Awww… No. Nick’s not going to get to keep the chick body is he? he’s going to have to go back to being an un-huggable ‘copter again. that’s seriously going to put a crimp in his dating abilities.
That might make for an interesting symbiotic relationship. Skin Horse can provide programs (social and computer) to help her interact more directly with the world, and Princess Whimsy can . . . donate, let’s call it, a little more cash and resources occasionally there way. Or at least give Nick a lifetime account to some of their new interactive websites.
She’s got legs, she’ll learn how to use them
Falls on her head, ’cause legs are confusin’
She’s holdin’ legs, wonderin’ how to move them
Skin Horse had to find her, and now they’re behind her
She’s Collodi’s, she’s his baby,
Nick got it right.
I’m just going to acknowledge what you did there. The frightening thing is that there are people that don’t know that song or band and it was a cool way to give credit,Eddurd. Peter Eng, yeah, that was good.
You know how people can lack knowledge of ostriches, or have never heard that The Little House was written by Virginia Lee Burton? It’s like that, except with ZZ Top and “Legs”. Shocking, I know.
Since Violet is a drone, there’s no real storage system and no direct brain. That means that Collodi’s daughter (let’s just call her “princess” right now) is now driving the drone. And that should mean that the human-computer that is Whimsy Corp. should be undergoing a major restructuring in order to switch over to a new computational mode. People should be sending garbage emails back and forth in new and unexpected ways.
All the Whimsycorp animation she’s seen has led her to believe that princesses glide gracefully, the big puffy skirt apparently being some form of hovercraft.
Nah, Peter Eng, stole that for this edition of Filking. Good job Eddurd, but you don’t need me to tell you that, but I am anyhow. Guess the ZZ’s helped, huh?
“I’ve got two legs from my hips to the ground, and When I move them they walk around, and When I lift them they climb the stairs, and When I shave them they ain’t got hairs.”
Well, the truck resounded with a mighty crash and possession I have won,
And I mention now of the driver once there, “He’s been logged out.” He’s done.
Drone on the run, drone on the run!
And the zombie girl is saying, “Those are legs below your rump”.
On the drone on the [whump], drone on the [whump]!
Well, the theme park robots draw a heavy sigh, thinking every one’s a chump,
And the bell is tolling in my father’s kingdom for my siblings in that dump.
Drone on the [whump], drone on the [whump].
It’s OK, I’m here! The Little House’s cast with joy can jump.
I’m a drone on the [whump], drone on the [whump]!
Well, the park is falling as the wrecking ball begins to make its mark.
And I must address this demolition with all haste, before it’s dark.
Drone on the [whump], drone on the [whump]!
And the CEO … who let things go …
Will cease for evermore,
For the drone on the [whump], the drone on the [whump]!
Unity speaks with the voice of experience in not being sure what to do with the waggly things under her butt.
That’s about as elegant and princessy a “whump” as one could expect, I think.
It is a very pretty shade of pink.
The lowercase and the period is what sells it to me.
Awww… No. Nick’s not going to get to keep the chick body is he? he’s going to have to go back to being an un-huggable ‘copter again. that’s seriously going to put a crimp in his dating abilities.
Embodiment time-share? Or, to use the terminology from a different sci-fi, ‘sharing the remote’?
Dr Lee will build him another.
A new body. Better! Faster! Possibly hermaphroditic!
Gerda can lend her catalogs!
Now will Tip want to have sex with her? He can fill in some of the other gaps in her education.
Please let him start with how and how not to blink……..please…….
I dunno. For some reason the Little Orphan Annie eyes are kind of working here, I think….
Filling gaps seems to be a specialty of his….
But has her “resolution” improved?
http://skin-horse.com/2013/nice-old-moustachio/
Doubtful considering we don’t get the impression that the driver can control that.
She knows what legs are. She just doesn’t know how to use them. Is like learning to ride a bicycle.
Or in this case, learning to ride a bipedal.
(A bipedal automaton.)
Riding a bicycle is an upper-tier class. She needs to figure out Perambulation 101 first.
I believe the term for this is “Royal Nosedive.”
Or is that “faceplant”?
I think it is”Planking like a Princess”
🙂
I sense… a possible regular character???
That might make for an interesting symbiotic relationship. Skin Horse can provide programs (social and computer) to help her interact more directly with the world, and Princess Whimsy can . . . donate, let’s call it, a little more cash and resources occasionally there way. Or at least give Nick a lifetime account to some of their new interactive websites.
“There’s something wrong with my princessness.”
