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2012-12-14

by shaenon on December 14, 2012 at 12:00 am
Chapter: Railway Children
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  1. Manifesta
    December 14, 2012, 12:29 am | # | Reply

    Zardoz turned out to be a corruption of The Wizard of Oz. Does Toboz have a similar source? I can’t find an Oz-character name that fits, but maybe I’m missing something. If we asked Unity, she’d probably suggest “The Butthead of Oz,” but to me he looks like his name should really be Chip.

    • Bartimaeus
      December 14, 2012, 3:42 am | # | Reply

      Speaking as the forums admin, let’s just say that Toboz (or, Professor Zobot, as he is known on the forums) is… familiar.

      • Bartimaeus
        December 14, 2012, 3:43 am | # | Reply

        EDIT: Obviously, I could be wrong. But, it’d be one heck of a coinci-kickinthepants-dence.

    • Scott's Folly
      December 15, 2012, 11:26 am | # | Reply

      Possibly some relation to ‘Boz the Inimitable’, AKA (the early) Charles Dickens? I don’t know the “Sketches by Boz” well enough to comment on the potential linkages.

      Personally, I think he looks like a Riff, but that’s probably due to the glasses.

  2. Speedball
    December 14, 2012, 1:39 am | # | Reply

    Better watch your mouth, Toboz. Tip hit the last person who gave him guff over soft science his best shot and she still isn’t fully over him.

  3. Snail
    December 14, 2012, 2:31 am | # | Reply

    I have a suspicion about where the name comes from~ Even if I’m not right, the coincidence is glorious.

  4. Eddurd
    December 14, 2012, 3:27 am | # | Reply

    (TUNE: “Close To You”, The Carpenters)

    I am he, Duty Engineer!
    Foolish words … I don’t hear!
    I snub you,
    With your I.Q.
    Far from mine!

    To-boz says, do not dare to think!
    You are just … a mere shrink!
    Show respect!
    Your intellect’s
    Far from mine!

     I control the engine that’s the heart of all St. Charlie,
     And I scoff at all your worries and your fears!
     I ignore your pu-er-il-i-ty
     By humming with my fingers in my ears!
      (la la la … la la la!)

    “Doody” jokes, heard them all before …
    I have learned … to ignore!
    Please, just go!
    Your minds are so
    Far from mine!

  5. nemryn
    December 14, 2012, 4:09 am | # | Reply

    Obviously ‘Toboz’ is just ‘Zobot’ backwards.

  6. jdreyfuss
    December 14, 2012, 4:18 am | # | Reply

    He needs to learn the difference between having contempt for those whose work he considers beneath him and simply having his head up his ass.

  7. Toboz
    December 14, 2012, 6:05 am | # | Reply

    Interesting… I wonder if this is the cameo?

    Aw man, if it is I’m gonna die again, aren’t I? That’d be like the third time!

    Curse my scorn for everyone! Cuuuuuurse it!

    • Prodigal
      December 14, 2012, 9:03 am | # | Reply

      If so, it’ll serve you right for turning your back on a Necrotic-American.

      Also, BRAIIIIIIIIINS…

    • mnementh
      December 16, 2012, 5:06 am | # | Reply

      To-Boz? More like Toe-JAM!
      Oh yeah, I went there. Whadda you got? BRING IT!

      mnem
      Somebody stop me. No, really. Please.

  8. MODOP
    December 14, 2012, 7:01 am | # | Reply

    TOBOZ: Technical Organism Built Only for Zingers?

  9. Classic Steve
    December 14, 2012, 9:47 am | # | Reply

    I suspect that UNITY watched “Wreck-It Ralph” recently.

  10. nemryn
    December 14, 2012, 10:48 am | # | Reply

    Yeah, Tip whiffed big-time here. He should have expressed it as a hypothesis! “My calculations indicate an 87% chance your power source has been tampered with”!

  11. chicgeek
    December 14, 2012, 12:56 pm | # | Reply

    Toboz?? Even if it’s a coincidence, I love it!!!

  12. Tetra Valent
    December 14, 2012, 3:03 pm | # | Reply

    “Walk this way.”

  13. woozy
    December 15, 2012, 8:01 am | # | Reply

    And killing everyone in St. Charlie is a bad idea why?

  14. griffin8aka8evonix
    November 12, 2014, 7:37 pm | # | Reply

    Push him

  15. TPmanW
    July 20, 2015, 10:59 pm | # | Reply

    Hail to the fire that runs the machine!

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