Well, she can’t eat Dr. Lee (“blueberry waffles!”) and Sweetheart is her best friend. That leaves Violet (who probably doesn’t smell appetizing, somehow), Sergio, or Tip.
And she doesn’t know Sergio’s name. “I’m so hungry I could eat that guy” is much less dramatically effective.
Waiting for the city of St. Charlie,
Moveable, mad municipality!
Secret railroad runs beneath ol’ Beantown,
Hoping they’ve got a snack for Unity!
The well-dressed Anasigma team
Will come with us, so it would seem
That they and we must presently compete!
So listen to what Ruby said,
It seems we’re being railroaded,
But we don’t mind, this train is freakin’ sweet!
Hello, now come below old Boston!
The underground location’s not so bad!
So it’s all aboard the city of St. Charlie!
’Cause the population here is completely mad!
If I were cleverer, I’d make a filk out of it. If I were at least paying attention, I’d have put some kind of contextual information with it to at least indicate what the reference was. Oy, I need sleep.
Maybe. But I have Chatanooga-choo-choo stuck in my head now. I tried tap-dancing and singing to get a reaction out of my cat. Whoever invented the word “unflappable” must have owned a cat.
Well, Tip does have the most meat on him of those present.
“I’m so hungry I’d eat Tip” — mildly peckish, then?
maybe its a classification system, rating exactly how hungry she is via which of them she would choose to eat at the moment.
Well, she can’t eat Dr. Lee (“blueberry waffles!”) and Sweetheart is her best friend. That leaves Violet (who probably doesn’t smell appetizing, somehow), Sergio, or Tip.
And she doesn’t know Sergio’s name. “I’m so hungry I could eat that guy” is much less dramatically effective.
And Ruby’s got too many metal bits. Hard on the teeth. 😉
Unity has eaten parking meters.
Oh, come on. She wouldn’t be the first one to offer to eat Tip.
I see what you did there.
I’m sure Tip normally takes up any offer by a woman to eat him, but U.N.I.T.Y. might just be a little more literal than most.
from memory, wasn’t there a mention of Tip attempting to ….. woo(?) Unity not long after they first met?
(-.^) [bad attempt at a ‘raised eyebrow’ emoticon]
I believe it ended with several dislocations for Tip.
I think when he dated Marcie, he mentionned that Unity “doesn’t understand invitations to ‘get physical'”. I think it was the Tin Soldier arc.
Aww, but Tip /always/ looks so adorably edible!
Choosy zombies choose Tip?
oh my gosh saint charlie’s a train
this is an unexpected and kickass development
St. Charlie: City, train… and giant battle robot? Stay tuned!
(TUNE: “City Of New Orleans”, Steve Goodman)
Waiting for the city of St. Charlie,
Moveable, mad municipality!
Secret railroad runs beneath ol’ Beantown,
Hoping they’ve got a snack for Unity!
The well-dressed Anasigma team
Will come with us, so it would seem
That they and we must presently compete!
So listen to what Ruby said,
It seems we’re being railroaded,
But we don’t mind, this train is freakin’ sweet!
Hello, now come below old Boston!
The underground location’s not so bad!
So it’s all aboard the city of St. Charlie!
’Cause the population here is completely mad!
That was a great.
“Pardon me, boy, is that the city of St. Charlie?”
If I were cleverer, I’d make a filk out of it. If I were at least paying attention, I’d have put some kind of contextual information with it to at least indicate what the reference was. Oy, I need sleep.
I’d like to think everyone would get the reference but than I assumed everyone would get the rarebit fiend reference several weeks ago to.
It’d be a funny filk if every line began to the tune of Chatanooga-choo-choo and ended in the tone of The City of New Orleans.
Pardon me boy, is that the City of St. Charlie
Track twenty-nine under 20 feet of crushed concrete
… and so on.
So Einstein is on a train and says “Does Saint Cha….
Wait. Isn’t Unity standing to close to the tracks in panel one?
Presumably there are multiple tracks coming through.
Stupid BART… totally skewed up my world perspective. (Of *course*, in cities outside the SF Bay area stations have more than one set of tracks….)
I am the only who now has Crazy Train stuck in internal loop mode now?
Maybe. But I have Chatanooga-choo-choo stuck in my head now. I tried tap-dancing and singing to get a reaction out of my cat. Whoever invented the word “unflappable” must have owned a cat.
Actually, what all y’alls should have in your heads is the (1920s?) protest song “Charlie on the MTA.”
Well played, Shaenon.
Oh, dang it, I should have got that. Argh.
Hmm, I have a “Charlie Card” for the T; would it work for St. Charlie?
We can only hope. I want to ride on St. Charlie!
Didn’t I mention “Charlie on the MTA” a few days ago…
I could have sworn…
OK Now that’s a boss entrance.
“Next stop, Anaheim, Westwood, and Cucamunga!”
All aboard for New Vertiform City!
mnem
Now where did I put that damned brick…
Wait… HERself!? Is St. Charlie sentient? And female? Someone needs to play matchmaker…
Trains are usually referred to in the feminine, sentient or not. XD;
Maybe we can get her a date with these two…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lutNECOZFw
If they make this guy that excited, they must have SOMETHING goin’ on…
mnem
This is what I get for hanging out on the RC heli forums.
okay I can’t stop staring at Sweetheart’s floofy curled tail. SWEETHEART Y UR TAIL SO CUTE?
Whoa! I just noticed that Sain’t Charlie has an apostrophe! Implying it should be read as “S ain’t Charlie”.
Is that a hint?
I believe that is an ornate serif on the “N”. Like on the R, S and A and E
Too ornate, In my opinion. Dang! I *really* had hoped I caught something.
Whats REALLY impressive is the spacal warping to fit a city in a normal sized subway tunnel