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2012-09-15

by shaenon on September 15, 2012 at 12:00 am
Chapter: Railway Children
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  1. Andrew
    September 15, 2012, 2:20 am | # | Reply

    It probably works with knock-knock jokes.

  2. Manifesta
    September 15, 2012, 3:07 am | # | Reply

    tune:  “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go,” Wham!

    Unity
    Likes where she’s at
    She met a horde that lurches with to the Brain-o-mat
    Unity
    Gets really smart
    Her erudition flabbergasts her pal Sweetheart

    When the brains wear off at dawn
    She tackles problems with her ample brawn
    Skin Horse need to get inside
    No more yappin’, now it’s time to commit porticide

    Hey there, door, it’s down you go-go
    ‘Cuz Tip and Ruby are goin’ too slow
    Hey there, door, it’s down you go-go
    I start punchin’ when the brains wear off

    Hey there, door, it’s down you go-go
    We gotta get inside to deal with GODOT
    Hey there, door, it’s down you go-go
    Welp, guess that didn’t work . . .
    So I’mo go lurch!

    • Manifesta
      September 15, 2012, 3:11 am | # | Reply

      Crud! There shouldn’t be a “with” in line 3. I hate not being able to correct these comments.

    • Eddurd
      September 15, 2012, 5:19 am | # | Reply

      I knew someone would use a “Wham!” song … thanks, Mani (that is you, Kay, right?)

      • Manifesta
        September 15, 2012, 9:07 am | # | Reply

        Yup. Manifesta has been my online name forever, but I wasn’t using it here or at Narbonic, and I can’t remember why.

  3. Eddurd
    September 15, 2012, 5:53 am | # | Reply

    (TUNE: “Green Door”, Bob Davie and Marvin Moore)

    Mad town! On St. Charlie we’re riding!
    Go down! Zombie’s fist is colliding!
    Steel door, what’s that secret you’re hiding?

     There’s a smart computer and it’s named GODOT
     Behind the steel door!
     Tip, he asked, “Please, open?” Ruby just said “No!”
     Behind the steel door!
     Now it’s down to Sweetheart, ’cause we gotta go
     Behind the steel door!

    Big wall! Tall and solid and wide now!
    Tough call! Brains and muscle we’ve tried now!
    Steel door, what the heck is inside now?

     It’s a competition, so we gotta get
     Behind the steel door!
     Stupid Anasigma hasn’t shown up yet
     Behind the steel door!
     Gotta win the contest, gotta win the bet
     Behind the steel door!

    Mad train! On St. Charlie we’re riding!
    Big brain, acronyms is providing!
    Steel door, what’s that secret you’re hiding?
    Steel door!

  4. Robert The Addled
    September 15, 2012, 8:03 am | # | Reply

    I heard a teaser for an Interview on NPR w/ an actress who has the whole sweet disney princess voice thing, but plays a villen in her latest role. That got me wondering about voices for the Skin Horse and Narbonic Casts. This has resulted in much pondering.

    • Diane Castle
      September 15, 2012, 10:18 am | # | Reply

      I just hear Tip as Cillian Murphy.

    • Dewy
      September 16, 2012, 7:59 am | # | Reply

      I always hear Sweetheart as Leela’s voice from Futurama.

  5. casimir
    September 15, 2012, 8:40 am | # | Reply

    ooooh…Sweetheart’s expression! Something going on in that little bureaucratic mind. Give it up GODOT. You haven’t got a chance.

  6. ysabet
    September 15, 2012, 8:44 am | # | Reply

    Oh gods, she’s gonna invoke her awesome native Canadian powers of politeness, isn’t she?

    • Sheik
      September 15, 2012, 9:59 am | # | Reply

      Yep she’s going to try something no one has tried before.
      Ask nicely.

      • Klyfix
        September 15, 2012, 11:21 am | # | Reply

        That’s so crazy it just might work!

      • nemryn
        September 15, 2012, 11:32 am | # | Reply

        No, Tip tried that yesterday.

        • Sheik
          September 16, 2012, 11:29 am | # | Reply

          No, no, you ask the *door* or GODOT nicely.

          • ysabet
            September 16, 2012, 10:59 pm | #

            That’s exactly what I was thinking. Me, I’d probably knock and end up being electrocuted, but then I’m not a talking dog, Canadian, or a Federal employee.

  7. KT Leone
    September 15, 2012, 11:05 am | # | Reply

    Is this door made by the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation?
    Does it have a sunny disposition?
    Is it their pleasure to open for you, and their satisfaction to close again with the knowledge of a job well done.
    Will it say “Hummmmmmmyummmmmmm ah!” when it finally opens. I hope it does.

  8. Frank
    September 15, 2012, 11:42 am | # | Reply

    The two things they’ve tried so far are perfectly valid first steps
    except when you consider one thing:
    everyone here is mad

  9. Plugh
    September 15, 2012, 1:17 pm | # | Reply

    Ruby isn’t mad. I’m sure the reason why she wants the door to be opened is a logical one, and that so is the reason why she doesn’t want to be the one to open it.

    Perhaps someone should ask the door about Ruby.

    • WJS
      July 7, 2019, 11:07 am | # | Reply

      I assumed that she’s lying about being able to open it.

  10. Shadowmehr
    September 15, 2012, 3:10 pm | # | Reply

    Let’s see, Tip has tried the slippery, clever answer.

    U.N.I.T.Y. has tried the brute force answer.

    What has Sweetheart got up her nonexistent little sleeves?

    • John Campbell
      September 15, 2012, 4:01 pm | # | Reply

      Fur.

  11. codebracker
    September 15, 2012, 3:45 pm | # | Reply

    Methinks she’s stalling, because she knows godot’s gone rogue

  12. WuseMajor
    September 16, 2012, 8:55 pm | # | Reply

    What, no leg sweep?

    • JET73L
      July 23, 2018, 9:21 am | # | Reply

      “‘Look! Gene A. Kee with Mark Hanna!’ And then BAM! Leg sweep!”

  13. SotiCoto
    August 21, 2014, 5:27 am | # | Reply

    If the door is invincible, go through the wall. If the wall is invincible, go through the ceiling or floor and move over or under.

  14. Kevin Fox
    May 6, 2025, 7:54 pm | # | Reply

    Morpheus to Neo: there is no door!

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