I would imagine it has a video feed.

  4. Dave from Indy
    January 6, 2015, 7:04 am | # | Reply

    It appears Eddurd thinks Mustachio has “high hopes”…

  5. Pygar
    January 6, 2015, 10:03 am | # | Reply

    This was the most brilliant song parody ever. It’s even better if you imagine a (TONGGG!!!) at the end of each line! I’m hoping for a “City of New Orleans”/vanishing mall one, soon…

    If there is still an open business serving coffee, Sweetheart can at least get a rampage done, so there is still hope…

  6. Ken
    January 6, 2015, 12:28 pm | # | Reply

    Jerusalem? Seems like Joshua Fought the Battle of Jericho might have been more appropriate.

    • Robert Nowall
      January 6, 2015, 1:49 pm | # | Reply

      Don’t discourage him, he’s having a religious experience…

  7. Smithnik
    January 6, 2015, 1:53 pm | # | Reply

    Exceptionally good filk, Eddurd. The blending of “Jerusalem” and “High Hopes” puts this one a step above and beyond, although I don’t think the “Divine Countenance” originally meant Tigerlily’s face…This song had so many different levels of twisted humor that I was truly stunned. 🙂
    The only thing that bothers me about today’s strip is that I’m wondering why Mustachio is suddenly so delusional. I greatly fear that we’re all missing a plot point.

  8. Adam 'Hobbit' Donohue
    January 6, 2015, 2:54 pm | # | Reply

    I’m just thinking of Dan Bern’s Jerusalem instead. It changes things a bit.

  9. Shadowmehr
    January 6, 2015, 7:37 pm | # | Reply

    This is where theory meets ability and gets ground under. The greatest tactical plans cannot succeed without the ability to carry them out due to, oh say, only being two feet tall and your clockwork limbs don’t have the power to move you with any sort of force.

    Kudos to Mustachio for trying anyway. Give it the old college try, what?

  10. pumpkincat
    January 6, 2015, 10:07 pm | # | Reply

    Read about it often in old British novels, but my first auditory experience with Jerusalem was a heavy metal version by Bruce Dickinson. Which I think would only be aided and abetted if there were a video of actual metal heads with tiny legs attacking civilization set to that version…

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