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2012-07-25

by shaenon on July 25, 2012 at 12:00 am
Chapter: Railway Children
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  1. Carl Fishman
    July 25, 2012, 12:01 am | # | Reply

    Could this be a reference to a children’s book that I’ve actually read? (Ie; The Silver Chair.) Woo!

    • woozy
      July 25, 2012, 1:19 pm | # | Reply

      Hmmm, “under me” “go down”. See the similarity. Although in the Silver Chair part of the theme was that the writing had been there for eons.

      Maybe St. Charlie traveled in time to arrange a meteor shower on the dark side of the moon and then set a magnetic comet in motion so that it would spin the moon 180 for two minutes on this very night.

  2. LogicMouse
    July 25, 2012, 12:51 am | # | Reply

    Well at least it doesn’t say “Cha-“

    • Evil Midnight Lurker
      July 25, 2012, 5:50 pm | # | Reply

      Or “ha” and a big bite.

  3. Andrew
    July 25, 2012, 1:42 am | # | Reply

    I’m imagining Unity sew herself as Abraham Lincoln’s snot…

  4. Cubist
    July 25, 2012, 3:06 am | # | Reply

    Unity’s use of the word “another” is… suggestive. Not sure if I prefer to know the details, or let it be one more Noodle Incident to throw on the pile.

    • Melissa Trible
      July 25, 2012, 10:30 am | # | Reply

      Unity generates enough noodle incidents to open her own pasta restaurant…

    • woozy
      July 25, 2012, 1:15 pm | # | Reply

      A humor device that will *never* get old with UNITY: Describe a bizaar and weird occurance and then throw in the word “again”. I guarantee that with UNITY *I* will always find that funny.

  5. Eddurd
    July 25, 2012, 3:31 am | # | Reply

    (TUNE: “Go Down, Moses”, traditional)

    When Skin Horse came to Boston town,
    (Go help Unity!)
    St. Charlie said to “Come on down!”
    (Go help Unity!)

     [CHORUS]
      Go down, Skin Horse!
      Down where you ought to be!
      To Sa-aint Char-lie …
      But first, help Unity!

    It’s night-time and the Moon will rise,
    (Go help Unity!)
    A subtle note, before your eyes!
    (Go help Unity!)
     [repeat CHORUS]

    Now Sweetheart’s nose is out of joint …
    (Go help Unity!)
    If Unity could only point!
    (Go help Unity!)
     [repeat CHORUS]

  6. Bartimaeus
    July 25, 2012, 3:58 am | # | Reply

    That’s no moon.

  7. Kroykali
    July 25, 2012, 4:10 am | # | Reply

    Ed, I would have guessed you would have picked “Bad Moon On the Rise”.

    • Eddurd
      July 25, 2012, 3:22 pm | # | Reply

      Kroy, I just used that song last month. Hmmm … I could have have used The Beatles’ “Get Back”, or Petula Clark’s “Downtown … I just have to spin the mental roulette wheel and see what falls out.

      • Evil Midnight Lurker
        July 25, 2012, 5:51 pm | # | Reply

        I’ve wondered: do you keep written records of songs already used?

        • Eddurd
          July 25, 2012, 9:02 pm | # | Reply

          Actually, yes. I noticed that I had used one song three times in the space of a couple months, so I started keeping a list of songs used. Every now and then, I look at the totals and say “Holy filking sonnet…

      • JET73L
        July 17, 2018, 4:42 am | # | Reply

        To the tune of the first third of “Downtown”, by Petula Clarke (It saddens me that Google’s display result for “downtown lyrics” is now the song by Macklemore):

        When you’re in Boston and you feel a bit lost, then
        You can always just… Go Down.
        When finding St. Chuck, you find you’ve run out of luck,
        Take the moon’s advice: Go Down.

        Just listen to the moon, with its marred surface once so pretty,
        Go down below the ground and you can find the madboys’ city.
        Stop being lost.
        The folks are much madder there.
        Cut free Unity, and Tip, please fix your hair,

        And then Go Down!
        Into St. Charlie, just Go Down!
        No finer place for sure. Go Down!
        GODOT is waiting for you.

  8. Frank
    July 25, 2012, 4:14 am | # | Reply

    Now to rip her off it. The question is: which is more resistant: her stitches, or said historic monument? Because requiring Unity to drag a piece of a historic monument for the rest of the arc would be totally awesome!

    • Jeffrey Wells
      July 25, 2012, 7:23 am | # | Reply

      And totally easy to write!

      Or, wait, not.

  9. jennibrock
    July 25, 2012, 8:34 am | # | Reply

    Somewhere nearby a guy is worried that his girlfriend is losing interest. Against all hope, he asks the universe for a sign of what to do. A momentary glance out the window changes everything.

    • Katrika
      July 25, 2012, 9:45 am | # | Reply

      …pfffffffffff.

    • markhh
      July 25, 2012, 9:59 am | # | Reply

      *snork*

      You said a mouthful.

    • Kay Gilbert
      July 25, 2012, 10:23 am | # | Reply

      Brilliant!

  10. John Campbell
    July 25, 2012, 11:46 am | # | Reply

    They borrowed Chairface Chippendale’s laser?

    • woozy
      July 25, 2012, 1:13 pm | # | Reply

      Man, I was going to say that!

      Although, I like the Silver Chair reference too.

    • LogicMouse
      July 25, 2012, 2:47 pm | # | Reply

      Yay! Somebody else who remembers the Tick!

      • Evil Midnight Lurker
        July 25, 2012, 5:52 pm | # | Reply

        An object at rest — CANNOT BE STOPPED!

  11. Saberbeam
    July 25, 2012, 11:54 am | # | Reply

    To the tune of “Blue Moon”

    Clue Moon

    While we were standing around
    Not being sure where to go
    The moon told us “Go Down”

    Clue Moon

    Rather very unsubtle there
    See it floating in orbit there
    Does have a very dramatic flare

    And Unity’s sewn to a national monument
    This isn’t the first time I’m told
    We’ll have to get her down, or she’ll demolish it
    Payments on Mount Rushmore we still owe

    • Eddurd
      July 25, 2012, 3:23 pm | # | Reply

      Well done! [golf clap]

      • Saberbeam
        July 26, 2012, 11:46 am | # | Reply

        Thanks. Glad to have the approval of the resident Master of Filking.

  12. Shadowmehr
    July 25, 2012, 3:29 pm | # | Reply

    Good news: they won’t get lost on the way there.

    Bad news: Pretty much everyone knows where they’re going. And as a government agency (peripherally) they’ll be held responsible somehow for cleaning up the moon.

  13. bigbearseviltwin
    July 25, 2012, 9:11 pm | # | Reply

    Maybe they have Chaos from “Life and Death” helping them. He likes to write on moons all the time

  14. Knuckles
    January 20, 2022, 6:14 am | # | Reply

    “Go Domn”? Nice thought, but Tip is more the type to *be* handcuffed.

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