Becky, your wish is my command. Andrew, I know the one you mean, and I thought the same thing. (The tune was also used in “The Bridge On The River Kwai”.)
(TUNE: The “Colonel Bogey” March, Lt. F.J. Ricketts)
Wilkin! You listen up to me!
Wilkin! You will a princess be!
I will … bend you to my will!
There’s no defiance! Compliance I see!
You will … play with the birds and bees!
You will … sing happy melodies!
Sappy … each song is crappy!
You’ll sing it soulful, and so full of cheese!
Tomorrow morn-ing, training from Hell begins!
Hell begins, Wilkin grins with joy!
With Ma-ry acting as your D.I.,
From your eye, you will cry tears of joy!
Hear me! I’m shouting in your face!
Fear me! I’ll teach you style and grace!
Train now! I act insane now!
I’m just like Patton, in satin and lace!
Wilkin! I’ll train you ’round the clock!
Wilkin! Star Chamber you’ll unlock!
Princess, you will gain access!
The needed info, you’ll win fo’ us all!
There was an episode of a TV anthology show (_Night Gallery_?) with John Astin as an aging hippy who dies and goes to Hell. He finds himself in a room with an elderly couple continuously showing slides of their vacation, and an endless stack of .45 RPM records playing stuff like Lawrence Welk music.
The Devil arrives, and explains to the distressed hippy that this is his punishment. He also notes there is a room just like this in Heaven, only the people who are sent there like this sort of thing.
Question for Shaenon/Jeff here. Did you guys intend to do this all along, or did you originally intend for Nick to be the Princess, then frantically rewrote when everyone guessed it way early?
Where Our Gracious Hosts are concerned, it would not surprise me to see hard evidence that they’d drafted every single strip in this story sometime in 2007.
This strip nearly made me pass out laughing when I saw it. Teeny cute doll channeling Disney’s Full Metal Jacket? This comic keeps moving my silliness benchmark. And I *like* it!
I wanna crap musical numbers.
Unless crap is being used to describe the musical numbers that Tip needs to be ready to eat. Could go either way.
Between his military background and sartorial proclivities, this is basically the perfect job for Tip.
Sweetheart looks worried.
I think she’s just concerned that somebody will be having fun soon.
or maybe “this is why I hate writing the mission reports”
What mission reports? They’re on vacation!
This looks almost frightening.
This is going to be epic.
This is already epic.
All we need now is Epic filk for Tip. He does need Epic music to go with the Epicness of it all.
I bet Marcie would go for this too – for the cosplay if nothing else.
Once more this strip explores nuttiness never before conceived.
Can’t wait for Gracie to say “Suck it up, Princess”.
I’m going with that military tune that I only know as “Dink dink…dinkdink dink dink dink… from Spaceballs: the Movie.
Colonel Bogey’s March
“I love the smell of mascara in the morning.”
Silly question.
Will Tip have to break out the water balloons again?
Becky, your wish is my command. Andrew, I know the one you mean, and I thought the same thing. (The tune was also used in “The Bridge On The River Kwai”.)
(TUNE: The “Colonel Bogey” March, Lt. F.J. Ricketts)
Wilkin! You listen up to me!
Wilkin! You will a princess be!
I will … bend you to my will!
There’s no defiance! Compliance I see!
You will … play with the birds and bees!
You will … sing happy melodies!
Sappy … each song is crappy!
You’ll sing it soulful, and so full of cheese!
Tomorrow morn-ing, training from Hell begins!
Hell begins, Wilkin grins with joy!
With Ma-ry acting as your D.I.,
From your eye, you will cry tears of joy!
Hear me! I’m shouting in your face!
Fear me! I’ll teach you style and grace!
Train now! I act insane now!
I’m just like Patton, in satin and lace!
Wilkin! I’ll train you ’round the clock!
Wilkin! Star Chamber you’ll unlock!
Princess, you will gain access!
The needed info, you’ll win fo’ us all!
Two lines of hardened soldiers in frilly dresses, marching into a Japanese POW camp in Burma, led by Sir Alec Guiness.
Sounds like Monty Python’s Military Fairies.
IIRC, Sir Alec was a bit of a poof, not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Excellent! The filk to end all filks.
Tip is already an expert with the birds and bees.
Fulgent.
Jeez – what’s sarge all wound up about?
A chance to spring into action.
Hell is cute?
I’m actually pretty sure that’s actually true on a few levels. They have the ability to accommodate all types down there.
There was an episode of a TV anthology show (_Night Gallery_?) with John Astin as an aging hippy who dies and goes to Hell. He finds himself in a room with an elderly couple continuously showing slides of their vacation, and an endless stack of .45 RPM records playing stuff like Lawrence Welk music.
The Devil arrives, and explains to the distressed hippy that this is his punishment. He also notes there is a room just like this in Heaven, only the people who are sent there like this sort of thing.
Awesome! I missed that one, but John Astin is such a great actor. I always loved his appearances on Night Court as Harry’s father.
And this point just occurred to me, would Tip have to dress up in a pink camoflauge dress uniform for basic training? Combat stilletos?
No, the stilettos are kept locked up in the arms room until the training schedule calls for them, because their use requires adult supervision.
But I don’t think Sweetheart can wear stilettos, and she’s the only adult available.
Supervision… Sweetheart won’t have to wear them. Also, she’s not the one going into training….
If Tip does end up wearing a pink uniform for this mission, will that make Pink Ops is the new Black Ops?
Question for Shaenon/Jeff here. Did you guys intend to do this all along, or did you originally intend for Nick to be the Princess, then frantically rewrote when everyone guessed it way early?
I’ve seen Shaenon at work … she draws the strips WEEKS in advance. She’s got the buffest buffer in comics, web or otherwise.
Minna Sundberg has a six-month buffer for A Redtail’s Dream.
I recommend holding off all questions until the end of the story.
Which is why many of us will be anxiously waiting for Monday of all things – to obtain the SH updates we are addicted to.
DOWNSIDE is that my condition at 0330 Monday morning will determine whether I have time to read SH before I leave for work….
Translation: “Heh, heh, heh!”
Ma’am yes ma’am!
Chappy: When one asks such questions of creative artists, the answer is always: “OF COURSE I planned this all along!”
I figure that Shaenon and Jeff are laughing themselves silly over all of our wayward speculations that result from their teasers.
Where Our Gracious Hosts are concerned, it would not surprise me to see hard evidence that they’d drafted every single strip in this story sometime in 2007.
This strip nearly made me pass out laughing when I saw it. Teeny cute doll channeling Disney’s Full Metal Jacket? This comic keeps moving my silliness benchmark. And I *like* it!