Clearly, those gyroscopes aren’t functioning properly.
She’s got legs, she’ll learn how to use them
Falls on her head, ’cause legs are confusin’
She’s holdin’ legs, wonderin’ how to move them
Skin Horse had to find her, and now they’re behind her
She’s Collodi’s, she’s his baby,
Nick got it right.
Rats, now I gotta think up a different song to parody. Gotta go get some ZZs now, so I can Top that.
I’m just going to acknowledge what you did there. The frightening thing is that there are people that don’t know that song or band and it was a cool way to give credit,Eddurd. Peter Eng, yeah, that was good.
There are ‘people that don’t know that song or band’?
I read the words, but don’t get what you mean…
Meaning, “There are people that don’t know which song Peter Eng was using for his filk.” (The answer being “Legs” by ZZ Top)
You know how people can lack knowledge of ostriches, or have never heard that The Little House was written by Virginia Lee Burton? It’s like that, except with ZZ Top and “Legs”. Shocking, I know.
Since Violet is a drone, there’s no real storage system and no direct brain. That means that Collodi’s daughter (let’s just call her “princess” right now) is now driving the drone. And that should mean that the human-computer that is Whimsy Corp. should be undergoing a major restructuring in order to switch over to a new computational mode. People should be sending garbage emails back and forth in new and unexpected ways.
Sweetheart, meet princess. Princess, Sweetheart.
And the other question is, just how does she plan to “address” this demolition?
TSOG above may have the right of it – the ‘invisible hand’ of the corporate culture is shifting “back and forth in new and unexpected ways”
She might address it thus: “Base-born, vulgar destroyers of buildings, We are not amused. Stand not upon the order of thy going, but go at once.”
All the Whimsycorp animation she’s seen has led her to believe that princesses glide gracefully, the big puffy skirt apparently being some form of hovercraft.
It’s easier to animate that way.
(TUNE: “I’ve Got No Strings”, Washington & Harline)
I’ve got two legs, to move me ’round,
To keep my face above the ground …
Now my face has found the floor …
I need to learn some more!
With wrecking crews I now must talk;
But first I need to learn to walk!
Or perhaps, I’ll simply crawl,
Or just not move at all!
Oh, my,
Alas, forsooth!
Education has a gap!
If I
Were more uncouth,
I would even say, “Oh, cr*p!”
I’ve got to learn to stride and strut,
To move those things beneath my butt!
Help me now, the princess begs,
To learn to use my legs!
I suppose going with “She’s got legs, but doesn’t know how to use them” would have been, like her fall, too on the nose.
Nah, Peter Eng, stole that for this edition of Filking. Good job Eddurd, but you don’t need me to tell you that, but I am anyhow. Guess the ZZ’s helped, huh?
Ummm… newly awakened princess. Shouldn’t she be singing or something, birds flitting about… that sort of thing?
CG added in post-production.
“I’ve got two legs from my hips to the ground, and When I move them they walk around, and When I lift them they climb the stairs, and When I shave them they ain’t got hairs.”
(looks for shotgun)
Unity, you just rock. That’s all; you just rock. <3
Of course. This is why only a ‘true’ (read: not human) princess could unlock the secret. Whimsy needed a host body, and a human being wouldn’t do.
“I’m sorry, but your Princess is in another hassle.”
(Tune: “Band on the Run”, Paul McCartney)
Well, the truck resounded with a mighty crash and possession I have won,
And I mention now of the driver once there, “He’s been logged out.” He’s done.
Drone on the run, drone on the run!
And the zombie girl is saying, “Those are legs below your rump”.
On the drone on the [whump], drone on the [whump]!
Well, the theme park robots draw a heavy sigh, thinking every one’s a chump,
And the bell is tolling in my father’s kingdom for my siblings in that dump.
Drone on the [whump], drone on the [whump].
It’s OK, I’m here! The Little House’s cast with joy can jump.
I’m a drone on the [whump], drone on the [whump]!
Well, the park is falling as the wrecking ball begins to make its mark.
And I must address this demolition with all haste, before it’s dark.
Drone on the [whump], drone on the [whump]!
And the CEO … who let things go …
Will cease for evermore,
For the drone on the [whump], the drone on the [whump]!
I don’t wish to quibble with your most excellent filk, but credit where it’s due: Paul and Linda McCartney wrote “Band on the Run” together.
Ah, thanks for the correction.
That was very good.
So THAT’S why Nick had to turn Violet into a Princess. I hope they can share, he looks so pretty in there